It’s an impressive amount of power from such a small speaker. The song’s kick to it, and drives the energy of the song. Throw Elegie by Mouse on the Keys at the speaker, and sound has real punch and energy to it. Given that this is a Sonos speaker, you won’t be surprised to hear that the Sonos One sounds pretty fantastic.
#SONOS ONE GEN 1 UPDATE#
An update adds support for some hi-res audio.Unfortunately you can’t pair it with a Sonos Play:1, despite the similarities in form-factor. You’ll also need to assign the Sonos One a room to allow you to identify it from the Sonos app, and it’s here that you’ll also have the ability to pair the Sonos One up with another speaker to have them play music in stereo. Of course, you can also manually adjust the treble and bass levels of your speaker if you have more specific preferences, although we were content to leave them at their default levels. Your phone listens to how the speaker sounds in its environment, and tunes its sound accordingly. You’ll also be encouraged to go through a ‘Trueplay Tuning’ process, which requires you to walk around your room with your phone as your speaker plays a number of test sounds. The process involves installing the Sonos and Alexa apps, and you’ll need to sign into both your Sonos and Amazon accounts, as well as any other music streaming services that you’ll want to listen to using the speaker. Thanks to the combination of Amazon’s and Sonos’ services, the setup of the Sonos One is a little more involved than your average Echo device, but thankfully not horrifically so. This second LED is hardwired to the microphones, and Sonos promises that the microphones cannot listen to you if it’s not illuminated. On the top of the device you’ve also got a power-indicating LED alongside a small light to let you know when Alexa is listening.
#SONOS ONE GEN 1 DRIVER#
To facilitate this voice control, Sonos has equipped the speaker with six internal microphones to allow it to hear you drunkenly ask to play ‘Hey, Jude’ just one more time, and these are joined by more or less the same guts as the Sonos Play:1 namely its pair of Class-D amplifiers and a tweeter / mid-woofer driver combo. But Sonos is a fantastic audio brand that offers up much more than a voice assistant in a speaker, which goes some way to justifying that price. What this means is, for a smart speaker, it's expensive. Having said that, it's significantly cheaper than another rival: the Bose Home Speaker 500, which is $399.95 / £399.95 / AU$599.95. In fact, very few speakers from other brands tick all of the boxes the Sonos One does, but to compare it to other smart speakers, it's nearly double the price of the $99 / £99 / AU$149 Apple HomePod Mini and $99 / £89 / AU$149 Google Home Max.
#SONOS ONE GEN 1 PORTABLE#
Then again, it's not really a direct competitor to these portable devices. Check out our Sonos Roam review for more details. This costs $399 / £399 / AU$649 and you can read more about it in our Sonos Move review.Īnd it's more expensive than the brand's ultra portable speaker, which costs $179 / £179 / AU$299. In terms of how the Sonos One stacks up in the current Sonos line-up, it's much cheaper than the the brand's first portable speaker. However, it's worth pointing out that since then Sonos speakers have had several updates. The Sonos One was first released in 2018. Expensive for a smart speaker, but worth it.
#SONOS ONE GEN 1 FULL#
But, until that day comes, you can rest assured knowing that Sonos, with its wealth of experience and brilliant inter-connectivity, still holds the top spot. Read on for our full Sonos One review. One day Amazon and Google's Hi-Fi speakers might overtake the Sonos One. What Sonos has working to its advantage is its multi-room ecosystem that goes a long ways toward filling the gaps left in Alexa and Google Assistant's ecosystems.
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