Sonos One (Gen 2) Lowdown: All you need to know in under 5 minutes

[@lorenworthington8739]

I’m lost. You mentioned the power plug requirement but you’re showing in RJ 45 connection. Does it require and AC power supply or something with COM as well?

[@galnadjar]

i've seen in other videos that the bottom has a dedicated place for AC input

[@joelborton374]

Can you do a video on how you mounted the sonos one on the upper wall being able to hide the wires? That would be greatly appreciated.

[@croyfer]

Watch to 4:30

[@arkasingha6111]

Does this sounds better than bose soundlink mini ii and bose revolve ii?

[@vincentcatarroja9704]

Can i use this sonos one in samsung smart tv as speaker?

[@muhammedthasneem4045]

Can i connect this to android phone

[@nazaarshadir]

I have sonos 1 gen 2. Is it possible to play trough my laptop with windows 7?

[@damonnugent56]

Can you connect this to a projector?

[@stephenperry4638]

Whats the best similar speaker or bookshelf speakers with bluetooth compatibility please.

[@indodashcam]

SONOS Move, B&O Beolit 20, Audiopro C5, Audipro C10, B&W Formation

[@masonschmidt8336]

Um why isn't it bluetooth accessible?

[@manarama1753]

Yea why not

[@katrinaashton3952]

Can you use the sonos one in mixed wired/wireless zone environment ie I have an old connect that links to my original amp and speakers to my kitchen zone and I’ve wired to Ethernet. Can I add sonos ones to the same kitchen zone using wireless while keeping my current wired set up?

[@PatrickGuerrisi]

Hi, How do I get these to connect and give me audio from a TV? I have been reading a bit and people say I can use a TV with airplay or a Sounbar ( sound bar is an expensive workaround) but I could buy an apple TV to make my current TV use airplay. Will this solution work?

[@indodashcam]

Using Apple TV to stream TV sound to any Airplay compatible speaker is a good idea, and offcourse it will work nicely 👍

[@thomasbernhard5090]

Hi ! Yesturday I both Sonos One and its great - I have a quesiton tho: everything works like a charm just my ps4 games don't want to connect to the speaker - I normally use bluetooth small jbl to connect it to the projector I have - tried to pair it with Sonos as the projectr sees it on the Bluetooth list but it does not want to connect. Any tips ? I really need to be able to play games with sonos (was the main purpose of the purchase). If cables are needed happy to gert them - just need to know what is the best way. Any help is much appriciated ! (sorry for any typos - eng is not my mother tongue).

[@rodrigochaves5185]

Which one sounds better Sonos One or Harman Kardon Soundsticks 4?

[@dferrerll]

what would be the equivalent with Bluetooth & Portable? i mean I use a UE boom and but it is just a simple speaker

[@666JGNotts]

I have 6 Sonos 1 speakers (3 stereo pairs) and in my opinion they are superb :-)

[@Tripp393]

So they all sync together? How many can you pair?

[@BigALdeek]

Superb ? No way you need to try Bose or Harmon Kardon you will know the difference right away. One Onyx Harmon Kardon blows all those speakers you have out off he water the Bass alone pushes your hair back. You feel it these speakers sound like dollar store knock off at full blast

[@trm245]

@@BigALdeek thx dude I wish I find more of these kind of comments where people recommend other products

[@seandshelton9109]

What does stereo pairs mean exactly? Thank you

[@trm245]

@@seandshelton9109 you can pair 2 sonos to act as L and R

[@kelvylima2497]

Hi, is it possible to add to Sonos and google mini as a set of columns in the house?

[@skano500]

What's the difference between model s13 and s18?

[@ardiantakaci5523]

Would you recommend a pair of Sonos ones over a Sonos five? Which has the best sound quality? Many thanks

[@khurram650]

I can't understand Sonos One (Gen2), I can't connect with windows laptop so can enjoy yoututbe, can't connect with TV, then why I need sonos? Wheere I can use it..

[@rhgamehamel6350]

It’s ass it’s a ( intelligent ) speaker lol u need to pay for premium inside the app an everything but u can’t watch videos with it

[@boardinb]

No it’s free just control it with the app.

[@jaboody123]

Hey i have 2 Sonos five speakers....could i add 2 Sonos One SL with these for surround?

[@smarthomesounds]

Hi there, the One SLs will only be able to be used as surrounds to a Sonos TV speaker such as Beam, Arc or Amp.

[@Monzy0505]

Do the Sonos one only work through the app? Like can I not go on the youtube app and play something to use them? As of right now it only allows me to play stuff from the Sonos app that they have which I think is pretty shit

[@kennethwjjones]

How to tell the difference?!

