Sonos Alternative 1: Devil Room Box
The German manufacturer Teufel offers a range of products to Sonos competitor to make. Under the division area field, there are remote controls, speakers, and Receiver for all sorts of variants and periods. Also an App is available for both iOS as well as Android.
- Advantages: If you do not want Sonos, is the devil an almost equivalent Alternative, even if a special System for wet rooms is still missing. Also music streaming services like Spotify, with a few devil room box speakers connect.
- Cons: the devil does not yet have the wide support such as the Sonos music streaming services such as Spotify. Also devil's price can't compete with the cheaper Sonos speakers.
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Sonos Alternative 2: Apple AirPlay
Apple Airplay offers similar options like Sonos and allows a free choice between several manufacturers. It is only important that you have an AirPlay-enabled control, so, for example, on a Mac, iPhone or iPad. In addition, the speaker must be certified in the premises AirPlay. Such devices are, for example, from Logitech, the devil, or Creative - even some Sonos speakers support AirPlay.
- Benefits: Apple provides a wide range of AirPlay-Apps, which are then given therequired your music to the speakers send, for example, Spotify, iTunes or the Apple Podcasts App. With the Apple TV you can send content to the TV or the living room stereo system.
- Cons: you need to at least have an Apple-AirPlay-Streaming device in the house. Also, you need to be sure of AirPlay-certified devices.
Apple AirPlay is also on TV
Sonos Alternative 3: Bluetooth Speaker
You can use any type of Bluetooth-enabled speakers to buy, and from your Smartphone or Tablet to the speaker to stream. The costs are minimal, Bluetooth-enabled speakers are available starting at 20 EUR.
- Advantage: you can flexibly choose from a wide range of products. For on-the-go you can also make use of small battery speaker with Bluetooth.
- Cons: you can only connect to a Bluetooth host system with a Bluetooth speaker. So you can't switch so easily between rooms. Bluetooth has also often only have a range of about 10 meters.
With Bluetooth, everything is better
If you to the AirPlay-Alternative like best, we show you how to use Spotify with AirPlay use. The Test of the Sonos Play:1 can be found here.
