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Meet Sonos Five, studio-quality sound

Studio quality sound

Sonos Five delivers the same great sound as the Play:5, with updated internals including increased memory, processing power, and a new wireless radio. Six Class-D digital amplifiers are perfectly tuned for Five’s acoustic architecture to power the three tweeters and three mid-woofers.

The custom-designed woofers deliver rich bass while the sealed architecture eliminates reverb and echo. This ensures faithful playback of vocal frequencies in addition to rich bass without distortion, even at high volumes.

One center tweeter and two precisely-angled side tweeters create a crisp high-frequency response.

This all creates a wide stereo soundstage that directs sound to the left, right, and center from one compact speaker. You can amplify the experience by adding another Sonos Five as a stereo pair in either vertical or horizontal orientations, or bring it to the next level with a Sonos Sub.

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Some more details on Sonos Five:

Simple to set-up. Plug Five into power and bring your phone up to Five to automatically pair and securely transfer WiFi credentials using near-field communication (NFC).
Analogue line-in. With 3.5 mm jack for connecting another device, bring sound to Sonos from anything with a standard audio connection.
Flexible Orientation. Enjoy great sound with a standalone Sonos Five horizontally, or pair two Fives in the upright position for incredibly detailed stereo separation. A pair of Fives can also be used as surrounds for a Sonos home theater speaker.
Control your way. Control Sonos Five with your voice when paired with a voice enabled device, the Sonos app, your favorite music service’s app, or AirPlay 2. Capacitive touch controls for play, pause, skip tracks, adjust the volume, and group rooms just by tapping or swiping the top of the speaker. LED indicates status, and mute status.
Tune with Trueplay. Trueplay puts the speaker-tuning capability of the pros in the palm of your hands, adapting and optimizing the sound of the speaker to the unique acoustics of the room. iOS device required.
Dimensions. The dimensions are (H x W x D) 8.03 x 14.33 x 6.06 inches (203 x 364 x 154 mm) and Five weighs 14 lbs (6.36 kg).

Pre-order today on Sonos.com in black with a black grille and, for the first time, white with a white grille for $499 US (€579 EUR).

We’ve announced details for the Sonos Arc and new Sonos Sub. You can also check out our blog for some great stories.

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Shimo

Avid Contributor I

For the new Arc, Sonos publishes on their product page the RAM/Storage (1GB/4GB) and the CPU (1.4GHz A-53). Since they mention the RAM/Storage and CPU upgrade for the Sonos Five as well, is this data to be found somewhere as well?

Also, it’s mentioned that on the new devices the wifi modules got improved - has anybody more information on it?

melvimbe

Well, sonos pushed hard, as early as november 2019, as far as i remember, so THEY really wanted you ro “rush“ out and take the discount on the 2.gen

Why would Sonos specifically want existing legacy Sonos owners to buy Play:5 gen 2 instead of the Five? What is the motivation? Sure, Sonos has a motivation to clear out existing stock, but why would the prefer legacy customers buy the gen 2s instead of ‘modern’ or new customers? Maybe Sonos makes a higher profit margin on the gen 2’s, but again why target legacy customers and why even create a Five if it’s going to hurt profits?

Ignoring motivation for a moment and assuming this was the goal, wouldn’t it have made more sense to have the trade in expire before the Five was released, or have the Five exempt, rather than have no expiration at all? Wouldn’t have made more sense to limit the trade in to the products that you were going to stop producing, or only allow direct replacements? Maybe the trade in program was poorly design for it’s intended goal to disguise it’s true intentions? Doesn’t make much sense.

Now we know why. (They knew 3.gen was round the corner, and probably had a huge stock of 2.gen that they needed clearing)

We already knew why! Sonos told us. They didn’t want people to experience Sonos on old hardware that didn’t perform up to today’s standards. Later, we learned that it was also, or may be more importantly, a way for people to more easily upgrade their legacy products if they wanted to.

Also, about a month ago, i began seeing the playbar, discounted 20% from the usual price here, that was also a telltale that they were trying to clear stock for that particular speaker, normally sonos cost the same everywhere, and suddenly every seller had it at the same, heavily discounted price.

Exactly. If the motivation for the tradeup was to clear out stock of play:5 gen 2’s, why wouldn’t they just put it on sale like they did for the playbar and sub? They would have saved some money too, since 20% discount is obviously a deal for Sonos that 30%.

Regarding your earlier comment that Sonos could have told legacy customers that the Five, and other new products, were coming much earlier on, so that they would consider holding off...how exactly would that have worked? Do you think Legacy customers would have kept that information to themselves? No, it would have been common knowledge as far back as last year, tipping off competitors and hurt Sonos sales. Should they have held off on the trade up program till the new products were announced? Then customers would have rightly complained that it wasn’t offered soon enough before the S1/S2 split.