[@susiebidgood9621]

Please can you show me how to stay with Sonos and not have to upgrade to Sonos 2? I cannot follow their instructions, as Sonos 2 will not to talk to my connect box and therefore my Cambridge stayed . Many thanks

[@cartmanbruh23]

lol, it has no bluetooth? Can I play music via soundcloud or youtube?

[@maxbartsch9862]

can someone tell me how to change the language settings though? ive been trying so hard and its still in german. Also i would love to connect the speaker to my computer and i also have trouble doing so.

[@honesttechreviews84]

I have a Sonos arc, is this the best solution for rear (battery powered) portable speakers, which I can add to my home theatre for rear speakers, but have the option of taking outside to extend music I'm playing from lounge or use individually outside?

[@joelsomerville6102]

I already have a sonos move, would you recommend getting another move to stereo pair the two or to get two Sonos one's to pair with?

[@paulgerg6879]

Personally, I would do another Move as it is bluetooth and the One's are not. One's can only find music via a networked machine (such as a NSD or pc) so unless you want your pc turned on (or laptop) whilst you play music, I would go for a Move. Move is more flexible.

[@grwuk8290]

A great review, thanks👍

[@hustlertv9563]

Hello, can these be used on a JBL surround soud system???

[@jameslife3692]

Can you use apple AirPlay to play the same music on 2 Sonos Ones in 2 rooms and have the same music playing through the Sonos Beam?

[@indodashcam]

Sure, you can just group the speaker that you want to play together on the Airplay Control Panel/SONOS app. otherwise, you can hold the play button on the speaker for grouping / ungrouping. 👍

[@fpltime9925]

Does this one have Bluetooth?

[@smarthomesounds]

Unfortunately not. The One is a WiFi only speaker as it is designed to be used at home. The Sonos Roam and Move both have Bluetooth as they are portable speakers where Bluetooth is more useful. Hope that helps!

[@void-void-void-tv]

@@smarthomesounds so it's not possible to play songs from my phone?

[@Yowzoe]

A question for anyone: I've got a Sonos Roam, and I love it. But the Sonos app is a real pain in the ass - very awkward. And I have KZbin Music (because for one monthly sub fee, I can get no ads on KZbin as well as YT Music. My question is this: is it at all possible to use AirPlay *directly* from the KZbin Music iOS app (and bypass the Sonos app)? I don't think so, but maybe I missed something. I know that you can use Spotify Connect outside the Sonos app, which would be my first choice, but I can't afford to have two ongoing subscriptions (one for KZbin, and one for Spotify). I hope I'm being clear. One more question. If I choose to get a Sonos Sub Mini in the future, will it work with Sonos Ones? I know it wouldn't work with a Roam, but I'm thinking it will work with Ones… thanks

[@asharsenault4899]

Since it uses wi-fi rather than bluetooth, theoretically my friends and I could all control it at once through multiple devices, right? Like multiple users could simultaneously add songs to the queue?

[@smarthomesounds]

Hi Ash, yes that's correct. Anyone with access to your WiFi can add songs to the Sonos queue from their devices or you can do it directly through Spotify if you have an account with that. I hope that helps.

[@asharsenault4899]

@@smarthomesounds That’s awesome, thank you!

[@Tonysnookerfan31]

@@smarthomesounds hello what’s the website so I can order one

[@smarthomesounds]

Hi Tony - it’s www.smarthomesounds.co.uk hope that helps! Our team will be more than happy to help if you’ve got any questions 😊

[@godlycheese]

Great touch by muting "Alexa" so as not to trigger people's echo's and whatnot lol

[@elibutton]

it would be nice to hear the speaker too

[@nexxrr2283]

Can someone tell me if sonos s13 is sonos gen 2

[@robertewins1112]

Hi, wonder if you could help (I'm a technophobe, sorry). My GF wants a Sonos One for Xmas - she wants to be able to add a speaker to her laptop to play spotify! The Sonos seems an expensive way of projecting sound from the internet? Any advice is much appreciated. Thanks

[@janjaylangelo4]

Hi Robert, she doesn't need the laptop to play her Spotify on the Sonos speaker one. Once you set it up and added or sync the Spotify account, she can play it by either asking Alexa or Google to play her music, or just pressing play on the speaker. You can choose which voice assistant you want during set up. You do need to download the Sonos app on her cellphone and from there she can control it. Hope this helps. I just bought a pair last night, am enjoying them right now.

[@robertewins1112]

@@janjaylangelo4 Hi, ok thanks for taking the time to reply, very helpful. Robert

[@juancarlodelrosario3641]

Do you ship to the Philippines?

[@smarthomesounds]

Unfortunately not. Sorry about that!

