WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.720 Hey, it's Dan, back at it again at Crispy, looking at Bluetooth speakers. 00:00:03.360 --> 00:00:10.440 Today we have the Sonos Era 100 SL and 00:00:06.720 --> 00:00:12.680 the Sonos Play, both new offerings. And 00:00:10.440 --> 00:00:17.880 I'm excited to finally get to tear into something as the Sonos Play has a 00:00:15.920 --> 00:00:22.480 replaceable battery, which is kind of crazy for current year, and it's 00:00:20.480 --> 00:00:26.040 only $90. Sonos is bringing back the Play, which 00:00:24.080 --> 00:00:32.000 is branding that I didn't quite realize disappeared. They're a bit of a return 00:00:27.920 --> 00:00:33.560 to form for Sonos by seemingly 00:00:32.000 --> 00:00:38.560 not making everything worse for a change. Look, that's what it says on the 00:00:36.280 --> 00:00:42.560 notes. Hopefully, they can keep it up, but before that, let's take a gander 00:00:40.720 --> 00:00:46.600 with our peepers. Let's have a start with the Play here. 00:00:44.800 --> 00:00:51.640 Got that thing. I guess that's the speaker. And it looks 00:00:49.200 --> 00:00:56.560 like there's this wireless charging base, and that's all. I've got some 00:00:54.240 --> 00:01:03.160 setup instructions, which seem pretty simple, two steps besides having to make 00:00:59.440 --> 00:01:05.480 an account. And then we've also got our 00:01:03.160 --> 00:01:10.600 base. Well, it's got quite a nice long cable, which I was not expecting. It's 00:01:08.400 --> 00:01:15.840 almost as tall as Linus. That's nice. It's got this cool kind of rubbery 00:01:13.000 --> 00:01:21.320 soft-touch exterior with some feeties on the bottom. I'm I like the kind of the 00:01:18.560 --> 00:01:25.880 soft-touch feel, but it attracts dust like absolutely nothing else. So, 00:01:23.880 --> 00:01:30.560 hopefully that isn't too bad. And then we've got our speaker itself in this 00:01:28.840 --> 00:01:36.000 nice cloth bag. Pull that down. Ooh. I notice 00:01:32.760 --> 00:01:39.040 immediately that it has actual buttons, 00:01:36.000 --> 00:01:40.960 which is kind of awesome in, again, 00:01:39.040 --> 00:01:44.960 current year. Power button on the back. We've got a Bluetooth button here. Looks 00:01:43.000 --> 00:01:47.880 like this one has a microphone. There's a little lock for that. It's always nice 00:01:46.480 --> 00:01:52.080 to see. We've got our two little contacts here for the charger. Sonos 00:01:50.240 --> 00:01:57.440 branding. I always forget that it's kind of reversible, 00:01:54.120 --> 00:01:57.440 which is neat. Strap. 00:01:57.960 --> 00:02:04.920 Build quality is extremely sturdy. No 00:02:01.920 --> 00:02:07.920 pressure here. I think this would 00:02:04.920 --> 00:02:09.320 survive in the wild, certainly by me 00:02:07.920 --> 00:02:12.360 dropping things. Looks like I've turned it on. 00:02:13.320 --> 00:02:19.320 Sounds nice. Even getting some air out of the sides, which is kind of cool. 00:02:16.880 --> 00:02:23.480 Little green LED there. One thing notably missing from the box, I guess, 00:02:21.840 --> 00:02:28.640 is a charger or at least a a brick. That's kind of 00:02:26.720 --> 00:02:32.120 the go-to these days, which is a little disappointing, but whatever. I think 00:02:30.360 --> 00:02:37.520 it's fine. I think some of the problem is this one needs an 18-W So, I got a 00:02:34.360 --> 00:02:39.840 UGREEN 65-W USB-C. 00:02:37.520 --> 00:02:45.040 Like that. Goes into there like that. Not magnetic. God, it 00:02:42.840 --> 00:02:51.680 would have been nice to be magnetic. Why? Why? One thing that I kind of have 00:02:49.400 --> 00:02:54.760 noticed already is this is not removable. You could have just put a 00:02:52.880 --> 00:02:58.880 USB-C on there, too. I am immediately going to trip over this and dump it on 00:02:56.120 --> 00:03:05.360 the floor and then rip out the cord, and I'm clumsy and probably shouldn't own 00:03:00.560 --> 00:03:08.840 products. Okay. Let's have a look at its 00:03:05.360 --> 00:03:12.480 sister, maybe? The Era 100. 