I picked up gen 1 under discount . Once you buy one sonos speaker you want them all over the home I’m up to 4 speakers with a home theater system . 5 zones
There's actually a couple sites unloading the Gen 1s. I just picked up 2 for $300. Curious to what the future services it will be for but for my current needs (literally just streaming music) I just added 2 more speakers at for 25% off.
"According to Sonos, the new processor and additional memory do not currently represent any new features or noticeable performance changes between the Gen 2 and the original One, which is now called the Sonos One Gen 1. But these upgrades can enable new features specific to the updated speaker in the future." Let's be honest Play 1, Play one first gen and Play One gen 2 all have the same sound quality. I think the biggest take away on this is, it will have a purpose one day. No one upgrades the hardware on a just because. If you buy Sonos one gen 1 now because you want to save a couple of bucks, then you likely should not have bought it. They have been struggling with getting Google on their devices and for some reason I think when they do the performance will be a whole lot better. Same likely can be said for Airplay 2 or any future release from Apple. You can bet they have knowledge and a plan, we as the public just don't know it. Remember these are smart speakers, not the speakers of yester years, despite sounding the same...LOL Who know perhaps they are working on their own voice Ai. It seems to be the thing companies all do today. Believe me I am no expert on the why, and i won't pretend I know the why but no company puts in better hardware JUST BECAUSE. You can bet "THERE IS A PLAN" The market is fierce. I just bought a Google Home max 340 bucks (2 for 600)that's almost half of a Play 5 and two is cheaper than one play 5. At the end of the day It plays what I need because I am an agnostic person when I buy 3rd party services. Netflix, spotify, etc . Sonos surround 2200.00 I can do much better systems for that price and have better sound supported formats. The rest of the work has caught up and in some cases surpassed sonos. I wonder what they will do next to innovate" Even Apple knows they have to get their Apple Tv on TVs because services are the future of profit and Tv are just that, agnostic and "so call" smart.
Well for you to make this review better. I would have finished that raspberry Pi setup to showcase how DIY speakers can be more smart. Especially if you get a DAC hat for the raspberry Pi. Basically how to DIY your own airplay into your existing setups. We use like 6 raspberry Pis in our venue to simplify music for multiple rooms. We use 1 Mac and an apple playlist. Pretty easy and affordable to get everything up and running. just some food for thought :D
I just bought from Amazon a Sonos One Gen 2 with Alexa built in. I thought,"Hey that's cool". I already have the Sonos 5 in my kitchen and now I can have one in my bedroom. Well, I had a nightmare hooking it up! I had to move my wireless modem to the bedroom to enable it so it would work. I was thinking "wireless". I guess I'm dumb on that. I got the speaker up and running and it sounded really good. Then I looked on the box and packaging for Alexa anything. Nothing! This was one of the reasons why I bought this speaker. I could tell it to turn on and off and ask questions or even turn the volume up or down. Nope, it didn't have it like it said on Amazon and sadly it had to go back because it wasn't what I paid for and wanted. The sound is very Sonos and I like that alot, it's just not what I was paying for. Oh, I brought it to the UPS store and they charged me $9.00 for a box to ship it back in. So I'm out 9 bucks on a box and a wrong description of the product.
Update the Sonos to the latest firmware if it didn't do it automatically, open the app, go to Settings, and add Alexa as a Voice Service. You had exactly what you wanted, but you didn't configure it. You gave up because it didn't show the feature on the box? Did you look online or contact support at all?
When is the google assistant coming to the sonos one? First they said it will come late 2018. Then they said it will come early 2019. Now what will they say?
I have the Gen 1 and 2 and find the Gen 2 is quicker to set up an also responds a bit better then Gen 1, But they do sound identical, so I have them in a stereo pair.
i have been looking into building own wifi speaker from scratch the information is a bit limited would you please work on one when you make time for it
There are NO differences, it is just a way to lure someone who is SONOS-addicted, like the ones who are on the queue for the last iPhone model 3 days before. And guess what, the new iPhone has got "better" processor, "better" camera, "better" whatever but guess what...... it can make a phone call!! Ok, a smartphone is more than a phone call but a speaker not really. I just want the best audio quality possibile and i'm not really interested if the bluetooth feature is better or what, who gives a s..... 😉
I'm planning to link Sonos Ones to my exixting Beam, so I assume it will need the low-energy bluetooth for the initial setup, hence I'll need the Gen 2 model. Is my assumption correct?
