Review: Sonos Kunna: 1 Siffar Sauti mara waya

Playing: 1 shine karamin Sonos sauti amma duk da haka. Shin sauti kaɗan?

Kamfanin na Santa Barbara wanda ke da ƙananan ƙarancin Sonos yana da cikakkun dokoki maras amfani da murya mai yawa, amma Sonos Play: 1 tsarin sauti mara waya wanda aka shimfida a yau yana fuskantar babbar gasar. Bose da kuma Samsung duka sun kaddamar da shirin na WiFi a makon da ya gabata.

Bisa ga farashin kawai, zan ce Sonos yana cikin matsayi mai kyau. Bose da Samsung gabatar da samfurori da suka fara daga $ 399. Play: 1 shine $ 199.

Sonos ya gina Play: 1 don yin gasa tare da manyan masu magana da Bluetooth kamar Jawbone Big Jambox. Amma tsarin mara waya na Sonos yana da yawa. Yana buƙatar cibiyar sadarwar WiFi ta aiki, kuma yana iya aiki tare da na'urori masu yawa a cikin gida. Bluetooth ba ta buƙatar WiFi amma yana aiki tare da na'urar daya kawai a kan wani ɗan gajere. (Domin cikakken bayani game da na'urorin kiɗan mara waya, duba "Wannene daga cikin waɗannan na'urori mara waya Audio Technologies daidai ne a gare ku?" )

Ayyukan

• Sarrafawa ta hanyar kwakwalwa, wayoyin wayoyin hannu, da kuma allunan da ke gudana Sonos app
• Za a iya amfani dashi daya ko a cikin nau'i-nau'i sitiriyo, ko kuma masu magana da murya don Playbar
• Tweeter 1-inch
• 3.5-inch karin / woofer
• Akwai a cikin farin / azurfa ko gawayi / launin toka
• 1 / 4-20 madogarar filaye a kan raya don hawan bango
• Dimensions: 6.4 x 4.7 x 4.7 a / 163 x 119 x 119 mm
• Weight: 5.5 lb / 0.45 kg

Saita / Ergonomics

Ɗaya daga cikin abubuwan mafi banƙyama game da Play: 1 - kuma mafi girma, $ 299 Play: 3 - shine su kamar Legos nema. Zaka iya farawa tare da daya Play: 1, ƙara na biyu don ƙirƙirar ɓangaren sitiriyo, sa'an nan kuma ƙara da $ 699 Sonos Sub don ƙarin ƙarshen ƙasa. Za ka iya sanya ɗakunan Sonos a kusa da gidanka da kuma sarrafa su duka daga kowane na'ura mai kwakwalwa, smartphone ko kwamfutar hannu. Sonos yana bada kyauta na PC, Mac, iOS da Android waɗanda ke kula da ƙarar, bass, da ladabi ga kowane samfurin Sonos, kuma zaɓi abin da yake wasa.

Sashen "abinda ke wasa" shine inda Sonos ke jin dadi akan kowane mai gasa har zuwa yau. Duk na'urorin Sonos zasu iya samun dama fiye da 30 ayyuka daban-daban na gudana a ƙarshe count (duba jerin a nan). Tabbas, akwai abubuwa masu tsammanin kamar Pandora da Spotify, amma har da ayyukan da suka fi dacewa da aka ƙaddamar da su ga ƙwarewa musamman, irin su Wolfgang Vault da Batanga.

Kuma a sa'an nan akwai dukkan kayan da kake da shi: Sonos zai sami dama ga duk waƙa a kan dukkan kwakwalwa da kuma kwarewa a kan hanyar sadarwarka. Yana iya buga nau'i-nau'i 11, ciki har da kawai MP3, WMA da AAC amma har FLAC da Apple Lossless.

Idan alama kamar wannan yana da wuya a kafa da amfani, ba haka ba. Lokacin da wannan bita ya fara wallafa, ɗayan Sonos ya haɗa kai tsaye zuwa ga na'urar sadarwa na WiFi da kebul na Ethernet, ko kuma dole ka yi amfani da $ 49 Bridge don haɗi zuwa na'urar mai ba da hanya tsakanin hanyoyin sadarwa. A watan Satumba na 2014, Sonos ya sanar da cewa duk samfurori na iya zuwa mara waya ba tare da haɗin kai tsaye ba kuma babu Bridge. Ƙara ƙarin Sonos bangarori yana buƙatar kawai ka shiga ta hanyar sauƙi matakai akan kwamfuta, waya ko kwamfutar hannu.

Ayyukan

Sonos aika ni biyu Play: 1s gwada. Abin farin, Ina da Play: 3 a hannun don kwatanta shi da. Har ila yau ina da Haɗuwa, akwati da ke ba ka damar amfani da amps da masu magana da sauran kamfanoni da kuma alamun hanyoyin daga wasu na'urorin cikin tsarin Sonos. Amfani da Haɗuwa, na iya yin nisa a kan Play: 1.

Play: 1 shine samfurin da na sa ran Sonos zai yi. Kamfanonin sauran kamfanonin suna gina su kamar soundbars ko samfurori na takaddama, tare da direbobi daban-daban a cikin wasu sharuɗɗa. Dukansu suna da kyau, amma babu, a ganina, sauti mai ban mamaki. Play: 1 sauti mai ban mamaki. Wannan shi ne saboda an gina shi kamar wani minispeaker na al'ada, tare da tweeter guda ɗaya da aka sanya kai tsaye sama da woofer. Wannan tsari ya ba shi cikakken, har ma watsawa a kowace hanya, abin da kake ji kamar halitta, sauti na yanayi - ko da yake kuna sauraron mai magana ɗaya. (Idan, hakika, kuna saurara kawai.)

