Typical price: £200
What is it: Stylish iPod dock and CD system with USB support
What we think: Nice enough to look at, but distinctly average sound and feature set
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Philips DCM230 compared to other non-standard players
 Philips DCM230 |
 Sonos Digital Music System |
 Sonos BU150 |
 Sonos ZP80 |
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| Review date | 6 Dec 07 | 21 Oct 05 | 22 Oct 08 | 3 May 06 |
| Editor's rating |
6.3
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9.6
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9.6
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9.5
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| Price range | £200 |
£748.99 - £749.00
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| Review summary | A stylish but distinctly average system. The typical MP3 fan won't highlight many issues, but a keen ear or more audio-savvy music fan will find sound quality and the feature set somewhat disappointing Read full review |
Every once in a while a product comes along that makes us drool like a newborn puppy. The Sonos is to home hi-fi what the iPod was to portable music players. We guarantee that anyone who installs a pair of Zoneplayers in their house is unlikely to leave it again Read full review |
With superb sound quality, ridiculously simple setup and a wealth of features to make almost every other streamer bow its head, the Sonos BU150 system excels. It comprises of a ZonePlayer 120 (ZP120), a ZonePlayer 90 (ZP90) and a Sonos Controller, and puts your PC's entire music catalogue -- plus the entire Napster library of 6 million songs -- in any room of your house. Not bad, eh? Read full review |
Easy to set-up, a joy to use and a good-looking unit to boot. There's not much to criticise here apart from the lack of support for DRM-protected music. Most audiophiles will be dealing with higher bit rates than any DRM music comes in at the moment, so for some it may be a moot point. The original ZonePlayer set the standard, the ZP80 steals the show Read full review |
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