Sonos Play 1

[Um]

Recently purchased two Sonos play 1's as a stereo pair.

Really really impressed with these! Not one for reviews in the whole but the WHSV of these is bang on. Quite a remarkable sound for such a small form factor.

Just sat here listening to Blackstar and they are cyrstal clear with plenty of body and depth.

Hats off to you Sonos, great product

 

[manicm]

The new models have room EQ, did you use it?

 

[The_Lhc]

I just added a second one to make a stereo pair, it is very impressive!

 

[knaithrover]

I've got the new Play 5 and it's mightily impressive for what is essentially a posh boombox. Auditioned 2 x Play 1's and they are as you quite rightly say excellent.

 

[Um]

Thanks for the replies,

I did use the room eq and it told me that it had only altered the sound slightly. I have all the eq flat in settings and loudness off...... of course.

Loving the fuss free listening .

 

[The_Lhc]

Thanks for the replies,?

I did use the room eq and it told me that it had only altered the sound slightly. I have all the eq flat in settings and loudness off...... of course.

Loving the fuss free listening .

I haven't tried Trueplay yet as I don't have any Apple devices in the house. I've heard the odd story about Trueplay blowing the woofers on the play:1 however, so I'm not sure I'll bother with it to be honest.

 

[Um]

No blown woofers here 🙂

I like the app as well : and running multiple Spotify accounts at the same time is very useful .

 

[The_Lhc]

No blown woofers here 🙂

I'm sure it's a minority of cases but there's been more than a couple of reports on the Sonos forum and I can't be doing with the hassle if anything does go wrong. The new one I can take back but the old one is well out of warranty and I can't be bothered having the argument that would ensue.

 

[andyjm]

I did use the room eq and it told me that it had only altered the sound slightly. I have all the eq flat in settings and loudness off...... of course.

There are good reasons for a loudness setting. If well executed (sonos use DSP), then it can correct for the tendency of human hearing low frequency response to roll off at low volumes.