Kitchen speakers?

413x · 8 Feb 2020 at 22:16

Looking for a speaker solution for the kitchen

Hard to avoid sonos one (gen 2) going by reviews.

Is this the best option?

Need to play Spotify and possibly YouTube, audio books etc

Minstadave · 8 Feb 2020 at 23:35

I'd recommend Sonos all day until their recent stunt with wanting to end support for their earlier speakers.

Sonos doesn't support YouTube.

An Echo Show is pretty useful in the kitchen. Can display recipes, have multiple timers and the larger ones sound pretty good. YouTube support is very poor iirc.

keylion · 9 Feb 2020 at 00:10

Long time Sonos user here but I don't intend to buy any more after their recent stunt. Maybe check out Bluesound for a similar all in one speaker.

413x · 9 Feb 2020 at 00:52

Yeah that is a worry Wonder about getting a sound bar with chromecast

Yaayuh! · 9 Feb 2020 at 09:14

They support AirPlay 2, so you’re good if playing from an Apple device.

XeNoNF50 · 9 Feb 2020 at 15:17

I have Google home max in the kitchen. They are good for me and fits in with the rest of my house which is full of Chromecast speakers (Inc living room with Sony htst5000).

413x · 10 Feb 2020 at 14:09

XeNoNF50 said:
I have Google home max in the kitchen. They are good for me and fits in with the rest of my house which is full of Chromecast speakers (Inc living room with Sony htst5000).

Are they any good? Can't seem to get away from how the reviews say the speaker quality of sonos is the best for this grade of outlay.

Rossi~ said:
They support AirPlay 2, so you’re good if playing from an Apple device.

No apple devices at home

hornetstinger · 10 Feb 2020 at 14:27

Squeezebox boom?

Psycho Sonny · 10 Feb 2020 at 17:00

413x said:
Looking for a speaker solution for the kitchen

Hard to avoid sonos one (gen 2) going by reviews.

Is this the best option?

Need to play Spotify and possibly YouTube, audio books etc

Google speakers and nest hubs, etc.

If using in the kitchen get the one with the screen for music videos and youtube recipes.

I also like to use the screen to watch my front door when i'm expecting someone and i'm busy cooking so I have advance warning so I can turn stuff off and no need to run to the door, etc.

Google stuff integrates well with nest hello and lots of third party smart home appliances.

413x · 10 Feb 2020 at 23:39

Psycho Sonny said:
Google speakers and nest hubs, etc.

If using in the kitchen get the one with the screen for music videos and youtube recipes.

I also like to use the screen to watch my front door when i'm expecting someone and i'm busy cooking so I have advance warning so I can turn stuff off and no need to run to the door, etc.

Google stuff integrates well with nest hello and lots of third party smart home appliances.

I have a question

Can either of these play sound from a windows pc?

I have a Surface book and it would be great if I could stream YouTube tutorials to the speakers via Bluetooth

Psycho Sonny · 10 Feb 2020 at 23:49

413x said:
I have a question

Can either of these play sound from a windows pc?

I have a Surface book and it would be great if I could stream YouTube tutorials to the speakers via Bluetooth

you can stream youtube videos directly to the nest hub.

as in go on your phone select a video and cast it or say to the speaker play me X on youtube.

413x · 11 Feb 2020 at 00:09

Ugh, so I've read the sonos is better (best really) for sound

But dang thing doesn't have Bluetooth.

Need to decide between Bluetooth or sound quality

XeNoNF50 · 11 Feb 2020 at 09:01

413x said:
Are they any good? Can't seem to get away from how the reviews say the speaker quality of sonos is the best for this grade of outlay.

No apple devices at home

I can't compare. Never had the Sonos. I'd say I wouldn't pay more than the £200 they've been sold at previously though. At that price point I can imagine they are better value than the Sonos One but you can get a bundle of 2 Sonos ones for not much more than the Google home max is being sold at right now and even a Sonos beam has been not much more previously.

413x · 11 Feb 2020 at 11:28

XeNoNF50 said:
I can't compare. Never had the Sonos. I'd say I wouldn't pay more than the £200 they've been sold at previously though. At that price point I can imagine they are better value than the Sonos One but you can get a bundle of 2 Sonos ones for not much more than the Google home max is being sold at right now and even a Sonos beam has been not much more previously.

Looks like Google max seconds hands prices are much better (ie lose a lot of value)

I'm super annoyed sonos doesn't have Bluetooth. I'd probably use that a lot. I just can't figure out if it's a deal breaker.

Universal reviews say
Sonos sounds better - especially in stereo

And its rare that reviews are all one way in sound

XeNoNF50 · 11 Feb 2020 at 13:07

413x said:
Looks like Google max seconds hands prices are much better (ie lose a lot of value)

I'm super annoyed sonos doesn't have Bluetooth. I'd probably use that a lot. I just can't figure out if it's a deal breaker.

Universal reviews say
Sonos sounds better - especially in stereo

And its rare that reviews are all one way in sound

Sonos is all app based and done via wifi right? And you can use voice assistant if you have the right content. So you depend on the functionality of the Sonos app to play whatever content? Not too dissimilar to connecting Bluetooth to phone I suppose?

hornetstinger · 11 Feb 2020 at 13:16

XeNoNF50 said:
Sonos is all app based and done via wifi right? And you can use voice assistant if you have the right content. So you depend on the functionality of the Sonos app to play whatever content? Not too dissimilar to connecting Bluetooth to phone I suppose?

Don't buy it your music database is 65,000 tracks or more

413x · 11 Feb 2020 at 14:07

XeNoNF50 said:
Sonos is all app based and done via wifi right? And you can use voice assistant if you have the right content. So you depend on the functionality of the Sonos app to play whatever content? Not too dissimilar to connecting Bluetooth to phone I suppose?

Apparently there is no way to stream sound from your pc unless it's Spotify (app based )

So YouTube is a no go

Where as work bluetooth you can just pipe sound from pc (whatever the source) to speaker

XeNoNF50 · 12 Feb 2020 at 08:20

hornetstinger said:
Don't buy it your music database is 65,000 tracks or more

I already have Google home and Chromecast everywhere. Generally use Deezer hifi for my music as it is the only hifi/flac service that works on Google assistant. Kinda wish tidal did for the masters quality files though.

MrRockliffe · 12 Feb 2020 at 08:32

413x said:
Apparently there is no way to stream sound from your pc unless it's Spotify (app based )

So YouTube is a no go

Where as work bluetooth you can just pipe sound from pc (whatever the source) to speaker

I'm sure there used to be a Sonos app for PC

Yaayuh! · 12 Feb 2020 at 08:54

There's a few apps you can use to stream from Windows. Tuneblade and Airfoil for example, the latter i've used to great success.