--- product_id: 1143464 title: "Play:1" brand: "sonos" price: "NT$11144" currency: TWD in_stock: true reviews_count: 7 category: "Sonos" url: https://www.desertcart.tw/products/1143464-play-1 store_origin: TW region: Taiwan --- # App control & seamless setup WiFi multiroom streaming 10W powerful output Play:1 **Brand:** sonos **Price:** NT$11144 **Availability:** βœ… In Stock ## Summary > 🎢 Small Speaker, Big Sound, Zero Compromise. ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Play:1 by sonos - **How much does it cost?** NT$11144 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.tw](https://www.desertcart.tw/products/1143464-play-1) ## Best For - sonos enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted sonos brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - β€’ **Compact Powerhouse:** Fits effortlessly anywhere, delivering rich, room-filling sound without bulk. - β€’ **Effortless Control:** Manage your music library and streaming services instantly via the intuitive Sonos app. - β€’ **Plug & Play Simplicity:** Get from unboxing to your favorite playlist in minutes with guided setup and a single power cord. - β€’ **Seamless Multiroom Sync:** Wirelessly connect multiple Play:1 speakers for immersive stereo and whole-home audio. - β€’ **Future-Proof Expandability:** Start with one, then easily scale your system with additional speakers and the Sonos Bridge for ultimate home sound. ## Overview The Sonos Play:1 (2013) is a sleek, compact wireless speaker designed for professionals who demand premium sound in any space. With 10 watts of dynamic power, WiFi connectivity for multiroom streaming, and app-based control, it transforms your home into a seamless audio experience. Its minimalist design fits perfectly on countertops or shelves, while easy setup and expandability make it the go-to choice for millennial managers craving both style and substance in their smart home ecosystem. ## Description PLAY:1 is our compact, surprisingly powerful speaker. It’s a perfect fit for bookshelves, counters, and other snug places. So now you can enjoy great-sounding music wherever you want to listen.Sonos is the wireless Home Sound System that fills as many rooms as you want with great-sounding tunes. Sonos speakers set up easy. Stream via WiFi. Play whatever you’re craving. And amp up every moment with intense, pulse-pounding sound. It’s a new, better way to fill each day with the sounds you love. One that will make that place you live feel even more like home. Review: The best solution for home audio. Simple set up and expansion, great audio quality, and ROCK SOLID. - Let me join the chorus of positive reviews here. I had previously suffered with various Bluetooth and AirPlay speaker systems. They were all unreliable, and frequently dropped the signal. Pairing the devices was also a hit or miss affair, and the sound quality was dubious. Enter Sonos. Lots of people at work have been raving about Sonos, so I finally took (a modest) plunge into their ecosystem. I bought the Bridge (even though I technically didn't need to for my initial system) but I wanted it for future expansion capability. I also bought the lowest-priced Play 1. The Play 1 is HEAVY, and very nicely designed. It has a relatively small footprint and seems very at home in our modernist living room. The hardware setup was very easy. Comprehensive QuickStart instructions were well illustrated and clear. It was mostly about the sequence of plugging in cables. One VERY nice touch is the additional pass-through Ethernet port on the Bridge. I had run out of ports on my two routers, and needed on for my new NAS (that I was setting up as a media streamer.) Plugged it straight into the Bridge and it works flawlessly on my network. I then downloaded the Sonos app from the App Store, launched it, and followed very simple on-screen instructions. The instructions included clear illustrations showing which buttons to press on which devices to complete the pairing, and what the illuminated light sequences on those devices meant. Within a few minutes, everything was connected and working. I added my Spotify and Pandora accounts quickly, and within a few minutes I was streaming music to the Play 1. My expectations for sound quality were a little tempered by the fact that I had the smallest Sonos speaker, and it was in mono. But I was not at all disappointed when I started playing music from my Spotify playlists. I have Spotify set up to stream higher quality bit rates. This probably helps. The sound can be turned up VERY loud. We have it in a living room which is easily filled with rich, separated