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Overview: The Sonos Play:3 is a wireless HiFi speaker system that lets you
stream your entire music library, music services, and Internet radio stations
from your wireless home network. The Sonos Play:3 lets you use your iPod
touch, iPhone, iPad, or any Sonos Controller (616CR200, sold separately) to
control your music. The Play:3 creates room-filling, high-performance sound
using an integrated three-way speaker system driven by three built-in digital
amplifiers. In a multi-room sound system, the first Play:3 is connected to your
home network via Ethernet or using the SONOS Bridge (616BR100,
sold separately), and each subsequent Play:3
can be wired or completely wireless.
Note: To get started, you must wire either one Sonos Play:3 or
Sonos Bridge
(sold separately) to your home network using a standard Ethernet cable (included). The Sonos Play:3 works seamlessly with the
complete range of Sonos products.
Wireless Technology
Audio Section
Music Streaming
Controllers
Mounting Options
Network Requirements
Wireless Technology
SonosNet 2.0 Wireless Mesh Network: The Sonos Play:3 brings great
sounding music wirelessly to any room in your house, without a big wiring
project. SonosNet 2.0, a proprietary wireless mesh network technology, provides
superior wireless range for whole-house coverage, ensures synchronous music
playback, and avoids sources of wireless interference. The transmitting range of
the Play:3's built-in wireless system is approximately 100 feet, depending upon
your home's layout.
Simple Wireless Setup: No technical or wireless expertise is required
to install the Sonos Play:3. Simply, place a Play:3 in any room where you want
music, plug it in and enjoy. To get started, you must wire one PLAY:3 or a Sonos
Bridge (616BR100, sold separately) to your router to access your home's network; via
standard Ethernet cable (included). Then the Sonos System Setup software
provides simple on-screen prompts on any Sonos controller, computer, iPod touch,
iPhone, iPad, or Android. With the touch of a few buttons, you'll be playing
music all over the house in minutes.
Multi-Zone Compatibility: You can place a Play:3 in each
zone where you want to listen to music. The Sonos Digital Music System can
accept up to 32 players. With multiple zones, you can play the same song in
different rooms, or different songs in different rooms.
2-Way Ethernet Port: When wirelessly connected to a Sonos Bridge or another
Sonos component, you can use the Ethernet port on the back of the Play:3 to bring standard Internet connectivity
to your Satellite/Cable set-top box, DVR, PC, game console, or network hard drive.
Audio Section
3 Driver/3 Amp Speaker System: The Sonos Play:3 uses three state-of
the-art digital amplifiers individually coupled with three speakers to deliver
great sound to any room. The wireless music system provides pure, clean sound
that is perfect for bringing room filling music to a kitchen, bedroom, office,
or just about any room in your home. A bass radiator produces powerful low notes
while, two mid-range drivers and one tweeter fills out the sound.
- Class-D Amp: The Play:3 employs state of the art, great sounding
amplifiers that are lightweight, powerful, and very energy efficient in
standby and use.
- Tweeter: One tweeter creates a crisp and accurate high frequency
response.
- 2 Midranges: Two dedicated mid-range drivers ensure the faithful
reproduction of midrange frequencies crucial for accurate playback of vocals
and instruments.
- Bass Radiator: A bass radiator is tuned to use the energized air
volume inside of Play:3 to provide deep, clean and surprisingly powerful
bass from such a small package
DSP Circuitry: From the recording studio to your home, the music is
reproduced as the artist intended. All filter settings, active equalization, and
time-alignment are done in the digital domain through state-of-the-art DSP
circuitry so there's absolutely no loss of audio quality or energy.
Tone Controls: Optimize sound performance using zone-specific bass,
treble, balance, and loudness controls. Adjust volume by individual zone or by
groups of zones.
Stereo Pairing: The Stereo Pair setting allows you to group two
Play:3s in the same room to create a wider stereo experience. In this
configuration, one unit serves as the left channel and the other serves as the
right channel.
Note: When creating a stereo pair, it is best to place the two
Sonos components 8' to 10' away from each other, angled inward to form a
triangle with your favorite listening position.
