#Sonance speaker review full#

That means you won’t get full quality from lossless streaming services such as Tidal, Qobuz, or the new Amazon Music HD when the speaker is in Bluetooth mode. The Sonos Move is now available in your choice of Lunar White (shown here) or Black. Wi-Fi can provide the bandwidth for FLAC and other codecs in resolutions much higher than that, although Sonos components are limited to a maximum resolution of 16-bit/48kHz. You won’t notice it while playing tracks on services like Spotify that stream lossy, relatively low-resolution tracks (compared to 16-bit/44.1kHz FLAC files, for instance). You will experience a slight compromise in audio quality with Bluetooth compared to Wi-Fi, depending on what you’re streaming. Once paired, you need only push the button on the speaker to switch modes. Just push the mode button on the back of the speaker to switch from Wi-Fi to Bluetooth and then pair the speaker with your smartphone or tablet.

The Move supports Bluetooth 4.2 with AVRCP (Audio/Video Remote Control Profile). Take the Move on the road-or anywhere beyond the reach of your router or personal hotspot-and you’ll switch to a Bluetooth connection. The speaker remained connected to my network despite being more than 300 feet from my house (which you can see in the background). The Sonos Move’s Wi-Fi range is incredible. Your mileage will vary, of course, depending on the quality of your router and the density of competing Wi-Fi networks where you live. That is a remarkable performance for an 802.11n device.

But then I remembered that I could use voice commands! This worked with Alexa, and while I didn’t switch over to Google Assistant to verify that it would also work, there’s no reason I can see that it wouldn’t. Unfortunately, my Pixel 2 XL couldn’t match that performance, so I had assumed that left me with no way to control the speaker apart from touching the play/pause and volume-control buttons on the speaker itself.

Sonance speaker review