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Hey, it's Dan, back at it again at Crispy, looking at Bluetooth speakers.

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Today we have the Sonos Era 100 SL and

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the Sonos Play, both new offerings. And

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I'm excited to finally get to tear into something as the Sonos Play has a

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replaceable battery, which is kind of crazy for current year, and it's

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only $90. Sonos is bringing back the Play, which

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is branding that I didn't quite realize disappeared. They're a bit of a return

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to form for Sonos by seemingly

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not making everything worse for a change. Look, that's what it says on the

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notes. Hopefully, they can keep it up, but before that, let's take a gander

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with our peepers. Let's have a start with the Play here.

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Got that thing. I guess that's the speaker. And it looks

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like there's this wireless charging base, and that's all. I've got some

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setup instructions, which seem pretty simple, two steps besides having to make

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an account. And then we've also got our

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base. Well, it's got quite a nice long cable, which I was not expecting. It's

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almost as tall as Linus. That's nice. It's got this cool kind of rubbery

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soft-touch exterior with some feeties on the bottom. I'm I like the kind of the

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soft-touch feel, but it attracts dust like absolutely nothing else. So,

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hopefully that isn't too bad. And then we've got our speaker itself in this

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nice cloth bag. Pull that down. Ooh. I notice

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immediately that it has actual buttons,

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which is kind of awesome in, again,

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current year. Power button on the back. We've got a Bluetooth button here. Looks

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like this one has a microphone. There's a little lock for that. It's always nice

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to see. We've got our two little contacts here for the charger. Sonos

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branding. I always forget that it's kind of reversible,

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which is neat. Strap.

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Build quality is extremely sturdy. No

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pressure here. I think this would

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survive in the wild, certainly by me

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dropping things. Looks like I've turned it on.

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Sounds nice. Even getting some air out of the sides, which is kind of cool.

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Little green LED there. One thing notably missing from the box, I guess,

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is a charger or at least a a brick. That's kind of

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the go-to these days, which is a little disappointing, but whatever. I think

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it's fine. I think some of the problem is this one needs an 18-W So, I got a

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UGREEN 65-W USB-C.

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Like that. Goes into there like that. Not magnetic. God, it

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would have been nice to be magnetic. Why? Why? One thing that I kind of have

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noticed already is this is not removable. You could have just put a

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USB-C on there, too. I am immediately going to trip over this and dump it on

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the floor and then rip out the cord, and I'm clumsy and probably shouldn't own

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products. Okay. Let's have a look at its

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sister, maybe? The Era 100.

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Got our instructions to start with. Also

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setup. Tube. Ah. This one uses power. Nice long

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cable. Whoa. Wow. This one has the

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capacitive buttons, non-piano black top, which is nice. Should be easier to keep

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clean. You can tell I don't like fingerprints. Surround

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grill again. No movement at all, which is always kind of cool. Makes it feel a

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little bit more premium. Bluetooth button at the top, USB-C at the bottom.

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We'll talk about what that can do a bit later. We have a mounting hole here if

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you want to screw it into something, and our power plug goes here, yep,

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which is all nice and hidden. That's kind of cool.

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below. I think we'll focus a little bit more on the Play today, but we'll have a

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look at this a bit later. We actually have two of these guys today cuz

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everybody needs a nice pair of twins. I mean, realistically, we're just going to

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look at one of these today, but you can throw these into a pair. I think it can

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do up to four around the house, all kind of Bluetooth interconnected, mostly

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because these are kind of designed as a everywhere solution, if you if you know

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what I mean. They work on Wi-Fi internally, and then externally, you can

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take them and use them as a regular Bluetooth speaker. We're going to be using them as a Bluetooth speaker today,

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and yeah, they sit on there. God, it would be nice if they had magnets in the

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bottom, but then I guess you would be putting it down and it would go bloop.

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I don't see anything wrong with that. One thing about their app is you do need

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an account, but I mean, what is current year if not accounts? I've only had this

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detected it automatically. Let's push that add button and see what happens.

