Sonos and Best Buy - Best Buddies

My friends at Sonos (disclaimer: I LOVE MY SONOS) have partnered with Best Buy in the US to make their devices available to an even wider audience.  This comes a few weeks after their Pandora announcement (and firmware update - which has dramatically improved the Internet radio performance)

Too bad there are no plans for Canada, but you can kind units at some Future Shop stores.  (personally, I think Sonos has an exceptional online ordering site, which handles cross-border shipping better than most sites)

Some blog coverage here.

Some excuse Sonos of being too expensive.... maybe a little, but the value is there.  It's a great solution for multi-room, great music support (MP3, WMA, Urge, Zune, Itunes, etc), an AMAZING remote and rock-solid reliability.  Compared to the high-end systems (that barely do more), Sonos is great value.

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Comments

• Anonymous
  June 22, 2007
  Totally agree - the Sonos rocks.  Unlike nearly all of my other computer-based home electronics, it works.  All of the time. When I looked into it, buying online from Sonos was cheaper than Future Shop and nearly as fast.  Very seamless cross-border experience.  And the people that I talked to at Future Shop knew nothing about it, and didn't have a working model to play with anyway. Combine with its support of FLAC and for the real hardcores the ability to plug in an external DAC through an optical connection (haven't tried this myself), the sound quality is exceptional. One thing to note: it does not support lossless WMA.