I wanted to get rid of my giant ancient speakers and their ugly wires and started reading up on what to buy

Perhaps if they are hard wired they work better.

They are a tad expensive, but consider the other way of installing whole home sound.. and hard wiring speakers in the ceiling and adding a amp and receiver etc.

Music throughout the house without expensive wiring

Complex wiring followed, pointing speakers, pulling hair and then horrible sound.

If you can install hard wiring for a home stereo system, then I recommend you do so rather than chooosing Sonos.

Easy to connect, no wires.

My previous house was hard wired for speakers in every room

So for now I have an expensive speaker system that cuts out during movies and left feeling like the only way to resolve this issue is by hard wiring them which defeats the purpose of this purchase

I would recommend it if you can afford it, you aren't looking for audiophile ego strokes, you want to scrap the wires, and if you have a TV that passes the full 5.1 through the optical port.

or I would just hard wire speakers.

Don’t bother unless you are only hard wiring one system into Ethernet and you are in a radio silence zone with no other 2.4gHz nearby

Great sound that is similar to my classic Bose wired floor speakers

After multiple attempts (from laptop and mobile) including direct, hard-wire connection to my router, I gave up.

If you do not like wires exposed

Great sound and no wires.

Old classic rock, R&B, Jazz and Gospel, sound as if you were at a live performance