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Sonos Play5 Gen1 - an interesting Stereo-Mono Postulate!

  • July 31, 2025
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AI postulates, that the “Play 5, Gen 1” can detect placement-direction (vertical/horisontal) - and adjusts according to that (mono/stereo).

 

With the “Five” it is a YES!
and the “Five” is physically built to be placed “In 3 directions”.

..

BUT,

The “Play 5, Gen 1” are NOT built to be anything but standing Horisontally!

Yet, AI writes:  “Yes, the tweeters in the original Sonos Play:5 (gen 1) play separate left and right signals when the speaker is positioned horizontally for stereo sound.  When placed vertically, the speaker automatically switches to mono.” 


Since I have never yet owned nor listened to these speakers, then I ask you:
“Is it bogus (as I conclude), what the AI do clearly write (/has been fed with) ?”

Best answer by Mr. T

Don’t believe everything you read from AI. The AI response is indeed bogus.

The Play:5 (Gen1) can only be placed horizontally as you have stated.

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Mr. T
  • Mr. T
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  • July 31, 2025

Don’t believe everything you read from AI. The AI response is indeed bogus.

The Play:5 (Gen1) can only be placed horizontally as you have stated.

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  • Gaham
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  • 451 replies
  • July 31, 2025

The product manual is always a more reliable source of information that AI.

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  • Iris-911
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  • Contributor I
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  • July 31, 2025

The product manual is always a more reliable source of information that AI.

You’re right - I should have taken that approach

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  • nik9669a
  • Senior Virtuoso
  • 6211 replies
  • July 31, 2025

The product manual is always a more reliable source of information that AI.

You’re right - I should have taken that approach

It’s the last resort though, for so many people! 😜

jgatie
  • jgatie
  • 28214 replies
  • July 31, 2025

When are people going to realize, AI “learns” by reading stuff on the internet.  Some (most) of the stuff on the internet is BS, guessing, or flat out wrong.  So most of the time AI is BS, guessing, or flat out wrong.   

Stanley_4
  • Stanley_4
  • Lead Maestro
  • 12395 replies
  • July 31, 2025

I trust AI about as much as a used car salesman, it is going to tell you what it is programmed to, not truth or even facts. Many AI also suffer from having internal rule-sets that control what it can say in response to questions, in some cases generating deceptive answers.

On the other hand I really like AI art and I've recently been very impressed with AI generated music.

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  • Sean M
  • Sonos Employee
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  • August 1, 2025

I’m not even sure how you’d get a Play:5 Gen 1 into a “vertical” orientation, given its shape. It’s probably confusing Play:5 Gen 1 for Play:5 Gen 2 which does have this feature, like Five. Play:5 Gen 1 definitely does not. 

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