Nova and Sonos
I think of it as a small artificial fireplace. You sit in front of the Nova and get a warm feeling from the rosy glow of the tube.
I bought an NHT balanced volume control some time ago. For about $ 100 and one small extra box, it can provide the missing volume control function.
When I'm 8-9 feet from the speakers and the electronics, I need a remote volume control at my seat. Right now, I set a volume ceiling with my preamp volume control. Then I use the volume control in J. River media Center from my laptop for smaller adjustments. (I'm sending 24/44.1 audio to the soundcard. I decided its's OK for now.)
You could convert your files to Flac. (g)
For years, maintaining duplicate copies of files was regarded as a terrible thing. More recently, replication has become a reliable tool. I could see having an architecture where each room has a copy of my music collection. In your case, you could set up a scheduled batch operation that identifies changes and replicates them from your WMA Lossless library to a Flac library.
Sometimes I can admire a company for thinking out a viable strategy and then executing that strategy in a single minded manner even if it doesn't deliver what I need or they don't do what I would have done. The Sonos people did a major round of development and they just keep selling basically the same products for years. They don't raise seem to the limits of the nodes or remove many functional limitations. They haven't chased fickle audiophiles by supporting high resolution streaming.
They have worked on interfaces to streaming services such as Pandora and Rhapsody. New services will probably appear for some years and customers will want their Sonos to work with all the new services. Sonos made sensible choices in development priorities for their market.
Their products don't fit my needs but I think that Sonos has been smart and disciplined.
Yes. I think the future will belong to companies like Peachtree, Sonos and Audioengine unless Apple gets the entire pie. However, Apple is working toward a future where PCs won't be needed at all. Customers can buy music and get it to an iGadget directly. Maybe it is just stored in the iCloud. Apple also seems to be headed toward a music service component for collecting revenue. (iWant all your money.)
Bill
Me too. It sounded like they wanted to appeal to people by the look of the tube, as opposed to the sound of the tube.
I think of it as a small artificial fireplace. You sit in front of the Nova and get a warm feeling from the rosy glow of the tube.
I am now a big fan of DACs with volume controls with balanced output driving pro active speakers.
I bought an NHT balanced volume control some time ago. For about $ 100 and one small extra box, it can provide the missing volume control function.
When I'm 8-9 feet from the speakers and the electronics, I need a remote volume control at my seat. Right now, I set a volume ceiling with my preamp volume control. Then I use the volume control in J. River media Center from my laptop for smaller adjustments. (I'm sending 24/44.1 audio to the soundcard. I decided its's OK for now.)
Unfortunately they have been stubborn and don't support WMA Lossless so for me personally, my Sonos is sitting gathering dust.
You could convert your files to Flac. (g)
For years, maintaining duplicate copies of files was regarded as a terrible thing. More recently, replication has become a reliable tool. I could see having an architecture where each room has a copy of my music collection. In your case, you could set up a scheduled batch operation that identifies changes and replicates them from your WMA Lossless library to a Flac library.
FYI, while at Microsoft we helped them port WMA Lossless to Sonos but they would refuse the ship it.
Sometimes I can admire a company for thinking out a viable strategy and then executing that strategy in a single minded manner even if it doesn't deliver what I need or they don't do what I would have done. The Sonos people did a major round of development and they just keep selling basically the same products for years. They don't raise seem to the limits of the nodes or remove many functional limitations. They haven't chased fickle audiophiles by supporting high resolution streaming.
They have worked on interfaces to streaming services such as Pandora and Rhapsody. New services will probably appear for some years and customers will want their Sonos to work with all the new services. Sonos made sensible choices in development priorities for their market.
Their products don't fit my needs but I think that Sonos has been smart and disciplined.
Indeed. Companies are so slow to see the trends here. The right functionality for PC playback is not always the same as standard transports. Fortunately there is progress being made.
Yes. I think the future will belong to companies like Peachtree, Sonos and Audioengine unless Apple gets the entire pie. However, Apple is working toward a future where PCs won't be needed at all. Customers can buy music and get it to an iGadget directly. Maybe it is just stored in the iCloud. Apple also seems to be headed toward a music service component for collecting revenue. (iWant all your money.)
Bill