Typical price: £180
What is it: Budget DAB radio with CD player and iPod dock
What we think: Clearly a budget product, but it's also good value with decent features and a generally good sound
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 LG FA163DAB |
 Sonos BU150 |
 Sonos Digital Music System |
 Sonos ZP80 |
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| Review date | 23 Oct 08 | 22 Oct 08 | 21 Oct 05 | 3 May 06 |
| Editor's rating |
6.5
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9.6
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9.6
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9.5
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| Price range | £180 | |||
| Review summary | Overall this system is okay to use, with good radio offerings, seamless integration with iPods and, for the most part, good sound quality. For pop, jazz, vocals and electronic music, it's a sound offering for £200, despite its questionable construction and average screen 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 |
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 |
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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