Sonos
PRICING
Sonos
Five: $749
One: $299
One SL: $269
Move: $649
Sub: $999
Arc: $1399
Beam: $599
Port: $599
Amp: $999
Contact: Sonos Australia
Telephone: 1800 680 234
Web: www.sonos.com/en-au
Sonos has enjoyed amazing success since it launched its streaming multiroom-capable products back in 2004 — and well-deserved success, since its approach and innovations proved visionary in defining the wireless multiroom category years before any other company managed to react — and even when they did, their solutions tended to follow the blueprint set down by Sonos.
At first there were just the original versions of what are now the Port and the Amp, then called the ZonePlayer 80 and 100, streaming either into an existing hi-fi or with internal amps as a just-add-speakers solution. Looking back at our past review notes it’s remarkable to find that its first standalone speaker unit, the S5 (now the Play:5, shortly to be replaced by the new Five), got its first Sound+Image review in 2009, after which came the Play:3 and Play:1 (now One), and the Playbar, the first Sonos soundbar, with its Sub subwoofer. All these operated on their own mesh network rather than home Wi-Fi networks, mainly because when Sonos first launched, home networks were wildly unreliable for streaming, if a customer had one at all.
And there the hardware range stuck for a while. Sonos has never been one for yearly iterative updates of product, rather issuing firmware updates to keep them ticking along until one of the rare revisions arrives — and that’s
