Sonos Move

I've only been buying Sonos products for about a year. I started off with a 5 and a pair of Sonos 1's. Both products have been super impressive. However, i wasn't quite prepared for just how good this Sonos Move is. I come from a music background (DJ/producer of 20+ years) so audio quality is something very very important to me and i'm super fussy. I've been using this in my garden for over a month now and it just fills my garden with wonderful sound, deep warm bass and clear mid-range and nice clean highs. Sit it on the ground in front of a wall, or in a corner and it will blow you away. A friend remarked that it was 'like having a club in your back garden'. Because the sound is so rich and full, you don't even need to have it up that loud, so it's perfect if like me you have neighbours close by. Everything I'd come to expect from a Sonos speaker is in the Move. It's genuinely brilliant. I've never heard sound as good as this in a portable speaker before. Yes it is on the expensive side, but i have to say it's been worth every penny so far. Pros: Sound quality (up there with Sonos 5). Portability - dead easy to move around, the handle is great. It's good and heavy though. Battery - 10 hours, recharges really quickly - the charging dock is super convenient Bluetooth - option to switch it over to Bluetooth if wifi an issue Integration with the rest of Sonos system is perfect - multi-room audio Wifi extender - can stream from Wifi a good distance from house Cons: There is only thing i can put here and it's not even to do with the speaker. The speaker can stream your audio up to 50m away from router (according to tests i've seen). However, your phone needs to be able to access the same router from 50m away if you want to access the Sonos app, as it needs wifi. This is more a limitation of the phone than Sonos. What i do is start my playlist in house and then take the speaker outside, it does some kind of buffering which means you can take it further away from you house and it never drops.

The Sonos Move is an impressive portable speaker with a lot going for it. The sound quality is top-notch, offering rich bass and clear treble. It easily fills any room, and even outdoors, it holds up well, making it great for casual listening or small gatherings. I really like the design – it’s sleek and modern while still being rugged enough to handle the outdoors. The built-in handle is a nice touch, making it easy to carry around the house or outside. It’s a bit on the heavier side, but the portability is still a big plus. The connectivity options are also solid. The ability to switch between Wi-Fi and Bluetooth is smooth, and the setup was a breeze. I love that it integrates so well with the rest of my Sonos system when I’m at home, but also works just as easily when I’m on the go via Bluetooth. If I had one critique, it would be the battery life. While it’s decent for most situations, I feel it could last a bit longer, especially for outdoor use. It works fine for shorter outings, but I do find myself needing to charge it more often than expected. Overall, the Sonos Move offers fantastic sound, design, and ease of use, with just a little room for improvement on battery life.

The Sonos Move is a superb speaker either on its own or as a multiform speaker part of the sonos network. This is a comparison with the bose portable home speaker which I also have. 1.SOUND. Sonos the sound is fantastic, bass is great, mids and highs also very good. it get very loud, there is an equaliser in the app, so you can adjust bass treble and loudness. Bose, sound is good, but I found the bass was too much even after adjusting it in the Bose music app. its also not as clear or loud as the Sonos. 2.BATTERY. I played the move at 50% volume and got 10hours and 37 minutes before it stopped playing that was when it got down to 5% on the app which I think must be a battery safeguard. Quite honestly if you were to play the move at anything above 70% then its way too loud for me. Even at 80% it does not distort.The BOSE speaker is got 9hours 25minutes on 50% volume and at 70-80% volume the bass completely ruined everything for me. 3.APPEARANCE AND PORTABILITY. both are good looking speakers the Bose is more portable because of the weight but the Sonos can be moved around quite easily. CONCLUSION. Its a no brainer for me if you want sound quality its the Sonos by a country mile, if you want portability then its the Bose. The Sonos can be paired with another move for stereo (expensive) the Bose cannot be paired for stereo. Post script. One con I have found is that the battery deletes if the speaker is not on its base ie From 100% overnight ton56% 14 hours later,will update on this. Added thoughts, Bluetooth has not been good keeps losing connection,sound also not as full as with internet connection. 8 months later and through lockdown this speaker still sounds outstanding. Battery life is good considering how often I’m 7using it. 9.5 out of ten.

