Can I setup a PLAY:1 and a Sonos One as a stereo pair?

Thank you!

Just doesn't make sense, reflects poorly on decision making at Sonos. I'm a big fan and was hoping for this functionality, but basically the company is steering me towards replacing all my play 1's. That's just ridiculous!

Just doesn't make sense, reflects poorly on decision making at Sonos. I'm a big fan and was hoping for this functionality, but basically the company is steering me towards replacing all my play 1's. That's just ridiculous!

Why would you replace all your Play:1's? Alexa functionality only requires a single Alexa device, of which the Sonos One is . . . . uhh . . . one. If you need an Alexa device in other rooms, the Echo Dot works great with Sonos and can be bought in a three pack for $70 less than the cost of a Sonos One.

Because of stereo pairing them with my existing play 1's and therefore fully integrating stereo full room sound with voice control in each room.

Why would you replace all your Play:1's? Alexa functionality only requires a single Alexa device, of which the Sonos One is . . . . uhh . . . one. If you need an Alexa device in other rooms, the Echo Dot works great with Sonos and can be bought in a three pack for $70 less than the cost of a Sonos One.

I agree...

But I still think it's a little short sighted of Sonos to not have it pair with a Play:1. Whilst the Echo Dot is cheap, if I was buying a speaker to pair with an existing Play:1 I would much rather have the option of buying the Sonos One or the Play:1 to go with it.

Also, the Sonos One costs more, albeit only slightly more. The point is, you only need one Sonos One per room. Paying extra to have a second Sonos One to make a stereo pair when the additional functionality that it offers probably won't be used seems silly and might put some people off.

Additionally, one of the things that might attract me to the Sonos One is its potential independence from/ability to use any 3rd-party voice assistant in the future (Alexa now, Google Assistant is, apparently, due in 2018, etc.). To me one of the wonderful things about Sonos is not getting trapped into a single-vendor ecosystem like you might with, say, an equivalent Apple or Google product: buying Sonos means I can use any of 80+ streaming services and, potentially, whichever Voice Assistant I choose (possibly even multiple Voice Assistants at the same time) knowing that Sonos doesn't directly have skin in any of their games and isn't financially motivated to develop or push one partner's capabilities more than the others.

I've not got a Voice Assistant at the moment. If I was to consider one I wouldn't want to throw all my eggs into one basket like you would need to if I bought an Echo Dot or a Google Home Mini, and I don't want buy one from each vendor. I'm sure I'm not the only one.

If I could swap out one of my stereo-paired Play:1 units for a Sonos One and achieve that, I might consider it . I get the impression others mights too (they could then use the swapped out unit elsewhere in the home, and may end up buying additional Sonos One's to pair with them). That's additional sales for Sonos.

I certainly won't consider it if I have to swap out each stereo pair wholesale.

So, to me, it makes sense that the Play:1 and Sonos One should be pairable. Unless, of course, they are totally different in the way the speakers/enclosure is voiced, which would then make that a bit tricky,

Cheers,

Keith

Because of stereo pairing them with my existing play 1's and therefore fully integrating stereo full room sound with voice control in each room.

You could just as well pair your current Play:1's and use a cheap Echo Dot in each room to do that.

Not arguing with your statement Keith, I'm not sure what the reason is. Could be technical, could be aesthetics (it was mentioned, in jest) could be a Machiavellian scheme to force people to buy new Sonos Ones to replace their current units (Muahahahah!), but I seriously doubt it. After all, if that were their bent, they would have come out with a Playbar 2 that supported DTS by now. ;)

Though I am curious about this:

Also, the Sonos One costs more, albeit only slightly more.

Price in the US is identical ($199.99) at the Sonos site (though Amazon is charging a bit less). Is it something else across the pond at the Sonos UK site?

If I'm being honest, I find myself considering replacing an existing pair of P:1 s with Sonos One's just so that I can drop "in the living room" from my voice commands. How sad is that? That's the one major advantage I see over Sonos One vs just adding a dot, in a replacement scenario anyway.

I feel pretty compliment that we'll be able to link an echo to a sonos zone for default purposes, fairly soon though. I think I can be patient.

Not arguing with your statement Keith, I'm not sure what the reason is. Could be technical, could be aesthetics (it was mentioned, in jest) could be a Machiavellian scheme to force people to buy new Sonos Ones to replace their current units (Muahahahah!), but I seriously doubt it

I'm hoping it's simply that they've not got around to fully testing it yet.

Though I am curious about this:
Price in the US is identical ($199.99) at the Sonos site (though Amazon is charging a bit less). Is it something else across the pond at the Sonos UK site?

Ah, I made the mistake of looking at "street prices" rather than at Sonos's own web store where the prices are identical at £199.

Most other retailers (John Lewis, Currys, etc.) are selling the Play:1s at £180, and the Sonos One at £199.

John Lewis, for instance, seems to be one of the larger Sonos retailers in the UK. They are also quite "premium focussed" and not really known for discounting, and quite often have Sonos reps manning the display. As far as street prices is concerned, John Lewis is one of the most up-market "streets" you are likely to encounter). I assumed they were selling at RRP. Clearly I was wrong.

Cheers,

Keith