Of course, it's not literally near field that I'm doing (my head is probably about 1 metre 70/80 cm back from the middle point in between the speakers) and I don't tend to listen at very low sound levels: If I'm worried about disturbing the neighbours in the late evening, I'll grab my headphones.
#Sonos amp stores full
That's what appealed to me so much about the 707s they have an astonishingly full range sound for their size. This is an interesting idea but, to be honest, I don't feel like I'm missing much in the sound I have now. But if you can return the Sub if it does not suit, it may still be worth a try.
The only drawback is that Trueplay tuning is not available for this set up I have found it to be of great benefit to get the Sub to deliver natural sounding bass lines. Somewhat counter intuitively, the Sub adds to the presence of the music at low volumes as well, when the bass otherwise sounds thin. If near field listening includes listening at low sound levels, and if you have a way to get the Sub Mini on a test/return basis, I suggest playing around with that addition to the set up and see if there is improvement worth the additional spend. In that context, I do think they sound wonderful. Nor is this intended as a blanket recommendation of the 707s as the ultimate best speakers for the Sonos Amp: They are small, inefficient speakers suited to smaller rooms / listening spaces, like mine. I just don't think there was much, if any, difference in sound quality. This is not intended to bash the Bluesound at all it seemed a good product and had some extra features and inputs that the Sonos Amp lacks. It was certainly not obvious to me that one was better than the other (much to the sales person's chagrin). I thought the Bluesound might have sounded a little 'fuller' at some points but that could easily have been the non-matched volume levels.
I listened to both in combination with the 707s and heard barely any difference at all. I preferred the 707's sound to a number of other speakers demonstrated, including some larger models.Īs in interesting aside: The helpful sales person tried very hard to steer me away from the Sonos Amp towards a Bluesound Powernode, expressing the opinion that it would offer much better sound quality and do more justice to the Bowers & Wilkins speakers. Of course, they achieve this at the cost of being very insensitive but the plentiful power of the Sonos Amp can accomodate this, making it a good match for these diminutive gems. The 707s were not actually on my initial list of potential buys (I had intended to try their larger sibling, the 706, among other speakers) but upon hearing that my listening space was quite small (effectively a quarter of my living room, putting my usual listening chair less than 2 metres from the speakers) the sales person suggested trying the smaller 707s and they pretty much blew me away, with a remarkably full range sound for such a small speaker. Having finally got my modestly sized living room in order with furniture placed and (just) enough room for a pair of compact loudspeakers, I went shopping.
I ended up with this combo after half a year without a Sonos (or any real) stereo system following a move to a new, somewhat smaller, home.
There don't seem to be that many posts about specific Sonos Amp & speaker combinations, so I thought I would briefly share my impressions of the Sonos Amp in combination with the Bowers & Wilkins 707 S2 loudspeakers.
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