Pair Sonos One with Play:1

I feel this is poor decision for Sonos. A lot of people out there (myself included) have multiple Sonos Play 1s and don't have the fund or even want to change out all their speakers for one speaker. I was excited when I found out that Sonos was coming out with the Sonos One but am now very disappointed and will not be purchasing another Sonos speaker until this is fixed. This was a major oversight on Sonos R&D and frankly a very illogical decision from a company that has been doing so well with decisions lately.

No need for "or the bunny gets it!" posts, the CEO has already tweeted that this is being considered and to stay tuned. Now, put... the bunny... back... in the box. 😉

No need for "or the bunny gets it!" posts, the CEO has already tweeted that this is being considered and to stay tuned. Now, put... the bunny... back... in the box. ;)

Interesting. That could tempt me to get an extra speaker at some stage I guess. I really only wanted a stereo pair but this could tempt to get a one for the pair and move a 1 to the guest bedroom.

Like in the plethora of other threads on this topic, several posts hint at a misunderstanding of the difference between 'pairing' (as in stereo pairing) and 'grouping'.

You can happily group a ONE with all your other Sonos speakers and devices. Works absolutely perfectly.

What you can't do is stereo pair it with anything other than another ONE -- as in send the left sound channel to one speaker, and the right to another. This is typically something you only want to do with identical speakers, and the ONE and PLAY:1 are not identical. (You wouldn't buy two different types of passive stereo speaker and hook up them up to an amplifier.)

However, the PLAY:1 and ONE do sound reasonably similar, so if Sonos does ultimately allow stereo pairing, they will either accept that users will live with the right/left channel sonic differences, or they will have to play DSP games to make the speakers sound the same. I'm not a DSP expert, but I suspect this is feasible, and might be coupled with Trueplay.

However, the PLAY:1 and ONE do sound reasonably similar, so if Sonos does ultimately allow stereo pairing, they will either accept that users will live with the right/left channel sonic differences, or they will have to play DSP games to make the speakers sound the same. I'm not a DSP expert, but I suspect this is feasible, and might be coupled with Trueplay.
Just my guess, from all I have read, is that even without DSP tweaks, there will be no issues. I don't know why Sonos did not do this from the start, but from what I read of what their CEO said, it could be as simple as that it offended their aesthetic sensibilities, given that the two do not look exactly the same! I also don't believe that this is some subtle strategy to drive higher sales of their hardware. I expect this to change sooner than many other things that posters are complaining about on the app and the Alexa integration in general.

As I didn't spend too much time on researching the differences between "One" and "1" (they look pretty much the same), I ordered a "One" with the intention to pair it with the "1" I already have. Very disappointed in Sonos, it's borderline deceiving marketing. I have been a strong advocate until now, telling all my friends to get a Sonos system. Will not any more and returning the "One".

As I didn't spend too much time on researching the differences between "One" and "1" (they look pretty much the same), I ordered a "One" with the intention to pair it with the "1" I already have. Very disappointed in Sonos, it's borderline deceiving marketing. I have been a strong advocate until now, telling all my friends to get a Sonos system. Will not any more and returning the "One".

Good grief! In what way is it "deceiving marketing"? They never stated it was the same as the Play:1, they never claimed it could be paired with the Play:1, they specifically named them different names (unlike the Play:5 fiasco) and the only thing that made anyone think they could be paired is they looked similar, so people assumed. I highly doubt Sonos knew what people were going to assume, in fact the CEO himself stated they never considered pairing them because they assumed the aesthetics would keep people from ever considering it.

The decision to change the sonic signature was short minded. Should have launched it as a companion to the play 1, then do a Play 2 with upgraded sound.

I either buy 4 more Sonos one's or return the one I just got and start the process of re-evaluating the new competition, its getting heated, defend your install base. (10 play 1's, 4 play 3's, 2 Play 5's, and was thinking on getting 2 TV setups).

I was mounting a new Sonos One to pair with my Play 1 when I read this, change of plans I guess, I hope that "at this time" means it may be possible soon.

I purchased a Sonos One as I thought it was a good deal for 2 products in one, also wanted to create a stereo pair with Play 1, very disappointed that that you could only do that with another Sonos One, which I think is stupid, if I had 2 Sonos Ones I thought it would be common sense to use in separate rooms to have that Alexa functionality in each room.
I’m going to return mine and purchase a couple of Alexa Echo Dots.
All the hype for Sonos One, very disappointed Sonos.