After heavy considerations I decided to go with several Sonos Era 300 devices. Friendly members suggested to install more traditional devices but I opted for a smart device. The reviews on Sonos era 300 were awesome and the devices were said to outshine Apple’s HomePod.
The use case were to be connection to my mac, due to reasons I only tested it on iPad yet. Sonos era 300 mostly sounds great. But there are serious considerations to be made when you are within the Apple ecosystem. I knew of some of those restrictions but at that time I was using Spotify which you should not be using by the way.
When I switched to Apple Music the sound quality improved. Don’t go blindly debating this. Try it out. You get 3 months for free. So I subscribed to Apple Music and then Apple’s gonna be … Apple.
Apple Music comes with Spatial Audio. This makes the sound come like from around you. Sonos era 300 supports Spatial Audio. Using the Apple Music app however it doesn’t stream Spatial to Sonos. It falls back to lossless. Lossless sounds superb but Spatial Audio magnificent. Sonos is trying to work around this with their app but believe me when I say the UX on that app is so horrible you wil be using the native Apple Music app. Especially when you know that the generated playlist refreshes tapping on the icon in the Apple Music app and not in the Sonos app.
Furthermore the Sonos device seems to change volume levels out of the blue (although I switched TrueTone off). You also only can use voice command when you install Alexa. Sonos voice control does function with Spotify eg but not with Apple Music. This results in a privacy nightmare and the connection even got severed once already.
This is the review the reviewers didn’t make.
The use case were to be connection to my mac, due to reasons I only tested it on iPad yet. Sonos era 300 mostly sounds great. But there are serious considerations to be made when you are within the Apple ecosystem. I knew of some of those restrictions but at that time I was using Spotify which you should not be using by the way.
When I switched to Apple Music the sound quality improved. Don’t go blindly debating this. Try it out. You get 3 months for free. So I subscribed to Apple Music and then Apple’s gonna be … Apple.
Apple Music comes with Spatial Audio. This makes the sound come like from around you. Sonos era 300 supports Spatial Audio. Using the Apple Music app however it doesn’t stream Spatial to Sonos. It falls back to lossless. Lossless sounds superb but Spatial Audio magnificent. Sonos is trying to work around this with their app but believe me when I say the UX on that app is so horrible you wil be using the native Apple Music app. Especially when you know that the generated playlist refreshes tapping on the icon in the Apple Music app and not in the Sonos app.
Furthermore the Sonos device seems to change volume levels out of the blue (although I switched TrueTone off). You also only can use voice command when you install Alexa. Sonos voice control does function with Spotify eg but not with Apple Music. This results in a privacy nightmare and the connection even got severed once already.
This is the review the reviewers didn’t make.