Sonos Era 100 - Black - Wireless, Alexa Enabled Smart Speaker

I already have 2 Era 100's and a Sub mini in my Family room. They sound fantastic. Some times I like to sit in my Living room and read, or meditate. But I would turn the volume up in the family room so I could hear those speakers. So I decided to get a third Era 100 for my living room. I put it on a small decorative shelf. I must say it is everything I imagined it would be. When setting it up I didn't know I could turn off selected speakers. This was a unexpected plus for me. So if I am in my living room I could just have the one Era 100 speaker play and vice versa. Or I could have all three and the sub mini playing at the same time. After having the 2 Era 100's and Sub mini for a couple of months now, I had forgotten how good just 1 Era 100 speaker sound. I did notice the two Era 100's paired with the sub sound more clear and crisp than the single Era 100's. That's because the Sub mini is using the low that the Era 100's would had normally played. Great concept in sound and speakers. I just turned the treble up a little bit more in the single Era 100 to get more highs. Sounds good. It's too bad Sonos doesn't allow for multiple Sub minis connected in the same group, it would be phenomenal. I had read somewhere that it wasn't cost effective for the consumer to buy 2 Sub minis when 1 Gen 3 Sub woofer has more output than two Sub minis. I say who cares Sonos? If a consumer wants to spend their money on a second Sub mini and put in in another room in the same speaker group it's their prerogative. If that's true then their business model doesn't make since to me. Set up was a breeze too. Because I didn't use a tutorial to set this up, it took me a few minutes to figure out how to select the speaker, because at first the single Era 100 didn't play although it was connected. But the setup was a breeze. Very easy. I may get another Era 100 (this time used) and put it in my kitchen and I'll have sound throughout all of downstairs. I've been fortunate to not have problems with the app, unlike many others. I am very impressed and satisfied.

Make sure your ARC and app are up to date. My ARC is a few years old and I had never needed nor downloaded the app. However, when I decided to add three Era 100’s I needed the app. When opening the app it said I needed to update the ARC software but the app was unable to do so. Turned out my Sonos ARC is older than the current app supports updates for. The easy solution is to go to the Sonos website and download the update from there. It worked flawlessly. The app and my Sonos ARC were synced and ready to add new components.Because many reviewers complained of having trouble connecting new components, I ordered only one Era 100 instead of the three I had intended to order, in case I had problems. Happily I can say there were no problems whatsoever.Plug in the Era 100, open the app, and the app does the rest. So I ordered two more speakers that were delivered yesterday and added them as easily as the first one. Btw, all three were added while they were plugged in to the kitchen island. I assigned a room for each but that doesn’t affect connectivity, it’s just a label. Then I moved each to its designated room, plugged it in, it found the WiFi and voila!Sound quality and build quality are excellent. Perfect size and shape to easily blend with other furnishings. The app could be better but it’s pretty good as is. The Sonos packaging is outstanding. I am very pleased with this product and highly recommend it.

Prepare to be bummed out. Speaker sounds fine. BUT you won’t hear it often as you will likely just abandon trying to listen to these because they aren’t worth the trouble. This speaker connects to my phone only sometimes at best. I bought two of these to play together. I can’t get these two to play simultaneously at all. I think I achieved that once. Actually, I can hardly even get one of these to play. My sonos app won’t just recognize these again after initially setting it up, and each time I use this I have to restart it and reintroduce it to the sonos app like it’s brand new out of the box. And I can only pair one speaker at a time. Do you want just to listen to your music when you want? You can’t just do that. You have to restart the whole process of pairing them to your sonos app. Airplay works with these maybe 1 in 10 attempts. I didn’t realize Sonos speakers could sound good yet be so useless and incapable of operating. Wow, amazingly frustrating. I have the Sonos soundbar and it’s awesome, probably because it connects directly to the tv by way of hdmi cord, so there’s no connection issues. I was going to buy the Sonos era 300’s, but thank God I didn’t waste $800 on a completely unusable yet expensive product. I’m sure they sound great if you can actually play them without wanting to smash them like the printer in the movie Office Space. I won’t buy anything wireless from Sonos again. I am truly shocked, as I thought this company made quality products. These are paper weights guys. Don’t anger yourself by purchasing these. I have spent more time trying to get these to work than actually listening to them. I’m actually getting mad writing this as it’s so absurd. I’d be annoyed with this product even if they were $35. I missed the return window messing around with these so long and because of a little procrastination on my part which is my bad. How is the Sonos brand this big and so well known for speakers, yet the product is so completely useless and defective? These should be recalled. Pay another $100 and get Homepods for pete’s sake so you don’t get a blood pressure problem fooling with this nonsense.