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 A review of my smart (and not so smart) speakers, Smart devices

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IMF2025
post May 17 2020, 12:35 PM

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QUOTE(blancpain4470 @ May 17 2020, 10:24 AM)
These are the smart devices that I have and my quick review after using them for a while. Hopefully if you are considering buying one this may help.

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Sonos One
It is probably the best sounding smart speaker you ever need.
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Best sounding with room tuning capability
Nice looking
Reasonable loud
Multi rooms play

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It is expensive. RM1199 sold here.
Not smart in Malaysia. Supposed to be able to work with Alexa but only for a few selected countries and of course Malaysia is not one of them.
No Bluetooth
Can't play very high resolution music like dsd

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to make your sonos one smarter and more usable. you should pair it with alexa echo dot for example since the build in alexa doesnt work very well in malaysia.

im running sonos play 1 and echo dot. it does everyting. now just waiting for my smart plugs to arrive to control some lamps.
- playing music and radio directly from spotify
- checking weather and tempreture
- setting timers, reminders and alarms
- basically ask any question you have
- playing games
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post May 17 2020, 02:17 PM

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QUOTE(blancpain4470 @ May 17 2020, 12:48 PM)
That's what I did. I put my echo dot close to Sonos 1. 😄. That said you only have limited capabilities with this set up such as play next, play previous, mute. Because Sonos one doesn't have bluetooth I can't connect them to make everything coming out from Sonos

It's a shame that Sonos can't be smart here. It is damn good a speaker. I am very happy with the sound quality
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oh ok haha.. so your sonos one is smart just that the built in alexa is not supported in msia. can u call up a radio station or playlist from your echo and get it to automatically play it on your sonos?

for me as long it plays all music out of the sonos its enough. the rest is handled by echo, non music task so doesnt matter if it doesnt use the sonos. considered good since msia is not a country thats supported by amazon alexa.
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post May 17 2020, 02:53 PM

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QUOTE(blancpain4470 @ May 17 2020, 02:33 PM)
I haven't been able to play the like of TuneIn via Echo dot but I can use Sonos app to play. Just no voice command.

My biggest gripe is you can't play from Synology the DSD music I stored there because it is (blue)toothless! I can use Synology audio app to play DSD files on any device with Bluetooth connectivity.
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yeah thats the thing im trying to say. im playing off my sonos tunein and whatever playlist available in my spotify via voice command from my echo dot. you can set it up that way.


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