Speakers

I’ve had two Play 5 1st gen trouble free. Now I’ve  just purchased a Sonos One SL. Headaches from the Bluetooth. I know it can be used for initial setup, but can’t it be turned off? 

Hi, someone could help me. I’d like to connect a microphone bluetooth with the new speaker move. It’s possible ? If not directly , in which way is it possible ? Many thanks in advance. Giorgio

Dear all, I am building my house. I have multiple Sonos speakers series 1 and 3 in my current house and wanted to move them into my new house. I also wanted to use multiple Sonos connect and link it to ceiling speakers in multiple rooms.    my contractor has put power for Bluetooth speakers in the ceiling space but no hard wire for ceiling speaker to link to Sonos connect. The ceilings have been plastered and decorated… is there a way I can keep the existing Bluetooth setup and link to a Sonos setup? hope this makes sense, apologies if it doesn’t.  Kind regards John

Would I be able to join a Symfonisk speaker with a Play: 1 to create a stereo pair?

I'm thinking of getting the new SONOS bluetooth speaker MOVE but have a few questions: 1. If I connected MOVE with my home's wifi network, it will work exactly the same as the other speakers and I can put it wherever I want, right? 2. If I'm not at home and bring MOVE with me, both the speaker and my mobile connected to the same wifi network, can my phone's SONOS controller app works and connect with MOVE, so I can search via the controller app and play the songs via MOVE? 3. When I'm home and have MOVE connected and grouped with the other speakers, can I also use my mobile phone to connect with MOVE by bluetooth at the same time, so I can play whatever content from my mobile phone (for example YouTube or other music services) and the sound come out from all speakers? Hopen I can have a reply from the expert here. Thanks!

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Can anyone recommend a power bank I can use to charge my Sonos Move via usb when I am away from mains power ?

Heads up. The paint on the black Sonos MOVE easily comes off. We have had it around the house under normal use. This is the result. I recall in the demos the drop and water effect. I struggle to understand  why the paint falls off. Support said this was cosmetic and not their problem. Hard pill to swallow Sonos. Letting everyone know to be careful with Sonos “rugged” device that is designed to “move”. 🙁    

I have 2 Move pair in stereo when use wifi. Is it possible to pair 2 Move to Bluetooth? Right now I can only pair with 1 Move.  

Has anyone else noticed Sonos Move sound drop outs (for 2-3 seconds). It's happening through both WiFi and Bluetooth. On WiFi if the Move is grouped to other speakers they all cut out as well.

Should I switch to the apple Homepod? it seems like the Homepod has superior sound than the Sonos One, and maybe later on apple will release more speaker for whole house audio like sonos? I just don’t want to buy a sonos product and only get support for 5-7 years. Their stuffs are really expensive.

Does anyone see the value in adding a SONOS SUB to a stereo pair of GEN 2 PLAY: 5's? I've been told that the DSP / crossover functionality of adding the sub to this set would lighten the low end load of the PLAY: 5's, allowing them to more powerfully and clearly produce the mids and highs. My specific questions: 1. Are there really high and mid frequency benefits to be gained from allowing the sub to handle the low end? Or would the sub just handle the low end, while the highs and mids on the PLAY: 5's sound exactly as they did without the SUB? 2. The pair of PLAY: 5's already deliver substantial bass, so are there even more substantial / noticeable gains to be had from adding the SUB? Or do 2 PLAY: 5's roughly equal the low end output of 1 SUB? I consider myself a very lightweight audiophile, so I would love to gain more clarity and power if adding the SUB can achieve this, but I do not want to waste the money, if the stereo pair can provide roughly the same clarity an

Genuine question. What is the likely timeframe?

I’ve invested about $2500 into Sonos equipment in the past two years and have been trying to live the best life with streaming through my house, but also using them as computer speakers in my office. This was complicated and required buying the new Amp to forward the line-in to drive my Play:1s and Sub (which sound awesome, btw). And that works, functionally although it’s a bit awkward to start up every morning with the UI. I’ve been seriously considering buying a pair of Play:5s and their line-in to simplify my desk setup along with another Sub and Playbar for home theater… so that’s another $2500 in gear I was waiting to pull the trigger on. I figured I could use the Amp with some outdoor speakers later. But then Sonos makes their future intentions clear. Split systems are coming. Well, here’s what a split system looks like. I’ve still got Sonos throughout my house. It still continues to work exactly as it did before the announcement. But I just added a pair of KEF LS50 Wireless spea