highs and lows. I do notice on some tracks, however, the bass end can get a little muddy, but only on certain songs (Beyone's Halo, for example, is one of those.) This might be a factor of the mono sound, as sometimes tracks are not mixed and engineered that well for mono; they rely on a greater stereo spectrum for better listening. The beauty of being able to expand this system to other speakers and rooms, and the fact this is operating on a rock-solid wi-fi network, only adds to appeal of the Sonos system. I was so impressed by it all, that I immediately ordered a second Play 1 to add to the first so that I could set up stereo sound (it hasn't arrived yet.) Again, this seems easy to do (based on reading a thorough explanation on the Sonos Web site.) It's just a matter of a few clicks in the App, and pressing one button on the speakers to indicate which is left and which is right. By the way, the Sonos support Web site is superb - clear and helpful instructions and troubleshooting. One additional thing I love is having every Mac / iOS device in the house loaded with the Sonos App, each of which can control the system. That includes four iPads, four MacBooks, two iPhones, and an iPod touch. All the apps control the system flawlessly. You can pickup the currently playing track if you move from one device to another. Spotify integration is OK, but not great. Your playlists are visible, and you can search for any track in Spotify via the Sonos app (and make it a favorite in Sonos, or add it to a Spotify playlist), but it does not show all the artists and albums that you have stored to "My Music" within Spotify. My answer has been to create separate playlists for each member of our family. I am in the process of setting up a NAS server with around 60GB of music. Giving Sonos access to it was as easy as entering the (fixed) IP address of the server and the music share volume. It found it immediately. My server is a Synology 1-bay drive. I have just finished copying all the music to it, the Sonos system can see, but I am waiting for the Synology system to finish indexing all the files before I call them up on the Sonos system. I don't expect any problems, but if there are any, I will update my review. Altogether I am extremely pleased with the system, and am looking forward to expanding it throughout our home in the future. I recommend abandoning sketchy Bluetooth and Airplay speaker systems, and go for the best; especially as the entry level Sonos system is now highly competitive price wise. Review: Expensive but worth every penny and more. - If you're reading this review, you're probably where I was a few months ago. I had two burning questions in my mind: (1) how good is the SONOS system (is it worth it?), (2) which speakers should I get (what does my initial/total investment need to be)? SHORT ANSWER: IT IS WORTH IT. As to the first question: it is fantastic. Yes, it is expensive. But there's absolutely no doubt that SONOS delivers exactly what it promises. You can play music wirelessly anywhere that your wireless reaches. It just works. It took about two minutes to set up and it was incredibly easy. (See below) A PAIR OF PLAY-1s SOUND FAN-F-ING-TASTIC Two Play 1s, in stereo sound great. (Turn loudness off, set treble up to 70-80%.) I stressed this so hard. Initially I thought, man, can I even get two Play 3s or do I have to get two Play 5s? Play 1 did not enter my initial considerations at all. I read too much from serious audiophile folks. So here's what I did: I bought two Play 1s and 1 Play 5. After listening for about ten minutes, I returned the Play 5. The Play 5 sounds fantastic, don't get me wrong. But unless you have a big space to fill, two Play 5s would just be overkill. Meanwhile, the two Play 1s in stereo arguably outclass the Play 5 for the same price. (You'll see debate on this point on the SONOS forums.) If you want to get started, a single Play 1 still sounds better than almost any bluetooth speaker you care to mention. So your initial investment can be simply a single Play 1 and a bridge. You will be hooked, I'm afraid. I now have four play 1s and a PlayBar. (A separate review may follow for the Playbar or be amended to this--suffice it say for now that my only complaint is that it would be nice to be able to set separate volume levels for tv and music playback, otherwise it works amazingly well. I do not use a sub and don't think it is necessary, though I may add it at some point when the pocket book allows.) APPLE HARDWARE, MICROSOFT SOFTWARE SONOS is all Apple on the hardware end and all Microsoft on the software side. If