I'm going to buy Sonos one soon and I am torn between getting gen 1 or 2. I'm from Canada so they're a bit more pricey but they're only around a $25 difference between the two. Not sure if I should stick to the original one or get gen 2... Help?!
@@lm7008 I thought that to myself afterwards..but forget to delete my reply..any way.. if you have extra money to pay for subscriptions for every music streaming services every month..why dont you just buy both.😉
@@lm7008 spotify is just one of them. Anyway I am not trying to question or downgrade your living standard.. I was just trying to be helpful when I saw your comment when you said you literally stuck for $25. 😂
@@lm7008 I don't know if the deal is in Canada but you can sign up for Spotify as a student and it's only $5/mo. Even if you're not a student you get a full year to verify you student status, so at least you get a year at half price. Also World Wide Stereo has a deal right now for 2 Gen 1s for $300. Pretty good deal. I picked up a pair myself to add to my setup. I doubt the Gen 2 will see any benefits in the next 2 years at least. Sonos is not a company that regularly updates.
You heard it here first. The adoption of Bluetooth Low Energy Is not for ease of setup as Sonos are relatively easy to setup on Wifi anyways. The inclusion of BLE is to leverage Bluetooth Beacon technology for hyper location. This feature will allow for such features like the utterance "Play Jazz music in this room" or the ability for the BLE in your smart watch to "move" your music with you as you walk through your Sonos zones. BLE is a requirement for Beacons and you should expect larger rollout of hyper local features across many product groups. The Beacon Tech has been just sitting and waiting to be commercialized for consumers.
They did the exact same with the play:1 there’s two version, one with beefed up hardware, which helps future function support, so not surprising there. But how can I find out if my One is gen1 or gen2?
Burrito 🌯 will be gone next morning but the update will make you future proof adding new Sonos software updates in new hardware ..but thanks for the review
Purchased a pair of Sonos 1’s in January. I spent the extra $ for the new model 1’s as opposed to the discounted Play 1’s and now they’re obsolete with Gen 2. No upgrade path. What kind of an outfit treats their customers like this? This will be my last Sonos purchase, spread the word. Thanks for nothing Sonos. Ripped off former Sonos customer.
It's sad going back and watching this video, Sonos didn't update or do shit with the Sonos one, they even replaced it with the era 100 and took out the Google assistant because they got cocky and tried to use Google and failed. Great products from a crap company
sooo stupid thing I can only play music from PC. I can’t watch anything from TH-cam or just a movie ??? Any sounds from PC or phone not working!! I don’t understand who could invent such a useless product ..
Sucks that they will eventually not support their old products wasted 2000 on a system that won't even last 10 years this company is garbage ill never buy or support them again waste of money and only 30 percent off to upgrade is also garbage pretty terrible customer service money grabbing pieces of shit
Donot buy these speakers. You will end up paying subscription fees for all music streaming services like youtube, spotify etc. Buy bluetooth speaker instead.
This is Gorkhe Hardly, at most you would need a subscription to one, however there are also many free options and one can also use airplay. Bluetooth has limited range and is highly compressed so that is not a proper alternative
There's more than a few free streaming services, like free Spotify or pandora. Also most people don't natively store or buy music anymore, they stream.
Sometimes products just get 'upgraded' because the lower spec original components are no longer being manufactured, and would be harder to source.
I picked up gen 1 under discount . Once you buy one sonos speaker you want them all over the home I’m up to 4 speakers with a home theater system . 5 zones
With sonos, no av receiver needed
Thanks for this very good review. First I’ll try DIY my version of Sonos Gen2. Your tutorials are the best. Thanks again.
