Alternative to Sonos.
I have a Sonos system in my home. I have an older Sonos Connect plugged into my high end system in my listening room. I have Sonos speakers in the kitchen, bedrooms and porch. I have a Sonos Amp driving a pair of Aerial Acoustics 6T towers in my living room.
The Amp is much better than you might guess and does a fine job driving the Aerial Acoustics. The Sonos speakers are perfectly fine for casual and background listening. When the system works it is excellent. It ticks all the boxes I was looking for.
But it rarely works flawlessly and it very often glitches. Speakers drop out. Songs stop playing. Heaven forbid you should change songs, volume or bring another speaker in. Everything goes haywire.
The Sonos fanboys say it's your wi-fi dummy. You need to wire at least one component into your router. Well, that did not help. Then you need to get a $100 Sonos Boost and wire it to your router. That was an utter waste of $100 and 30 feet of ethernet cable.
Sooooooo........tonight I was listening to Allegri's Miserere. I'm not a classical music aficionado, much less Renaissance expert but this is one of the most beautiful and moving pieces of music I've ever heard. And Sonos cut out so many times I gave up.
And I think this was the last straw.
But I want a whole house system which will integrate with my main system, drive the two towers in the living room and have similar functionality and simplicity as Sonos (when it is working).
Whatever drives the towers in the living room needs to be small and preferably invisible. (The Sonos Amp is under a side table completely out of sight.
I'm looking for advice but would appreciate if it was dumbed down a bit. I can get my head around Sonos but have no understanding of what else is out there or how it would work.