you're the literary sort, you could say that the hardware is the fox and the software is the hedgehog--the fox knows many things but the hardware knows one big thing. The speakers are elegant looking and everything just works. On the flipside, tech geeks will point out that you pay a style and performance premium. Yes, there are other solutions that are cheaper and I'm sure deliver better sound. And much harder to set up, much buggier, and more frustrating. On the software side, things are not quite as elegant. Are the software guys the big dummies or Achilles' heel of the SONOS operation? No. The software actually has amazing challenges and does some amazing stuff. It's just ugly. The SONOS software integrates every conceivable music source. SONOS supports desertcart Music (formerly desertcart Cloud Player), Spotify, Pandora, Rdio, Rhapsody, pretty much anything you can think of, including, now, Google Play. Better: it allows you to create playlists from multiple sources.So, I can pull tracks from desertcart Music, Google Play, my iphone, any networked drive, and have it all play together. Great stuff. SONOS also has sleep and alarm/wake functionality and a few other little bells and whistles. The problem is that by stuffing so much stuff under the hood and trying to be jack of all trades, the SONOS controller is almost unavoidably clunky. SONOS recently updated the software controller, preserving all the functionality, but attempting to streamline and make the controller less ugly. It didn't really work. It's a little annoying, but still works fine. I hope further updates will be coming because intuitiveness has taken a step backwards, unfortunately. INTERFACE AND OPTIONS Would be nice if you could set volume levels and other specs for each music source. For instance, Sirius plays at a level lower than desertcart Cloud Player. SETUP Initial problems trying to use one component but once I connected bridge the setup took 30 seconds. It was not obvious to me from instructions that you need to press BOTH volume + and play/pause together, either. CONCLUSION You will not regret this purchase. My wife thought I was nuts to spend all this money, but she now agrees that the SONOS system is the most life changing and awesome piece of tech we own. Highly recommended. (I usually don't make this plea, but: please vote helpful if you found this helpful. And if you're an audiophile who is thinks Sonos is not up to snuff, keep in mind this review is aimed at ordinary folks and don't downvote me on that basis, please. THANKS!) ## Features - Small yet powerful speaker for streaming music and more. Get rich, room-filling sound with Play:1, and control it with the Sonos app. - The compact design fits just about any space. Put it on your kitchen countertop or tuck it away on your office bookshelf. - Go from unboxing to listening in minutes with just one cord and step-by-step guidance in the Sonos app. - Pair two Play:1s in the same room for stereo separation and more detailed sound. - Easily connect Sonos speakers in different rooms over WiFi to create a home sound system that brings every room and everyone together. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | ASIN | B00EWCUK1Q | | Additional Features | Multiroom digital music systems, speaker systems | | Age Range Description | Adult | | Antenna Location | For Indoor Use | | Audio Driver Type | Dynamic Driver | | Audio Output Mode | Stereo | | Best Sellers Rank | #1,385 in Portable Bluetooth Speakers | | Brand | Sonos | | Built-In Media | Power Cord | | Color | Black | | Compatible Devices | Laptop, Personal Computer, Smartphone, Tablet | | Connectivity Protocol | Wi-Fi | | Connectivity Technology | Wireless | | Control Method | App | | Controller Type | Other | | Customer Reviews | 4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars (4,867) | | Enclosure Material | Metal, Plastic | | Global Trade Identification Number | 00737989665912, 00878269000327 | | Impedance | 4 Ohms | | Is Waterproof | FALSE | | Item Dimensions D x W x H | 4.69"D x 4.69"W x 6.36"H | | Item Weight | 4.08 Pounds | | MP3 player | No | | Manufacturer | Sonos | | Model Name | Play:1 | | Model Number | PLAY1US1BLK | | Mounting Type | Play,Tabletop | | Number of Audio Channels | 1.0 | | Number of Items | 1 | | Number of Power Levels | 1 | | Power Source | AC | | Processor Count | 4 | | Series Number | 1 | | Speaker Maximum Output Power | 10 Watts | | Speaker Size | 6.36 Inches | | Speaker Type | Surround | | Specific Uses For Product | Indoor general use, home entertainment, background music, gatherings or parties | | Subwoofer