00:03:08.840 --> 00:03:13.760 Got our instructions to start with. Also 00:03:12.480 --> 00:03:20.640 setup. Tube. Ah. This one uses power. Nice long 00:03:17.160 --> 00:03:23.400 cable. Whoa. Wow. This one has the 00:03:20.640 --> 00:03:26.400 capacitive buttons, non-piano black top, which is nice. Should be easier to keep 00:03:25.120 --> 00:03:31.440 clean. You can tell I don't like fingerprints. Surround 00:03:28.520 --> 00:03:34.480 grill again. No movement at all, which is always kind of cool. Makes it feel a 00:03:33.080 --> 00:03:38.960 little bit more premium. Bluetooth button at the top, USB-C at the bottom. 00:03:36.920 --> 00:03:43.760 We'll talk about what that can do a bit later. We have a mounting hole here if 00:03:41.560 --> 00:03:49.680 you want to screw it into something, and our power plug goes here, yep, 00:03:47.560 --> 00:03:52.920 which is all nice and hidden. That's kind of cool. 00:03:51.160 --> 00:03:56.480 Neat. Man, I like that this doesn't have piano black, especially since you're going to be using this as your volume 00:03:55.520 --> 00:04:01.680 slider. You know who also doesn't have piano black? Our sponsor, Stein 00:04:00.280 --> 00:04:05.000 >> VPN. A lot of popular email service providers will scan and track certain 00:04:03.440 --> 00:04:08.240 data based on what pops up in your inbox. But ProtonMail is there to 00:04:06.680 --> 00:04:12.160 protect your inbox, keeping it free of ads, tracking pixels, or other things 00:04:10.160 --> 00:04:15.120 that go against your right to privacy. 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I think it can 00:04:39.600 --> 00:04:45.800 do up to four around the house, all kind of Bluetooth interconnected, mostly 00:04:43.280 --> 00:04:50.320 because these are kind of designed as a everywhere solution, if you if you know 00:04:47.760 --> 00:04:53.760 what I mean. They work on Wi-Fi internally, and then externally, you can 00:04:52.440 --> 00:04:59.520 take them and use them as a regular Bluetooth speaker. We're going to be using them as a Bluetooth speaker today, 00:04:57.280 --> 00:05:02.360 and yeah, they sit on there. God, it would be nice if they had magnets in the 00:05:01.160 --> 00:05:05.960 bottom, but then I guess you would be putting it down and it would go bloop. 00:05:04.600 --> 00:05:11.440 I don't see anything wrong with that. One thing about their app is you do need 00:05:08.800 --> 00:05:16.160 an account, but I mean, what is current year if not accounts? I've only had this 00:05:14.120 --> 00:05:22.280 detected it automatically. Let's push that add button and see what happens. 00:05:18.520 --> 00:05:22.280 Chime with an audio pin. 00:05:24.920 --> 00:05:30.120 It's a really interesting way to pair things, just kind of like have it make a 00:05:28.520 --> 00:05:33.920 little jingle. I don't think I've seen that before. Might be a Sonos standard, 00:05:32.480 --> 00:05:37.560 but the last time I looked at these, they didn't seem to do that. And it 00:05:35.920 --> 00:05:44.080 looks like it's automatically connecting it to the Wi-Fi. This is nice and simple. It's kind of a pretty refreshing 00:05:40.920 --> 00:05:47.320 