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Just taken delivery of some Edifier R1700BT, sound good to my ears for the money
Why the hate for the Sonos app? I have no issues with it.
It's just super clunky compared with Spotify, which is a much nicer app to use to find and browse music etc. It also refuses to work until you install the latest updates etc which is super annoying as its completely unnecessary to do that. Very poor UI design.
I can confirm that the AudioPro BT5 is a nice bit of kit with excellent sound. Ideal for my home office.
Quick update on this...
I ended up winning the old skool hifi stuff from ebay, including a Yamaha a-320 amp. (also including a K-222 twin cassette deck, T-520 tuner and a Kenwood SL-PD827 5-cd changer!). He also threw in some Boston Acoustics A40 mk2 speakers. All for AU$120 (£65).
Now, when I got home I took the grilles of the speakers, and all of the foam on the woofers has perished and fallen apart - not surprising as when I took a woofer out the manufacture date stamped on it was 1980! Not a massive issue as they were free anyway, so I've ordered some new foam for them and will experiment in a DIY refoam. I did message the seller to let him know and he refunded me AU$60, meaning I got the lot for just over £30!
I then ordered the Pioneer SP-BS22-LR recommended earlier in this thread.
Once the speakers arrived, I set them up on my desk, which is fairly wide (3x 24" monitors) but only 'normal' depth. This put them quite close to me. I connected them to the Yamaha amp, and connected my phone to the amp using my Cyrus Soundkey as a DAC.
They sounded horrible. I had that terrible 'ive spend money and its a load of crap' feeling. The treble was really harsh and the bass was severely lacking.
The harsh top end I put down to being sat too close to the speakers, so moved them to the other side of the room. Then when I looked at the frequency response chart for the Cyrus I noticed a really weird drop at the lower frequencies, not noticable through my headphones but I wondered if this is what was causing the lack of bass. So I dusted off the tuner that came with the old bits from ebay and sure enough, the bass was back if I used that as a source!
So I now had two problems, I couldn't use the cyrus as it sounded crap through the amp, and also the amp was now at the other side of the room anyway so it was a PITA to get up to adjust volume etc. and I couldn't connect my phone to it anyway.
Then I remembered I had an old Amazon echo dot in the garage, so I dug that out and connected it up to the amp. Bingo! Great sound (not sure what the DAC is in it but its certainly good enough for my purpose) and wireless operation, I can either shout at Alexa across the room, or use spotify connect to stream from my phone.
So, it took a while to get there but I'm happy now.
And I've got my next project sorted in the form of re-foaming the A40s, I might pair them with a Class D amp and use them in the garage.
Why the hate for the Sonos app? I have no issues with it.
Constantly looses devices
Albums sometimes show all tracks, sometimes sites only one track
Search function is random
Browse/discover is not smart
Can’t play direct from Apple Music