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Chime with an audio pin.

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It's a really interesting way to pair things, just kind of like have it make a

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little jingle. I don't think I've seen that before. Might be a Sonos standard,

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but the last time I looked at these, they didn't seem to do that. And it

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looks like it's automatically connecting it to the Wi-Fi. This is nice and simple. It's kind of a pretty refreshing

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way to handle this. Ah, and this is LMG

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5, so this has 5 GHz. Normally, I see

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IoT devices that just are on 2.4, and it's kind of like, okay, I got to make

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another network or I got to do them together or separate them, I

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don't know. And of course, it has an update, which I can't skip, which is so

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fun. Why do I accept this?

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Okay, that wasn't as long as I thought it was going to be.

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You can use Auto TruePlay, which is kind of neat.

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As always, we listen to our favorite song, a crab rave.

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Interesting. I don't really hear any

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self-limiting, which is kind of nice. At low volumes, we're losing a lot of the

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high end, and it's kind of like a little bit bassy and a little more thumpy,

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which I think is interesting. Normally, at lower volumes, you kind of boost the

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high end cuz your hearing goes a little weird. And then at maximum volume, it

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seems pretty okay. Maybe a little scratchy, but not too bad at all. I

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think this would sound nice. It's nice and loud. Not quite as directional as I

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was expecting. Obviously, kind of your main sound's coming out of here, but it

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does seem to open up everywhere. It's really hard to kind of pinpoint it when

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I'm doing this. Let's have another listen.

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Strangely bassy at low volumes.

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If I throw it over here, interestingly, it kind of sounds very similar, like

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even from the back, which is interesting. Like you don't lose too

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much. I wonder if there's some guides or something in there.

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Interesting. Interesting thing.

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Ah, loudness was on. And then at low volumes now, it kind of sounds much more

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like what I would expect. Nice and balanced, which is kind of good. Let's

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jump it back up to full volume. Sorry.

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Oops. Pretty damn loud, but I mean, it's in front of my face. Uh

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a little bit of scratchy on the high end. It seems like the tweetery things are here, and we got some bassy things

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there. Pretty good. Pretty even. But,

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you know, if you're blasting it, I don't know. I think it's fine. I think it It

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seems to punch in its weight class, especially with the build quality. I'm

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going to actually listen to song I know.

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Can X Zapata is one of my new favorites, and his album The Consensus of Reality

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is awesome. The Trans Margin Adventures

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of a JPEG.

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Crunchy. There we go. I never said I listen to normal music. Uh yeah, it was

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pretty okay. Pretty okay. I think they sound really nice in a pair. Um okay.

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Now, it's got line in, which is interesting.

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It's all through USB-C. They seem to have a pretty specialized dongle. You

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can use external dongles that may work,

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but apparently, they're saying that it's quite rare for you to be able to find

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one that will do a line in. Kind of nice to see. I would always like a 3 and 1/2

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mil, but I think I'm an old person now. My phone's got 3 and 1/2 mil, but not a

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lot of things are doing that anymore. I think if you wanted to hook this up to a

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record deck or something like that, maybe maybe

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maybe it's the children who are wrong. Maybe. Kind of neat thing about the

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Sonos ecosystem is if you put line in into just one of these, it'll do your

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entire house. Although, speaking of

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ecosystem, it looks like you can't use these with the home theater.

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I thought the Sonos was an ecosystem, and I think it's

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that you can't use every single speaker in their ecosystem.

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I don't know if that's a reasonable ask, but if I can have this one on my home

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theater, why can't I use all of them? I thought it was the Sonos system. I don't

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understand. Is that asking too much in current year to have an ecosystem

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product act as an ecosystem?

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Am I wrong? I mean, getting to use these as rear

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surrounds would be awesome. You know, you have them as stands behind the

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couch. You walk past your home theater couch as you're leaving the house. You

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just grab one and go. Why? Why? Why?