way to handle this. Ah, and this is LMG 00:05:44.080 --> 00:05:49.440 5, so this has 5 GHz. Normally, I see 00:05:47.320 --> 00:05:52.800 IoT devices that just are on 2.4, and it's kind of like, okay, I got to make 00:05:51.040 --> 00:05:55.840 another network or I got to do them together or separate them, I 00:05:54.560 --> 00:06:02.120 don't know. And of course, it has an update, which I can't skip, which is so 00:05:58.200 --> 00:06:02.120 fun. Why do I accept this? 00:06:03.880 --> 00:06:08.280 Okay, that wasn't as long as I thought it was going to be. 00:06:08.560 --> 00:06:14.080 You can use Auto TruePlay, which is kind of neat. 00:06:12.000 --> 00:06:17.680 As always, we listen to our favorite song, a crab rave. 00:06:23.680 --> 00:06:29.320 Interesting. I don't really hear any 00:06:26.840 --> 00:06:33.440 self-limiting, which is kind of nice. At low volumes, we're losing a lot of the 00:06:31.520 --> 00:06:36.040 high end, and it's kind of like a little bit bassy and a little more thumpy, 00:06:34.680 --> 00:06:41.360 which I think is interesting. Normally, at lower volumes, you kind of boost the 00:06:38.640 --> 00:06:45.120 high end cuz your hearing goes a little weird. And then at maximum volume, it 00:06:43.520 --> 00:06:49.920 seems pretty okay. Maybe a little scratchy, but not too bad at all. I 00:06:47.680 --> 00:06:53.440 think this would sound nice. It's nice and loud. Not quite as directional as I 00:06:51.720 --> 00:06:57.240 was expecting. Obviously, kind of your main sound's coming out of here, but it 00:06:54.720 --> 00:07:00.760 does seem to open up everywhere. It's really hard to kind of pinpoint it when 00:06:59.080 --> 00:07:03.160 I'm doing this. Let's have another listen. 00:07:06.120 --> 00:07:11.720 Strangely bassy at low volumes. 00:07:09.840 --> 00:07:15.680 If I throw it over here, interestingly, it kind of sounds very similar, like 00:07:14.200 --> 00:07:19.560 even from the back, which is interesting. Like you don't lose too 00:07:17.600 --> 00:07:24.360 much. I wonder if there's some guides or something in there. 00:07:21.040 --> 00:07:26.920 Interesting. Interesting thing. 00:07:24.360 --> 00:07:30.600 Ah, loudness was on. And then at low volumes now, it kind of sounds much more 00:07:28.840 --> 00:07:35.440 like what I would expect. Nice and balanced, which is kind of good. Let's 00:07:33.640 --> 00:07:38.720 jump it back up to full volume. Sorry. 00:07:44.120 --> 00:07:49.480 Oops. Pretty damn loud, but I mean, it's in front of my face. Uh 00:07:48.360 --> 00:07:56.520 a little bit of scratchy on the high end. It seems like the tweetery things are here, and we got some bassy things 00:07:53.040 --> 00:07:58.160 there. Pretty good. Pretty even. But, 00:07:56.520 --> 00:08:01.640 you know, if you're blasting it, I don't know. I think it's fine. I think it It 00:08:00.120 --> 00:08:06.640 seems to punch in its weight class, especially with the build quality. I'm 00:08:03.240 --> 00:08:09.000 going to actually listen to song I know. 00:08:06.640 --> 00:08:15.760 Can X Zapata is one of my new favorites, and his album The Consensus of Reality 00:08:11.880 --> 00:08:18.680 is awesome. The Trans Margin Adventures 00:08:15.760 --> 00:08:18.680 of a JPEG. 00:08:25.600 --> 00:08:31.920 Crunchy. There we go. I never said I listen to normal music. Uh yeah, it was 00:08:30.240 --> 00:08:38.240 pretty okay. Pretty okay. I think they sound really nice in a pair. Um okay. 00:08:35.840 --> 00:08:44.320 Now, it's got line in, which is interesting. 