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Unboxing the Sonos ZonePlayer S5 + ZoneBridge

2010-01-22
hey guys jon rettinger from TechnoBuffalo here at the fun unboxing for you that's a nice departure from the Apple and Android centric videos the past few days I've got an unboxing here for you of a sonos product I'm not entirely sure what zone of scents here in this big box we're going to dig in and find out for if you're not familiar with so notes there a purveyor of high-end audio equipment so I'm kind of curious let's go ahead and see what's in here and I have no idea why there appears to be a blood stain on the box go ahead and dig in and of course you got the obligatory or the obat because i like to call it well go ahead and just dig into the box and see what we got step aside alright we've broken the literal seal on Apache paper that's like so no sent us the sonos zone player s5 go ahead and give you guys some information on this in a minute once I take it out of this big shipping box so what do we have here we've got some press material this is a unit that sent just for demo go ahead take another box we'll take a look at that in just a minute that they also sent us a zone bridge go ahead and push this off to the side and let's take a look at the products themselves alright so we're going to take a look at the sonos zone player s5 this is going to run you 399 let me tell you a little bit about it this is right from the sonos website it's a high-performance wireless music system with five speakers powered by five dedicated digital amplifiers two tweeters two mid-range drivers in what subwoofer the s5 delivers crystal-clear room filling sound that rivals much larger more complicated audio equipment plus all of digital sound architecture provides precise sound reproduction just as the artist intended with the s5 you can quickly add a room of music anywhere you want so if we plug it in and enjoy the s5 superior wireless range no room is out of reach I control us evidently with your computer the internet or the iphone or ipod touch via the app the other thing they sent us here is a zone bridge 100 this is going to run you conveniently $100 the zone bridge 100 makes setting up and all on wireless so no system wonderfully fast and easy I'll be the judge of that instead of using a zone player simply connect the zone bridge to your router instantly activate the sonos net wireless mesh network now with your zone player and controller you can wirelessly puts music anywhere in your house it's the ideal solution if you don't have eaten net wiring in every room okay let's go ahead and dig in and see what this thing looks like for 400 bucks you definitely want to make sure getting your money's worth and getting a quality product I've never used a sonos sound system so I have no idea how it works so there's gonna be a very think unbiased review as all of my reviews are or at least I try and make them so let's go ahead and dig in and see what we got here this looks like it's a new unit I let's see what your 400 bucks is going to get you on the top of the box you fried diggin tells you got the stone it's sonos zone players five picture of it on the front with the iphone app right there some info on the back as well supposedly they're really advertising this is great to use with Pandora or the Sirius XM app or any of the other audio streaming applications that you can get for the iphone or ipod touch it see them all listed right there let's go ahead and dig in and see you again congratulations so the support team thank you for your purchase while your stone this would be pure magic you got some get it starting stuff and a disc and this will work with Windows or Mac XP Vista 7 OS 10 leopard snow leopard whatever you're running any modern operating systems all right so we'll pull styrofoam out of the box and here it looks to be the sono system there's a handle in the back that's it it's a very sort of simple design it's heavier than I expected it to be it's got a decent amount of weight to it looks like just a big speaker grill on the front on the back of it here we've gone looks like audio in and some sort of audio out power and two wired Ethernet ports that's interesting we'll see how those work push that off let's see what else would get in the box here's something else in here box within a box little bit to be anything else terribly exciting power audio cable even it and that's appears to be all that you're going to get for your money let's go ahead and take a look at the zone bridge 100 that son of folks were also nice left to send over same sort of thing congratulations welcome to the sonos family so to speak and here is our zone bridge go ahead and take out of the box get the package and there it is sort of a small white until be nice looking fox power and two Ethernet ports on the back or Ethernet switch rather on the back and keep digging into the box we also have probably the same array cables we had with the previous device very thin ethernet cable and a power adapter in there and that is about it so I'm very excited to use this and let you guys know what I think and of course i'll give you some sample of audio quality and we can check out whether or not this is worth your 400 bucks for the system for you and 500 if you want to get it with the zone bridge certainly not in an inexpensive proposition but we'll see if it's worth the money and I stay tuned to the channel for the rest of the sonos videos i'm jon rettinger from technobuffalo and i'll see you in the next video bye bye
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