Ko da yake ina tsammanin kowa zai damu da tsabta da kuma ma'auni na ainihi na Play: 1, bass ne abin da ya dame ni. Ba zan iya tunawa ji wani akwati na wannan girman samar da yawa boom. Ko da zurfi, zurfin bass sune cewa fara Holly Cole rikodin Tom Waits '"Sanya Song" ya zo ta hanyar murya da haske, tare da ikon shafe-tsage.

Amma ba haka ba ne, gaske. Ina tsammanin Sonos zai yi amfani da shi mai mahimmanci, mai mahimmanci, "mai girma-Q" don yin la'akari da samun bass daga wannan abu kadan. A'a: Yana da kyau, m, ƙayyade bass. Ba a ƙara ƙarfafa ba, amma ba yawa ba, kuma cikakkiyar ma'auni na ainihi yana da kyau kuma har ma yana da wuya a yi la'akari da mafi kyau bass tuning ga na'urar kamar wannan.

Ina gaya wa Play: 1 sautuna sau ɗaya-dan kadan a gefe mai dumi - kawai a tadame a cikin tayin - kamar na ɗaya daga cikin mashawarina mafiya ƙauna, $ 379 / biyu Saka idanu Audio Bronze BX1. Duk da haka, na sami hanyar da za ta kasance mai ban mamaki don samfurin $ 199, kuma mafi girma a cikin wannan game da mafi yawan AirPlay da masu magana da Bluetooth na ji (yawancin waɗanda suke amfani da direbobi masu kyan gani maimakon na raba woofers da masu tweeters).

Play: 1 cikakke sananne na fi so - da kuma toughest - gwaji da yawa, labaran rayuwa "Shower People" daga James Taylor ta Live a Beacon Theatre . Muryar Taylor da ta guitar sun yi busawa sosai, ba tare da kariya ba a cikin ƙaramin murya da guitar, kuma babu wani launi na "tsoma baki" (wani mummunan hali da yawa masu magana da ƙananan magana sun sa mawaƙa suna son suna da hannayensu a cikin bakinsu) . Wannan shi ne irin wannan rashin daidaituwa na tonal da na ji a cikin tsarin tsarin tauraron dan adam / tsarin ƙwaƙwalwa a cikin tsarin da ke cikin tsarin Paradigm.

Shafuka? To, jeez, yana da mai magana tare da 3.5-inch woofer, don haka ba shakka yana da wasu flaws. Yana taka rawa da ƙarfi, kuma a gaskiya yana sauti da yawa kamar mai girma mara waya kamar B & W Z2 fiye da shi kamar Jawbone Big Jambox. Amma ba shi da yawa a hanyar hanyar haɓaka - watau, buga - musamman a tsakiyar. Na lura da wannan musamman a kan tarko. A kan hanya na jarrabawar jarrabawa, Tanna ta "Rosanna," kullin ya yi kama da abun toshe mai yatsa fiye da kowane abu mai girma, mai amfani da ƙwararre mai suna Jeff Porcaro da aka yi amfani da shi a rikodi. Amma ba zan iya tunanin wani samfurin wani abu kamar wannan da zai yi mafi kyau a cikin wannan misali.

Ina son Play: 1 fiye da Play: 3. Ba'a yi wasa kamar ƙararrawa ba, amma bambance-bambance, kuma, musamman, ƙarancin sauti mai sauƙi kuma mafi yawan halitta.

Don haka menene ya yi kama da stereo? Duk daya. Amma a stereo. Kuma dole ne in ce, sauti na da kyau sosai, tare da gaske, jin dadi sosai a kan classic Chesky rikodi na guitar kungiyar Coryells .

Matakan

Kamar yadda nake yi a cikin sake dubawa, na yi cikakken yada labaru akan Play: 1. (Matakan gaskiya, ba "tsaya a mic a gaban mai magana ba kuma kuyi amfani da ma'aunin miki".) Za ka iya ganin wani ɗan kankanin version na sakon amsawa a nan. Don ganin rubutun cikakke, tare da ƙarin bayani mai zurfi game da fasaha da samfurori, danna nan .

Don taƙaitawa, Play: 1 matakan ƙananan layi, wanda ya dace da abin da zan iya aunawa daga mai magana mai tarin mita 3,000 / biyu: ± 2.7 dB a kan iyaka, ± 2.8 dB girma a fadin sauraron sauraro. Don sanya wannan a cikin hangen zaman gaba, kowane mai magana tare da rabuwar ± 3.0 dB ko žasa za a yi la'akari da samfurin kayan aiki mai kyau.

Final Take

Play: 1 shine samfurin Sonos na mafi ƙauna har kwanan wata, kuma ɗaya daga cikin masu magana da mara waya maras so in kwanan wata. Yana sauti fiye da ɗaya daga cikin manyan masu magana mara waya (B & W Z2 ko JBL OnBeat Rumble) fiye da sauran samfurori da girmansa da farashin farashin. Kuma yana da sauƙi da kullun - cikakke ga ofis din ko kogi, ko a ko ina, gaske.

Na tabbata abokina Steve Guttenberg a kan CNet zai iya sanar da kai cewa za ka iya samun sauti mai kyau daga ƙananan magungunan sitiriyo biyu da karamin ƙara. Yana da ma'ana. Amma na zato shine idan kuna la'akari da Play: 1, ba ku la'akari da tsarin sigina na al'ada. Kuma ba shakka, tsarin tsararre na al'ada ba ya ba ku damar karuwa. Kuma sai akwai waɗannan wayoyi don gudu. Kuma, yiwuwar, gunaguni daga masu haɗuwa da juna game da tsarin tsararraki mai banƙyama. Ƙananan mamaki Target zai sayar da Play: 1 kuma ba Pioneer SP-BS22-LR .