Music Streaming
Music Streaming: The Sonos Play:3 lets you play your entire music library,
listen to your online music services, and get thousands of free radio stations
worldwide.
Internet Radio (100,000 free stations included): Tune in
to 100,000 Internet radio stations, shows & podcasts; free of charge and
pre-loaded on the Sonos Play:3. You can browse endlessly or type in the call
letters or name of your favorite station or host and hit Search. Tune in to
live radio shows on everything from politics to sports to entertainment,
catch up on what you missed with podcasts featuring the best of previous
shows, or see what is playing soon. You can listen internationally or
locally; just tell it where you live and it will give you all the local
radio stations streaming on the Internet. You can even add to it to
Favorites so it's easy to find the next time. The unit supports MP3 and WMA
Internet streaming.
Online Music Services: A music service is an online music store or online
service that sells audio on a per song, per audiobook, or subscription basis. Sonos works seamlessly with Anubis.fm, AUPEO!,
Deezer, iheartradio, iTunes, Last.fm, MOG, Napster, Pandora, Rdio, Rhapsody,
SiriusXM, Spotify, Stitcher SmartRadio, TuneIn,
Wolfgang's Vault, and downloads from any service offering DRM-free tracks.
| Music Service |
Description |
| AUPEO! |
AUPEO! Personal Radio is a music streaming
service based in Berlin that is available worldwide. With AUPEO!
Personal Radio, you can listen to free music on the web. The idea is
very simple - AUPEO! play lots of music and let the listener choose
the playlist based on their personal taste. The basic concept is
based on personal music DNA, which allows you to 'love' or 'ban'
songs. The highly advanced software then remembers this and adjusts
as necessary. As a result, we offer over 100 compilation genre
channels, as well as thousands of artist channels. Listen to music
online based on your tastes and preferences or use our one-of-a-kind
'Mood Tuner' to fit how you're feeling. |
| Deezer |
Deezer is a
music streaming service based in
Paris,
France. Deezer offers access to 6,5
million tracks. You can then create and share your playlists.
|
| iheartradio
|
iheartradio delivers access to over 750 Clear
Channel local radio stations in both AM and FM, as well as
commercial-free and artist-programmed channels. All stations are
streamed in high-quality AAC format. iheart radio provides
song & artist information, as well as Album Art. You can select
available stations from Favorites, Featured, Local Stations, All
Cities, National Stations, Genres, and Personalities. iheartradio
can also randomly select stations for you. |
| iTunes |
Play your entire iTunes library stored on any
computer. Play your entire DRM-free iTunes library, not just what
fits on your iPod. Instantly access any iTunes library stored on any
computer or Network Attached Storage. |
| Last.FM |
Simply enter the name
of your favorite artist or genre and Last.fm will create personal radio
stations based on your musical tastes. You can also listen by genre with Tag
Radio, discover new music based on your past listening with Recommendations
Radio or explore what other Last.fm users with similar tastes are listening
to with Neighborhood Radio. At any time, simply touch the Info View button
to find out more about the music that's playing, like detailed artist bios,
tags, and upcoming events. Turn on "scrobbling" and get the most relevant
music recommendations based on your listening habits. |
| MOG |
MOG on-demand listening service provides access
to a deep library of over 11 million songs and a million albums. |
| Napster |
8 million songs at your fingertips. That's the
beauty of Napster and Sonos. Just type in the name of your favorite
artist or track and start listening to a recent release or a classic
from high school; it's all there in Napster's massive music library.
Discover new music and rediscover old favorites with top 100s,
Napster playlists, radio, charts, and more. Or create a custom
playlist based on any artist or song with Napster Automix.
|
| Pandora |
Create custom stations based on your favorite
artists and songs with Pandora. It's a new kind of radio;
personalized just for you, playing only the music you love. Rate
songs as they play by choosing thumbs up or down on your Sonos
Controller and Pandora will adapt the station on the fly based upon
your feedback. Bookmark songs as they play in case you want to
download them later. Works seamlessly with your Pandora iPhone app
so you can create stations when you are out on the town and then
come home and listen on the couch. |
| Rdio |
Rdio give you access to over 8 million songs. You
are able to search and find any song, album or artist, and start
listening immediately. You can search music by new releases and
chart toppers. You can also check out what other listeners have been
listening to the most, or look at your own recent listening history.