Connectivity Technology | Wireless | | UPC | 878269000327 737989665912 | | Unit Count | 1.0 Count | | Warranty Description | 2 yr warranty on parts & labor | | Warranty Type | 12 | | Water Resistance Level | Not Water Resistant | | Wireless Technology | Wi-Fi | ## Product Details - **Audio Output Mode:** Stereo - **Brand:** Sonos - **Connectivity Technology:** Wireless - **Mounting Type:** Play,Tabletop - **Speaker Maximum Output Power:** 10 Watts ## Images ![Play:1 - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81ufrbnPx-L.jpg) ![Play:1 - Image 2](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81dSmUZUEtL.jpg) ![Play:1 - Image 3](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/710nWOgr-tL.jpg) ![Play:1 - Image 4](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61CIZei0OZL.jpg) ![Play:1 - Image 5](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81ws8GY1Y5L.jpg) ## Questions & Answers **Q: I want a bookshelf system for a large living/kitchen/dining room with enough volume for a party of 40-50 guests. Should I get 2 Play:1s or 2 Play:3s?** A: In short, either get 2 Play1s or 2 Play5s. I wouldn't recommend the Play3s at all. They are too similar to the 1s in sound quality and priced too close to the 5s. Your issue is NOT the size of the room, but the number of guests. 40-50 people is a lot! You will definitely be more pleased with the 5s. Also, what you'll want to do is "pair" them so you get stereo playback and the volumes will be matched. That means if you change the volume on one, the other will match.I run 2 Play1s in a 14x20 space and another 2 Play1s in a 24x30 space. In my kitch/living/dining space I run 2 Play5s and a sub. The system ROCKS. **Q: How does this speaker compares to the Bose Sounlink Mini?** A: I bought a sonos Play 1 and regret it. The speaker itself is very high quality but the app leaves much to be desired. Unlike a Bluetooth speaker everything in Sonos get filtered through its app, and clearly Sonos has more in mind than producing speakers. For example, when using Spotify you ability to search music is limited. Also, my >100 gig music library that resides in iTunes is useless unless I want to download all music to my devise, which is clearly impossible. I will make use of it somewhere, but will keep looking for a whole house WiFi system. **Q: Would a pair of Play1s used for rear speakers in a 5.1 set up be much different from Play3s?** A: I'm getting another Play:1 to explore this very question. I have two Play:3 right now in a pair in a room and they sound pretty darn good. The Play:3, to be clear, has a better sound that Play:1. I too wondered if in the rear speaker role if Play:1 would be more than acceptable. In essence, is Play:3 overkill for rear speakers? Will test and answer ASAP. **Q: DOES SONOS HAVE A LINE IN?** A: Only two of their products have a line in: Sonos 5 has an analog line in for connecting a phone/tablet/laptop; and the Playbar has an optical audio input (AppleTV; Roku etc.). I use the analog line in for my laptop only and the app for all mobile/wifi devices. ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The best solution for home audio. Simple set up and expansion, great audio quality, and ROCK SOLID. *by B***3 on January 24, 2015* Let me join the chorus of positive reviews here. I had previously suffered with various Bluetooth and AirPlay speaker systems. They were all unreliable, and frequently dropped the signal. Pairing the devices was also a hit or miss affair, and the sound quality was dubious. Enter Sonos. Lots of people at work have been raving about Sonos, so I finally took (a modest) plunge into their ecosystem. I bought the Bridge (even though I technically didn't need to for my initial system) but I wanted it for future expansion capability. I also bought the lowest-priced Play 1. The Play 1 is HEAVY, and very nicely designed. It has a relatively small footprint and seems very at home in our modernist living room. The hardware setup was very easy. Comprehensive QuickStart instructions were well illustrated and clear. It was mostly about the sequence of plugging in cables. One VERY nice touch is the additional pass-through Ethernet port on the Bridge. I had run out of ports on my two routers, and needed on for my new NAS (that I was setting up as a media streamer.) Plugged it straight into the Bridge and it works flawlessly on my network. I then downloaded the Sonos app from the App Store, launched it, and followed very simple on-screen instructions. The instructions included clear illustrations showing which buttons to press on which devices to complete the