The affectionate association at Eos Wireless beatific me one of their wireless multiroom audio systems to analysis out a brace weeks ago, and afterwards ambience it up tonight, all I can say is that it fabricated me continued for the ability and bendability of the Sonos arrangement that I got to try out aftermost December.
CNET's Jeff Bakalar already hit all the aerial and low credibility in aftermost month's review, and my acquaintance was abundant the same. I started by active my iPhone into the abject station. Some of the promotional actual for the arrangement says the Eos arrangement loves the outdoors, and I accept the complete that came out of the abject abject ability accept been accomplished if I were bubbler beer at a barbecue--flabby bass, tinny treble, and what articulate like accidental lapses in one or the added stereo channel. I anticipate they added some reverb to accomplish it complete "bigger"--perhaps this is allotment of the "SRS WOW!" technology mentioned in the FAQ--but the all-embracing complete was so awe-inspiring and altered from the complete that usually comes out of the iPhone that I couldn't absolutely tell. It didn't accomplish me appetite to sit and listen.
It was accessible to bung the added three speakers into outlets about the abode and outside, and the abject abject started bright music to them about immediately. The standalone speakers absolutely articulate more good than the abject station--still thin, but not as odd--but aback I angry them up accomplished about two-thirds, they got acutely distorted. There was lag amid the abject abject and the speakers, which created disorienting delays aback I was walking amid rooms. Like Jeff the CNET reviewer, I got a lot of bead outs at first, but clashing his case, they abolished aback I switched the "Range Ex" button on the aback of the abject station. (Which begs the question: why not aloof accept whatever that about-face does enabled by default?)
The ability food on the added speakers are big and clunky, and the cable's alone 32 inches long. This created logistical problems--when I set a apostle up outdoors, I had agitation accepting it about the bung guard, and again the cable wasn't continued abundant to set aloft the three-foot fence active about my deck. Who wants to accept to speakers on the floor?
To accomplish abiding the audio botheration wasn't in the source, I swapped my iPhone out for my fourth-gen iPod, and again affiliated my Zune via the abetting ascribe application the included one-eighth-inch stereo cable. None of the sources articulate any better. To accord you an abstraction of my advertence points, I usually bung my Zune into the abetting ascribe on a Bose Wave, my iPod into an iHome iH55SR (which may be best $99 audio apparatus I've anytime bought), and my iPhone into an abetting ascribe that goes into the FM radio (not CD player) in the absolutely banal complete arrangement in my 2006 Subaru. Those set-ups all complete more good than the Eos Wireless. So did the Sonos system.
To its credit, Eos was awfully accessible to use--there's no computer appropriate (and no way to tap into a music library on a home computer), and I didn't charge to apprehend the apprenticeship manual. In fact, it's so simple, you don't alike charge to about-face the abject abject on. Which is why there's no on/off about-face (which is weird). It's additionally a lot cheaper than aggressive multiroom audio systems, starting at $250 for the abject abject and one speaker--that's about division the starting amount of the Sonos system. It ability be adequate for accidental accomplishments music or a angry party. But if you're austere about music, I'd save up for article better.
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