STACK November 2016 Issue 145

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T he PLAY:5 is
the apple of the
SONOS family’s
eye – the biggest and
best speaker in the range,
perfect for a lounge
room boogie, family BBQ
or shower sing-a-long;
amplify every occasion
with your favourite tunes
like you’ve never heard
them before. The bass
is exact, deep and most
importantly dirty, without
reverb or echoes thanks to
the three mini – but mighty
– woofers.
Behind the sleek black grill
there are six speakers and dedicated
amplifiers creating a depth of sound
you can hear and feel with zero audible
distortion, no matter how high you turn
the volume up. The PLAY:5 comes with
TRUEPLAY, a dynamic, infinitely adaptive
tuning system designed to calibrate
the speaker – via waving your phone
over the walls in your house – based
on its location in the room, to analyse
and account for any obtrusive walls
or objects. I was skeptical about the
feature to say the least – I may have
even chuckled to myself – but after
using its easy-to-set-up wizard I noticed
an improvement in my nonagon-shaped
living room.
Central to your new way of life is the
SONOS app – sleek, easy to use and
compatible with almost any streaming
service, or if you’re old school, you
can plug in the aux cord. The wireless
system is set up via Wi-Fi too, not
Bluetooth, and there’s a big difference:
when your phone rings mid-song or
you want to watch your favourite Funny
Dog Compilation video on YouTube, the
music won’t stop playing – an extremely
handy feature for those who live with
their phones in their hands.
You don’t have to stop at the solo
PLAY:5 either, although it is powerful
enough to fill a house with sound; any
of the SONOS family can be added to
your home eco-system. At $749 it is
at the higher end of the speaker price
spectrum, but spend just a week with
it and you’ll agree it’s certainly value for
money, especially when comparing it
to the chunkier, more expensive home
systems on the market.
Make the leap to the future, be bold,
hear music the way it was recorded,
forget the world, immerse yourself in
your favourite album and dance like no
one is watching – because they aren’t.
You haven’t left your lounge room.
The PLAY:5 is the apple
of the SONOS family’s
eye – the biggest and best
speaker in the range...
Get your
hands on the
SONOS PLAY:5
now at JB Hi-Fi.
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