pairing, and what the illuminated light sequences on those devices meant. Within a few minutes, everything was connected and working. I added my Spotify and Pandora accounts quickly, and within a few minutes I was streaming music to the Play 1. My expectations for sound quality were a little tempered by the fact that I had the smallest Sonos speaker, and it was in mono. But I was not at all disappointed when I started playing music from my Spotify playlists. I have Spotify set up to stream higher quality bit rates. This probably helps. The sound can be turned up VERY loud. We have it in a living room which is easily filled with rich, separated highs and lows. I do notice on some tracks, however, the bass end can get a little muddy, but only on certain songs (Beyone's Halo, for example, is one of those.) This might be a factor of the mono sound, as sometimes tracks are not mixed and engineered that well for mono; they rely on a greater stereo spectrum for better listening. The beauty of being able to expand this system to other speakers and rooms, and the fact this is operating on a rock-solid wi-fi network, only adds to appeal of the Sonos system. I was so impressed by it all, that I immediately ordered a second Play 1 to add to the first so that I could set up stereo sound (it hasn't arrived yet.) Again, this seems easy to do (based on reading a thorough explanation on the Sonos Web site.) It's just a matter of a few clicks in the App, and pressing one button on the speakers to indicate which is left and which is right. By the way, the Sonos support Web site is superb - clear and helpful instructions and troubleshooting. One additional thing I love is having every Mac / iOS device in the house loaded with the Sonos App, each of which can control the system. That includes four iPads, four MacBooks, two iPhones, and an iPod touch. All the apps control the system flawlessly. You can pickup the currently playing track if you move from one device to another. Spotify integration is OK, but not great. Your playlists are visible, and you can search for any track in Spotify via the Sonos app (and make it a favorite in Sonos, or add it to a Spotify playlist), but it does not show all the artists and albums that you have stored to "My Music" within Spotify. My answer has been to create separate playlists for each member of our family. I am in the process of setting up a NAS server with around 60GB of music. Giving Sonos access to it was as easy as entering the (fixed) IP address of the server and the music share volume. It found it immediately. My server is a Synology 1-bay drive. I have just finished copying all the music to it, the Sonos system can see, but I am waiting for the Synology system to finish indexing all the files before I call them up on the Sonos system. I don't expect any problems, but if there are any, I will update my review. Altogether I am extremely pleased with the system, and am looking forward to expanding it throughout our home in the future. I recommend abandoning sketchy Bluetooth and Airplay speaker systems, and go for the best; especially as the entry level Sonos system is now highly competitive price wise. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Expensive but worth every penny and more. *by B***S on July 7, 2014* If you're reading this review, you're probably where I was a few months ago. I had two burning questions in my mind: (1) how good is the SONOS system (is it worth it?), (2) which speakers should I get (what does my initial/total investment need to be)? SHORT ANSWER: IT IS WORTH IT. As to the first question: it is fantastic. Yes, it is expensive. But there's absolutely no doubt that SONOS delivers exactly what it promises. You can play music wirelessly anywhere that your wireless reaches. It just works. It took about two minutes to set up and it was incredibly easy. (See below) A PAIR OF PLAY-1s SOUND FAN-F-ING-TASTIC Two Play 1s, in stereo sound great. (Turn loudness off, set treble up to 70-80%.) I stressed this so hard. Initially I thought, man, can I even get two Play 3s or do I have to get two Play 5s? Play 1 did not enter my initial considerations at all. I read too much from serious audiophile folks. So here's what I did: I bought two Play 1s and 1 Play 5. After listening for about ten minutes, I returned the Play 5. The Play 5 sounds fantastic, don't get me wrong. But unless you have a big space to fill, two Play 5s would just be overkill. Meanwhile, the two Play 1s in stereo arguably outclass the Play 5 for the same price. (You'll see debate on this point on the SONOS forums.) If you want to get