00:08:41.800 --> 00:08:51.000 It's all through USB-C. They seem to have a pretty specialized dongle. You 00:08:47.120 --> 00:08:52.600 can use external dongles that may work, 00:08:51.000 --> 00:08:56.440 but apparently, they're saying that it's quite rare for you to be able to find 00:08:54.520 --> 00:09:02.000 one that will do a line in. Kind of nice to see. I would always like a 3 and 1/2 00:08:59.520 --> 00:09:06.960 mil, but I think I'm an old person now. My phone's got 3 and 1/2 mil, but not a 00:09:05.280 --> 00:09:10.840 lot of things are doing that anymore. I think if you wanted to hook this up to a 00:09:08.880 --> 00:09:15.760 record deck or something like that, maybe maybe 00:09:13.000 --> 00:09:20.680 maybe it's the children who are wrong. Maybe. Kind of neat thing about the 00:09:18.040 --> 00:09:25.880 Sonos ecosystem is if you put line in into just one of these, it'll do your 00:09:22.720 --> 00:09:28.080 entire house. Although, speaking of 00:09:25.880 --> 00:09:32.480 ecosystem, it looks like you can't use these with the home theater. 00:09:30.000 --> 00:09:35.880 I thought the Sonos was an ecosystem, and I think it's 00:09:33.920 --> 00:09:41.680 that you can't use every single speaker in their ecosystem. 00:09:39.040 --> 00:09:47.480 I don't know if that's a reasonable ask, but if I can have this one on my home 00:09:45.240 --> 00:09:52.080 theater, why can't I use all of them? I thought it was the Sonos system. I don't 00:09:49.360 --> 00:09:57.360 understand. Is that asking too much in current year to have an ecosystem 00:09:54.200 --> 00:09:59.120 product act as an ecosystem? 00:09:57.360 --> 00:10:01.960 Am I wrong? I mean, getting to use these as rear 00:10:00.640 --> 00:10:06.960 surrounds would be awesome. You know, you have them as stands behind the 00:10:04.040 --> 00:10:13.120 couch. You walk past your home theater couch as you're leaving the house. You 00:10:08.800 --> 00:10:14.000 just grab one and go. Why? Why? Why? 00:10:13.120 --> 00:10:19.240 Okay. Line in. Good throw. I have no idea if this is 00:10:17.560 --> 00:10:23.800 going to work, but we'll test it out. Put it in the butt. Put it in the butt. 00:10:21.800 --> 00:10:27.560 The iPhone is charging. That's kind of cool. This is one have the one as well 00:10:26.160 --> 00:10:34.360 or is that the other speaker? I don't know. It's already charging. Double charging. 00:10:30.800 --> 00:10:37.000 I mean, it's connected over Bluetooth. 00:10:34.360 --> 00:10:39.760 Your mileage may vary. Not for us, but it does charge the iPhone, which is kind 00:10:38.680 --> 00:10:47.400 of cool. Okay. Battery life on this guy lasts 00:10:42.560 --> 00:10:50.160 about 24 hours, but I want to see inside 00:10:47.400 --> 00:10:54.880 it. They show on the website that there's a little Allen tool and a pick. 00:10:52.720 --> 00:11:00.040 So, I've got my iFixit kit. I can see some of the rubber coming up here. So, I 00:10:56.960 --> 00:11:02.920 assume that this is where 00:11:00.040 --> 00:11:07.400 the battery lives. Unless this just has terrible build 00:11:04.720 --> 00:11:11.560 quality. No, look at that. I'm just going to come in here and rip this guy 00:11:09.960 --> 00:11:16.200 out. So, we probably got to do the other side as well. Website shows two screws. 00:11:14.680 --> 00:11:20.920 Look at me. It's like I've done this before. They're green, which is 00:11:18.120 --> 00:11:25.839 interesting. I wonder all the green is coming off. I think it could be some 00:11:22.640 --> 00:11:27.000 sort of warranty security thing. Wow. 00:11:25.839 --> 00:11:33.520 That was two screws. Current year. Yeah. 00:11:30.680 --> 00:11:39.400 That's it? Wow. Boring. Boring. I think it's just two 18650s 00:11:37.040 --> 00:11:43.320 kind of smooshed together. That's it. Does it still work? Wow, it 00:11:41.160 --> 00:11:47.160 doesn't still work. I wonder if it'll work if I put it on the stand. Let's say 00:11:45.760 --> 00:11:53.760 your batteries died and you don't want to buy a new one. We're getting a charging error light on the front there. 