I just received an email from the CEO of Sonos claiming that the older Sonos products will not be bricked, but will no longer receive updates.   While i was originally concerned the first time i heard you will not be providing updates to older models, I am increasingly concerned that the my older and new Sonos products will likely no longer continue to work together. I don't know if Sonos realizes but its products are priced at the top of the market.  There are many other options out there for wireless speaker systems.  I purchased Sonos products for the streamlined integration of speakers across my home - not to have some work around or a split system. As someone who has enjoyed your products and continued to invest in them over the years, I am EXTREMELY disappointed to learn that the high end products I have purchased (and which are hardly old enough to be considered legacy technology) will not continue to work with the Sonos system. I can understand that their performance might not

As stated in the title I have three Play 5s (2 black, 1 white), having recently received the third from Adorama during their Black Friday sale. The first two I’ve been using (1, black, 1 white) for the past year have the same circular power cord, albeit in their respective colors. However, the third Play 5 that I just received came with a more flat (not circular) power cord. Does anyone know why this is?  I also compared the back of each speaker and there are slight differences in the text right above and below the row of inputs (ethernet, line-in, sync button). I’m assuming that these differences are slight differences between production batches but can’t ay for sure.  Perhaps important to note that ALL of the Play5s came brand new fully packaged, shrink wrapped and all.  Questions:  Which power cord version is the latest model?  How can I tell which of the Play5s is the newer/older model?  Should I be concerned/cautious about the differences between production batches/models? i.e. ar

I heard that owning a legacy product prevents you from receiving updates for your newer products, however there will be a way to “separate” them so you can still get the updates. Will this feature prevent you from grouping newer and old products together? Will you lose the ability to stream music to all your Sonos products in sync if you own older ones?   Having to choose between losing grouping between all products or not receiving updates for newer products sounds like an absolute deal breaker for me.  I read the “Clarifications” post but they do not answer the grouping ability. 

The recent combination of announcements - Bridges being made obsolete, the 30% discount in return for bricking a speaker and now the outmoding of the origins Play 5 makes me wonder if the entire ‘smart speaker’ business is going. I have a Play:5 and a Play:1 at home, and none of the rest of my family have any interest in using them. My wife listens to the radio or music via her iMac while working, while my two teenage daughters prefer Bluetooth speakers or just headphones while listening to music. Having Spotify and Broadband means they can stream whatever they like, whenever, so the idea of loading music onto the NAS drive seems pointless to them. It seems that just about every other connected device has the ability to play music now - whether a phone, a tablet or a TV, and software like Airplay means we can route that where we want, using any convenient combination of hardware and software that we want to use.  The recent Sonos announcements suggests to me that the idea of tying your

I'm wondering when generation 2 play 5 will become Obsolete and wondering why I should even invest in it anymore because it will become obsolete when is that date

I have 2 Play 1s in my system and they show as being Modern, rather than Legacy. So that I can work out how long they will be supported, does anyone know when Sonos stopped selling them? My concern is, if it was, for example, 2 years ago then Sonos could announce they’re Legacy tomorrow and so they’d only have 3 years left of support. 

Is there a way to identify “Legacy” Sonos speakers via their serial number?

Is there a button or gesture to mute the Sonos One on the speaker?

Anybody else a little bit infuriated by the latest e-Mail from Sonos about end of software updates. I think it’s crazy that because my Play 5 is “legacy” my Play 1, Play 3, Beam and playbar could be rendered useless unless I basically pay a ransom of £300 to replace it with a new one (taking into account the 30%). There should be a third option to be able to at least move your legacy system to a separate app or something so you can still at least make use of the rest of the system that most of us have spent hundreds of pounds building up. Rethink this Sonos or maybe I’ll also make a threat that I will start building up a Bose system instead.  

Hi Sonos   I am finding your trade up offer grossly unfair. Today you have informed us that our Play 5 Gen 1 are basically becoming obsolete! I own 2 of the above speakers and have loved them for many years. You are now asking loyal customers,in my position,to pay almost £750 to replace them(30% discounted). This doesn’t sound like a very good deal to me.  My only option may be to sell my speakers privately so I can afford to buy a new system  This ,however,would not be Sonos.  Graeme

With the announcement that ‘legacy’ products will no longer receive updates and if you mix new ones with them, the new ones will not receive updates either, is it time to ditch Sonos altogether? I love Sonos products and have many of them. Several are linked to sound systems (home cinema, hifi, etc.) and I listen to music through those systems. But my wife prefers to listen through various Alex Echo devices that we also have. Whereas I say “Alexa, play Radio X on the front lounge” to get radio onto my front lounge hifi speakers, my wife just says “Alexa, play Radio X” to play it on the Echo Show in the same room. Obviously, the hifi speakers are superior. However, I cannot see what new features a Gen 1 Play:5, Connect and Connect:Amp will need in the future to continue to stream music and radio stations and therefore cannot understand why we can’t continue to use them. As a direct consequence of the shameful Sonos email, I am very seriously thinking of ditching Sonos entirely and have