started, a single Play 1 still sounds better than almost any bluetooth speaker you care to mention. So your initial investment can be simply a single Play 1 and a bridge. You will be hooked, I'm afraid. I now have four play 1s and a PlayBar. (A separate review may follow for the Playbar or be amended to this--suffice it say for now that my only complaint is that it would be nice to be able to set separate volume levels for tv and music playback, otherwise it works amazingly well. I do not use a sub and don't think it is necessary, though I may add it at some point when the pocket book allows.) APPLE HARDWARE, MICROSOFT SOFTWARE SONOS is all Apple on the hardware end and all Microsoft on the software side. If you're the literary sort, you could say that the hardware is the fox and the software is the hedgehog--the fox knows many things but the hardware knows one big thing. The speakers are elegant looking and everything just works. On the flipside, tech geeks will point out that you pay a style and performance premium. Yes, there are other solutions that are cheaper and I'm sure deliver better sound. And much harder to set up, much buggier, and more frustrating. On the software side, things are not quite as elegant. Are the software guys the big dummies or Achilles' heel of the SONOS operation? No. The software actually has amazing challenges and does some amazing stuff. It's just ugly. The SONOS software integrates every conceivable music source. SONOS supports Amazon Music (formerly Amazon Cloud Player), Spotify, Pandora, Rdio, Rhapsody, pretty much anything you can think of, including, now, Google Play. Better: it allows you to create playlists from multiple sources.So, I can pull tracks from Amazon Music, Google Play, my iphone, any networked drive, and have it all play together. Great stuff. SONOS also has sleep and alarm/wake functionality and a few other little bells and whistles. The problem is that by stuffing so much stuff under the hood and trying to be jack of all trades, the SONOS controller is almost unavoidably clunky. SONOS recently updated the software controller, preserving all the functionality, but attempting to streamline and make the controller less ugly. It didn't really work. It's a little annoying, but still works fine. I hope further updates will be coming because intuitiveness has taken a step backwards, unfortunately. INTERFACE AND OPTIONS Would be nice if you could set volume levels and other specs for each music source. For instance, Sirius plays at a level lower than Amazon Cloud Player. SETUP Initial problems trying to use one component but once I connected bridge the setup took 30 seconds. It was not obvious to me from instructions that you need to press BOTH volume + and play/pause together, either. CONCLUSION You will not regret this purchase. My wife thought I was nuts to spend all this money, but she now agrees that the SONOS system is the most life changing and awesome piece of tech we own. Highly recommended. (I usually don't make this plea, but: please vote helpful if you found this helpful. And if you're an audiophile who is thinks Sonos is not up to snuff, keep in mind this review is aimed at ordinary folks and don't downvote me on that basis, please. THANKS!) ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review *by R***7 on December 12, 2016* I bought this as an expansion to my existing setup with a Play:5, which I have in my kitchen. I placed this in my living room, and it blends in nicely with the decor that I have in that part of the house. Setup: It was setup very easily, like all Sonos. Plugged it in, and then drove the setup from my phone. This includes the room sensing and optimization which happened seamlessly. I paired it to my existing setup through the app easily. Now my music is synced perfectly between the rooms. I love that I can both adjust the volume control for the group, or individually, very easily. Sound quality: I was very impressed with my first P:5, and knew that this wouldn't have as much low end. However, even with high expectations after my fantastic P:5 experience I was still surprised at how good this sounded. It's a HEAVY speaker, which to me indicates high build quality. There's more low end than I expected. But don't think that this will produce the same as a 12" subwoofer. It goes up loud without any distortion. Just sounds like a high quality speaker. Pair it with some bigger speakers in other rooms, and you won't miss the sub (which isn't as location-specific to our ears). Overall, I would definitely buy this again. 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