hey team i'm josh and in this video we'll be covering the top five things
you need to know before purchasing a sonos speaker
Sonos has created it's brand around making a really good wi-fi enabled smart speakers that
being said if you're still using your internet provider's crappy router then get rid of it there
are so many better mesh networks out there which essentially gives you multiple units that you can
put around the house to give you a better Wi-Fi coverage these routers also enable more devices
to be connected to it at once streaming music video and whatever else you do in your house all
at once i'd sort out your internet first as once you get your sonos speaker and you want to upgrade
it later you pretty much have to reset the system and set it back up again on your new Wi-Fi network
which is a big pain in the butt now most sonos products come with an ethernet port built into
the speakers i would avoid the hassle of having to hardwire all of the speakers together and just do
it wirelessly with the mesh networks that i just mentioned before the wi-fi chips in all of these
speakers is really good and i found them to be more reliable than their ethernet counterparts
i was setting up three sonos amps the other week and connected them all through hardwired ethernet
as their router was sitting right next to it I had nothing but trouble trying to get them connected
to the network I tried a different router different cables nothing worked as soon as i
enabled wi-fi and connected it that way it worked so much better at the heart of the sonos system is
the sonos S2 app that allows you to change exactly where in the house the sound is coming from
so say you wanted to take the tv audio and send that through to any other room in the house
through the s2 app you can group rooms together and it will channel any audio coming from the tv
through those speakers you can also use any of your streaming apps such as spotify or apple
music you can start them in one room and you can just join up other rooms and so the whole
house will have amazing audio if you move into a house and it already has ceiling speakers
you can use that as part of the Sonos system by connecting a Sonos amp which gives you two
channels of audio and you can always add more if you want to as well as a subwoofer out so
you can add your own subwoofer Sonos engineers do a really good job at making Sonos speakers sound
bigger than they actually are I've had a sonos one in my bedroom for about two years and every
time i turn it on I'm surprised at the amount of bass that's able to be reproduced by such
a small capsule whenever i get a speaker the first thing i like to do is check out its bass response
for the sonos you have a bass slider you can turn up and for the most part in my honest opinion
i find that the bass is really good all the way up to max the unfortunate thing is that my wife
normally tells me to turn it down because it's too much bass Sonos has come out with an ingenious way
of tuning your room using what they coined true play in a nutshell when you want to do the tuning
the speaker emits a pulsing sound and using the iphone's microphone it is able to pick up where
objects are in the room and adapt it for the best possible sound in the space that you've provided
the first time i had this demo to me my friend took a Sonos one and put a cardboard box directly
over top of it then he played some music out of it and to be honest didn't sound very good at all
as you can imagine then he did the true play tuning and it sounded like the box had just been
taken off of the speaker at that point my mind was blown Sonos claims that over time the tuning will
get better as the speaker re-evaluates the sound within the room Sonos is ideal for those of you
that move fairly often you're able to just pick up all of your Sonos speakers and your router take it
to your new place and when you plug them back in they pretty much set themselves back up minus the
true play tuning of course Sonos puts a lot of R&D into their design and it really shows as they make
speakers that are timeless and modern you can also choose whether you want to have your speakers be
the hero of the room or you want them to blend in with other furniture here's a bonus point for you
sonos is a premium brand and with that comes a premium price they're not cheap pieces of kit
but they hold their value really well if you go and have a look at the used market now for some
of sonos's legacy products you'll be surprised at how much money they sell for which is great
for when you're wanting to sell your current Sonos setup and upgrade to whatever Sonos comes out with
later on The sonos playbar came out in 2013 and has only recently been discontinued SEVEN
years for a tech product is a long time which is great news for those of you that are buying the
Sonos arc or the beam now as you know you'll get many years of enjoyment out of it to come
With that if you have any questions about the points that i've made in this video
please leave them down in the comments i'd also like to hear from you what is your favorite sonos
product if you've liked this video I'll be doing some other related content to sonos products,
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so you don't miss those when they come out that's all from me see you guys soon