In addition, you can even create your own music collection or make
your own playlists. Rdio will even recommend music for you, based on
your previous music listening. Rdio also provides Artist, Album, and
Song information; as well as Album art. |
| Rhapsody |
Enjoy instant access to Rhapsody's catalog of
millions of songs and ad-free music channels, right from the palm of
your hand. Browse by genre or check out the charts. Find what you
love by typing in the name of your favorite artist, album, composer
or track. Get new album and playlist recommendations based upon the
music you have chosen. And build your own library of favorites and
create custom playlists so you can listen again and again. To stay
in the know about the music that is playing, simply touch the Info
View button and get artist bios, photos, projects, album reviews,
and more. |
| SiriusXM
|
SiriusXM Internet Radio
lets you listen to over 120 channels of commercial-free
music, talk radio, news, sports, and more. |
| Spotify |
The award-winning music service that's taken Europe by storm has now come to
United States. Millions of tracks ready to play instantly. Scour
through a library of 13 million songs. Create custom playlists, and
share with your friends. |
| Stitcher SmartRadio |
Create your own personalized list of podcasts and
tune in to the most up-to-date content in business, sports,
politics, and entertainment from brands like NPR, CNN, BBC, Adam
Carolla and more. Pull together your favorites from over 5000
podcasts, radio shows and stations to create a custom playlist, or
allow Stitcher SmartRadio to recommend shows based on past
listening. |
| Tune-In Radio |
TuneIn is the global leader in delivering free
local, international and Internet radio. TuneIn helps listeners
quickly and easily find their favorite radio stations and
personalities plus discover new ones. With a directory of over
50,000 AM/FM and Internet only radio stations listeners can
experience the whole world of radio within a single application at
home. |
| Wolfgang's Vault |
Listen like you were there, with performances
from the world's largest collection of live concerts. Search over
3,500 concerts featuring over 40,000 songs from the last 50 years -
from Miles Davis to The Who. Browse by artist, genre, specific
concert, or search Bill Graham's personal archives. Add concerts and
tracks to your personal playlist to play anywhere in your home.
|
Note: Service availability varies by region.
Music Libraries: The Sonos Play:3 wireless music system can play music
from any computer or network-attached storage (NAS) device on your home network
where you have shared music folders. The Sonos Play:3 can 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. The Sonos Play:3
indexes your music folders so you can view your music collection by categories
(such as artists, albums, composers, genres, or tracks). The Sonos Play:3
supports the following audio file formats - MP3 (compressed), WMA (compressed),
AAC (MPEG4), iTunes, Ogg Vorbis, Audible (format 4), Apple Lossless, Flac
(lossless), WAV (uncompressed), and AIFF (uncompressed).
Note: Previously purchased Apple "Fairplay" DRM-protected
songs may need to be upgraded. WMA Lossless format not currently supported.
Optional iPod Dock: Dock, charge and wirelessly play the music from an iPod
or iPhone with the Sonos DOCK (616WD100, sold separately).
The Sonos Wireless Dock 100 lets you play music from select iPods or iPhones on
a Sonos Wireless Multi-Room Music System throughout your home. You can
wirelessly play all the music that's stored or playing (including many music
apps) on your iPod or iPhone in all the rooms of your home or office where you
have Sonos.
Controllers
System Control: The Sonos Zone Play:3 provides control of your music
using a Sonos Controller (sold separately), iPod touch, iPhone, iPad, Android
Smartphone, or desktop controller software.
Sonos Controller: The Sonos Zone Controller (616CR200,
sold separately) works
exclusively with the Sonos Digital Music Wireless Systems, and allow you to
control and view all of your music and all of your zones wirelessly from the palm of your
hand. You can even view Album Art. The controller communicates with the nearest Sonos Player through Sonosnet,
a secure, peer-to-peer wireless mesh network, allowing you to extend the range
of the controller to any room in your house, even outside. Because it
communicates with the nearest Sonos Player, rather than through one distant
control point, the system avoids sources of wireless interference. The range of
the Sonosnet is 50 to 100 feet, a range similar to that of an 802.11g wireless
access point.
