Comments on: Sonos ZonePlayer ZP90 Add-On Player

By: J. Seiwert

J. Seiwert — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 13:16:14 +0000

This system works great. My only complaint is that the earlier zp80 went for $250 and the price later moved up to $350, for no other reason than it could without limiting sales too much. A little pricy, but a part of a great system.

By: Oscar M. Rey Vesga

Oscar M. Rey Vesga — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 10:29:53 +0000

I own whole set of sonos products. Its works perfectly, connected to a home theater system.
The only drawback, and it has always happen its the networking. As you should note. Each sonos has networking capabilities, where you can connect any type of device with ethernet, unfortunatly it is not manageble, which means that sonos can choose whatever types of setting for your device. In order to prevent this, at least one sonos should be connected to your existing network.

But what happens when somehow it disconnects from your network? lets say lights go out or you reset your router...well, sonos assigns its own set of ip addresses which means they are out of your network.

My workaround was to configure the router to assign static ip address based on mac address, and usually works most of the time.

After getting networking issues sorted out, it works like a charm.

By: M. Broemer

M. Broemer — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 10:19:38 +0000

I ordered this after spending quite a deal of time researching on the net how to play my FLAC files that I ripped from my CD collection – MP3’s just don’t cut it for me, and I wanted to hear high quality music on my stereo. The Sonos system rocks – it was super easy to install, is connected through my home network, and plays all my FLAC’s stored on a NAS external drive also attached to my network. I bought an Ipod touch instead of the controller, and this works rather well. The sound is awesome, and I am now in the process of rediscovering a lot of my music collection that I haven’t listened to in ages. Highly recommended!

By: Sam Vikers

Sam Vikers — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 09:21:39 +0000

While Sonos gets rave reviews from many buyers, those buyers appear to be very sophisticated users of electronic gadgets (electrical engineer sophisticated). In the user forum while describing my problem in getting my Sonos network set up, one participant said "The well educated buyer of wireless products are aware that there may be interference from other wireless products that operate in the same frequency."

If you're not "well educated" on wireless products, this product isn't for you.

If you're not a hermit, this product may not be for you.

While my issue hasn't been resolved yet, most discussion focuses around 2.4GHz phones and computer wireless networks. If you live in a dense neighborhood where others may have wireless devices and you can't get all your neighbors to change their devices, Sonos recommends you take advantage of their 30-day money back guarantee to return the devices.

I'd say "don't bother" in the first place. Cisco (Linksys) is coming out with a comparable product set. You might want to wait to see if they can develop a more robust solution.

If the system did work consistently for all purchasers, it would be quite useful. The sound quality of streamed music is better than with any other wireless speaker system I've ever tried.

Their technical support (on-shore) is supposed to be quite good. I haven't been able to contact them directly because they are not open 24/7 and their schedule hasn't matched mine.

By: Subastringent

Subastringent — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 09:07:17 +0000

I made this a one star review mostly to get the attention of buyers. First I would like to say that I love my SONOS system, it is cool, works great, blah, blah, blah...

So why the 1 star you ask?
I bought 3 SONOS zoneplayer ZP90s from Amazon. They arrived within a reasonable time as do most things that I purchase from Amazon.

I started setting up the system and found it intolerably difficult..."Why won't this work?" I say. I call up SONOS frustrated. They have an automated call back system that I used. I was skeptical but they did call me back about 40 min later. I worked with the tech for about 10 minutes and he determined via remote diagnostics that 2 of the three units I received have faulty wireless transmitters. He said that it is strange to have two defects like that as having just one would be very rare. SONOS was great about replacing the units and they were so easy to set up when they were working.

So this begs the question: did Amazon do something in their handling that fried 2 transmitters, was I super unlucky, or was the tech feeding me a line?

So the bottom line is... after a little pain up front, the system is working great and I can't wait to expand it further.