Best Sonos Deals: A Comparison of Five and Six Speakers Including a One-Loop Replacement, a Wireless Mic, and Voice Assistants
The discounts can be hard to find even if they exist. That’s why we’ve curated this list of the best Sonos deals you can currently take advantage of. We will help you find the best deals, so you can get the best bang for your buck.
Best Buy and Sonos test and clean their refurbished products before selling them. Also included are the original accessories and cables along with a one-year warranty and a money-back guarantee. Best Buy’s Geek Squad-certified refurbished products, meanwhile, come with a 90-day warranty unless otherwise noted. It’s possible to return them for an extended return window if you are a Best Buy or Totaltech member.
Like the Sonos Roam, it also offers built-in support for Google Assistant, Amazon Alexa, and Apple’s AirPlay 2. One drawback, however, is that you may need a recent 4K TV — likely something released after 2017 — that supports Atmos over HDMI ARC to hear it at its best. We noticed that surround sound is not particularly apartment-friendly when combined with the size of the room.
The sound of the One is rich, detailed and lacks a microphone. The speaker supports a wide range of music services, as well as having good voice microphones, and integrates with existing systems.
If you want to buy one on your own, there are no deals available. However, you can purchase a two-room set in black for $419 instead of $438 from B&H Photo.
Finally, you can also save a little if you buy the Sonos Arc SL, which lacks a microphone but is $50 cheaper when you purchase it from Costco. Be aware, though, you’ll have to be a member to buy it.
The Play:5 music speaker is almost identical to the Sonos Five, which replaced it in 2020. It shares the same drivers that are in the Play:5 so it should still give the same high-quality listening experience. Other than that, however, there aren’t many noticeable differences. The Play:5’s successor offers increased memory and processing power, as well as a new wireless radio. There are also black and white options. The Sonos Five lacks a built-in microphone and a support for the voice assistants, something that most other speakers in the lineup offer.
Given it’s cheaper, though, the soundbar obviously lacks a lot of features and qualities the Beam and Arc offer. While its sound quality is good for its size, it lacks the immersive feel they have due to the lack of support for Dolby Atmos surround sound. You will have to connect it to your TV with an optical audio cable and work with only IR remotes to use it.
The Sonos Move offers a loud, powerful sound similar to the Sonos One, but with slightly more volume. Unlike the One, however, you don’t need to find the right spot in your home for it to hear it well, given it’s better at distributing sound throughout a room. It sounds great wherever you are, no matter what the place is or where you are.
Now, it’s all doable through a menu that lets you move music to any group or Alexa device with a couple of taps — no talking necessary. In our brief time trying it so far, it’s pretty intuitive, and anyone that’s controlled music via AirPlay or Spotify Connect shouldn’t have much trouble figuring this out. The options for the standard, echo, and echo sub speakers are included in the current lineup. You can play audio across Echo Show and Fire TV devices through the Alexa app as well.
Sonos is locked in a patents battle with Google; a trial between the two kicks off May 8th in San Francisco. But while Sonos has previously alleged that Amazon is also violating its intellectual property, it hasn’t fired any legal salvos yet. The two companies seem to be on good terms, and the latest example is expanding the use ofAlexa voice assistant on Sonos devices in a number of countries. And you can run Sonos Voice Control and Alexa side by side on the same speaker. For example, there are limits in this collaboration, for example you cannot include the speakers in the same group for multiroom audio.