Firstly, a few things to add: 1. These are not cheap and there are cheaper alternatives available. 2. I have bought into the SONOS ecosystem fully and have them in a few rooms so they were always going to be my first port of call for a portable speaker to use in the garden (mostly). With the feeling that spring has sprung and a bit of a tidy to the garden at the weekend, thoughts shifted to how nice it would be to have decent quality speakers out there. I wasn't aware of the Move and actually was originally thinking of the Roam. Bit of research later though and some mental justification of the price and I was sold on the Move. Turned up next day. Beautifully packaged and presented as always with SONOS. First impressions, it's BIG. It feels solid and it's pretty heavy. But the handle on the back means it feels good in the hand and is portable. It's not a speaker that you would chuck in the suitcase to take on holiday (that is the Roam I think) but it seems great for our plan - use it in the kitchen and walk it out into the garden when we're out there. Set up was straightforward. Had to update the app but it walks you through it all. And was working in a matter of minutes. Had read some comments about issues if you are running wifi extenders but we are running a wifi mesh and I just walked it from the bottom of the house, up 3 floors (and past 2 access points) and it worked great. Sound is very nice, as you'd expect. More base than a SONOS 1 (but to be expected as it is bigger than the 1) and I haven't played with the base / treble yet so very promising start. I'm genuinely mystified by a couple of reviews saying they were disappointed with the sound. Other than that, it does what I wanted from it. And it's a good looking unit (better than the SONOS 1 according to the other half) so will take pride of place in the kitchen and the 1 is relegated to another room.

I've got a few Sonos speakers but the price tag on this one made me hesitate for a while. Value for money is a very personal issue so you'll have to decide that one for yourself! Unlike some of the horror reviews on here, the set up process was very simple and fast. The app found the new speaker instantly, it joined the network in under a minute and the Alexa app told me it had automatically added it as well. After a brief update of all products, lasting about 20 seconds, it was playing music. The sound quality is very much up to Sonos' standards and the Truetone made some adjustment very quickly. The idea I can just pick this up and take it anywhere was the selling point for me. It feels solid and you might not want to carry it too far, but it's not so heavy as to make that impossible either. This is certainly an investment to ponder over unless you can afford to chuck £400 about without much thought, but you effectively get a high quality speaker you can use anywhere in your home, garden and beyond so it does the job of several speakers. Even if you do feel you've got this wrong, this is likely to have a decent re-sale value for some time so you're unlikely to lose all your money!

When I was looking at reviews on this speaker before purchasing, Amazon's top review was a 1 star review with a title "Disgraceful". It's basically about Sonos stopping support after 10 years. This practice goes for the whole of the electronics industry full stop. Some manufacturers do this after 5 years or even less. Unfortunately, we live in a throw away society, which was driven by very cheap electronics. Plus this speaker might last 15 years. Just because support stops after 10 years, doesn't mean the speaker will suddenly stop working. How many people spend £1,200 + on a iPhone every other year? This a is £400 speaker with a 2 year guarantee which will be serviceable for 10 years, and Sonos offer a service to replace the built-in battery. Anyway, enough of that. Perhaps the reviews should reflect the quality of the product, and not a gripe with the company. In my opinion this is one of the best sounding portable speakers I've heard to date. The bass extension is extraordinary. Very easy set-up, no issues what so ever. The build is incredibly solid. PLEASE NOTE you do need to download the Sonos app, create an account, and register the product via your home Wi-Fi network before you can use bluetooth. The speaker is disabled straight out of the box until you complete this set-up, so you can't buy this at the airport and use it straight away with your phone via bluetooth. After the set up, you don't even have to use the Sonos app to run the speaker if you don't want to. You can use any music player via bluetooth on your android device (sorry, don't know about iOS). I use Poweramp as my main music player, and have no issues using it with the Sonos Move.

