Hear More Music

Now thru August 31st.  Purchase this 4-room Sonos music system and save $150 on labor and installation plus receive a FREE remote control device.

This system includes four amplifed speakers (your choice of black or white). Use one in four different rooms; two in two rooms (in stereo pairs); or one each in two rooms with a stereo pair in a third room!  They can be portable too so pick one up and take it out on the deck!

Listen to your music that is stored on your computer.  Listen to local, regional, national or international radio stations.  Listen to free Pandora Radio.  Listen to many other available services (some have a monthly cost).

Call or email us to find out more.

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815.877.6832

Cool Stuff For Your Home.

We recommend MOG to all of our customers.  If you want to have access to millions of albums and songs from most any music genre (for only $9.99 a month) at CD sound quality then check out MOG.

If you are the owner of a Sonos music system, MOG can be seamlessly added to your system.

We love MOG and use it everyday at home.

Check out the Forbes.com article about MOG below.

A great article on Forbes about MOG & Spotify. http://www.forbes.com/sites/frederic...blows-it-away/ ============================== When Spotify introduced its streaming music service in the U.S. a few months ago, I raved about it. It gives you access to about 15 million tracks of music, on demand, where and when and on what device you want them, as long as you have an Internet or cell phone connection, and you can download tracks too. It’s almost like owning most of the record albums in existence, and for that reason I wrote that it made a music purchase service like iTunes feel obsolete. Why buy a track at a time when you can have all of them at once? And Spotify costs, in its fullest version, with no advertising interruptions and usable on all mobile devices, just $9.99 a month. Well, move over Spotify. Make way for MOG. MOG is a service like Spotify. It may have slightly fewer tracks—14 million or so, its people say*—but it offers several big advantages that to my mind make it altogether a better deal than Spotify at the same $9.99 top rate a month. First and foremost, everything on MOG streams at a highest-level 320 kbps bitrate. That means every track is just about CD quality. Spotify, which began in Europe and has been around longer as a subscription service, has said for years that it is upgrading its songs from its older standard of 160kbs, but an awful lot of them still come across at the lower bitrate. That makes a real difference if you’re plugging into a good sound system. Sometimes you’ll get great sound from Spotify, sometimes you won’t. With MOG you don’t have to worry. It really is like owning all those CDs. Second, MOG has a better collection in certain important, to me, areas. In pop music, it has all of Bob Dylan and Pink Floyd, where Spotify has almost nothing. In classics, it has the great Universal Classics catalog, meaning recordings by artists like Herbert Von Karajan, Maurizio Pollini, the Emerson String Quartet, and other best-in-the-world acts. Spotify has those, but with tracks missing from every album, having apparently not negotiated as good a deal with Universal. If you care at all for classical music, you should be far happier with MOG. Third, MOG has true gapless play between tracks. In music where one track bleeds right into the next, Spotify imposes a jarring break of a second or two. MOG plays just like a CD. There are other advantages to MOG, too. You can download an unlimited number of tracks from MOG; Spotify isn’t as generous. MOG offers wonderful playlists, so for instance when you search for “Ella Fitzgerald” you get not only hundreds of songs and dozens of albums but also about 20 playlists people have put together that include songs of hers. That’s a nice way to discover new music and artists, with great mixes of tunes someone has lovingly compiled. Also, MOG gives you a a radio player with a slider where you can choose anything from a Pandora-like mix of related material to 100% the artist you’re asking for. Spotify made me very happy. But now MOG simply thrills me. As Chris Connaker wrote for Computer Audiophile, “MOG has nailed it with simplicity, a relevant song selection, and better sound quality. The MOG desktop interface and mobile application are incredibly intuitive and without distracting features. MOG’s catalog is not only more relevant it’s streamed and stored in higher quality. MOG has made the deliberation over what service to keep and what service to cancel very easy. It’s really no contest.” *Corrected: I originally had 11 million here. (These numbers seem to be impossible to verify, but both services have amazing catalogs.)

The Goal:  To add a music in a room that currently has no stereo system.

What You Need: (1) Sonos Connect: Amp and (1) pair of speakers and (1) remote control.

