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Sonos Play:3 Mid-Sized Wireless Smart Speaker for Streaming Music. Works with Alexa. (White)

Style:PLAY:3  |  Color:White Wirelessly stream your entire music library, favorite music services, and thousands of radio stations to any room....

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Music

(100 reviews)
App

(73 reviews)
Sonos

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(47 reviews)
Play

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Thing

(44 reviews)
Lack

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Wire

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Bose

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Neighbor

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Drive

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Reviews around setup (4.87 of 5)

  • but it sounds really nice in spite of thatCons:- Tricky setup.
  • The setup is super easy and the sound quality is great as far as wireless speakers go.
  • Setup is incredibly easy, and love the mobile app which allows us to control all speakers from our iPhones.
  • Very easy setup, sound is great, and design is nice as well.
  • Setup is incredibly easy, and love the mobile app which allows us to control all speakers from our iPhones.
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Reviews around set (4.33 of 5)

  • it has wonderful soundThe Bad- set
  • amazed by the sound quality and the easy set up of songs.
  • Works as advertised and better than expected - very easy set
  • The sound quality is fantastic (I would say as good as Bose for comparison sake) and the set up is so easy my parents can do it
  • The set up is easy, and I love being able to control it from my iPad, iPhone, or computer
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Reviews around quality (4.30 of 5)

  • For the most part, the speaker does what I need it to do and while the sound quality is good, it's not great.
  • Now the deal-breaking negative:The sound quality was dissapointingly bad
  • Great sound quality, and even at high volumes you do not hear any distortion
  • The sound quality of this speaker is awesome, however, it does not work unless it is plugged in
  • The sound quality is amazing and it's just so simple to use
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Reviews around product (4.21 of 5)

  • you like having errors that say your system cannot be found, then I would not recommend this product.
  • (I wonder if I received a defective product as there was static from my speaker that was detectable close up) and overall value
  • Although the speakers are okay, nothing particularly special, the software that runs the SONOS system (and you have to use theirs) is so bad as to make the product a very poor experience
  • great product, easy to use, easy to set-up, great sound, compact enough to fit anywhere.
  • Many people have posted about the bad product description and consuming, unclear, instructions, and I agree.
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Reviews around speaker (3.98 of 5)

  • Sonos is one of if not the best wireless speaker systems out there
  • As for design; I can't afford the headache or price tag of having a full speaker system installed into my ceilings and having bulky free-standing speakers is not an option
  • While the software is separate from the speaker itself, without the software, the speakers are useless.
  • Basically, Sonos made this speaker to be less-useful than all other speakers before it
  • Great speakers, very good sound quality even though there is no true bass speaker on it.
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Reviews around system (3.96 of 5)

  • I have a very intense surround system in my living room
  • I had major problems hooking the system up to my desktop
  • The system is easy to use and we now have tonnes of music streaming in.
  • Sonos may not be the "cheapest" system for home music, but it is the best.
  • I could not be more thrilled with this relatively expensive system, but you get what you pay for.
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Reviews around device (3.95 of 5)

  • Sonos built a very beautiful device with a rich sound and an easy set up
  • Other devices farther away such as a Roku and Wii U never have connectivity problems
  • I like the play3 for being a portable device though i'm not wild about the sound quality.
  • No other devices in my apartment have WiFi connectively issues
  • It IS a complete con, the company blocks this on purpose so you have to buy their crappy 350 dollar CONNECT device.
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Reviews around music (3.80 of 5)

  • So you get two choices; ignore the call or put up with loud music in the background
  • Now I have a $700.00 WI-Fi music system that doesn't work.
  • but I do know my music sounds great with no drops & all my other
  • it FILLS the rooms I have them in with beautiful music.
  • but if you like great sounding music then you can't go wrong with Sonos.
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Reviews around app (3.79 of 5)

  • I downloaded the free Sonos Android app, and now I can control the music selection and volume from anywhere.
  • If Sonos does not support the app you want to use, you are out of luck.
  • every so often the app will fail to find the system on the network
  • I've heard other people say you can't play YouTube videos or Netflix or anything like that because everything has to be shoehorned through their clumsy app
  • The app works great to connect up with my favorite online music providers
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Reviews around sonos (3.77 of 5)

  • Maybe SONOS has more official guidance, but that is my call.
  • You could in the past, but in 2015 Audible and Sonos became incompatible
  • I used it with a Controller 200 - which was an awesome wireless Sonos controller
  • Overall Sonos with a music service is absolutely brilliant
  • I love Sonos and can only echo all the praise it gets from other reviewers
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Reviews around bass (3.69 of 5)

