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controlav
Lead Maestro
May 16, 2026

Stereo pair of Play:5s: one louder than the other?

Two Gen 1s, for some reason the white one (L) is a lot quieter than the black one (R). No, its not the Balance control. Both are identical hardware revisions. Problem on all types of audio. My third Play:5, which I could use to figure out which one is “wrong”, is 2000 miles away.

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controlav
controlavAuthor
Lead Maestro
May 23, 2026

Latest update: sometimes the quiet speaker gets louder. Then it gets quiet again. Gotta be a loose wire or something. One of these days I’m going to open it up and poke around.

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Stanley_4
Grand Maestro
May 23, 2026

A very unapproved maintenance trick that has saved me many hours of work is to pick a solid surface and rap the problem device firmly on it a few times on each side. Given all the connectors inside the Sonos knocking a bit of oxidation off a joint is a good possibility.

Rap, not slam, if you are starting from over your head that is too hard!