Sonos Play:3 (white)

• Average user rating: 3.5 stars out of 4 reviews
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• 10 stars

  Great product that does what is advertised

  by Alfonsog2 on September 3, 2011

  Pros: This is a great speaker to play music from a NAS device, but even better for SiriusXM subscribers and/or Spotify or other similar services because you can almost literally stream every song. Totally worth it, in face I bought 2 just for my bedroom since

  Cons: I wish it had a line in.

  Summary: I think the sound quality is fine, but I'm streaming lossless music. It also sounds great if you like SiriusXM in your car and I think it makes a ...

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  Summary: I think the sound quality is fine, but I'm streaming lossless music. It also sounds great if you like SiriusXM in your car and I think it makes a great alarm clock. I stopped using my iHome for that. Spotify makes it even better; I'm a classical musician and it pretty much has everything ever even for classical.

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• 10 stars

  Network Effect Undervalued in Other CNet Reviews

  by sandiver on June 7, 2013

  Pros: Walking from room to room w/ perfectly synced sound
  Really great for busy kitchen counters tight spots
  Can be mounted on the wall (the 5's can't)
  Software is great - can share premium accounts w/ guests (everybody can add a tune to the playlist)

  Cons: Sonos 5's sound better and are a better 'entry' point if your room is anything other than tiny (not really a knock on Sonos though)
  No line-in
  Expensive as a pair (but I'd bet they'd sound great - I don't have a pair, so I don't know)

  Summary: A couple of folks in the office got Sonos and seemed pleased. I bought a 5 (and bridge) for my kitchen originally and was blown away by the sound. I'...

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  Summary: A couple of folks in the office got Sonos and seemed pleased. I bought a 5 (and bridge) for my kitchen originally and was blown away by the sound. I'm no audiophile, but I find that I really enjoy listening to music.
  
  In fact I listen to music at my desk at work all the time.
  
  Here I can listen interchangeably from XM/Sirius, Mog, Spotify, Streaming Local and Global Internet all depending on my mood.
  
  I love the feature of being able to Group (very easily by the way) speakers from one room to another. It's fun to build a playlist on the fly while I'm doing one thing in one room and my wife is doing another in another - we had an 80's mix off last night and it was fun (probably dating myself here).
  
  These units are pricey. But they work out of the box, they support NAS perfectly (and you did back up your music to share on your home network didn't you?), and they set up in literally 5 mins.
  
  The point that I thought was missed in the CNET (They touched on it at least) and certainly in these comments was that like any network, once you have one piece of Sonos, the addition of another and another INCREASES each one's value up to the point that you've filled your house.
  
  There are two reasons I love Sonos - once is walking from room to room and hearing the same music synced - you really feel like you've made it. And the point is to enjoy music, isn't it? As CNET says there's really nothing else that competes there.
  
  Second is the number of services, stations, and options that you have to play music. Sure I'd like to vote down songs that come up in my Mog stream, and I can't quickly load (maybe not even possible) the Mog radio for a particular artist or song like I can on Mog.com, but I will accept these limitations if the trade off is to switch from Satellite, Internet radio, my collection, Mog, spotify and whatever's next.
  
  Our nanny can pull up our playlists without knowing a single password, too. So the kids are just a few clicks away from their playlists as well. Pretty cool when one of my toddlers starts bawling for his favorite song.
  
  Just have align your value of what you get (easy operation and mega access) with the price. of course you have to 'like' the sound and not be underwhelmed...for a large percentage of us this is exactly what we want at a reasonable price.

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• 4 stars

  Works OK, but proprietary software is a downer.

  by HeathrowTerminal2 on August 27, 2012

  Pros: Play music in all rooms. You can use two speakers for real stereo image.

  Cons: Proprietary software mimics your own music apps. This is a disaster. Only one account per system - in a household with more people, this is a terrible problem.

  Summary: The Sonos software is crap - I'd be bold and say that anyone wanting to duplicate the functionality of, say, Spotify, is always going to be one step behind. ...

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  Summary: The Sonos software is crap - I'd be bold and say that anyone wanting to duplicate the functionality of, say, Spotify, is always going to be one step behind. Now imagine trying to keep up building software that mimics countless music services and you have a very wobbly experience.
  
  On top of the impossible interface (the Sonos Spotify app for example has a weird queueing system that you just cannot figure out) you can also only access the Sonos speakers with ONE account. Why is that important? It is important because households rarely only holds one person - my wife cannot access the speakers using her own Spotify account and so has to content with my abysmal music taste. This is a major problem.
  
  Also, with the lack of Airplay functionality, you can't just play, say, a movie on your iPad and have the sound streaming. Even in our car this is possible (blue tooth). I hate to think that the sound setup in my car is more advanced than this - as the Sonos system really quickly adds up $$$-wise as you start adding speakers to your home.
  
  I haven't even begun to figure out how to play music from my iPhone which is in my iTunes library....
  
  Lastly, Sonos does a poor job at explaining how it works up front - for example you DO need the bridge.

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• 4 stars

  Not as convenient as I had hoped

  by townsue on August 15, 2011

  Pros: small size doesn't take up much space

  Cons: Tinny sound quality on the 3, computer has to be on to access music library through IPod Touch or IPhone.

  Summary: I think the Sonos system is very misleading. I was told that I could access my songs through an IPhone or IPod Touch and downloaded the apps for these devices. ...

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  Summary: I think the Sonos system is very misleading. I was told that I could access my songs through an IPhone or IPod Touch and downloaded the apps for these devices. I quickly found that my computer has to be powered on in order for the IPhone or IPad to be able to play music on the Sonos. Who wants to have to have their MacBook running just to play music? My computer is in a different part of the house than the Sonos, so now I have to find the computer, start it up, and go back into the room with the Sonos in order to play music!

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  1 out of 4 users found this user opinion helpful.

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