This is the only speaker I have bought that the sound really exceeds the sales talk. I cant express how good this speaker is. This is so good the speaker has opened me to listening to all my old songs as it has brought out a whole new great sound with loads of bass. Extra bass is found through the sonos apps equaliser and i didn't need to turn it up too far to get the amount I needed. I can also hear more discreet percussions and guitar that you don't pick up on any other speaker and its all very clear I know its expensive but the price has brought me the exact sound I wanted, too many speakers I have bought left me to be looking again for what i really wanted. The only advice i can give is just buy it you wont regret it Everything i have said above still stands and i wouldn't let my next comment put you off buying the speaker but you have to be fair and say it how it is. The app wasnt too bad when i first bought the speaker but it has to be said that the app connectivity issues with the speaker are shocking - i mean really really shocking. If i was Sonos i would scrap the app completely and start again and while i was at it i would scrap the current team with it and get a fresh new team to fix this frustrating on going problem. Currently even when they fix it the next update always breaks it again its very frustrating You just never know when this app is going to work and when it isnt going to work its got a mind of its own.. You can get around it by rebooting your Internet Hub , rebooting your device and closing your app down and do a restart. Or more than not all three solutions a few times over You can voice command to the speaker directly and by pass the app through Alexa and this works extremely well. This isnt to put a Ink blot on the speaker this is indeed a great speaker so dont be put off by the app but i will reduce the 5 star to a 4 because of the app issue

SONOS MOVE Firstly this is a review from an existing SONOS household, I have Play 1, One, 3,5 playbar and beam. So have a lot to compare with. Why we bought it – wanted an outside speaker in the garden to be used for BBQ’s, gardening etc. I had looked at various other outdoor speakers but they are either small / Bluetooth only or require physical install and are expensive. 1. Uboxing and setup – As usual the SONOS comes well packaged which is easy to take everything out. Setup for an existing SONOS user was very easy, plug in > open sonos app > add new device > name device . Done (I used apple). 2. Sound quality – I would say the quality is on par with a play ONE/1 but has a slight more stereo edge, the volume goes reasonably high. No difference fixed on portable on wifi. 3. Portability – has a nice little handle on the back and not to heavy to easy to transport within the home, not sure I would take out of the home. WIFI Coverage it uses dual band (unlike previous SONOS products) so I was able to use it everywhere in the house and garden. 4. Battery life – I put it on for 8 hours on wifi in the garden and it only dropped to about 50% so a great battery life. Positives 1. Sounds much better than Bluetooth only portable speakers 2. When connected to WIFI smart functions (i.e. google/alexa/streaming) 3. IP56 (so dust and water resistance) 4. Easy setup 5. WIFI Range Negatives to consider 1. Expensive when its really like a SONOS 1 2. If you dropped it would break for sure 3. At Wifi edge range hard to workout when to switch to bluetooth

Unschlagbarer Preis. Produkt ist wie beschrieben und funktioniert einwandfrei

Sehr schnelle und sichere Lieferung. Alles in Ordnung Super Sound!

Much better sound quality than expected, easy to set up (even though the instructions guide does not help much), versatile (you can use it with WiFi at home or with Bluetooth outside in the garden although it is somehwat heavy and it is not thought to walk with it anywhere), it has Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant built-in, battery life is fantastic, design is great. It is a bit expensive, so wait for a Black Friday offer (or similar).

Did not have a protective rubberised guard around it

This is exactly what we've been looking for. A decent portable, weatherproof speaker that connects to our current music services. Due to the larger size the sound is even better than the SONOS Play 1. Love the bluetooth function which means you can connect to the speaker when there's no wifi signal but the wifi extender tech means you can be quite a lot further from your router than most other devices and still access your music services. Great for the garden!!