It can stream music and other audio from dozens of services, and you can also send tunes to it directly through Spotify Connect, Apple Music (via AirPlay 2), Pandora and YouTube Music. When connected to your home's WiFi network, the Sonos Move works exactly like the company's other speakers. One note, though: make sure the mics are turned on when you move your speaker, otherwise it won't be able to tune itself. There's no reason not to leave it turned on, even if you don't always notice the changes it makes. The adjustments that I've noticed are subtle, but it does tighten and cleans up the sound, removing a "muddy" quality that seems to come from strong bass reflections. Trueplay has always made the Sonos speakers I've tested sound better,so getting its benefits without the awkward setup is a big win.Īs best as my ears can tell, Auto Trueplay does its job well. Ordinarily, the Trueplay process involves waving your phone up and down around the room where your speaker is located for 45 seconds, so auto tuning is much easier.
But the Move is the first Sonos speaker with Auto Trueplay, which you can turn on or off through the app. Usually, the Sonos app will prompt you to run Trueplay, its speaker-tuning software, at least if you're using an iPhone. Like other newer Sonos speakers, the Move works with Alexa and Google Assistant, so you can set up both of those voice assistants in the app as well.
If you haven't used Sonos before, you'll also need to log in to your preferred music streaming services. Setup is largely identical to other Sonos products - a few steps in the Sonos app for Android and iOS will get your speaker hooked up to your WiFi network. This makes it a breeze to designate a home for the speaker, but keeps it easy to pick up and bring anywhere you want without having to fiddle with a power cord. Instead of using a traditional adapter, you drop it in a charging "ring" that powers up the Move's battery via two contacts in the back of the speaker. The first real difference in the Move is how you plug it in. The speaker's six microphones are arranged up top as well, along with a status light and a mic on/off light. Both speakers share the same flat top with touch-sensitive controls for playback, volume and the microphones. It's visually closest to the Sonos One, though it's significantly larger overall. To justify that cost the Move not only needs to do a lot more, but it needs to do all those things well.ĭespite everything new about the Move, it'll be quite familiar to anyone who has used a Sonos speaker before. Especially since it costs $399 - or about double the price of the UE Megaboom 3, which is itself a pretty expensive Bluetooth speaker. But regardless of whether you plan to use it inside, on-the-go, in the backyard, or some combination of all three, the Move needs to deliver on sound quality, durability, battery life and wireless connectivity. Instead of it living in one spot, I've been testing the Move all over my home, inside and out.īecause of this versatility, everyone who buys a Move will use it differently, which makes it tricky to evaluate. These design choices add up to a speaker that's far more versatile than any Sonos has made thus far. The Move represents a number of firsts for Sonos: It's built to be used outdoors, it has a battery and it supports Bluetooth.
That isn't fanboyism, that is basic logic.It's late September, but still technically summer, so I'm writing this on my back deck, listening to the first Sonos speaker built to be used outside. He is blaming the product rather than the culprit, himself. This isn't about defending Sonos, it is about the user being unrealistic in expectations and getting called out for it. And sound damn good doing it - and I say this as someone with 20k in studio monitoring in my actual treated (another ~20k) recording space. He'd have the same problems with ANY wi-fi connected speaker with that setup, as they all depend on those handshakes.Īs far as price range, they do stuff that others don't in ANY price range. He is doing something weird and technically unsupported - multiple SSID's on the same network (yup, I have that too, all I had to do was bind at the router level and make sure that my phone was on the right one when setting up my 9 Sonos products) - and expects it to "just work". If the op can set up the system he has, then he can troubleshoot this. My system wasn't plug and play, but it was far easier to configure than getting my HT-A9's to work without dropouts or my initial config to get it all how I wanted it. I have a far more complicated home network than this guy, and I have no issues - because I knew that I would have to accommodate it going in!
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