[@3x3Qt]

Could you lowpass BGM like this? It’s cool sounding but I find it hard to not hear the ratcheting hihats when I’m trying to focus on the dialog

[@rodrigocartens7563]

Do you have an estimate of when the Sonos One (Gen 3), will come out?

[@rep10101]

Thanks

[@thenightguy3976]

Alexa or Sonos One?

[@indodashcam]

Sonos One for better sound quality and you can also have the alexa with it. Echo for best experience with alexa.

[@Lexyboogie]

Got 6 of them in my gym and they are pretty awful at high volume as far as I’m concerned, unless you only play music that doesn’t have a lot of bass. The low frequencies should not be drowning out the highs as much as they do, and I shouldn’t have to connect a Sonos subwoofer to fix the problem.

[@daedgoco]

Hey man I bought a pair of these but I started getting problems controlling to the app since I upgraded my wifi to a mesh system, I understand these connect to the 2.4Ghz band but somehow 2 full days went by before my phone stopped connecting to them. They are still connected to wifi as I can still use the assistant and control through voice, but I can't control them through the app neither on pc nor android

[@m4gg197]

Try contacting Sonos support. Have you tried completely resetting them and setting them up newly from scratch?

[@daedgoco]

@@m4gg197They worked all of the sudden and I haven't had problems since so it's ok now

[@markdcmountp]

Didn’t hear a single thing about Gen. 2 being any different?

[@Laptopdog78]

Mark Lambert Do you mean the Gen 2 speaker hardware, or the new s2 app?

[@markdcmountp]

Green eel I mean we’re there any changes to the hardware at all in gen. 2 ?

[@smarthomesounds]

Hey Mark, thanks for watching. Apologies that this wasn't covered but to briefly explain, they did upgrade the processor and memory chip in the Gen 2 compared with the Gen 1, so it should be fully future-ready. Other than this, there are no acoustic differences between them and the drivers remain the same. I hope this helps!

[@Laptopdog78]

Mark Lambert To be honest Mark it baffles me really, and I think that it is a bit of a money making scam. The speaker itself is exactly the same, yet they apparently put upgraded processors in to make them future ready!!Mmmmm I mean, surely they are always going to do the same thing arn’t they? They will link up with your other Sonos speakers, and they will stream Music, and use smart assistants if you have one on your speaker! To me this is just a way that they will brick an older Gen a few years down the line, so that you feel you have to upgrade!! It stinks really.

[@markdcmountp]

Smart Home Sounds Ltd. Thanks for clearing that up.

[@leeclark7151]

no bluetooth?

[@theobserver3753]

You didn’t mention if it has a noticeable delay when watching KZbin videos etc.

[@NipponKiwi]

Is that because of your phone 📱? If phone has Bluetooth 5 it reduces lag with speakers etc whereas Bluetooth 4.2 creates a lot of lag

[@yeppy013]

No Bluetooth, no good.

[@jjasonnmkx2393]

but airplay

[@therandysmith697]

You don’t need it at all

[@ilovemusic6794]

Voice keeps cutting out

[@MsPinkcat7]

Hi :) I am considering one of these, I currently have an Echo dot in my kitchen which sounds a little tinny. Can you or anyone on here compare the two? Is the Sonos one richer in sound compared to the Echo dot?

[@armaanspov]

The Sonos is 10000 times better in sound quality compared to my Echo Dot gen 2

[@janjaylangelo4]

Armaan you are so right. Echo dot is listening to a radio, it's like comparing Apple to orange. First time I saw and heard Sonos at a Best Buy store, I immediately fell in love with the amazing sound quality. Played them back to back to a Bose speaker, all I can say was WOW. Finally got 2 speakers yesterday, enjoying it so much!

[@InstaSound]

Sonos sound much better, but they're also more expensive. Voice recognition is a little worse with sonos tho.

[@sportswithpharoah]

How can u do a review and not use the product for one to see how it actually works... Thumbs down!🙄

[@VintageRadius]

What’s he going to do? Put a condenser microphone in the middle of the room? Or close-mic it? Honestly, it would be more misleading than helpful.

[@Marri12345]

Why aren’t we clear about the gen 2 over the first gen.... your showing the two generations as if ur comparing but your not giving any information regarding the difference between he two??????????

[@smarthomesounds]

Hi, thanks for the comment. A lot of people ask us for a comparison between the Gen 1 and Gen 2 but the only difference between them is in the processor and memory. They both sound exactly the same. I hope that clarifies!

