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Sonos ups ante on home audio
Company offers bundled, cheaper version of its wireless digital-music system in hopes of reaching out beyond the home audiophile set.
Expanding its target market beyond the audiophiles of the world, Sonos today unveiled a bundled and cheaper version of its wireless, multiroom digital-music system for the home.
Sonos ZP80 system
The ZonePlayer 80 Bundle, a $999 kit that allows a user to play music wirelessly from devices in multiple rooms through a home stereo system, includes two ZonePlayer 80 components and a controller. A user would simply have to connect a ZP80 to any amplified audio device in any room to make that device part of the wireless home system.
The user can then control music playback from the Sonos Controller, a wireless remote control that features its own built-in LCD screen. The system's key feature is its auto-sensing line-in connectors that can digitally encode any line-in source such as an MP3 player, a CD player or satellite radio, to any ZonePlayer.
"Music lovers have often asked Sonos to help them connect the stereo they love to our award-winning digital-music system," Sonos CEO John MacFarlane said in a statement. "With the ZP80 Bundle that's now possible--and all for just $999."
The ZP80 devices require an external amplifier such as a stereo receiver or those built into devices such as the Apple iPod Hi-Fi or Bose Wave system. The controllers supports up to 32 rooms. Each additional ZP80 unit costs $349.
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