Sonos ZonePlayer S5 Multi-Room Music System Review

Conclusions

The Sonos S5 is one of the best choices for a whole-house, high performance, wireless digital music system. Setup and implementation are easy. The S5 ZonePlayer has excellent sound quality. The USD 399 S5 ZonePlayer gives you a lot of sound and ease of use for your money. Although there are a few incompatible routers and you may have to adjust any software firewall that you may have, everything just plain “works.”

If you can afford one for every room of your home, your home will be brimming over with music. Yet, if you only want to purchase one, with the addition of a ZoneBridge, you can move the S5 Player to any location in your home at any time for music where and when you need it. You can use its alarm function to wake up to or use its sleep function to turn off automatically.

Being able to control the system from your iPhone or iPod Touch is a nice additional feature that can save you some money.  

Pros

• Good design
• Excellent sound quality
• Compatible with wide array of music services
• Plays a wide variety of formats
• Good interface
• Good value
• Easy to set up and use
• Alarm & sleep functions
• Can be used with NAS and other devices
• Can be used with iPhone and iPod Touch

Cons

• Some software firewalls need adjustment
• Expensive controller