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When Sonos released the Play:5 speaker in late 2015, the Amazon Echo was still an unproven tech curiosity. But since then, Alexa and the Echo have grown rapidly in both popularity and functionality, inspiring competition from the likes of Google and Apple. Talking to a speaker is totally normal now but Sonos users haven’t coque samsung core prime stitch been able to do that. They’ve instead had to choose between the convenience of products like the Echo and Google Home and the superior audio quality that Sonos speakers offer.
Sonos has known for some time that this is a problem. In early 2016, then CEO John MacFarlane cited the Echo as primary competition and promised that voice recognition would be a key technology for the company moving forward. Now we’re finally seeing the fruits of that effort. The Sonos One takes everything that worked in the company’s entry level Play:1 speaker and adds in support for Amazon’s Alexa, which means you can finally talk to a Sonos speaker and have it play music for you. That means it’s the first Sonos you can control with your voice. It’s also a great first step into a multi speaker setup for your home. At a glance, it features the same rounded rectangular shape as the Play:1 but adds a few new amazon coque coque samsung galaxy s20 samsung galaxy j5 2017 design flourishes to match Sonos’ current design language. The top of the One is completely flat now, with no physical buttons like the ones on cdiscount coque samsung a5 the Play:1. Instead, the One’s top surface doubles as a touch panel, with a play/pause button dead center. On either side are spots to tap to raise and lower volume, and coque samsung j330fn sliding your finger left to right lets you skip coque samsung galaxy note 2 silicone to the next track. This setup is identical to what Sonos introduced on the Play:5 coque samsung s5 antichoc and carried over into the recently released PlayBase; I’m glad to see it here as well.
There are two LED lights on top of the speaker. One is a status light to show you when the device is working or having trouble connecting to the internet; the second is underneath a little microphone icon. As you’d expect, this shows you whether the six microphone array in the One is active. Tap the mic icon to keep the speaker from listening in and the light goes out.
Other than updates to the top of the speaker, the only external difference between the One and the Play:1 is that the grille is now color matched to the rest of the speaker, which comes in black or white. The Play:1’s grille is gray, regardless of what color coque samsung galaxy s3 mini personnalisée the rest of the exterior is.
The Sonos One uses the same audio components and speakers as those found in the Play:1, but the internal layout had to be completely redesigned in order to fit the microphones. If you’ve never set up Sonos products before, you’ll need to create a Sonos account; from there you just need to connect the coque samsung grand prime carrefour speaker to your WiFi network. You’ll then want to sign in to the music services you use Sonos supports essentially every available option: Spotify, Apple Music, Google Play Music, Pandora, Tidal, Amazon Music and many more.
The next part of the setup process is entirely new: enabling Alexa. You’ll need to have the Alexa app coque samsung galaxie s8 installed on your smartphone the Sonos app will direct you there, at which point your new speaker will show up as ready to be configured. It’s a pretty simple process, but you’ll then have to enable your music services in Amazon’s app as well.
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One last word on setting up voice services. Over the years, Sonos has committed to supporting every audio service that it could, and it wants to do the same with voice control systems. coque samsung s7 adidas As such, the Google Assistant will come to the Sonos One sometime early next year. So if you prefer Google’s voice assistant, know enlever coque samsung s7 that it should be available before coque samsung s7 edge 360 too long. The Sonos One impressed me with clear, dynamic and loud sound that far outstrips Google Home or the original Echo. (The second coque samsung galaxy a5 2017 coque galaxy a40 rouge transparente generation Echo, announced three weeks ago, is supposed to have better audio.) Of course, you’re paying a bit more for the One, but $199 is a totally reasonable price for the sound quality you get here. The One lacks the bass performance, stereo separation and improved clarity you’ll get from a larger, more expensive speaker like Sonos’ own Play:5 or the forthcoming Google Home Max, but the price to performance ratio here is excellent.
As with the rest of the Sonos lineup, you can tune these speakers using a feature called “TruePlay.” It uses the mic on your iPhone to analyze your room and optimizes the sound of the speaker based on where it has been placed. I’ve been impressed with TruePlay coque 360 galaxy a5 since it was unveiled two years ago, but it’s worth noting that Google and Apple are both releasing speakers that can tune themselves anytime you coque samsung core prime protective silver move them. Since no Sonos speaker (until the One) has had working mics, this hasn’t been possible, and the One still uses the same tuning process as the rest of the Sonos lineup.
The downsides to the One mostly come down to bass, as I mentioned earlier. There’s only so much you can get out of such a compact speaker. The audio still sounds balanced I didn’t feel like the music was lacking when listening to the One on its own but the low end is not as coque galaxy j7 2017 licorne strong as what you’ll get from larger (and more expensive) speakers.
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Unfortunately, it’s not possible to pair a Sonos One and a Play:1 together in stereo, despite the fact that they’re essentially the same speaker. Sonos said that most customers pair speakers together when they buy them in a pair, but there are probably people who’ve bought one Play:1, to try Sonos out, who’d be interested in adding a One for voice control and stereo playback. The company did at least say that this feature could be added in the future via a software update.
Otherwise, the One works with the rest of the Sonos lineup just as well as you’d expect. Assuming you’re using a service that works with Alexa, this functions basically the same way it does on an Echo. This means that you can ask your One to start play any song, album, artist, playlist or anything else in your music library. The Alexa app also lets you pick different services for your “music library” and “stations,” if you’re so inclined. That lets you access playlists and albums from one service but have another play genre based stations (what Pandora has focused on for so many years).
Once you’ve started playing some tunes, you can ask Alexa to raise and lower the volume, skip tracks or pause your music entirely. You can also send music to other Sonos speakers in your setup using Alexa. You can tell Alexa to play music on other speakers using the names that you’ve assigned them in the Sonos app (living room, office, etc.). Overall, music control with voice works just fine, whether using a music session you kicked off with your voice or something you started in the Sonos app. If you’ve used Alexa on one of Amazon’s own devices before, you’ll mostly be right at home with the Sonos One voice commands.
Unfortunately, there were a few times I ran coque fine galaxy s9 plus into some strange and frustrating bugs the speaker wasn’t recognizing that it was playing music, so “pause” or “next track” requests didn’t work. Amazon Music also occasionally got confused and told me it was playing on another device so it couldn’t play on the speaker I asked for. Sonos helped me troubleshoot the problem just asking Alexa to “discover devices” cleared things up. It seemed to re sync the Sonos Alexa skill with the speaker, essentially, and then I was happily playing tunes again.
I also occasionally had trouble getting the One to hear my cries of “Alexa” when I wanted its attention. That was only when I had music playing pretty loudly, and I’m pretty sure that was the cause of my problem. It’s not a deal breaker, but it’s probably worth noting that you might have a hard time getting Alexa’s attention if you’re cranking some tunes.
means the One can also do almost anything that Echo devices can do. You can install skills for managing smart home devices, sync your calendar and reminders to Alexa, get weather forecasts and news updates, ask random trivia questions and add the many third party skills that Amazon’s service supports.
There are a couple of notable Alexa services that aren’t enabled when using the Sonos One: voice calls and messaging. Those features are saved for Amazon’s own hardware at the moment. Sonos said that those features could be added in the future, but the company wanted to focus the experience more on music than on the full suite of Alexa features a reasonable claim, but the One can do nearly everything else that Alexa can do, so it feels more like this is something Amazon wanted to save for itself. This one feature aside, though, the Sonos One is a strong option for getting an excellent music speaker that also taps into nearly everything that Alexa can do…