Ikea really does not understand how some things work. If I order one online and choose at home delivery the cost is 3 euro. If I order one to pickup at the store I have to pay 10 euro. 
Lost revenue fee.
They know you're going to come in, pick up your stuff and leave...without walking through the maze of stuff everyone else is buying....so they're punishing you for that lost opportunity...lol
S.
I was actually heading there tomorrow to grab one. The numbers havenāt budged much so hopefully they will still have tomorrow afternoon.
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That must be it. But wow sad...
Off to Ikea tomorrow tempted to pick one of these up along with loads of other random bits I donāt need
WOOT!
OK, my .02.
I originally planned to use these for TTS, and now. Not so much.
I find them to sound a bit more like my Play:3 than a Play:1, and while they don't have as large a dynamic range as a 3 or 5, they sound quite excellent, with a noticibly better bass punch than the 1's.
I have a fairly open plan family room, with a Play:5 and two Symfonisks all along one wall spaced 8+ feet apart. There are two distinct "seating" areas in the room, so now, wherever you sit, two speakers are to the left and right of your sitting space. Grouped together and playing the same track, they sound fantastic when set to the same volume level.
Are they Play:5 or Amp quality? No. I'd say they are a little muddier than a Play:5 and Amp or Connect are very dependent on the music source and your speakers, so that's impossible to rate.
For my purpose (relaxing music while I read or do home automation stuff) they're perfect. And the WAF is stratospheric.
The Play:1 is getting relgated to TTS duties, and at $99 each, I expect a few Play:1's might be getting retired, or relegated to the adult children that periodically darken my doorstep....
No regrets on this purchase.
S.
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Can you say SYMFONISK fast three times?
SYMFONISK SYMFONISK LUDAFISK....damn!
S.
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HaHa I thought so.
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Nice! Thanks for the feedback. I really wasnāt expecting much better than Play:1 sound quality. Thatās really encouraging. Hope they arenāt all gone by the time Iām able to get there, but I think they will be unfortunately, and I will have to wait a while.
[Edit] 22 of the black sold in the last 22 hours
Sorry your store sold out so quickly!
My store had 77 on Thursday night, but by the time I ordered, they claimed 20. The website still says 20.
Best trip to that madhouse I ever made. In the front door 9 mins after opening, sharp left turn, short walk through the empty checkout area, 2 mins at the pickup desk, 2 signatures....grab the boxes by their cleverly designed handles...thank you very much....and out the door. 5 mins all told!
Honestly the only time I've ever been in there where I felt my money was well spent.
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I ended up ordering it online. Shipping to me was 9$ To Pickering from North York. The website was weird though. I had to try multiple times and it eventually let me order for shipping.
Cheaper than me driving up there. Picked up some extra repeaters as well for the zigbee mesh.
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Thanks. I would have ordered for delivery too. It wasnāt letting me either. Maybe thereās still a possibility for that then? Iāll try.
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I couldn't order online yesterday. But it worked today. $9 delivery.
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Hopefully it works now. It says available for delivery from North York. For 9.99 shipping it was a no brainer. Suppose to arrive Wednesday via fedex.
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Does sonos and or the ikea varient speaker versions support dlna for standard streaming via any chosen app or do they only operate o. The sonos app? I'm looking to create a music server on a qnap raid unit to enable round house streaming
As far as I know only from the Sonos app. But I don't own sonos. But you don't have to have a streaming server for it. You can just use a samba share.
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A streaming solution would be better as I'm looking to control speakers from our mobile phones using an app to stream the centralised music collection. Our collection is too large to fit onto phones!
Using the Sonos app doesn't mean the music has to be on your phone.
As @frits said, you can export your music as a SAMBA share from your NAS. It will be picked up by the Sonos app on your phone, allowing you to set it up as playlist.
You can also control Sonos using node-sonos-http-api
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Thanks for the extend to my post @aaiyar
@chrisBM, the Sonos app doesn't even steam the music from you NAS to the speakers. The speaker will connect to the NAS share and collect the meta data of your folders/files. That way you can see your music in the Sonos app on your phone as if it is on your phone. But in fact the files are only on your NAS. The app just simply send commands to your speakers to play a certain file from your NAS on a number of speakers. The speakers will then read the files from your NAS and play them locally on the speakers. That's why the speakers will continue to play music even if you turn off your phone.
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