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Okay. Line in. Good throw. I have no idea if this is

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going to work, but we'll test it out. Put it in the butt. Put it in the butt.

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The iPhone is charging. That's kind of cool. This is one have the one as well

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or is that the other speaker? I don't know. It's already charging. Double charging.

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I mean, it's connected over Bluetooth.

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Your mileage may vary. Not for us, but it does charge the iPhone, which is kind

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of cool. Okay. Battery life on this guy lasts

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about 24 hours, but I want to see inside

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it. They show on the website that there's a little Allen tool and a pick.

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So, I've got my iFixit kit. I can see some of the rubber coming up here. So, I

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assume that this is where

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the battery lives. Unless this just has terrible build

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quality. No, look at that. I'm just going to come in here and rip this guy

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out. So, we probably got to do the other side as well. Website shows two screws.

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Look at me. It's like I've done this before. They're green, which is

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interesting. I wonder all the green is coming off. I think it could be some

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sort of warranty security thing. Wow.

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That was two screws. Current year. Yeah.

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That's it? Wow. Boring. Boring. I think it's just two 18650s

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kind of smooshed together. That's it. Does it still work? Wow, it

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doesn't still work. I wonder if it'll work if I put it on the stand. Let's say

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your batteries died and you don't want to buy a new one. We're getting a charging error light on the front there.

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All right. It's 10 years in the future. Your Sonos speakers still miraculously

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works for some reason. They've gone out of business and you can't get a new

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proprietary battery. Does it still play

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music? Nope. You're I can very easily see you being able to

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mod this in the future, but I am so happy to see

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user replaceable battery that is like easier

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than anything I've taken apart before. That is awesome.

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Now what? Let's have a look at our Era 100 SL. Just going to get that connected

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to our app. It's also got the Bluetooth and the things like that. I'm going to

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put it in the dining room cuz we have

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one of those. Now, this is a kitchen. I up. So, yeah, this is kind of

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like another model that goes into the Era line. I always kind of find it weird

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that you tack on extra letters to a worse product or maybe not worse, just a

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lower model variety. This one is about

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30 bucks cheaper than the normal Era 100. You can get this for 190 bucks.

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price point, at least to my ears. Maybe 200 bucks, but build quality's there and

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it seems like it's quite robust. You might be paying a little bit of the

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Sonos tax for that one, but 300 bucks for this is maybe a little bit above

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what I would consider worth it. Especially as if you want to

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do four of them, you're looking at a lot of money. Having the replaceable battery

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is awesome. Replaceable battery goes for $70. You can get a new base for $50 and

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you can get the 45 W charger for $30,

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not 45, which would have been funny. Dollar a watt. Let's go. They both come

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in black and white. Again, if you want it, maybe some spray bomb, put some

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plastic dip on them. Don't do that, please. Let's see if this guy is

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connected. The 100 SL also supports line

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in through the same USB-C hole on the back. It's got Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth

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5.3. They're saying that it's humidity resistant as well. So, maybe not like a

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bathroom, which would be kind of sick, but sort of a kitchen or an enclosed

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patio. I don't know how humid those get.

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Like, I'm pretty sure there's some climates in the world that are more

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humid than a kitchen, but let's give it a listen.

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I like the little pop of the volume slider here.

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Let's have some rap crave on it as well.

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Yeah, it sounds very similar. Maybe a little bit more refined at the super

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high end. It doesn't kind of feel like it's struggling a little bit. Otherwise,

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this is kind of also sounds fine. I have no problems with this. This is a $190

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speaker. This is That's kind of how much this costs. Maybe you're also paying for

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some water rating. This guy is IP67

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rated. I don't know. It's fine. Sonos is fine.

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I wish I could use them as their ecosystem and their, you know, home

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theater. Why can't you make a product that works in your ecosystem if

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you're trying to sell an ecosystem? Drives me crazy.

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Anyway, if you want to check out some more of my Sonos stuff, I did

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another unboxing on the Era 100 and 300

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couple years ago. That's in the video somewhere.

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Thanks.