Sonos one SL - terrible speaker

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Wanted to write on here as I’m having trouble with my Sonos one SL and wanted to see if anyone else had similar issues with it.

1. I Planned to move the speaker around the house occasionally. Bedroom, living room and kitchen. Every time I move it to another room I have to retune the sound. I thought that a £180 speaker would save the tuning in each room, so that when I move it to another room I click the room in settings and it automatically retunes itself. But doesn’t. This isn’t good, as if I want to set it up in the kitchen for half an hour while I cook, it takes 10 minutes to get it there.

I can’t believe it doesn’t have an option to play with Bluetooth. I appreciate WiFi is the best Now but two weeks ago our WiFi was down for two days and again, I can’t believe that a £180 speaker doesn’t have an alternative option for this.

I find the sonos app so complicated to navigate. I listen to a lot of house music, so lm often trying to find less well-known songs and artists and it’s so complicated on the app very easy on Spotify. If it’s for any reason harder than Spotify to navigate why would I ever use it?

All in all, I bought this speaker in October last year Based on such good reviews and recommendations. I thought that in time i would work out how to use it properly and suss out how to get it to do what I want it to do. However it’s taken this long and a couple of calls to the help centre to realise it’s just not very good. The sound quality is phenomenal but you expect these top of the range speakers to be versatile, and it isn’t.

My partner has a 2 year old £30 speaker and we use it more than the sonos. The sound is terrible but at least we actually listen to music when we want with it.

Anyone else have issues with it?

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jgatie

It advertised that the ONE SL has multiple rooms around the house that it can be tuned into in the settings.

As questioned above, where exactly is this advertised?

melvimbe

Thanks for the advise on radio stations, that's worked nicely. :thumbsup:

I appreciate everyones views on this. When speaking to the operator on the phone, he suggested I put these views on here, which I've done. If people agreed with me presumably, Sonos would look into it, but it seems that no one really experiences the same issues, which is fine.

Thanks everyone

I don’t think there’s anything wrong with these as features requests, and you aren't the first to ask for them. What people are disagreeing with is the statement that the SL is a terrible speaker because it doesn’t have these features.

Danny

Smilja

It advertised that the ONE SL has multiple rooms around the house that it can be tuned into in the settings.

As questioned above, where exactly is this advertised?

I think the OP does not have a grasp of the term multi-room system and got it mixed up with multiple rooms.

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John B

You have run into a group of Sonos' biggest fans! But you definitely misinterpreted the bit about moving the speaker around. Sonos is a multiroom system but that is meant to be with multiple speakers, each one tuned to each room's acoustic profile.

What you need is a few more speakers to get the true Sonos experience!

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bgrapids

Contributor I

You have run into a group of Sonos' biggest fans! But you definitely misinterpreted the bit about moving the speaker around. Sonos is a multiroom system but that is meant to be with multiple speakers, each one tuned to each room's acoustic profile.

What you need is a few more speakers to get the true Sonos experience!

You trying to tell me that there is no way to select between playing music in one room and all speakers?

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nik9669a

Senior Virtuoso

You have run into a group of Sonos' biggest fans! But you definitely misinterpreted the bit about moving the speaker around. Sonos is a multiroom system but that is meant to be with multiple speakers, each one tuned to each room's acoustic profile.

What you need is a few more speakers to get the true Sonos experience!

You trying to tell me that there is no way to select between playing music in one room and all speakers?

Sonos Let’s rooms be Grouped. This feature lets you chose a set of rooms and play the same source to all speakers, and they will all play in sync. Rooms can be added and removed as you wish. This is the multi-room feature that so many Sonos owners really appreciate. Of course, you can also play different sources in each room.

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bgrapids

Contributor I

Sonos Let’s rooms be Grouped. This feature lets you chose a set of rooms and play the same source to all speakers, and they will all play in sync. Rooms can be added and removed as you wish. This is the multi-room feature that so many Sonos owners really appreciate. Of course, you can also play different sources in each room.

So Is it possible to set up a set of ones as rears when using a multi room feature and in a stereo pair when they are playing on there own? also can I play only one ONE off the beam with the rest of the system muted?

These will for the most part live in my bedroom I am getting a beam and 2 Ones. I dont see me running the ones under normal tv watching so I would like these to be under different rooms. But like to use them as rears when watching a movie. I would also like to beadle to play only the ONE on my side of the bed so I will not disturb my wife when she is sleeping.

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nik9669a

Senior Virtuoso

So Is it possible to set up a set of ones as rears when using a multi room feature and in a stereo pair when they are playing on there own? also can I play only one ONE off the beam with the rest of the system muted?

These will for the most part live in my bedroom I am getting a beam and 2 Ones. I dont see me running the ones under normal tv watching so I would like these to be under different rooms. But like to use them as rears when watching a movie. I would also like to beadle to play only the ONE on my side of the bed so I will not disturb my wife when she is sleeping.

I don’t know of any speaker sets that give you that capability. If you do, I’m interested to know.

106rallye

@bgrapids If the two Ones are set up as surrounds (then they are bonded to the Beam and do not have their own room) and you want to use them as a stereo set (two Ones set up as one room), you can unbond them from the Beam. If you want to use one of the One's as a single speaker it has to be set up to be just that. This is however a tedious proces, that will also lose you your Trueplay settings. So, can it be done? Yes. is it something you would want to do often? No.

Sonos is a multiroom audio system, in the sense that multiple speakers can be placed in multiple rooms and work together with or apart from the others. The speakers are not meant to be moved around the house, put in different fysical rooms and be set up for different use cases.

The only Sonos speaker designed te be moved is the aptly named Move, that can be set up to work in stereo with another move (while both on wifi), but not as a surround.

ratty

The poster already opened a thread on this specific topic. There’s a danger that the same discussion could be gone through several times over. Needless to say, the answer will remain unchanged.

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