Hence, there are benefits and there are quirks, with the latter often adding to frustration on a daily use case scenario. The Sonos Five is neither a smart speaker, nor a Bluetooth speaker – it is a streaming speaker sitting in its own space. Next to a regular Bluetooth speaker, you can feel the finesse in the way it controls the mids and lows, without mushing everything into an annoying low-end heavbass. Hence, whether I was streaming Bollywood dance numbers on Apple Music, or soothing AR Rahman numbers on Prime Music, the audio quality is pristine across genres and services.
The bass output isn’t the strongest out of the box but tweaking the EQ can deliver a smile-inducing “thump” that many of us expect from a speaker of this size. And this balance as well as clarity isn’t lost in any volume level. With the default EQ settings, even the untrained ears can figure out a great dynamic range, with equally strong lows, mids, and highs. When combined, the Five has a soundstage that is finely balanced yet packs in enough grunt to be the life of your house-party.
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Three out of the six drivers are dedicated for bass, two for solid mids and one in the center for vocals. With its six-driver setup, the Sonos Five has proven itself to be one smartly tuned speaker that sounds blissful. The vertical alignment saves space, if you are concerned about space restrictions. With its rubber feet on three sides, you can align the Sonos Five in whichever way you seek. There’s also a tiny LED indicator to show the status of the speaker’s connectivity state. You get the touch controls for playback and volume management, while the rear houses the basic ports, one of them being the power port. In terms of features, the Sonos Five is mostly a big black plastic box with the speaker mesh facing you. Although it is easy to clean, the white could make life a bit easier. In the dusty spring conditions of Noida, the speaker grabs hold of dust particles as well as fingerprints. The black version that I have at my disposal is a dust and smudge magnet.
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