Hear More Music

Since anyone can remember buying a home stereo meant it stayed the same from the day you purchased it.  No new features or capabilities unless you 'trade-up' to a different make and model.

That has all changed.  For the cost of the Connect:Amp and the Sonos Bridge ($548) you can enjoy all the music on earth.  Available from us at hear.more.music, installation is available too.

The Connect:Amp from Sonos gives you all of the following features as well as ongoing software upgrades magically updated via their software update technology.  Just add your speakers and you will have all of these features plus many more.  We can help you choose new loudspeakers to connect to the Sonos Connect:Amp or if you already own speakers you can use those too.

• ACCESS ALL THE MUSIC ON EARTH

  PRE-LOADED INTERNET RADIO STATIONS — FREE OF CHARGE

  Get over 100,000 free radio stations, shows, and podcasts -- all for free. And you can tune in without turning on your computer. Browse for stations or type in specific call letters or a radio host you love.

  ENDLESS MUSIC FROM THE MOST POPULAR ONLINE MUSIC SERVICES

  Sonos works seamlessly with Amazon Cloud Player, AUPEO!, Deezer, iHeartRadio, JB Hi-Fi NOW, JUKE, Last.fm, MOG, Pandora®, Rdio®, Rhapsody®, SiriusXM™ Internet Radio, Slacker® Radio, Songl, Songza, Spotify®, Stitcher SmartRadio™, TuneIn, Wolfgang’s Vault®, WiMP, and downloads from any service offering DRM-free tracks. (Service availability varies by region.)

  COMPUTER-FREE MUSIC PLAYBACK

  Get instant access to millions of songs and thousands of radio stations — without ripping, downloading or turning on a computer. Sonos connects directly to these services over the Internet and then streams the music to the rooms of your choice.

  PLAY THE MUSIC ON YOUR COMPUTER IN ANY ROOM

  Play music stored on up to 16 PCs, Macs or NAS (Network Attached Storage) devices on your home network, supporting the most popular audio formats, from iTunes® to MP3.

  STREAM MUSIC FROM AN IPHONE®, IPAD™ OR IPOD TOUCH®

  Simply connect an Apple AirPort Express® to any Sonos player with line-in and experience true multi-room AirPlay®.

  LISTEN TO MUSIC THAT’S STORED ON AN IPOD OR IPHONE

  Dock, charge and wirelessly play the music from an iPod or iPhone with the SONOS DOCK (sold separately).

  PLAY MUSIC AND AUDIO FROM A CD OR MP3 PLAYER, TV AND MORE THROUGHOUT THE HOME

  An analog audio input lets you connect to an external audio source (such as a CD or MP3 player, TV, DVD, VCR, or radio) and play that music or audio on all Sonos players in the system.

• OTHER COOL FEATURES

  WAKE UP TO MUSIC

  Set the alarm and wake up to your favorite music or Internet radio station in one room, or all over the house. Just hit snooze to get a few minutes more sleep. Fall asleep to soothing music with the sleep timer.

  SCHEDULE YOUR MUSIC

  Use the scheduler to play music at a specific time for a set duration — great for that 30-minute workout.

  EASY INTERNET CONNECTIVITY FOR OTHER PRODUCTS IN YOUR HOUSE

  The CONNECT:AMP has a two-port Ethernet switch to bring standard Internet connectivity to your set-top box, DVR, PC, game console or NAS drive.

  INCLUDES SONOS DESKTOP CONTROLLER SOFTWARE AND SETUP SOFTWARE FOR YOUR COMPUTER

  Control all your music and all your rooms from any computer or laptop in your house. Setup software facilitates music sharing so music folders on your hard drive can be shared across all Sonos players.

  FRONT-PANEL VOLUME CONTROLS

  Provides quick access to volume and mute controls when you don't have a Controller in hand.

• CONTROL YOUR SONOS MUSIC SYSTEM WITH YOUR SMARTPHONE, TABLET AND MORE

  CONTROL ALL YOUR MUSIC AND ROOMS WITH YOUR ANDROID™ DEVICE, IPHONE®, IPOD TOUCH®, AND IPAD™

  Free Sonos Controller apps for Android, iPhone and iPad let you control your Sonos players, music on the Internet and your computer right from the palm of your hand. Download the apps for free on the iTunes App Store or Android Market™.

  INTEGRATED, MULTI-ROOM CONTROL

  If you have multiple music players, you can control what music is playing in every room in your house, from anywhere in your house. Sonos Controllers aren’t tied to a specific player, so you can use any Controller to control the music and the volume in all your rooms.

  FIND AND PLAY YOUR FAVORITE SONGS IN AN INSTANT

  Browse or search for songs and stations, choose the music, and control the volume from anywhere in the home.

  WIRELESS CONNECTIVITY

  Android devices, iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad connect to your Sonos system through your home WiFi network.

  INCLUDES SONOS CONTROLLER FOR MAC OR PC

  Turn any Mac or PC desktop or laptop computer in your home into a Controller. The software is included for free with every Sonos component.

  DEDICATED SONOS CONTROL (SOLD SEPARATELY)

  Increase your control with a dedicated touch screen SONOS CONTROL featuring instant-on, dedicated buttons and long battery life.

• WIRELESS MULTI-ROOM MUSIC WITH SONOSNET

  BUILT-IN WIRELESS CAPABILITY

   

  The CONNECT:AMP can go anywhere, delivering music to any room in your house, wirelessly. Players and Controllers establish their own secure wireless mesh network that delivers the extensive range and superior performance you need to get music all over your house.