Danny

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Kim Chouard

Lyricist I

I have a Play 5 (Gen 2). If I buy a Sonos Five (latest gen), will I be able to use it as a stereo pair?

Aka isstereo pairing Sonos Play 5 with Sonos Five an option? 🤓

Thanks!

melvimbe

I have a Play 5 (Gen 2). If I buy a Sonos Five (latest gen), will I be able to use it as a stereo pair?

Aka isstereo pairing Sonos Play 5 with Sonos Five an option? 🤓

Thanks!

Unfortunatley no. Sonos stated a few pages back that the differences in hardware prevent the Play:5 gen 2 and Five from being used in a stereo pair.

Danny

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Arkka

Lyricist III

I hadn't seen that Verge link when I posted so am surprised that it is an identical listening experience to the Play 5 Gen 2 but can't be stereo paired with it.

Does anyone know what’s up with this :point_up: - why can’t they pair if they are the same sound?

Great discussion folks! In this regard, while their physical dimensions and acoustic profile are similar, Five and Play:5 Gen 2 have very different internal processors and computing platforms. The gap in processing capabilities means that we will not be able to offer a stable stereo experience. Stereo pairing takes a lot of complicated computing work and it just didn’t work properly because of the differences here.

Just trying to understand here and I appreciate your response. If I understand correctly, you are saying the different processors mean that they can’t pair, fair enough. Since it’s a technical reason I guess Sonosequencer won’t be able to pair them either (I was actually hoping you would say the reason is because of sound so sonosequencer would be able to pair them if I go down that road).

It’s possible that the app may be able to pair them, we just can’t guaranty the performance of that pair if it does work. I believe that app can pair Sonos devices that have no business being paired, like a Play:1 and a Play:5, which have different processors. When we build pairing for devices into the Sonos app, we need to be sure of the quality and longevity.

i’ve not tried this or looked at Sonossequencer but is it possible to group random speakers while setting their balance to full L or R accordingly? Is that all that does and how bad a solution is it?

Sonosequencer can pair any speakers. It does a bunch of other things too if you check the iOS store app page for it.

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Arkka

Lyricist III

For the new Arc, Sonos publishes on their product page the RAM/Storage (1GB/4GB) and the CPU (1.4GHz A-53). Since they mention the RAM/Storage and CPU upgrade for the Sonos Five as well, is this data to be found somewhere as well?

Also, it’s mentioned that on the new devices the wifi modules got improved - has anybody more information on it?

The Sonos 5 page only mentions that it is getting a quad core 1.3ghz cpu. It is curious that the ram specs aren’t mentioned unless I just am not seeing it there.

The WIFI specs only say “Connects to your home WiFi network with any 802.11b/g, 2.4 GHz broadcast-capable router.” I’m not sure what else they can tell us.

Toffe

Trending Lyricist I

@Ryan S

Hi, I have some questions I hope you can answer:

Is the dimensions exactly the same on the 5 gen2 and Five?

Will the Flexson gen2 speaker stands fit the Fives?

If it does, will the black rubber bit be available in white? :-)

Will a sub gen2 pair with the Fives in a stereo config?

In the new S2 app when it comes, will you be able to more easily swap the sub between rooms?

I have my living room with a stereo pair play5 gen2 and my tv room next to each other, the sub is placed exactly in the opening by the wall between the rooms.

Thinking of buying an Arc if it is easy to use the same sub between the rooms just by a toggle or so.

Regards:Kristoffer

Regards:Kris

Airgetlam

He’s already said that the Five can not pair with the PLAY:5 of either generation.

Sonos doesn’t announce features, generally speaking, in future software releases, so he likely won’t be able to answer any questions about S2 until he that full set of data is released.

Bruce

Toffe

Trending Lyricist I

He’s already said that the Five can not pair with the PLAY:5 of either generation.

Sonos doesn’t announce features, generally speaking, in future software releases, so he likely won’t be able to answer any questions about S2 until he that full set of data is released.

I did not ask about pairing them… Thanks though..

Regards:Kris

melvimbe

@Ryan S

Hi, I have some questions I hope you can answer:

Is the dimensions exactly the same on the 5 gen2 and Five?

Yes. You can verify that by viewing the dimensions of the Play:5 gen 2 refurbished page.

I have an additional dimension question, what are the height and width pf the Five at the rear of the speaker? Can someone with the a Play:5 gen 2 do a quick measurement and let me know. Considering getting a 5 to place in a somewhat tight space.

Will the Flexson gen2 stands fit the Fives?

According the product page, yes.

Will a sub gen2 pair with the Fives in a stereo config?

99% sure the answer is yes to this. I believe it was said earlier

Danny

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