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let's say you like to use streaming services like Spotify and want to be able to listen to them on your home stereo you could use your iPhone but the little cable dangling at the front is not a great look so what are the alternatives hi I'm ty Pendlebury and this is a review of the Sonos connect and connect amp so Knossos Wireless players have been around for a while but the products remain up to date by adding new services all of the time the latest in a laundry list of services that includes Spotify MOG and pandora is Amazon's Cloud Player of course the Sonos players will also stream music from your network and support most formats including FLAC WAV and Apple Lossless if you have high-definition files it won't play those though and if this affects you get the Logitech Squeezebox touch instead the main differences between the Kinect and the Kinect amps should be obvious from the names the Kinect is designed to connect to an existing stereo while the Kinect amp is a stereo unto itself you just need to add speakers both players are controlled by apps for PC Mac smartphones and tablets the app is very easy to use and lets you create custom playlists on the fly from a variety of different sources the song else is a multi-room system and is able to integrate all of the different players in your home into the one app the biggest advantage of the Kinect players over the all-in-one Sonos play speakers is that they have a line input this means you can connect a separate player like a turntable or the TV and then have that stream around the house to other players if you like so which one should you get though it's a bit more expensive at $500 I preferred the connect amp especially when I used it as the basis of the stereo system being able to control it directly from the app is great and the amp was able to run any of the smaller speakers I tried sound quality was excellent with plenty of detail and Drive and though it's more expensive than Google's Nexus Q there's no competition it's a much better product the Kinect on the other hand was also good but it's $100 more expensive than the Squeezebox Touch and if you're just looking for a player and no multi-room playback I'd say get the squeeze box again in terms of value for money though the play 3 is still at easiest first and best way to get into the science ecosystem this has been tae Pendlebury for cnet.com