The very best Sonos speaker is on sale for Cyber Monday — and that’s rare

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If you made maine springiness up each of the Sonos products I ain but for one, I’d support the Sonos Five each and each time. Well, successful my case, technically, it’s the second-generation Play:5, but that talker sounds identical to the existent iteration. Typically priced astatine a steep $549, Sonos positions the Five arsenic its existent hi-fi enactment for audiophiles and vinyl listeners. (The talker has an aux input for plugging successful a grounds subordinate and different outer audio sources.)

For Cyber Monday, the Five is seeing a uncommon discount and is 20 percent off, which brings the terms to a much palatable $439. How rare? The talker hasn’t dropped this debased since 2020, according to CamelCamelCamel.

As the flagship table talker successful Sonos’ lineup, the Sonos Five provides superb dependable prime that outperforms immoderate different astute talker successful its terms range. It besides has an auxiliary input for playing different audio sources (like a turntable) done your Sonos system.

Something radical occasionally accidental astir Sonos cogwheel is that the hardware is much astir convenience than sheer audio performance. But if there’s 1 merchandise successful the lineup that doesn’t compromise connected sound, it’s the Five. There are nary spatial audio gimmicks here. It’s conscionable a fantastic stereo talker with clean, choky bass and decent separation — oregon arsenic overmuch arsenic a azygous portion tin muster, anyway. When placed horizontally, the Five outputs a stereo signal. If you basal it up vertically, the talker volition premix that down to mono.

I’ve ever had conscionable 1 of these speakers connected my desk, and it’s been much than capable for my needs. But I’ve besides heard galore owners attest that linking 2 of them unneurotic arsenic a stereo brace takes things to different level, and the two-pack is besides connected sale.

A selling representation of the Sonos Five.

The Sonos Five handily outclasses each different euphony talker successful the company’s lineup.

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I’m not unsighted to the infinitesimal we’re in; Sonos is inactive working done the elephantine mess it created by rushing the merchandise of its caller app. And if you’re inactive having a frustrating acquisition with the software, I wouldn’t blasted you 1 spot for ignoring this deal. But the app has been moving reasonably good for maine recently, which makes this tempting.

And arsenic it turns out, my Play:5 is nary longer compatible with the precocious released Arc Ultra for usage successful a situation dependable setup. So... I conjecture planned obsolescence conscionable gave maine different crushed to deliberation astir upgrading, arsenic well. That’s little great! But the Sonos Five works with the caller soundbar conscionable fine. And adjacent if an Era 500 is determination successful the pipeline, that won’t marque this talker dependable immoderate little phenomenal.