  • This product does have great sound quality, it's extremely loud and pretty clear, deep bass is kind of lacking.
  • But, the Play 1 is good for a small area and has a better bass response than the Play 3
  • A few pros and cons starting with the Pros:-This speaker has very rich sound and very good bass
  • As expected for a unit of this size the bass was a little lacking and faded out the further you got from the unit but the rest of the range was bright and clear
  • When turned up this speaker can really make some noise and put out crisp loud bass
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Reviews around play (3.57 of 5)

  • Plus, at high volume levels, the PLAY 3 sound quality becomes progressively worse/distorted
  • The Play 3 is VERY GOOD.........the Play 5 will BLOW YOU AWAY!
  • The Play 3, in fact all Sonos products, will not work with the (2) largest music streaming systems on EARTH as of 6/19/2015 - Amazon or iTunes
  • The Play 3 is VERY GOOD.........the Play 5 will BLOW YOU AWAY!
  • I had the Play: 5 and now the Play: 3, still love them.
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Reviews around thing (3.50 of 5)

  • The worst thing is that it does not have airplay (I did not know this when I bought it)
  • I am connected via Ethernet, so why is it such a hard thing to have access to all at one time
  • Not because of dissatisfaction with the Play 3, but because more of a great thing will just make it better
  • Wow, this thing really packs a punch and was very easy to setup just like all Sonos products.
  • Picked one of these up for my mother and father to replace a dead Bose dock thing
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Reviews around lack (2.54 of 5)

  • We can both control the speaker to work with a variety of phone apps such as Audible and Spotify as well as with our Alexa Echo.
  • The lack of Airplay/bluetooth/etc is a huge technical miss here as the app can't compete with native apps - for example the iOS podcast play is way better and the Amazon Music apps has a better search.
  • I'm very critical when it comes to music and sound, so it's been difficult for me to embrace 'smaller' because everything I've heard for years has lacked fullness (unless you just like to tweak with frequencies...
  • In particular to this speaker, its good on space - but you will miss (probably) the lack of two speakers distributed, that produce a more stereo effect
  • This includes the bass and treble, balance, as well as 'Loudness'Cons:-Colors: I'm into aesthetics and I think the white one is just horribly ugly
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Reviews around wire (1.85 of 5)

  • This was my first foray into the self-contained Sonos units, as my previous zones were all to hard-wired separate speakers
  • Well, wiring from the house would be difficult to say the least
  • To setup a Sonos speaker, you need to connect it to your home network by either hard wiring it to your router or connecting it to the Sonos Bridge
  • It's not going to be as great as a wired speaker with a massive amp powering it
  • Absolutley perfect for our house... wiring would have been a real chore since we are on a slab foundation and with this
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Reviews around bose (1.80 of 5)

  • I bought one Sonos PLAY:3 in 2016 and was amazed at the sound quality - which is better than my compact Bose speakers!
  • The sound quality rivals Bose and the ease of file sharing on the
  • Picked one of these up for my mother and father to replace a dead Bose dock thing
  • For those of you who don't like Bose, you won't like this
  • The sound quality is fantastic (I would say as good as Bose for comparison sake) and the set up is so easy my parents can do it
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Reviews around neighbor (1.54 of 5)

  • This fills my living room with amazing sound and doesn't bother the neighbors
  • The Sonos sounds good in our small apartment and easily fills the space with sound - I don't turn it up more than half way for fear of disturbing our neighbors

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Reviews around drive (1.00 of 5)

  • I have a 500GB hard drive connected to my router via USB 2
  • I'm good until the next time I move an external hard drive, and then we go through the same dance all over again
  • I connected a NAS (hard drive connected to my router) and can access my music without the need to have the PC on
  • If you have a large library, on an external hard drive; anticipate issues.
  • The name of my external hard drive with my iTunes library would not work with the workaround
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Reviews around wifi interference (1.00 of 5)

  • Unfortunately, the next step in troubleshooting the issue of WiFi interference is to start changing which channels your router uses
  • Not a good option if you have bad wifi interference in your home.- You MUST use their app when playing
  • The only problem I've had is slight wifi interference which I originally read was minimized by its mesh network

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Reviews around sonos doe (1.00 of 5)

  • Sonos does not work via the iPhone or iPod downloaded music list or podcasts.
  • If you want to purchase higher quality music such as 44.1/24, 96/24 or 192/24, which you can get from Pono Music Store, HDTracks or Archive.org, Sonos does NOT currently support these formats

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More about Sonos Play:3 Mid-Sized Wireless Smart Speaker for Streaming Music. Works with Alexa. (White)

  • Style:PLAY:3  |  Color:White Wirelessly stream your entire music library, favorite music services, and thousands of radio stations to any room
  • Place the SONOS PLAY:3 Wireless Hi-Fi System vertically or horizontally, mount it on a wall or hide on a shelf
  • Set up simply, and expand until every room in your home is packed with music
  • Control the SONOS PLAY:3 Wireless with free apps for your phone, tablet, and computer.