See what you can do with Alexa on your Speaker
I am a 70 year old struggling to keep up with technology because, well it's important. Like many my ability to check out new tech with the systems administrator or a Millennial colleague came to an abrupt end along with my final paycheck. Since I think it's important that you know the perspective with which a review is written let me briefly tell you what this Sonos One was meant to replace.
Our basic music needs were being met by a 10 year old Sony "shelf system"; a radio tuned only to the local classical music station with a CD player that no longer worked. We have access to Amazon music and recently bought a little Bluetooth speaker that worked very nicely. The downside here is that my wife has no notion of how to use the app to make Amazon music work. We have Sirius XM in the car, love the variety and often wished we could get that at home.
Based on the specs and reviews it looked like Sonos One had the potential to be our new best music friend.
Out of the box the set up was VERY easy. I dread the day when I buy a new piece of tech and have no clue how to make it work. That was not a problem for this guy. Download the app and follow the simple steps. The only exception here is in a tuning process that involves waving your iPhone while you walk around the room. It kept failing, telling me I was making too much noise. My wife actually has this same complaint and, as with my marriage the app eventually suggested we just move on.
The Sonos app connected seamlessly with Amazon Music. We had discovered that Sirius XM now offered an app based streaming version of their service which also connected easily with a little switching back and forth between the apps. And the biggest bonus, our local classical music station is among the many radio stations that can be added.
The sound is spectacular. Keep that perspective thing in mind. We are obviously not audiophiles but to our aging ears the Sonos is a huge upgrade over what we had and fills our room with deep, rich sound.
The Alexa thing was our biggest surprise as both wife and I were skeptical and had put Alexa in the broad category of "things we will never have."
Alexa's default play for us will be something from Amazon Music. The more specific your request the better. There's a bit of learning curve in finding what gets Alexa's motor running. For example, after a number of fails we looked at the app and noticed that our local classical music station was titled Classical Public Radio. That worked and now my wife can get her old friend playing at 6am without using any apps. In the interest of fairness I must say that Alexa does not seem to recognize Sirius XM and even told me it was not installed. Of course all of the music can be accessed without problem on the app.
I have asked Alexa the time; asked her to set an alarm and to tell me a joke. I even told her I loved her. "That's sweet" was her response. I've read here that the Alexa function is not great on the Sonos, but again that depends on your needs and perspective.
The Sonos One with Alexa gets the Double Senior Discount Seal of Approval from this household.
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In love with my Sonos One!
I was apprehensive about buying a Sonos because of some of the negative reviews, but I'm glad I went through with it. I love my Sonos! The sound quality and tone is excellent, especially coming from a single speaker in my bedroom (better than my old Bose dock it was replacing). It was very easy to set up, and now I have it connected to my smart home products, including Philips Hub smart lights and Kasa outlets. I was easily able to play music through the speaker - primarily using Spotify. I saw a lot of comments about having to use the Sonos app to play music, and was really concerned about that - but after linking my account, I've been able to play music from my spotify app and just choose my sonos speaker as the output (much like I'd choose headphones, ipad, iphone, PC, or vehicle via bluetooth or wireless). I have not had any issues playing music, using Alexa, or controlling my smart home products. I'm glad I made this purchase, and look forward to expanding my Sonos products in the future.
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Md Abu Shuphiyan
Perfect addition to Sonos ecosystem
Reviewed in India on September 8, 2020Color: BlackVerified Purchase
El_Uges
La bocina que siempre quise tener
Reviewed in Mexico on November 17, 2018Color: WhiteVerified Purchase
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Devine Audio Caviar!
Reviewed in Canada on July 21, 2018Color: WhiteVerified Purchase
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Reviewed in Canada on July 21, 2018
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1. Completely Best Smart Whole Home Speaker we've ever tested!
2. Sound quality & superior base! Completely beats the competition on a price per quality increase; plus more features as well
3. Built in Amazon Alexa for controlling next songs, smart home, weather, skills and more. Included with this unit is the support of Alexa ESP which in a home with more than one echo only the closed one to you will respond.
4. Has touch sensitive buttons on top for play/pause, volume up and volume down which are a joy to press from a UX perspective
5. Has a remarkably superior microphone which picks up your voice just as good as the offical amazon echo devices. Compared to other 3rd party alexa devices this is the best microphone in a 3rd party alexa device. You never know how much you need this until you have a device that has a poor Mic!
6. Sleak, beautiful & stylish from head to toe; packaging, main unit & also accessories.
7. Whole home streaming audio experience (chain multiple sonos together to play same or different songs in different rooms/floors)
8. Added Support of your favourite platforms like amazon music, Spotify, Pandora, iheartradio, DLNA UPNP local home Media servers (all your computers mp3's/wav/aac/etc), flac lossless audio.
9. As of July 15th 2018 they just added Apple ios Airplay 2 functionality support with even more features announced on the way
10. Has both wifi and Ethernet connections and 1st & 3rd party mounting accessory compatibility
The Bad
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1. When music is playing loud, the microphone to use alexa has a hard time hearing you. While this is an issue it may be very tough to solve this.
2. No support for typical copper wire (red/black) to hook up to your reciever for home theatre support. You have to buy their additional add on unit which still won't let you completely doing things like 5.2, 7.2, 9.2, 11.2, 13.2, atmos or dts:X audio receiver configurations. This main draw back is what would take this review from 5/5 to 6/5.
The Bottom Line
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If you love music now you will even more. This is the only smart speaker you'll ever need to enjoy the most incredible beautiful musical experiences. There is nothing better, nore will there be from a competitive company for an extremely long time. This is a fantastic device, you're buy top quality. Your ears, friends and family with enjoy this for the indefinite future to come! YES PLEASE!!!!!
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Kay
Love The Sonos One With Alexa
Reviewed in Canada on December 20, 2018Color: BlackVerified Purchase
Kay
Reviewed in Canada on December 20, 2018
Connecting and setting up was a breeze as I watched many YouTube tutorials beforehand. Highly recommend doing that as Alexa integration can trip you up if you don't do it correctly. I purchased the Sonos One exclusively for listening to music tho. We set this speaker up in our Kitchen. Shortly after set up, and one system update, I found Alexa to be quite useful and handy, didn't think I would. Surprisingly, my low tech wife really liked it as we have a Premium Spotify account and voice commands to play songs works fantastically. Very handy while working in the Kitchen.
A week later I bought another Sonos One Open Box. Same experience except this time the speaker was missing the cloth cover but was instead surrounded with packing paper. This time I hooked this one via Ethernet at the back of the speaker directly to my router creating a dedicated WiFi connection for my Sonos One's called "Sonos Mesh". We have not experienced any disruptions with playing music and the volume adjustment was very responsive. This was also the case with just regular WiFi. I Enabled “Sonos Mesh” for good measure. Also, with a few taps of the Sonos app on my iPad I paired the 2 speakers for stereo sound.
A few days later I bought a Open Box Sonos Beam sound bar for our Living Room TV. Now we have music in our Kitchen, Den and Living room in our small 1000 SF Town House. Sound Bar works with Alexa as well and all my Sonos speakers have Apple's Air Play 2 capability! Sonos Beam makes a fantastic first time Home Theatre with a small/medium Living Room. Very pleased with Sonos and the Open Boxes.
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Manuel Rivas
Buen sistema de audio personal: calidad de audio y elegancia
Reviewed in Mexico on September 1, 2018Color: BlackVerified Purchase
