Sonance vs sonos full#

On the back of every Bluesound speaker, you’ll find an Ethernet port, USB port, headphone jack, and a combo optical/analog input jack. To justify this, Bluesound has loaded its products with extra features not found on any Sonos unit. Bluesound components are - with the sole exception of the Pulse Sub - $100 to $200 more than a roughly equivalent Sonos product. The first thing that jumps out at you is the price difference. This isn’t a complete list - both companies make other products - but these are the models that come closest to a direct comparison. Though pricing and features make it hard to match up products perfectly, this chart shows how Bluesound and Sonos compare in terms of models: It’s been clever about it, however, and so far has avoided the legal entanglements that Denon’s, um, flattery of Sonos has earned. Like Denon’s HEOS system, Bluesound has gone out of its way to mimic Sonos’s product line up.

All the while, we took careful notes on how each system sounded, and how easy it was to use.

Sonance vs sonos full#

To see if Bluesound has managed to upstage Sonos, we spent a week with the two systems, side-by-side, subjecting them to a full spate of usage scenarios: Listening to a private music collection, streaming from subscriptions services like Tidal and Google Music, running a multi-speaker home theater set-up, and multiroom operations. Using components from both of these groups, Lenbrook created Bluesound, a whole-home audio product aimed squarely at audio fans who like the Sonos model, but want audiophile-grade performance. While few outside the audiophile world were paying attention, a small electronics distribution company based out of Ontario called Lenbrook International, has been acquiring some of the most respected brands in the business, namely NAD, and PSB Speakers. There has been no shortage of Sonos competitors.