Controller Apps: The Sonos Play:3 can be controlled from your iPod
touch, iPhone, iPad,
or Android smartphone. Free Sonos Controller apps for Android,
iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad let you control your zone players, music on the Internet and
your computer right from the palm of your hand. You are able to search for songs
and stations, choose the music, and control the volume. You can also view song
and artist information, as well as Album Art. You can even get a text
or a call on your iPhone or Android smartphone and the music will keep playing.
Note: Download the apps for free on
the iTunes App Store or Android Market. Your iPod touch, iPhone, or iPad must
have iOS 3.0 or later installed. Your smartphone must have Android 2.1 or up
installed.
Top-Panel Controls: The Play:3 Provides quick access to volume and mute controls when
you don't have a remote controller in hand.
Desktop Controller Software: The supplied setup disc
contains the software for the Desktop Controller, which allows you to control
the Sonos Digital Music System from your home computer. It includes easy-to-use
wizards for setup and music sharing so the music folders on your hard drive can
be shared across all your Sonos players. You can also add Internet Radio
stations and set preferences for online updates. Once the system is set up, all
you need to do is choose your music, choose your zone, and press Play. The
Desktop Controller is compatible with Windows XP and higher, as well as
Macintosh OS X (10.4 and higher) operating systems.
Mounting Options
Versatile Placement: You can place the Sonos Play:3 wherever
you find the sound most enjoyable. Its compact size makes it easy to place the
Play:3 on your desk, the kitchen counter, on your nightstand, or carry it out to
the patio with you.
Note: The Sonos Play:3 is not water-resistant; do not leave it
outside during a rain storm or position it near water. Care should be taken
if placing the Sonos Play:3 close to an older CRT television. If you notice
any discoloration or distortion of your picture quality, simply move the
Play:3 further from the television.
Horizontal/Vertical Mounting: Position the Play:3 in a horizontal or vertical
orientation to make a perfect fit into tight spots around you home like on
bookshelves, nightstands, corners, or just about anywhere else. The EQ automatically adjusts so the sound
you hear is always great, not matter what orientation you use.
Note: For optimum performance, maintaining more than 1" clearance
around the back of the unit is recommended.
Rubber Feet: Integrated rubber feet protect your furniture and keep
the Play:3 secure.
Wall-Mount (optional): The Sonos Play:3 has a 1/4"-20 integrated,
threaded mounting hole. If desired, you can easily wall mount the Play:3 using a
suitable mounting bracket (sold separately). Simply choose a location that's
close to an electrical outlet, taking care to avoid heat, steam, dripping water
or hidden wiring, and follow the instructions included with your wall mount kit.
Note: Be sure the wall mount bracket you purchase will support at
least 10 lbs.
Network Requirements
Hardware: In order to play the digital music files stored on
your computer throughout the Sonos Digital Music System, you must meet the
following hardware requirements:
- Ethernet: You must have an Ethernet network interface
connection in your computer. If you do not have one, you will need to buy
and install a Network Interface Card (NIC) before setting up your system.
- Modem: It is highly recommended that you have a
DSL/cable modem, or LAN-based high-speed Internet connection. It is not
designed for a dial-up system.
- Router: If you have a cable or DSL modem connected
directly to your computer, you should have a router connected between your
modem and your computer to maintain your computer's security. If you don't
have a router, you will need to buy and install one before setting up your
system.
System Requirements: In addition to the above-described
hardware, your computer must have the following:
- Compatible Operating Systems: Windows XP (SP2) and higher,
Macintosh OS X (10.4 and higher)
- CPU: 500 MHz processor or better
- RAM: 128MB RAM minimum/256MB RAM recommended
Automatic Software Updates: Once the Sonos Play:3 system has been
registered, Sonos will automatically notify you when software updates are
available. Simply press one button and your system updates itself.
