Sonos has been around a long time and despite being proprietary it's supported by third-party vendors from Onkyo to Roon.Īmazon Multi Room Music (MRM) is a decent stab at multiroom but only one non-Amazon product supports it - the Polk Command Bar. Sonos has long been the master of multiroom music, and if you want to be able to listen to and control music in multiple rooms, then the Sonos One is the winner here. The Echo Studio has a bigger soundstage too, great for filling larger rooms with sound. This is great if you're watching Jack Ryan on TV or playing rock and roll, less good if you're trying to listen to some relaxing music. The Amazon Echo Studio, on the other hand, has absolutely zero chill: Everything sounds huge and exciting all the time. It also has surprisingly deep bass for such a small enclosure. It's not going to have you on the edge of your seat, but it sounds good with almost everything. What do you want your smart speaker to do? Provide music in the kitchen, or connect to your TV to play movies? The Sonos One is one of the best speakers for background listening: just dotting around the place and playing music where you need it. It's the winner between the two if you want to play loud. I had no issues with the microphones on the Echo Studio and was impressed by how it could still hear me, even though it was able to go much louder than the Sonos One. Play your music loud if you want, and Alexa can still hear you. Sonos' Achilles Heel, if there is one at all, was its microphone, but based on my tests of the second-gen Sonos One, the company seems to have improved the mic's sensitivity. Be aware there's no Bluetooth playback here, just Wi-Fi. While Sonos' app is still pretty easy to use, you can likely use your favorite service's app instead. Sonos also supports dozens more music services than the Echo - and many, such as Spotify, offer direct control from the app. The Sonos One's killer feature is that you can control it with either Google Assistant or Amazon Alexa, though sadly you can't switch between them on the fly - you have to use the app to switch. Buying the Echo just for that, you'd run out of stuff to listen to pretty quickly. Sadly, its claims to immersive surround music amount to a bit of a gimmick. One of the biggest is the ability to connect to a TV and replay Dolby Atmos streams. On paper the Echo Studio offers more features for the money than the Sonos One. The Amazon Echo Studio is a large table-top speaker.
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