Bought two Gen 1 with Sanus stands for 250.00. Hooked to Gen 2 Subwoofer and Gen 1 playbar. Sound awesome. Don' need smart speaker.
Great review, I have a complete Sonos system and am glad after hearing your review that I haven’t become outdated, yet.
For only twenty box, I rather go with Gen 2 ,but unfortunately I already bought 2 sonos gen 1 a while ago and I don’t need more .
True. You know you'll probably buy more though... that's how they get ya!
There's actually a couple sites unloading the Gen 1s. I just picked up 2 for $300. Curious to what the future services it will be for but for my current needs (literally just streaming music) I just added 2 more speakers at for 25% off.
"According to Sonos, the new processor and additional memory do not currently represent any new features or noticeable performance changes between the Gen 2 and the original One, which is now called the Sonos One Gen 1. But these upgrades can enable new features specific to the updated speaker in the future." Let's be honest Play 1, Play one first gen and Play One gen 2 all have the same sound quality. I think the biggest take away on this is, it will have a purpose one day. No one upgrades the hardware on a just because. If you buy Sonos one gen 1 now because you want to save a couple of bucks, then you likely should not have bought it. They have been struggling with getting Google on their devices and for some reason I think when they do the performance will be a whole lot better. Same likely can be said for Airplay 2 or any future release from Apple. You can bet they have knowledge and a plan, we as the public just don't know it. Remember these are smart speakers, not the speakers of yester years, despite sounding the same...LOL Who know perhaps they are working on their own voice Ai. It seems to be the thing companies all do today. Believe me I am no expert on the why, and i won't pretend I know the why but no company puts in better hardware JUST BECAUSE. You can bet "THERE IS A PLAN"
The market is fierce. I just bought a Google Home max 340 bucks (2 for 600)that's almost half of a Play 5 and two is cheaper than one play 5. At the end of the day It plays what I need because I am an agnostic person when I buy 3rd party services. Netflix, spotify, etc . Sonos surround 2200.00 I can do much better systems for that price and have better sound supported formats. The rest of the work has caught up and in some cases surpassed sonos. I wonder what they will do next to innovate" Even Apple knows they have to get their Apple Tv on TVs because services are the future of profit and Tv are just that, agnostic and "so call" smart.
This compatible with Samsung qn94a? I heard the beam gen 2 didn’t have pass through so it may be an issue for this tv……
Well for you to make this review better. I would have finished that raspberry Pi setup to showcase how DIY speakers can be more smart. Especially if you get a DAC hat for the raspberry Pi.
Basically how to DIY your own airplay into your existing setups.
We use like 6 raspberry Pis in our venue to simplify music for multiple rooms. We use 1 Mac and an apple playlist. Pretty easy and affordable to get everything up and running.
just some food for thought :D
I just bought from Amazon a Sonos One Gen 2 with Alexa built in. I thought,"Hey that's cool". I already have the Sonos 5 in my kitchen and now I can have one in my bedroom. Well, I had a nightmare hooking it up! I had to move my wireless modem to the bedroom to enable it so it would work. I was thinking "wireless". I guess I'm dumb on that. I got the speaker up and running and it sounded really good. Then I looked on the box and packaging for Alexa anything. Nothing! This was one of the reasons why I bought this speaker. I could tell it to turn on and off and ask questions or even turn the volume up or down. Nope, it didn't have it like it said on Amazon and sadly it had to go back because it wasn't what I paid for and wanted. The sound is very Sonos and I like that alot, it's just not what I was paying for. Oh, I brought it to the UPS store and they charged me $9.00 for a box to ship it back in. So I'm out 9 bucks on a box and a wrong description of the product.
Update the Sonos to the latest firmware if it didn't do it automatically, open the app, go to Settings, and add Alexa as a Voice Service. You had exactly what you wanted, but you didn't configure it. You gave up because it didn't show the feature on the box? Did you look online or contact support at all?
Can I connect multiple speakers to one device?
Thank you for making this video.
Sonos one GEN 2 is built for Ikea purposes... same internals are used in the lamp version they releases recently... makes sense?
