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October 2017
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211 Reviews
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2234 Reviews
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The editors liked
Great sound quality
Easy to use
Amazon Alexa support
Google Assistant coming in 2018
The Sonos One integrates full-fledged Alexa voice control
Just like an Amazon Echo speaker but with better sound quality. It offers most of Alexa's smart home controls and its far-field microphone performs similarly to an Echo. The Sonos One works seamle
Full-bodied
Rich sound
Combines best of Alexa and Sonos
Plays music while Alexa is muted
Great design
Excellent sound quality
Brilliant Alexa integration with Google Assistant coming soon too
Voice control
Seamless multi-room audio
Compatible with over 80+ music services
Easy setup
Decent price
Hard-wired microphone LED
Fully modular
Great sound
Alexa
Can hear you over noise
Excellent app
Plenty of choice of music service
Compact
Potential for Google Assistant
Can be used to create stereo pair
Ethernet
Can be wall mounted
Brilliant Alexa and Google Assistant integration
Compatible with over 100+ music services
Stylish and unobtrusive
Solid
Sophisticated sound
Alexa and Google Assistant
AirPlay 2
Still the best user experience
Good service support
Nice
Compact design
Alexa and Google Assistant built-in
Lots of streaming options
Sound quality
Good price
Stylish design
Rich
Full and strong sounds
Lots of streaming services
Superb sound quality
Dead-simple setup
Super easy to use
Excellent Alexa integration
Priced well
You can customise the sound of the speaker to suit your room thanks to the Trueplay feature using the microphone on your iPad
Trueplay (available in the Sonos app) analyses how sound reflects off walls
Furnishings
Glass and other surfaces in a room
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The editors didn't like
Won't pair with Play
1
No speaker mount options
The One costs twice as much as the new Echo. It cannot form a stereo pair with an existing Sonos Play
1. There's no Spotify voice control or Alexa Calling at launch
And Google Assistant and AirPlay 2 support won't arrive until 2018. It doesn't work how y
Voice controls don't support Spotify
Google Assistant is MIA until 2018
Spotify voice control not as comprehensive as Amazon Music yet
Expensive compared to other smart speakers
No Alexa calling compatibility
Smart speaker voice recognition still generally dodgy
No Bluetooth or analogue audio input
Full voice control limited to Amazon Music
Spotify and TuneIn
No option for 360degree sound
Voice control for some music services not as comprehensive as Amazon Music
Apple Music or Spotify
Voice control for many music services like Apple Music not as comprehensive as Amazon Music or Spotify yet
No hi-res audio
Individual speakers can be trumped for sound
No hi-res support
Bass could be deeper
No Bluetooth
No support in a 5.1 or stereo system
Voice recognition not as good as Amazon's
It won't suit rooms on the larger size
Alexa isn't as integrated as we'd like
Occasionally fiddly Sonos app
Rating
No threaded insert for mounting
No Bluetooth streaming
It's expensive for a speaker of its size
At present
Alexa can't play songs from Spotify
There's no 3.5mm socket on the speaker that lets you connect devices that don't have wifi to the speaker
Abstract: Sonos unveiled a new speaker to go with an array of announcements that will take the popular multi-room sound system into the realm of voice control and smart home.The Sonos One is effectively a reconstituted Play:1, except for a slightly smoother frame...
"The Sonos One is now an integral part of my Sonos system."...
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Published: 2018-04-02, Author: Scott , review by: ausdroid.net
To answer the original question yes, two Sonos Ones are better than one — if you are setting up a multi-room home audio system I highly recommend you check out these speakers as a possible solution. I will be decking my house out with them that's for sure...
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Published: 2018-02-28, Author: Sam , review by: gizmodo.com.au
Abstract: Sonos has been, arguably, the leader when it comes to high quality, multi-room sound. And while a lot of their kit costs a pretty penny, they have always justified their high prices by offering awesome sound quality. But the Sonos One is a new frontier fo...
Published: 2018-02-21, Author: Rae , review by: gizmodo.com.au
Abstract: It seems like every new wireless speaker on the market comes with a voice assistant now. Since 2014, when Amazon announced the Echo, the idea of a smart speaker has taken the gadget world by storm. Apple has finally thrown its hat into the ring with the r...
The Sonos One has a few niggling issues, but overall it offers great audio for its small size, seamless integration with Sonos' other multi-room speakers, and the smarts of Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant, when the latter option becomes available later t...
Abstract: Much like the explosive growth of the smartphone market in the late 2000s, the smart speaker category is now in its own period of rapid expansion. And like the rise of the smartphones, it's not a free-for-all - it's a proxy war.Sure, everyone is in it for...
Published: 2017-10-19, Author: Scott , review by: ausdroid.net
If you are just starting out in multi-room audio then Sonos should be one of the first and possibly the last brand you look at. The Sonos One brings not just a high quality compact speaker to the setup but also, eventually for Australians, smart features...
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Published: 2017-10-19, Author: Adam , review by: gizmodo.com.au
Abstract: Sonos wouldn't like it, but you could call its new smart speaker an "Echo." A high-end, very nice-sounding, but flawed Amazon Echo -- the kind someone who just got a promotion might buy themselves, because unlike the $US50 Dot or new $US100 Echo, this spe...
