Sonos PLAY:5 Smart Speaker Reviews

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Sonos PLAY:5 Smart Speaker review

Our Overall Score:

9.6/10

Thanks for checking out our Sonos PLAY:5 Smart Speaker review. We’re here to give you the best reviews of this product and hopefully leave you confident in whether Sonos PLAY:5 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: £499

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 PLAY:5 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 PLAY:5 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 PLAY:5 Smart Speaker

Sonos PLAY:5 Smart Speaker scored an incredible 9.8/10 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 PLAY:5 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 PLAY:5 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 PLAY:5 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 PLAY:5 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 PLAY:5 Smart Speaker

Sonos PLAY:5 Smart Speaker scored highly with 9.3/10 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 PLAY:5 Smart Speaker for is just £499 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 PLAY:5 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 PLAY:5 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 PLAY:5 Smart Speaker above average at £499. 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 216 products less expensive and 23 more expensive than Sonos PLAY:5 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 £499 above 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 PLAY:5 Smart Speaker above average at £499. 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 1 products from Sonos that were more expensive and 3 that were cheaper.

Reviews of Sonos PLAY:5 Smart Speaker

Sonos PLAY:5 Smart Speaker scores 9.6/10 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 PLAY:5 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 PLAY:5 Smart Speaker over on YouTube.

Overall score

Sonos PLAY:5 Smart Speaker got an amazing overall score of 9.6/10 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 9.6/10 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 PLAY:5 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 PLAY:5 Smart Speaker

  • Brand: Sonos
  • Model Number: PLAY:5
  • EAN: 8717755773029
  • Description: Sonos PLAY:5 is the ultimate smart speaker; it fine tunes sound to bring you energy and emotion, just as the artist intended. Streaming your favourite songs just got easier, more immersive and more satisfying. Distinct, clear sound Connecting you to the music you love are three smartly synchronised mid-woofers and a trio of tweeters. Each with a dedicated amplifier, these components have been perfectly tuned to match the speaker’s and acoustic architecture. The result? You’ll hear and feel all the emotion and energy which was packed into the original recording. Music adapted to you Every detail of the PLAY:5 has been engineered to make listening to music even better. Combining six smartly synchronised drivers with innovative, room-adapting TRUEPLAY tuning, the speaker delivers a remarkably exact reproduction of the music closest to you. TRUEPLAY makes the Sonos wireless speaker acoustically aware and adaptable. By recognising the distinct acoustic qualities of any space, the PLAY 5’s audio tech will fine tune all six drivers to unearth sound which is bespoke to the room. This works in the same way even if you pair it with a second PLAY:5 – each speaker will intelligently sense its orientation, then adjust its output to deliver a sweet spot that’s wider in horizontal mode or more focused and intense when positioned vertically. Total control Control all your music and streaming services from one single app. Simply download the free Sonos Controller app onto your Smartphone, tablet or computer and turn it into a full-fledged Sonos Controller that works over your home Wi-Fi network.* And with top-panel controls, you can control your music right from the speaker. Its touch interface is simple and convenient; just tap for volume up/down and swipe for next/previous track. Wireless play With its ability to connect to the home Wi-Fi, the PLAY:5 liberates the music on your computer and the Internet so you can play it all over the house. Wherever there’s a player, you can listen to your entire collection of iTunes music, plus thousands of free Internet radio stations. And it works seamlessly with the most popular music services so you can stream millions of songs and stations from the Internet to the rooms of your choice. You can even connect the PLAY:5 to your favourite audio source such as an iPod or CD player and listen on all the Sonos players throughout your house. Fill your home with music If you want to create a true surround sound experience, add two PLAY:5 speakers to a PLAYBAR and SUB. Using the app, you can even control what music is playing in every room in your house, from anywhere in your house. Apple Music And Other Services Available On Sonos Add your existing music streaming service or discover something new. Whether curated or on-demand, free or subscription-based, Sonos has you covered with access to a growing list of over 30 music services. For example, you can enjoy Apple Music, Spotify**, Deezer, Tidal, Google Play Music or many more paid services or Soundcloud, TuneIn Radio or 22Tracks free services. Using the Spotify App you can send your Spotify choices direct to any of your Sonos speakers, group all speakers together, control the volume of every speaker at once, and share music control with other Spotify App users on the same Wi-Fi network.** Airplay With AirPlay 2, stream directly from your Apple devices or ask Siri to play your favourites from Apple Music. Futureproof Designed with tomorrow in mind, the speaker combines sleek looks with agile internal sensors and ongoing software updates. This ensures that you always have the most future-proofed audio solution, even as you grow your system over time. *Please note that you must download this app to set the speaker up **Please note: a Spotify Premium account is required to use Spotify services on Sonos Please note: 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: 3452272247
  • Category: Electricals > Hi-Fi, Audio & Speakers > Speakers
  • Colour: White

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