Speakers

Sorry if this has already been discussed, just thought I would share my experience with the new Sky Q boxes and Sonos for anyone looking for Airplay/bluetooth support for their Sonos system, or are considering upgrading to Sky Q but haven't yet. As the new Sky Q boxes come equipped with AirPlay support (and Bluetooth), I have 3 Sky boxes attached to TV's around the house which are linked to two PlayBars and a Play:5. This adds seamless airplay/bluetooth support to your entire Sonos system from any sky box, I can use my original phone music player or even youtube audio and not have to use the Sonos controller. This also turns your TV screen into a nice music visual if using airplay. Other benefits are the full HD/4K aspect, meaning better use of your home theatre set up using DD sound. Previously only available by additional subscription on Sky+. For me these benefits alone for my sonos system are worth the upgrade to Sky Q, there are also many more improvements on the Sky bo

My home is frequently used as the home to have parties, mainly because everyone says they love my sound system, which consists of several Sonos connects, early Zone players and many Play ones and some play 5's. I would love to not always be relied upon to host parties, and was wondering if my play ones and play 5's could be brought to other people's homes? How difficult would that be to do something like that? Along that line, has there been any thoughts to allowing the sonos speakers to work in the car, using my iPhone's personal hotspot?

Hi, Although I love the fact that Play devices are wireless, the reality is that for someone like myself who wishes to mount them on a wall in various rooms, I still need to run power up to the speakers. Running power cables in the wall is even more trouble than running network cables. Worst, there is no way to do a clean job if you don't want to have ugly power outlets at the top of your walls and then you have an ugly power cable that is visible... Furthermore, if you want to avoid buying the Bridge, you need to run AT LEAST one network cable to the device anyway. Why bother having to run both power and Ethernet? So, I think my proposition is pretty simple (although it would need to happen on future versions of the hardware): Why not make the Ethernet port be PoE, which means that a PoE switch could supply power to the speaker. I do read that PoE have a maximum power of 35W (I also read 50W wat possible in a non-standard installation).. so maybe this will be an issue. But

Sonos stinks. I am listing all my speakers and everything 'Sonos' on Craigslist. You cannot get through to customer service, minimum 1 hr hold. MINIMUM. System often won't play. System drops whilst playing. Last phone call the rep now says there's too many wifi networks in range! God thing I don't live in the heart of the city or a condominium with more networks. All the updates, it gets worse. Imagine spending a few grand and not being able to use it or having it cut out all the time. Such rubbish. Wish I had never spent the money. I wanted Bose yet they were not doing the streaming speakers at the time so I bought Sonos. I've seen it continue to go further and further downhill. What a mess!

Hi I am starting construction on a patio in the next few weeks, just want some setup recommendations as I managed to sneak my Sonos expansion into the budget :) The space is going to be close to 800 square feet, so I want to make sure I have enough coverage for the entire area. I currently have a pair of Polk outdoor speakers (used with a Connect and small amp) that will be in one "zone". I am thinking I need at least 4-6 more speakers to cover the area adequately. Currently looking at the TIC GS4 driven by Connect Amps. My main question is around the TV setup. I'm planning on getting a Sunbrite outdoor TV with a dedicated pair of outdoor speakers (driven by a Connect Amp), and I would like to be able to hear audio from my TiVO box as well as an Apple TV. Since there is only one Line In on the Connect/Connect Amp, is the easiest way to get audio from both sources to use the Line In on two different Connects, and then group the zones together when needed? I would say 90% of the

One of my Play5 units stop working after a lightning strike on the house. Is there any kind of internal circuit breaker that could be fixed or is this thing likely just toast?

On opening my app today (on both my Android phone and my iPad), all the items in "My Sonos" are grayed out and it says "This content is no longer available. Tap Edit to remove it from My Sonos." This is on everything; TuneIn, Pandora, all of it. There's also a black banner I've never seen before right above the navigation bar at the bottom, that says "Resume From". If I tap the up arrow there's a screen that includes a window with "Last Played in This Room" with "Resume" and "End Session" choices. Neither of those do anything if I tap them. I've clicked everything possible, checked updates, removed and reinstalled the app, but no luck. What is this mystery?! Mystery solved: One of my speakers went haywire and a reset of the router fixed it. Not seeing an option to delete my question, so hopefully this will help someone else!

I’ve given up waiting for Audible support as after a few years it seems increasingly unlikely it will ever arrive. This isn’t a rant about that, there’s plenty of existing threads on the topic. So sadly... I’m thinking of ebay’ing my Sonos One and Play 5 and instead getting a couple of HomePods. Has anyone with a Play 5 had the opportunity to compare them? I understood it wasn’t close in terms of audio quality but a recent article I read suggested there wasn’t much in it? Thanks very much 🙂

Does the microphone in the Play 5 collect voice data? Is it capable of this? If so, can it be disabled?

Have a 1st generation play 5 we have been using as our "outdoor" speaker. We have built outside bar and want to know if its possible to use the play 5 and connect a 3rd party speaker to the Play 5? If possible, what do i need for equipment? I have tge sonos sourround sound as a boost as well. Thank in advance

No question here, just a warning. After restarting my BT Whole Home wifi mesh system, I found that two players (one on Ethernet, one on Sonosnet) were missing from my iOS Sonos controller app but could be seen in the PC desktop controller. I had also power-cycled the players, and indeed all devices. So there was no obvious culprit. Both players had valid IP addresses though, and were on the network. I eventually worked out that the Whole Home system had restarted with some paused / blocked devices. I had unpaused the wifi ones - but had no idea that it could even see the wired ones (if you drill into the app though, this becomes apparent on the Devices page). And while it obviously can't block wired (or sonosnet) devices as such, it can purport to do so and this stops them being seen by devices on its own mesh. Coupled with this, a growing literature on other forums also suggests that BT Whole Home accidentally blocks devices quite regularly - personally, I suspect mostly throu

We have four Sonos base units at work for streaming music, however I would like to use the speakers as a PA system for a work's quiz - ideally with no expense. I have a microphone that I can plug into an iPhone, so an app would be handy. All suggestions welcome!

