Sonos One SL Smart Speaker Reviews

Sonos One SL Smart Speaker review

Our Overall Score:

8.6/10

Thanks for checking out our Sonos One SL Smart Speaker review. We’re here to give you the best reviews of this product and hopefully leave you confident in whether Sonos One SL Smart Speaker is the right product for you, or if there’s perhaps a better alternative out there for a product in the Audio Equipment category.

Latest price search at John Lewis & Partners: £179

The most important part of buying online can be to read reviews and that’s why you’re here. We’ve scanned the internet to find as many Sonos One SL Smart Speaker reviews as we can, regardless if they’re good or bad as we want to give you the most truthful and realistic overview of just how good Sonos One SL Smart Speaker is. In finding reviews, we discovered that the best and most informative reviews were from customers over at John Lewis & Partners, to read these review just tap on the View Reviews button now.

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When it comes to buying products online, whether that’s a TV, clothes, Audio Equipment or even a something like a sofa, there are a general set of guidance or advice that you can follow to help you get the best product for your needs and also the best for your budget. As you can imagine there are tons of different options in the Audio Equipment category and even loads of options of products from Sonos so it’s important to take the time to find the right one for you. The four areas that we want to delve in to a little more are the quality, the price of the product, what the reviews are saying about it and then finally we’ll look at an overall score which takes into account the other factors.


Quality of Sonos One SL Smart Speaker

Sonos One SL Smart Speaker scored an incredible 8.3/10 for quality.

As you’d expect with a lot of products, quality is a very important factor for choosing products in the “Audio Equipment” category. But it’s even more important to consider and get a feel for quality when you’re buying online because you aren’t given the benefit of being able to see and try the item for yourself.

This is of course why we can’t stress enough the importance of reading lots of reviews, as it will really help you to get a good feel for how good the quality is. A top tip when reading the reviews is to use the search function on your browser and search for the word “quality” in the reviews that way you can skip straight to customers that have mentioned about the quality of Sonos One SL Smart Speaker.

Once you’ve had a good look over the reviews you’ll have a pretty good indication of how good the quality of Sonos One SL Smart Speaker is, but we also have the following factors that you should consider to get an idea of the quality of the product you’re looking at.

  • Price: It probably sounds obvious, but there are links to the price you pay and the quality of a product. Try and set your expectations for the quality based on your budget. You wouldn’t expect a Rolls-Royce for the price of a Fiesta so bear this in mind when shopping.
  • Specification: It’s a really good idea to look over the product description and specification section of the website, for Sonos One SL Smart Speaker you can read the full details on the John Lewis & Partners website where it will give you all the detail you need. It’s useful as you’ll probably already have a good idea of the sort of specs that make good Audio Equipment. Also compare these specs to other similar products that are in the same price bracket.
  • Brand: Sonos are obviously a strong and recognisable brand for making great Audio Equipment, so you’d expect Sonos One SL Smart Speaker to deliver to these expectations. But always consider the brand when you’re thinking about the quality of the product you’re going to buy, and where quality is an important factor to you, look only at those well known brands (of course only if your budget allows).
  • Your experience with Audio Equipment: You’ll no doubt have some history with buying Audio Equipment, and you may have even bought products from the same brand, Sonos, use this information to your advantage. You’ll probably have a good idea of how good the quality of the product was and any faults or floors you remember from it.

Price analysis of Sonos One SL Smart Speaker

Sonos One SL Smart Speaker scored highly with 8.4/10 for price in our review.

Price, a hugely important part of any purchase. Price becomes even more of a consideration when we’re shopping online because it’s so amazingly simple to compare the price of several retailers in literally just a few clicks. In fact you don’t even need to do that, we’ve run price comparisons for you in order to find the best price. The lowest price we’ve managed to find Sonos One SL Smart Speaker for is just £179 over at John Lewis & Partners.

There’s a lot of geeky analysis to be done on price, but what we find most effective and informative is to look at 3 different figures when comparing products and that is the average price, the most expensive and the cheapest. This gives you a really good feel for what the normal product would cost but also giving you an idea of just how cheap you can find it or the opposite, just how expensive some are. It’s also useful to look at the average of the products that fit in the same category as well as products from the same brand. So we’re going to look in more detail now at the price of Sonos One SL Smart Speaker.

Prices of products in the Audio Equipment category

We thought it would be useful to spend a bit of time exploring the price of Sonos One SL Smart Speaker and seeing how it compares to other similar products. And also seeing how much variance there are in prices of products in the Audio Equipment category. To do this we looked at all of the products over at John Lewis & Partners, there were a total of 74 products in the Audio Equipment, and of these 74 products the average price was £436.51, making Sonos One SL Smart Speaker below average at £179. We also looked at the cheapest option in the same category which was just £14.99 whilst the most expensive was £3499.99. So you can see there’s a huge variance in the price of products in this category, as an indication there were 134 products less expensive and 102 more expensive than Sonos One SL Smart Speaker in this category. So we thought it would be worth going into a bit more detail and looking at the prices of products from Sonos.