Is the Sonos one SL the same as the Sonos one? If not what difference is it between the One SL and the two
When is the google assistant coming to the sonos one? First they said it will come late 2018. Then they said it will come early 2019. Now what will they say?
They will say its out of their hands as Google develops Google assistant, not Sonos - and the answer is the same for Amazon Alexa
Might they be considering Sonos to handle 24 bits FLAC? As I understand they just convert 24 bit to 16 bit (CD quality)
How can I tell if I have gen 1 or gen 2?
When did you buy it?
Did any Gen 2 features materialise?
I dont get notified of your videos no more, just realized I missed them for the las 8 months, I had to look you up to find out what you were up to.
So is gen 1 safe if I don’t want a speaker that spies on me? I think gen 2 is already too advanced, and is basically always listening. Right?
I have the Gen 1 and 2 and find the Gen 2 is quicker to set up an also responds a bit better then Gen 1, But they do sound identical, so I have them in a stereo pair.
So you can definitely pair a Sonos Play1 with a sonos Gen 2
No you can't.
How do I know the difference between the gen 1 an 2 they both look the same. I’m not sure what I have
i have been looking into building own wifi speaker from scratch the information is a bit limited would you please work on one when you make time for it
I found gen one is only 2.4 Wi-Fi and gen 2 is 5g Wi-Fi..
You didn’t say much of anything. Does have a noticeable lag when watching TH-cam videos?
Hey Kirby, how are the tower speakers coming along?
My DiY Speakers aren't smart but sound better - because that is why i build them myself
Thats one benefit of building your own! Thanks for watching!
I don’t need smart speaker ; I am getting the play 1 . No digital assistant!!!
the biggest differance is that Paryloc can weatherproof the new Sonos One for just 299.00
Can you explain me Bluetooth low energy??? What is that means… 2 gen has Bluetooth???
There are NO differences, it is just a way to lure someone who is SONOS-addicted, like the ones who are on the queue for the last iPhone model 3 days before. And guess what, the new iPhone has got "better" processor, "better" camera, "better" whatever but guess what...... it can make a phone call!! Ok, a smartphone is more than a phone call but a speaker not really. I just want the best audio quality possibile and i'm not really interested if the bluetooth feature is better or what, who gives a s..... 😉
I'm planning to link Sonos Ones to my exixting Beam, so I assume it will need the low-energy bluetooth for the initial setup, hence I'll need the Gen 2 model. Is my assumption correct?
I'm going to buy Sonos one soon and I am torn between getting gen 1 or 2. I'm from Canada so they're a bit more pricey but they're only around a $25 difference between the two. Not sure if I should stick to the original one or get gen 2... Help?!
@@ThisIsGorkhe I already pay for Spotify
@@lm7008 I thought that to myself afterwards..but forget to delete my reply..any way.. if you have extra money to pay for subscriptions for every music streaming services every month..why dont you just buy both.😉
@@ThisIsGorkhe Spotify is literally just $10 a month.... If u are able to buy food then ur able to pay for that. Lol.
@@lm7008 spotify is just one of them. Anyway I am not trying to question or downgrade your living standard.. I was just trying to be helpful when I saw your comment when you said you literally stuck for $25. 😂
@@lm7008 I don't know if the deal is in Canada but you can sign up for Spotify as a student and it's only $5/mo. Even if you're not a student you get a full year to verify you student status, so at least you get a year at half price.
Also World Wide Stereo has a deal right now for 2 Gen 1s for $300. Pretty good deal. I picked up a pair myself to add to my setup. I doubt the Gen 2 will see any benefits in the next 2 years at least. Sonos is not a company that regularly updates.
I’m subscribing! Awesome channel man keep it up
You heard it here first. The adoption of Bluetooth Low Energy Is not for ease of setup as Sonos are relatively easy to setup on Wifi anyways. The inclusion of BLE is to leverage Bluetooth Beacon technology for hyper location. This feature will allow for such features like the utterance "Play Jazz music in this room" or the ability for the BLE in your smart watch to "move" your music with you as you walk through your Sonos zones. BLE is a requirement for Beacons and you should expect larger rollout of hyper local features across many product groups. The Beacon Tech has been just sitting and waiting to be commercialized for consumers.
