Sonos PLAY:1 review

The sonos PLAY:1 is not the first sonos product I bought, I already enjoy the music played through a sonos connect and two sonos PLAY:3. The sonos PLAY:1 is bought to play music in my dorm room at university and it is also used as an alarm lock. My Deezer account is linked to the sonos system so I can play whatever music album I want.

looks and uboxing

The PLAY:1 comes just like all other sonos components in a black box and everything is very carefully packed and held at its place with packing materials. The box includes a CAT5e ethernet cable, a power cable, quick start guide en ofcourse the system itself.

The PLAY:1 is just like the other sonos products a well designed product with minimalistic looks en comes in black or white. The PLAY:1 has a certain weight so you can expect that it is a product with high quality materials.

app and use

To use the sonos PLAY:1, an application needs to be installed. With this app the whole sonos system can be controlled. The only downside is that you really need this app in order to proper control the device.

The sonos application is available on android and IOS. It has a nice interface but has just like all products certain advantages and disadvantages. The waitlist to play music is easy to edit and with the app it is possible to adjust more than 1 alarm. A big disadvantage is that in order to control the sonos device you just have to connect to the same network, no passwords or wathever are required. For example in my dorm room, people on the same network can control my music player. I also experienced some problems with the app freezing.

The sound it produces

Listening to the sonos PLAY:1, is very enjoyable, even for a relative small speaker it can produce quite some bass. Where the speaker is placed in the room has a massive influence on the sound quality, this is because the placement of the woofer. On lower sound levels I turn on the loudness-function to add some bass. This speaker is perfect as a replacement for a music system in a small room like bedrooms, hobbyrooms or even dorm rooms.