Prices of products from Sonos

So the average price of the 9 products available from Sonos was £398.44, making £179 below average against the other products from the same brand. With the most expensive product from them coming in at £699.00 and the cheapest at £84.00. We thought a good next step would be to look more specifically at products from Sonos that fit in to the category of Audio Equipment rather than looking at all their products.

Of the 5 products from Sonos in the Audio Equipment category, the average price is £385.00 making Sonos One SL Smart Speaker below average at £179. Again we looked at how much price can vary and found that the cheapest product to fit this criteria was £149.00 and the most expensive was £699.00 so there are again a lot of varying prices with the products. In fact to be precise we found 3 products from Sonos that were more expensive and 1 that were cheaper.


Reviews of Sonos One SL Smart Speaker

Sonos One SL Smart Speaker scores 9.2/10 for customer reviews.

Reviews are really the most valuable part of your online shopping, they’re giving you the next best thing to being able to actually try the product for yourself. You’re not relying on a manufacturers sales description telling you just how good their product is, you’re getting genuine feedback from actual users of the product. We can’t stress enough how important it is that you spend some time reading the reviews of Sonos One SL Smart Speaker over at John Lewis & Partners, click on the “view reviews” button now to read them.

Below is a video we found for Sonos One SL Smart Speaker over on YouTube.


Overall score

Sonos One SL Smart Speaker got an amazing overall score of 8.6/10 in our review.

This figure takes into account the various criteria that we’ve covered above, the price, the quality and the customer reviews, in order to give you an overall score. This overall score of 8.6/10 then gives you a really easy figure to use for comparison purposes if you’re then going on to read any of our other reviews of Audio Equipment.

As you’ve already seen in the pricing section there are absolutely loads of different options from Sonos so take your time to read the reviews, do your homework on setting a budget and seeing how the price of Sonos One SL Smart Speaker stacks up against your budget and make sure you also set yourself a list of “must-haves” so you know that this product ticks all your boxes.


More info: Sonos One SL Smart Speaker

  • Brand: Sonos
  • Model Number: Sonos One SL
  • EAN: 8717755776624
  • Description: Sonos One SL gives you rich, room-filling sound and easy music streaming. Control it via the Sonos app (available on iOS and Android), or Apple Airplay 2, as well as simple touch controls on the speaker itself. Integrate it with other Sonos speakers to create a multi-room speaker system throughout the home. It makes the ideal Sonos speaker for stereo pairing and home cinema surrounds. Brilliant sound for every room The compact design fits just about any space. Put it on your kitchen top or tuck it away on the office bookshelf. It’s also humidity-resistant so you can put it in the bathroom. Stereo sound with two Pair with a Sonos One or another Sonos One SL in the same room for stereo separation and more detailed sound. And you can use a pair as rear home theatre surround speakers with the Sonos Playbar, Playbase, or Beam (sold separately). Build your own system Easily connect Sonos speakers in different rooms over Wi-Fi to create a home sound system that plays music in any or every room. Sonos sound Enjoy clear, richly-detailed sound that fills the room at all volumes, with the superb audio quality that Sonos are renowned for. Easy to use Setup takes minutes, and control is simple with the Sonos app and AirPlay 2. And you can customise your system to play what you want, where you want. Choice of control Sonos One SL seamlessly syncs app and touch commands, enabling you to manage music with a tap of the app, or a swipe on the speaker touch panel. And you can easily access many music subscription services including Spotify* and Deezer. App control Take full control of your media with the SONOS Controller app. Available to download for free, it gives you the freedom to adjust volume, switch settings and more.** Using the TRUEPLAY feature in the Sonos app, you can custom tune this speaker for finely-balanced sound enrichments based on speaker positioning, even when it’s incorporated in a full Sonos home cinema setup. *A Spotify Premium account is required to use Spotify services on Sonos **You must download this app to set the Sonos One SL up A Smart Speaker is a platform that can run 3rd party Apps. 3rd party content providers may remove Apps from the Smart platform or stop supporting them at any time, and we cannot guarantee an App’s availability. When new Smart products are launched, there may also be a delay before certain Apps become available. Availability of Apps is not included within the terms of the manufacturer’s warranty, or the John Lewis 2-year Guarantee for audio visual products, or the 5-year Guarantee for TVs.
  • Product ID: 24881198239
  • Category: Electricals > Hi-Fi, Audio & Speakers > Speakers
  • Colour: Black

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