Is it possible to play audio from movies and online TV/movie streaming (e.g. from my PC or laptop) through Sonos Play 1 speakers. It seems like Sonos Play 1 are only really good for music files. Any solution to this, ideally a free one?

Hey folks, just wondering if the power cable with the play 1 white is black or white?

Have been the happy owner of a Play:5 and two Play:3's. I've always been careful to watch the volume levels on them (more for preservation of my hearing), but my girlfriend tends to run them pretty loud as she's doing chores around the house. Are blown speakers an issue with Sonos? I quick google search appears to say "no", but just wanted to check with you guys. I thought I remember reading that Sonos has it's own protection circuitry built in. Also, with "active" speakers, are the chances of blowing a speaker pretty small?

So…here goes the Sonos v. Heos Comparison…version 2.0. As noted previously, the former draft disappeared, never to be seen again. Which is sad, it took a while to write. As you may recall, I have been irritated with Heos over the last couple of months and have been looking at Sonos as a viable competitor. Sonos is the market leader so there must be something good going on there right? My comments below primarily concern sound quality, as this is the most important factor to me in any speaker. On a ten point scale, sound quality gets 5 points, app 2, design 2, and reliability 1. Sonos One v. Heos 1 Reliability This is the hardest category to judge as it requires months or even years to sort out, and unless you are reviewing dozens of copies, a failure of one particular device doesn’t really tell you a whole lot. What I can say is that at present I own no less than six Heos speakers, some since the inception of the line and they all still work, nor have the even given

Me and a friend are interested in play 1 devices. We were blown away in a demo today in store but if we go camping for example where there is no wifi router, could the Sonos be configured to connect to a iPhone Hot spot and play music (assuming there is power) ? Is this possible somehow either playing music from an iPhone or iPad over a hotspot on the device straight to the Sonos without a router ?

My question is on the SonosNet behavior when there is more than 1 cable connection. My scenario: I have 11 Sonos units. One of them (poorly positioned far though) is connected by cable to the network, which puts the entire network on SonosNet (About screen reads WM:0). But it's choppy, which could be to the poor position of the unit that is cabled. I have a question, if I plug a second Sonos unit to ethernet somewhere in the middle of the mesh network, will it strengthen the entire mesh network? E.g. will SonosNet take advantage from the fact that the second unit has direct access to internet and won't route further away nodes all the way to the same unit which has the cable connection? My guess would be that this would be the default behavior, but I wanted to confirm the SonosNet behavior. The choppiness might be due to two things, either 2.4 GHZ interference from neighboring wifi networks, which is the case in the area. But I also know that far away nodes in the mesh netw

Moving to Houston and working on a Sonos setup. New house has a 10x10 gazebo with power and a tv. Gazebo is 30 ft from the house. I would love to put a pair of Play:1’s in it. What are people’s thought on these speakers outdoors in rain proof environment? Also, will I have connectivity issues that far from the house (airport extreme router)? If so, any thoughts on how to solve? Thanks for your time in advance. CC

I've called Sonos Tech Support about 8 times and cant get anyone to answer the phone. Every call begins with a recording that there is "high call volume, with a 30 minute wait" I've never been so frustrated with a product and wish i could return it for another wireless speaker brand. I recently waited for 30 minutes and then got disconnected!!! Such a waste of the amount of hours spent on this speaker. Im actually thinking of tossing into the NYC East River and recording it and posting it all over the web. Such poor customer service! Anyone else have this problem?

I just set-up my play 1 with a bridge and connected it to a nas as a music source. It appears that all my songs are playing faster than they should, and the pitch is higher. What could be causing this?

When i rotate my Sonos play:5 to vertical position my impression is that the side tweeters stops and the power adds to the central tweeter. Is this impression correct? Also it would be very useful to see the eq treble bass on first screen and not navigate through the menu. Thanks a lot!

Hi! I got the new Play 5 a week ago. It feels like a quality product, but I am struggling a bit with the EQ-settings. First I ran Trueplay and there was a clear improvement. (Less hall/cathedral sound). Without Loudness it sounds pale. It's like the mids (voices) are a bit muted and the whole sound stage is not impressive at all. I usually disable Loudness on speaker systems, so this was a surprise. Everything comes more alive with Loudness set to on. The problem with Loudness brings sibilance to the trebles. I'm quite sensitive to sharp treble sounds, so I manually adjusted the trebles 3 steps lower. If I lower it even more, the total sound image gets destroyed. The trebles alone were ok without Loudness, but the mids were not at all + bad sound stage. Am I missing something here. Do you agree that it sounds "dead" /boring without Loudness? And that the Loudness brings sibilance to the trebles? Do you manually adjust the EQ?

Is Sonos Play:5 line in bypass the d/a converter of Sonos or the incoming analog signal is converted to digital/analog signal from Sonos and then goes to the speakers?

Suddenly, ALL the audio output from my IPad with IOS 11 is being played through my Sonos Play 1. Previously only music streamed from Spotify came through on the Sonos. Anyone know how to revert to the only Spotify arrangement? Thanks