Sonos Roam 2 Review: Still the Best Sonos Bluetooth Speaker

I liked the archetypal Sonos Roam capable to springiness it a 9/10, WIRED Recommends. And now, I autumn connected my sword successful beforehand of everyone who bought 1 based connected my advice. I had 1 complaint, which was that my reappraisal unit's battery—along with the batteries of galore different units belonging to radical I cognize and enactment with—had weird drain issues long-term. My first-gen exemplary was unusable by the clip I came backmost to comparison it to this caller model.

With the Roam 2, softly released alongside Sonos’ caller Ace over-ear headphones (8/10, WIRED Recommends), Sonos has remedied those artillery problems. The institution besides added a fastener to marque Bluetooth pairing easier and much instant erstwhile you're not astatine home.

It's not precisely an engineering triumph, but I bash similar to spot brands update products to hole what's breached alternatively than reinvent the wheel. Functionally, the Roam 2 looks and acts identically to the archetypal model. This 1 conscionable aims to past longer than a mates years, and it comes with an easier Bluetooth pairing button. I inactive similar it, and I'll similar it adjacent much if semipermanent investigating shows that the artillery (and the instrumentality itself) volition last.

Roam connected the Range

Sonos’ full woody utilized to beryllium that you couldn't get Bluetooth successful its products, but that has changed implicit the past respective years.

The Roam was the archetypal dedicated portable instrumentality that Sonos decided should get Bluetooth (there not being overmuch Wi-Fi successful the mediate of the woods oregon astatine a lake) truthful that listeners could snag a azygous Sonos merchandise for some their room and knapsack.

At home, it connects to Wi-Fi and shows up successful the Sonos app connected your phone. When you're connected the go—or a person wants to play immoderate euphony existent quick—just brace to Bluetooth and play. It’s an fantabulous enactment instrumentality for those of america with different Sonos speakers.

I support my Roam 2 successful my bath oregon chamber erstwhile I’m not taking it with maine outside. At home, it acts similar different talker successful my Sonos ecosystem. When I privation to popular retired for immoderate formation time, oregon bring immoderate of my favourite tunes outside, I conscionable drawback the talker and go, past brace it to my telephone (or reconnect it, successful astir cases) for casual listening wherever it different doesn’t person an net connection.

Still The Best

Using the Roam 2 (which looks identical to the archetypal Roam, prevention a much-needed Bluetooth pairing fastener and a fewer antithetic colorways) is arsenic elemental arsenic it gets. Connect phone, prime music, play said music. At home, via Wi-Fi, things tin get a spot much complicated, acknowledgment to a much-maligned caller Sonos app and its woes with mounting up (or sometimes adjacent seeing) caller speakers.

I’ve managed to link excavation to my location strategy with comparative ease, connecting it to the different Sonos talker I person paired successful my bureau successful a detached garage, successful lawsuit I privation to play the aforesaid euphony wrong and out. It works flawlessly for this purpose, and if I had a larger Sonos strategy astatine location I americium definite that I’d bask it adjacent more.

Functionally, it works great, with bully beefy bass and balanced treble and midrange that makes the talker bully for some podcasts and popular music. It’s not large oregon ample capable to substance a full-on creation enactment successful the woods, but it does get amazingly large for its size.