You select the room for playback by simply dragging it with your finger into a Start bar in the left-column Zones area of the app. Each of your rooms or zones is represented by a little room icon tile.
The iPad app, turned horizontally to make full use of its screen real estate, nicely displayed all the graphic elements as three columns at the left, middle, and right, and made operation remarkably intuitive and easy to learn.
The Windows version of the software did work flawlessly on my old XP laptop. Hopefully they’ll get this bug figured out and update the software soon. A NuVo tech confirmed this was an occasional glitch encountered with some Macs, and after following a few instructions, I had the software pointed properly. Two attempts to run NuVo’s Music Share software on my MacBook Pro resulted in its turning on file sharing for the pertinent folders, along with a few others, but no music would load. I did hit a snag getting my iTunes music library recognized by the NuVo system.
as of this writing.) These are among the most widely used music services and were more than enough for me, but here’s another contrast with Sonos, which now offers more than 20 different music service partners. (NuVo has since added compatibility with Deezer, a popular overseas service whose operation was still pending in the U.S. With the system up and running, I had access to music stored on my iPhone and iPad via the P200’s Bluetooth connection, and to the integrated Pandora and Tune-In Internet radio services Rhapsody and SiriusXM Internet Radio subscription services are also on tap. The amp in the P100 was much happier with the smaller and highly efficient (92 dB) GoldenEar SuperSat 3 satellites. Swapping in the P200 and jumping from 20 to 60 watts per side made all the difference in the world, allowing the Classic Two to blossom into the speaker I know it to be, adding warmth, dynamic capability, and extra soundstage width. Bad idea-I quickly noticed that my favorite test tracks sounded uncharacteristically thin and edgy at any reasonable volume, with little of the bottom-end fullness and definition I know these speakers produce. Without looking at the specs, I initially wired the P100 to a pair of NHT Classic Twos, a mid-size bookshelf speaker that’s wonderfully musical but not easily driven thanks to low efficiency (86 decibels) and a 6-ohm nominal impedance. My two-zone system consisted of one P100 and a P200 that I labeled Kitchen and Bedroom.
With the addition of each player, you’re asked to name the zone. Like John, I found basic setup of the NuVo Wireless System a simple affair-all you do is plug the gateway into your router, then wire your speakers to a player in each zone and power it up.
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