[@JohnEvans007]

I have one of these! 😃 I hate it 😞 C O N S T A N T connection issues. Also, the mic sucks. You have to be very close to it, or screaming from across the room. It's nice looking, expensive garbage. This advertises it can do so much, but does not deliver on those promises. The range for voice commands is about 6 feet (2 meters) when talking, or across the room if you are yelling. My Amazon Alexa device can pick your voice up from across the room at a normal volume of speech. Are the Sonos mics terrible? Ask it to play a song. The result is it plays an approximation in that genre. Say, "Play Blackbird by the Beatles" and it responds, "Playing songs by the Beatles." If the internet worked this way, it never would have been a thing. Imaging searching the internet for the book "Ender's Game" and the results you are given are sci-fi books. That's what I get more than a few times a day with Sonos. And WHY is the app constantly disconnected from the device? Controlling the device by an app is a great concept, but that doesn't matter if it is not reliable. Now, if you can get the device to hear your voice, do an accurate search, and deliver the exact results you are looking for, it does sound good - but the odds are against you. Lastly, no Bluetooth playback? What was the thinking here? The majority of bluetooth devices can do this, but not Sonos. I wouldn't be surprised if that's due to the deals that were made with the many music streaming partners (e.g - Tidal). Overall, it promises much, but does little well.

[@kevinread9659]

You are showing one mounted on a wall, yet it doesn't appear to be plugged into any outlet. To run these speakers and mount them on walls you have to run a power cable to each speaker separately inside the wall. So, showing them mounted as such isn't realistic. How many people are going to cut out holes in their walls and modify their electrical wiring? I would say mostly nobody. The same issue revolves around rear speakers on the mounts. You will be running two separate power wires with extension chords unless you are lucky enough to have an in floor power outlet under a couch. These speakers really need an analog wire running to each with those wires connected to a main amplifier that runs the apps and features. That way you no longer need power cables for each speaker. It really is a bad design idea in my book. If you run battery powered then you have to charge them and they still need a power cable. So, that idea isn't a solution for the main issue of power either.

[@Joker-yc8hn]

Get a life

[@CT-vm4gf]

You can see the power point behind the wall mounted speaker, and if you don’t want to wall mount them, you don’t have to. What’s the difference running an analog wire to the rear speakers or a power cord? You’re running a wire to each speaker, either way.

[@CCLifestyleRealty]

@@CT-vm4gf it doesn't to me, but if you do have a power wire you have to run an entirely new 120V electric line which requires splicing into another line, or running new back to the main electric panel. Almost everyone in the country will require a permit, or an electrician for that. Most people have no clue about house electrical wiring. Running an analog line doesn't require either of the electric challenges. So yes there is a significant difference between the two.

[@brianhansen2202]

That was definitely not all I needed to know

[@kassandrahubner5921]

Ngl these are so shit they constantly stop the music and the app for it keeps skipping the sound or just not play them we have them installed at the bar where I work and I hate them I tried all streaming platforms and they still cut it we have two different WiFi’s and we have figured out that the WiFi is not the problem it’s so shit honestly it’s a waste of money like I have been actively trying to find a way to fix it but nothing ....

[@metube9541]

Sonos was great but now it’s too unreliable. Ditching 3 play 1’s, 2 play 3’s and a play 5. Wasted too much time on getting them working. Ebay

[@jessemedsker2579]

It's called Bose

[@iam_nick]

Prevacy

[@uneCENT]

Main issue with Sonos, is they sound cheap, just like Bose. Wish a good manufacture would make a smart speaker.

[@smarthomesounds]

Hi there, thanks for your comment. Bowers & Wilkins do some great smart speakers called the Formation range. They offer premium aesthetics and a lot of heritage goes into creating their speakers. I hope that helps!

[@uneCENT]

@@smarthomesounds it does, thank you for sharing!

[@bernd-dietrichhamann5766]

Tut mir Leid, Sonos ist für Menschen über 80 Jahre zu kompliziert, in Betrieb zu setzen. Schade. Bedeha

[@Markkrochuk1979]

What the fuck is the point of this? Why not just use bluetooth?

[@cloudspecs3864]

you make iritating face sound!

[@BigALdeek]

My old Harmon Kardon Onyx speakers are Light years Better than these.

[@1234nikster]

I have an onyx 4, thinking of getting the Sonos 1 play gen 2. Should I steer clear?

[@BigALdeek]

@@1234nikster I have the Original onyx and I think I also have the 2nd version also which had far better build quality than the last ones. But yes the Sonos sounds like a Muffled Box no bass. It's not as loud but then again nothing compares to the Bass and clarity the onyx has. Maybe Bose but it's like night and day u can tell right away I mean they had Those Onyx speakers Blasting at Best buy for the whole store I can't see these Sonos having that power

[@Davey_01]

Hi, can you pair one of these with a generation one Sonos one in stereo mode? Thanks