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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bgrapids

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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.

Like any receiver that is multi channel built since the 70s or 80s

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nik9669a

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There’s your solution, then. Don’t get a system capable of being used in a dynamic, synchronised multi-room multi-speaker setup; get a multi-zone receiver. If the speaker outputs for it are wireless, you won’t need to run speaker cables either.

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SOCalistic

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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?

The Sonos One SL is a small heavily dsp’ed speaker. You can’t expect too much from it. Personally I find sound quality starts to fall apart above mid range volume. You crated the expectation it would automatically retune when moved. Only the Move does that although some other smart speakers like Apples HomePod will as well. The One also does Airplay or use the Sonos which I would rather have than bluetooth any day. That is also something you could have easily found out about before buying. Also you can play directly from the Spotify app to your Sonos speakers.

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