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what's up everyone jon rettinger from technobuffalo here at the review for you of the sonos zone player s5 this pretty high performance wireless music system is going to run you three hundred and ninety nine dollars so this is a review unit sent from so knows if you'll bear with me i'm going to get a bit geeky with you and go through some of the specs on the device so since it is a speaker system you want to know what sort of speakers it's got in it it's got a five driver speaker system including a two tweeters 23 inch mid-range drivers 13.5 inch woofer and each driver of the so no systems individually powered by a dedicated amplifier manager guys will here in a few minutes you can really hear the speakers and hear the quality of the music coming from such a small device they say that it's got crystal clear room filling sound and i was a bit skeptical I've got a pretty large room here and this device does a very nice job with it so let me walk you been around it and I'll show you some of the cool features and especially nice about this is how the software interact with the hardware so it's very clean on the front you've got the speaker grill you've got a mute button and a volume up and down on the top and this is of course a network device on the back really not much to see there either you've got audio in and some audio out ethernet ports and power and that's about it and a handle it's not the lightest device in the world certainly it's able to be moved with one hand let's go and take a look at some of the software in the ways that you can interact with the sonos s5 music system alright guys let me give you an example of the sonos desktop software that comes bundled with your music player compatible for both Mac or PC running here on a Mac essentially what it does it will import all a music from itunes or whatever music player that you use if you've got music stored on your hard drive or an external drive it'll import it in took about three or four minutes to pull in about six gigs and music for me so you can do that math accordingly I don't open your library and they look just like it would in itunes whatever player you you can go ahead and view all of your different artists and sort of pick one that you like so let's say you want to get pumped up listen to some eye of tiger you go ahead and just hit play and of course we'll play on the SONA system in whatever room of your home it is now you get a limp or your albums your genre even your playlist you can create on the go playlist here in the sonos player by taking advantage of that add to queue button down below so there are a few other cool services that you get here and of course you can see that you can do shuffle loopback keep playing if you're having a dinner party or I keep playing classical music and you've got all those options here some additional music services you get laughs FM I can also get access to sirius satellite radio the internet stream by there even more button if you want to make your own playlist still show up right here and you have access to certain internet radio shows i'll show you what that looks like in just a few minutes in addition to some of the line in options so it worked very well just as you'd expect to go and hit play and it just starts playing control the volume right from here as well but this isn't the only way to control your sonos music and i want to give you an example of how the music quality actually sounds on the player let's go ahead and go mobile so one of the cooler waves interact with your sonos player is its built-in and free iphone application just download it from the App source and then go ahead and launch it and show you what you're going to get and I've got the sonos player directly behind us about two feet away they'll be able to hear what the music sounds like now go ahead and open it up launches a player and let's go ahead and back out of this and view music this is what your main menu is going to look like when you launch it for the first time setting it up is just as simple as pressing the volume up button in the mute button on your sonos player and that sets the pairing so you give music view your music library which will go to right away and i'll show you some of these other options here as well see music library looks about we expect to look like just as it did on the desktop you can do your albums artists and what have you let's go ahead and we'll jump to artists will pick through a random artist here let's go ahead and pick green day for example so 21st Century Breakdown it also is pulling in the album art if it's available and we'll go ahead and just pick a song for it quickly and i'll play its you hear what the sounds like but so i don't get busted into a weird copyright stuff so you can click it you do play now you can play next you can create a tack you add it to your queue so if you're having again a dinner party or a part of your people over and you want to sort of make a playlist as you go or someone wants to hear a song you know you have to run your computer this is a great way to get to it so let's go ahead and play it now and it starts to play neatly control the volume right the fats are just a bit you can view the scrubber now the video is not going to do justice to the player the quality of the microphone just isn't as professional grade as a sonos would probably really justify fills up a room very nicely it's got nice rich deep sound it doesn't sound tinny like you get when you're blaring sort of crappy speakers on a high volume it's got a very deep sound I'd say it's definitely on par with the bose offerings so let me show you some of the other options that you're going to get with the player here we'll go back to music get access to a ton of internet radio shows as well then go ahead and view them really by a few different ways let's go to talk radio for example and let's go to news now you've got a thing you won't listen to traffic you've got a lot of shows you can listen to here go ahead and you let's say all stations now go back and let's view all shows so you can view a lot of shows that are playing right now there are ton and go ahead and just click him and they will start playing I guess it's nice you're sitting on the couch and you wanted to sort of listen to these go ahead and get started takes a minute for the stream to start and then you will be off so it goes it's playing a clearly not traffic however it's classical music these are not labeled properly and I found this in a lot of them their 70s music in the ones labeled Maggie's rock and traffic where there should be music and music where that should be traffic they just saw here you get to play around to really see which stations are going to function best for you so you can go ahead and view all your line and if you've got a line coming in with another source you can get some more music options take a look at that again there's your last.fm and you can add serious stream if you want to set some sort of alarms you can do that as well and the settings that you're going to get let's take a look at the used own player settings this is the one that's set in my living room and from right from here you can control all your bass treble your balance your loudness and do a complete reset all right from your mobile device one other thing that I want to add since you do have to have the zone player connected to an Internet Jack if you want to have this in a room where you don't have a route or you don't have internet connection that something so nose has called a zone bridge which is 99 bucks which lets you plug in any set of speakers you want and you can have your music stream that way just another option overall I've been very impressed with the sonos system it works really well the quality of the music was quite nice however it does come at a high price 299 it's certainly quite a premium there are plenty of less expensive options available if you are an audio file and the quality of the music and the quality of the base and the treble is about most importance to you it's going to be a great investment 309 you're going to get a really nice system that's a bit inconspicuously to put it off to the side and that's going to rock your house but if you just like listen to casual music and you want to be able to have some sort of internet streaming um 499 or 399 is going to be a tough price point four hundred bucks you may be better off looking elsewhere so it's going to come down to what your music preference is for me I'd have a hard time justifying 400 bucks on this but again i'm not the biggest audio file if you are it will certainly be a worthwhile investment hope you guys enjoyed is this oh no system something that you're interested in is it is it not very curious to hear what you guys have to say anyway i'm jon rettinger from TechnoBuffalo be sure to check out the site for all your tech news and create and monetize your own tech blog 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