Sources You Can Listen To:  Thousands of local, regional, national and international radio stations.  Any music you have stored on your computer in iTunes (we'll set that up for you). Pandora Radio. MOG. Wolfgang's Vault. Sirius/XM.  And lots more!

 

In the past a stereo system consisted of 'black boxes' such as a stereo AM/FM receiver, a CD player, turntable, cassette deck and speakers.

Now...this can be your home music system:

Your remote control can be an iPod Touch or iPad. Or, use your Kindle Fire or the Sonos Controller. No more clunky remote controls that are difficult to use and you can have as many of these devices as you wish to control all of your music.  Chances are you already own some of these devices.

 

Add the Sonos Connect:Amp as your stereo amplifier...funky looking, isn't it?  As you can see from the photo it has a volume up/down and mute control on the front.  That is it (cause you use your remote control).

 

Next, we connect loudspeakers to the back of the Connect:Amp with good quality speaker cable. Use bookshelf or floor-standing speakers.  Maybe you already have a nice pair of speakers? Use those.  Or we can supply you with a nice pair of loudspeakers from Paradigm.

You now have a complete music system in a room.

The Connect:Amp can be hidden from view so the only thing that you will see is the loudspeakers...unless you let us install speakers in your ceiling or walls!

Recap: One Sonos Connect:Amp + One pair of speakers + One remote control = THOUSANDS of music options in your home.

Give us a call to schedule a free home consultation to see how this combination (or variations) can be a part of your home.  815.877.6832 or email at hearmoremusic@gmail.com

Stop in our sound.gallery and hear just how good a system designed by hear.more.music. can sound.  Best part?  You can have it at home too.

2nd Floor. Inside the J.R. Kortman Center for Design and Gallery.  Downtown Rockford.

Since the explosion of flat screen televisions, blu-ray players and home theaters many people have forgotten an old friend, their stereo system!  Maybe you have a stereo receiver, speakers, CD player and a turntable connected together but rarely play the same old 100 CDs that you have in your collection.  Or maybe you just have a habit now of listening to those compressed mp3 music files on your iPod or iPhone with those cheapy little earbuds?

Well it is time to jazz up your hifi by adding a Sonos Connect!

In todays world of 'connected' living even our stereo can be connected to the internet.  By adding a Sonos Bridge to your home router, and a Connect to your stereo via the 'aux' inputs, you can now enjoy thousands of local, regional, national and international radio stations, Pandora radio, and many more free or subscription-based music services through your current stereo system.  Have a Sirius/XM subscription in your car?  For only a few dollars more per month you can extend that subscription into your home.  All of your favorite Sirius/XM stations can also be enjoyed at home by using the Sonos Connect.

 

The Connect has audio outputs and inputs for connection to the stereo and digital output for higher end systems.  It even has ethernet connections so you can connect an ethernet-based component to your system too.  It has many different uses and we can set it up based on the needs you have.

Peachtree Audio, from Peachtree City Georgia, is a manufacturer of high-end audio components. They have pioneered the term 'computer audio' and in addition to using their amplifiers in a traditional audio system they have enabled using music stored on a computer or device such as iPad as a high-quality music source.  Even integrate the Apple TV (pictured) as an audio streaming source.

Peachtree Audio has received rave reviews from many of the A/V magazines, ComputerAudiophile.com, Stereophile and Absolute Sound as offering high-end performing products at affordable prices.

A laptop/desktop computer with iTunes, a Peachtree Audio amplifier and loudspeakers.  That's all you need for a great sounding music system.

Stop in to audition Peachtree Audio products in our downtown sound.gallery.

It's summer.  Backyard parties, patios, decks and flowering plants.  Add a Paradigm 'rock' speaker to your outdoor space.  Great quality outdoor sound just as you'd expect from Paradigm.

Amplifiers from Peachtree Audio...speakers from Paradigm Shift...subwoofers too.

Red gloss - black gloss - white gloss - blue gloss.

Gloss is the new cool.

At hear.more.music.

Finally the Sonos SUB is here.  Visit our sound.gallery at J.R. Kortman Center for Design at 107 N. Main Street in downtown ROCKford to audition the subwoofer.  We currently have it available to hear with an number of main left and right stereo speakers including the Sonos Play:3s and Paradigm Atoms, MillineaOnes and Mini-monitors.