Chris Cohen's "Overgrown" album is a perfect match for the Play:1, with its laid-back sound meshing well with the speaker's strengths. It produces a good amount of bass for its size (which still isn't much) and it's relatively rich-sounding, but at other times there can be a dullness and lack of clarity to the sound. The Play:1 has a similar sonic signature to Sonos' other speakers. The nice thing is that even with the volume maxed out, the Play:1 refuses to distort, so you never have to worry about the sound getting harsh. That shouldn't be a surprise for a speaker this big, but don't count on filling a large room with just a single Play:1. Cranking the Play:1 all the way up was enough to get reasonably loud, but that's it. I started listening to the Play:1 in CNET's standard listening room - a medium-sized space with high ceilings. The lack of those services highlights the disadvantage of the Sonos' approach compared with simpler wireless audio solutions, like Bluetooth and AirPlay, which can stream from any app that's on your mobile device. There are a few high-profile services it doesn't support, including Google Music All Access, iTunes Radio, iTunes Match, and Xbox Music. For comparison, Samsung's Shape M7 supports only Amazon Cloud Player, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and Rhapsody Bose's SoundTouch only supports Pandora.īut Sonos isn't perfect. Many major services are supported, including Spotify, Pandora, Amazon Cloud Player, Rdio, SiriusXM, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, Stitcher, Rhapsody, MOG, Slacker, and Last.fm, plus plenty of neat niche services such as Wolfgang's Vault, Songza, 7Digital, 8tracks, Murfie, batanga, aupeo!, Dar.FM and Hearts of Space. Sonos has all of its competitors beat when it comes app support. It supports a reasonably large assortment of file formats (including FLAC and Apple Lossless), although high-resolution audio isn't supported. You can also have Sonos pull music off a network attached storage (NAS) device, although setup is slightly more difficult - I needed to input the network address of my NAS. If it's stored on your PC, it's as easy as pointing it to the right folder, although note that you'll need to leave your computer running to access that music. You'll also have to configure the Sonos to find your personal music collection.
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