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Review on ๐Ÿ”Š Sonos Five Two Room Set - Premium Hi-Fi Speaker System - White by Bima แ Œ

Revainrating 2 out of 5

Product is unreliable, just don't buy it.

I took Sonos Five White. I didnโ€™t even have time to spend a day with this column. But during the time that she played, I was extremely pleased with the quality of the sound. She is gorgeous. Unfortunately, it has a huge number of shortcomings due to which its use turns into torment. Therefore, I changed it to Denon Home 350, the store changed it without any questions. The column is ideal only for listening to music as a standalone device, turn it on and forget it.

Pros
  • โ€“ Gorgeous appearance โ€“ There are many speaker settings in the app. The app itself is bug free. You can set alarms and auto-off - A lot of external services from where you can listen to music - Very pleasant sound
Cons
  • โ€“ Delays. Delays are everywhere! Even over the wire, Carl! I didnโ€™t quite understand what kind of super-duper fast processor they stuck there. Pure marketing nonsense. Yes, you can lower it to 75ms, but I still notice this out of sync! โ€“ Does not automatically switch from AirPlay to AUX. To do this, you need to go into the application and switch. There are no physical buttons on the column for this. Facepalm. โ€“ Saves network settings for a very long time. On the other hand, this is done once. โ€“ No Bluetooth. Here your friends go through the forest, especially those who have an android phone. - The speaker is tied to WiFi / Ethernet and you can't do anything about it, you won't even switch the source to AUX. See above. Further, most likely the features of my copy. โ€“ Always emits a static hiss under any scenario. It's wildly annoying when you sit in silence and try to work. When an AUX source is selected, the hiss is endless, the speaker does not turn itself off in this mode. You have to poke sources back and forth. It's wildly inconvenient! - On a Mac, when connected via AirPlay at the system level, the sound constantly stutters about once a minute. On the Denon Home 350, the same thing, but a little less often. If you play music through Apple Music and select a column there, then there are no stutters. It also works fine from the phone. - For some unknown reason, when connected via AUX, there is no sound from some applications, especially from games. At least not immediately, you have to switch several times between AirPlay and AUX. The authors of AirPlay are waiting for a separate boiler in hell . Proprietary technology that will always give a delay of 2 seconds. This means that any sound that should be played right this millisecond, but will be played with a delay of 2 seconds. AirPlay is streaming audio/video. It's streaming. This also means that the games are forested, you first shoot and only after 2 seconds does the sound of a shot occur.