If you were expecting it to be around the size of the Sonos One, you’re in for a shock, because it’s quite a bit bigger, as you can see from the photo below. The Sonos Move is not a small speaker - it’s about 6.61 lbs, and nearly 10 inches tall by 6.3 inches wide and just under 5 inches deep. After spending a few days with the Move, I can confidently say that it offers everything that’s great about the Sonos wireless audio system, but with all the added advantages of a speaker you can freely move around the house - or take with you on the road.
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Trueplay tunes the speaker’s frequency response to suit the room you’re listening in and, previously, this was a manual process – and quite a tedious one at that.Sonos has released their first-ever portable speaker with a built-in battery: The $399 Sonos Move, which starts shipping to customers on September 24. Perhaps the most exciting feature of the Sonos Move, however, is one borrowed from the Apple Homepod: Auto Trueplay. It’s the easiest to use multiroom and streaming music app there is. If you already own a network of Sonos speakers – perhaps a Sonos One in the kitchen and bedroom and a Sonos Beam in the living room – just press the join button on one of your already connected Sonos speakers, then the join button on the Move and they’re all linked together.Īt this point, you’ll be able to play music through all the speakers at once or send different music to individual speakers, and control the volume universally or individually as you see fit. That’s mildly frustrating but, the Move has benefits that Echo and Google Nest speakers don’t have, the main one being the ease with which you can network it with other Sonos multiroom speakers. None of these rivals are particularly portable, however, and they lack the built-in battery of the Sonos Move. It’s pricier than an Amazon Echo Studio (£190) and it also costs more than a stereo pair of Sonos One speakers.
Sonos Move review: Price and competitionĪt £399, the Sonos Move is quite the investment and although it is possible to buy it for less than the RRP - around £380 from Amazon - that places it firmly at the premium end of the smart speaker market. It's pricier than the now-reduced Google Home Max (£299) and even the Apple HomePod, which costs £199.
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There’s support for both Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant (although not both simultaneously), Wi-Fi and Apple Airplay 2, full integration with the Sonos ecosystem and the ability to tune the speaker to its surroundings via Sonos’ TruePlay technology. It does, however, include all the features we’ve come to expect from Sonos in recent times.
It’s better suited as a mobile, housebound speaker for use in the garden, or for providing a backing track to occasional picnics at the park.
The Sonos Move is far too big and heavy for that, weighing a not-inconsiderable 3kg and measuring 240mm tall. If you were hoping for a Sonos speaker to pop in your suitcase and travel the world with, however, you’re going to be disappointed. READ NEXT: The best smart speakers you can buy Sonos Move review: What you need to know
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