This makes a lot of sense! I didn't notice any difference during setup. Thanks!
How about this for making sense - you change router and suddenly you dont have an eth cable to set it up again - BTLE to the rescue ......
@@davidb4010 You don't need a cable for set up...
I have a Sonos One. I play it every day with Alexa.
How?
Can the Gen 1 and Gen 2 be paired as stereo?
Yes they can.
@@HiFiBrothers Thanks :)
You were right! Sonos just bought Snips, a privacy-focused voice assistant working without internet.
Why would anybody reward a company known for bricking older devices just to force you to buy a new one? Fuck that.
Can you make a new crossover video. The software is updated and isn't working for me
They did the exact same with the play:1 there’s two version, one with beefed up hardware, which helps future function support, so not surprising there. But how can I find out if my One is gen1 or gen2?
Burrito 🌯 will be gone next morning but the update will make you future proof adding new Sonos software updates in new hardware ..but thanks for the review
What really would be interesting if you did some reasearch about sonos not playing deezer family and why. This video has no new info.
so would would one of these speakers work to just listen to music in my bedroom?
Safwan Reza I have 4 of these . In 3 bedrooms and a kitchen .
@@Jusaguy000 well i guess that answers my question. Thanks!
Yep, one will suffice for music only.
1 could fill a modest sized house at 50% volume. Its impressive how loud it can get.
They are adding Google to it. That's why they did this
Robert Nebel not true, both support Google.
Good video, not sure about the danglers....
Sonos one gen 2 or the bose home speaker 500?
Bose home 500 is stereo. Sonos one is a mono speaker so the Bose will sound much much better
Purchased a pair of Sonos 1’s in January. I spent the extra $ for the new model 1’s as opposed to the discounted Play 1’s and now they’re obsolete with Gen 2. No upgrade path.
What kind of an outfit treats their customers like this?
This will be my last Sonos purchase, spread the word.
Thanks for nothing Sonos.
Ripped off former Sonos customer.
bluetooth is a great idea, cause right now to setup wifi you need to plug it in to the router to do a setup, which sucks.
No you don’t
What? No you dont
Totally pointless update then, no sound improvements and no new features...
Well getting mine free with my huawei
Me to
I got that +earbuds +e200$
It's sad going back and watching this video, Sonos didn't update or do shit with the Sonos one, they even replaced it with the era 100 and took out the Google assistant because they got cocky and tried to use Google and failed. Great products from a crap company
So the Gen 1 has also AirPlay 2?
BMW335DA yes!
Why the update??? More sales!!!!!
All advertising is based on anxiety
Google Assistant on Sonos One is rubbish
Google is listening...
Ни хуя не понял, но очень интересно!
Wired connections with good quality speaker cables will always be miles better than Bluetooth
These aren’t Bluetooth tool
Salut from Russia!
Hello! Thanks for watching!
Atmos
sooo stupid thing
I can only play music from PC. I can’t watch anything from TH-cam or just a movie ???
Any sounds from PC or phone not working!!
I don’t understand who could invent such a useless product ..
So you keep saying
Sucks that they will eventually not support their old products wasted 2000 on a system that won't even last 10 years this company is garbage ill never buy or support them again waste of money and only 30 percent off to upgrade is also garbage pretty terrible customer service money grabbing pieces of shit
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Donot buy these speakers. You will end up paying subscription fees for all music streaming services like youtube, spotify etc. Buy bluetooth speaker instead.
This is Gorkhe Hardly, at most you would need a subscription to one, however there are also many free options and one can also use airplay. Bluetooth has limited range and is highly compressed so that is not a proper alternative
There's more than a few free streaming services, like free Spotify or pandora. Also most people don't natively store or buy music anymore, they stream.
Add SonosTube free app, to listen to TH-cam on Sonos.