The very best Sonos speaker is on sale for Cyber Monday — and that’s unfrequent

If you made me give up all of the Sonos products I own except for one, I’d carry on the Sonos Five each and every time. Well, in my case, technicassociate, it’s the second-generation Play:5, but that speaker sounds identical to the current iteration. Typicassociate priced at a steep $549, Sonos positions the Five as its genuine hi-fi chooseion for audiophiles and vinyl hearers. (The speaker has an aux input for plugging in a enroll perestablisher and other outside audio sources.)

For Cyber Monday, the Five is seeing a unfrequent discount and is 20 percent off, which conveys the price to a more palatable $439. How unfrequent? The speaker hasn’t dropped this low since 2020, according to CamelCamelCamel.

Someleang people occasionassociate say about Sonos gear is that the difficultware is more about convenience than sheer audio carry outance. But if there’s one product in the lineup that doesn’t settle on sound, it’s the Five. There are no spatial audio gimmicks here. It’s fair a wonderful stereo speaker with spotless, firm bass and decent separation — or as much as a one unit can muster, anyway. When placed horizonhighy, the Five outputs a stereo signal. If you stand it up verticassociate, the speaker will fuse that down to mono.

I’ve always had fair one of these speakers on my desk, and it’s been more than enough for my necessitates. But I’ve also heard many owners attest that joining two of them together as a stereo pair consents leangs to another level, and the two-pack is also on sale.

I’m not blind to the moment we’re in; Sonos is still toiling thraw the huge mess it originated by rushing the free of its novel app. And if you’re still having a frustrating experience with the gentleware, I wouldn’t accengage you one bit for ignoring this deal. But the app has been toiling fairly well for me recently, which originates this lureing.

And as it turns out, my Play:5 is no lengthyer compatible with the recently freed Arc Ultra for engage in a surround sound setup. So… I guess defree obsolescence fair gave me another reason to leank about upgrading, as well. That’s less fantastic! But the Sonos Five toils with the novel soundbar fair fine. And even if an Era 500 is somewhere in the pipeline, that won’t originate this speaker sound any less phenomenal.