   

  SONOSNET WIRELESS MESH NETWORK TECHNOLOGY

  Provides whole-house coverage, ensures synchronous music playback, and avoids sources of wireless interference. Incorporating sophisticated MIMO (multiple input, multiple output) technology, SonosNet uses multiple antennas and radios together to boost signal strength and reach remote locations.

  • Works with any mix of Sonos components
  • Compatible with all previous generations of Sonos players, CONTROL, and BRIDGE

   

  PLAY A DIFFERENT SONG IN EVERY ROOM, AT THE SAME TIME

  Tune in to an Internet radio station in the bedroom, stream a music service in the kitchen and play a song from your music library in the living room — simultaneously.

  LISTEN TO THE SAME SONG IN EVERY ROOM, IN PERFECT SYNCHRONIZATION

  Play the same song in different rooms, simultaneously, without echoes or delays. Add or drop rooms from your rooms grouping and still be in sync.

Amazon Cloud Player now streaming on Sonos

Looking for a way to get music from the cloud to your couch? Then we’ve got some great news for you. Starting today, Amazon Cloud Player is available on Sonos, giving you access to your music from anywhere in the home–without having to turn on your computer.

The beauty of Amazon Cloud Player is that you can listen to yourmusic, everywhere. Simply import your entire music library to the cloud, and then play it in every room that has Sonos. It’s like having your own personal online storage space–not to mention a safe backup of all your favorite tunes. Browse and search your library, create and manage playlists, stream your music from the cloud to Sonos players all over your home. Start with 250 songs worth of free storage and Amazon MP3 purchases are automatically added for free.  For more details on how to get your music everywhere click here.

Songza, the streaming music service for expertly curated playlists, is taking the music world by storm. When Songza introduced a new version of its mobile app in June, it was downloaded 1.15 million times in 10 days, and shot to the top of Apple’s App Store rankings. So, what does a red-hot music app do for an encore? Partner with Sonos, of course. Sonos is the first home audio product to bring Songza into the living room, kitchen and beyond. And with all the great buzz about Songza, this is sure to be great news for music lovers. Adding to the excitement is the fact that Sonos users will have exclusive access to Sonos playlists, curated by popular artists like Tori Amos. Oh, one more thing: Songza is 100% free on Sonos and there are no listening limits or audio ads.

With Songza on Sonos you can:

Stream thousands of original playlists curated by music experts Let Songza’s Music Concierge suggest playlists for every day, mood & room Explore the playlist library, organized by genres, activities, decades & more Listen to exclusive Sonos playlists curated by popular artists Discover featured and trending playlists Listen for free, without audio ads or monthly listening limits

The recently introduduced A2 self-amplified loudspeaker has been a favorite of ours since its release late 2011.  We have them on display for audition in our downtown sound.gallery.

Being self-amplified, the A2s can be used with an iPod, iPhone, iPad, mp3 player so you can enjoy the music on these devices without headphones.  Or, team the A2 up with the Sonos Connect for a fantastic internet-based music system.  Call us for details.

 

Here is a new review from Home Theater Review of this fine loudspeaker for your home or office.

***** 5 STARS ***** for the Paradigm SHIFT A2 from HomeTheaterReview.com

"Simply put, the A2 is a fun, fun, fun mother #*&!!! loudspeaker that just so happens to also sound fantastic."

This Friday at J.R. Kortman's Center for Design and Gallery...FIRST FRIDAY!  Stop in and see the fantastic new exhibit and listen to music on our sound.gallery's Sonos sytem.

Doc & Jerry's invite:  We have an exciting First Friday coming up on August 3rd.  “Mao Zi: an exhibition of traditional Chinese hats” opens in the Kortman Gallery. The colorful, mostly hand-made hats represent different periods and provinces of China. Mao Zi is the Chinese term for hat.

    As in most cultures, hats tell a story or represent social status or even express ceremony or celebration. Many of the hats on display are hats created for children by family members, so you could even say that hats represent family endearment.
    Most of the hats on exhibit are older, representing colorful folk art and provincial traditions, while some of the hats are newer, influenced by the cultural revolution. Also included in the show are painting and sculpture replications influenced by Chinese artist Yue Minjun that feature hats.
    These hats are not only little works of art, but personal objects. This exhibit presents a chance to get a first hand glimpse, both visual and tactile, of the culture of this vast and compelling country. You  are welcome to touch the hats’ fabrics and other decorative materials.
    And , of course, Dennis Horton, wearing his finest Chinese hat, will be hosting the Gallery Bar.
    So enjoy the City Market and one of the great Downtown restaurants before or after stopping by and seeing this colorful and exciting cultural event in the Kortman Gallery.

What: “Mao Zi” an exhibition of traditional Chinese hats 
When: Opening reception: Friday, August 3rd, 5:30 to 9pm. The exhibition runs through                     
             September 8th. Gallery & Store open Monday to Saturday, 10am – 6pm.
Where: Kortman Gallery, upstairs at J. R. Kortman Center for Design, 
             107 North Main St.
Admission: Free 
See you this First Friday!
Doc & Jerry

For those of you with Sonos systems, the new SUB is on display in our downtown sound.gallery.  It operates with any amplified Sonos components.  Call us to set up and demonstration in our sound.gallery.  Or, we can arrange to demonstrate the subwoofer in your home.

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.

hear.more.music.

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.)