Stick With Sonos

Add me to the crowd.

As a admitted Apple fan boy (unapologetically) I’m very disappointed.

I was mad at myself for rushing and jumping on the Sonos bandwagon so quickly. I slowly began to have buyer remorse as I watched crappy YouTube video after another and wondered if I would be able to intergrate Sonos into my upcoming batch of new HomePods I planned on purchasing.

Wife and I go into Best Buy for a early Valentine present.

We listen to the HomePod for about 20 seconds and she states “that’s not as good as the one you have in the living room” (my play 5). I’m surprised because I agree but I comment that it’s hard to judge a speaker in a store. So we head over to the Sonos area and listen to the 5.

Totally different song, different location, different volume, different everything but we both just looked at each other and laughed. Actually laughed.

We left the store with a Apple Watch but no HomePod.

I was so confident when I bought my first Sonos product but fear and doubt slowly crept in.

No DTS
No hdmi
So many competitors entering the fray
And of course here comes Apple.

Now I’m kinda left feeling like is this it?

I agree with previous poster. This is the first time I’ve been disappointed in a Apple product. They have a way of making big jumps with the second iteration of a product so we will see, but this was not it.

As a side note. I now call into question so much information from the Mac centric sites. The reviews have been disingenuous.

Very disappointed

I got a Sub to hook up to my Playbar. I’m a very happy boy ?

Every Sonos home should have at least one Sub!.

As the author of this post I appreciate all of your replies. It seems many are in agreement that Sonos is the best. As I was making dinner last night enjoying listening to my 2 Play1's, my source was my Sirius XM subscription. I was reminded how important it is to buy a product like Sonos that is vendor neutral to all the streaming services, that way they are all available to the listener. I know the speaker manufactures would like you to be tied to them excluding the competition but that "walled off garden" approach doesn't work with me. Since Sonos depends on the hardware sale of their product, not being tied to any one music service, it's important us to promote Sonos to your friends. I have some friends that were less impressed with their Hompod purchase so I encouraged them to return it while they can in the 2 week window. They turned around and just bought Sonos and are grateful for my advice.

I got a Sub to hook up to my Playbar. I’m a very happy boy ?

Pleased you are happy! If you possibly subscribe to Spotify/Apple music et al. give your sub a good workout with Gregory Porter's version of Blackbird. Thunderous!!!;)

https://venturebeat.com/2018/02/12/apple-homepod-review-only-siri-fans-should-consider-this-bass-bomb/

Unfortunately, the HomePod strikes me as a miss, and a fairly big one at that. Despite the “breakthrough” language that accompanied both the HomePod and the iPod Hi-Fi before it, I don’t believe Apple’s speakers are going to revolutionize anything. HomePod is just another speaker, and barely a “smart” one at this point. I don’t find it fun to interact with, and don’t think that the sound is worthy of the $349 asking price; the same dollars can buy two Sonos One speakers with superior overall sound, true stereo, and support for multiple third-party services. The fact that HomePod will see non-trivial software updates won’t fix the hardware it’s missing, and even if Apple adds a true stereo mode, that won’t remedy the need for nearly $700 worth of hardware to achieve it.

David Pogue responds to critics of his blind test, which HomePod didn’t win.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/readers-weigh-pogues-homepod-listening-test-183253616.html