00:11:50.920 --> 00:11:57.560 All right. It's 10 years in the future. Your Sonos speakers still miraculously 00:11:55.839 --> 00:12:01.880 works for some reason. They've gone out of business and you can't get a new 00:11:58.880 --> 00:12:04.280 proprietary battery. Does it still play 00:12:01.880 --> 00:12:10.120 music? Nope. You're I can very easily see you being able to 00:12:07.880 --> 00:12:14.800 mod this in the future, but I am so happy to see 00:12:12.440 --> 00:12:18.320 user replaceable battery that is like easier 00:12:16.000 --> 00:12:23.440 than anything I've taken apart before. That is awesome. 00:12:20.640 --> 00:12:29.000 Now what? Let's have a look at our Era 100 SL. Just going to get that connected 00:12:26.400 --> 00:12:33.839 to our app. It's also got the Bluetooth and the things like that. I'm going to 00:12:30.839 --> 00:12:36.080 put it in the dining room cuz we have 00:12:33.839 --> 00:12:41.839 one of those. Now, this is a kitchen. I up. So, yeah, this is kind of 00:12:39.360 --> 00:12:47.360 like another model that goes into the Era line. I always kind of find it weird 00:12:44.880 --> 00:12:53.960 that you tack on extra letters to a worse product or maybe not worse, just a 00:12:50.360 --> 00:12:56.600 lower model variety. This one is about 00:12:53.960 --> 00:13:02.280 30 bucks cheaper than the normal Era 100. You can get this for 190 bucks. 00:13:00.000 --> 00:13:07.960 Play, on the other hand, is 300 bucks. I'm not entirely sure it hits the $300 00:13:05.800 --> 00:13:12.720 price point, at least to my ears. Maybe 200 bucks, but build quality's there and 00:13:10.960 --> 00:13:17.000 it seems like it's quite robust. You might be paying a little bit of the 00:13:14.360 --> 00:13:22.200 Sonos tax for that one, but 300 bucks for this is maybe a little bit above 00:13:20.120 --> 00:13:26.440 what I would consider worth it. Especially as if you want to 00:13:24.240 --> 00:13:30.880 do four of them, you're looking at a lot of money. Having the replaceable battery 00:13:28.520 --> 00:13:40.360 is awesome. Replaceable battery goes for $70. You can get a new base for $50 and 00:13:36.120 --> 00:13:42.880 you can get the 45 W charger for $30, 00:13:40.360 --> 00:13:47.760 not 45, which would have been funny. Dollar a watt. Let's go. They both come 00:13:45.640 --> 00:13:51.240 in black and white. Again, if you want it, maybe some spray bomb, put some 00:13:49.320 --> 00:13:56.880 plastic dip on them. Don't do that, please. Let's see if this guy is 00:13:53.000 --> 00:13:59.480 connected. The 100 SL also supports line 00:13:56.880 --> 00:14:04.600 in through the same USB-C hole on the back. It's got Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 00:14:02.000 --> 00:14:09.240 5.3. They're saying that it's humidity resistant as well. So, maybe not like a 00:14:07.600 --> 00:14:15.160 bathroom, which would be kind of sick, but sort of a kitchen or an enclosed 00:14:11.320 --> 00:14:16.839 patio. I don't know how humid those get. 00:14:15.160 --> 00:14:21.320 Like, I'm pretty sure there's some climates in the world that are more 00:14:18.480 --> 00:14:24.600 humid than a kitchen, but let's give it a listen. 00:14:22.959 --> 00:14:31.280 I like the little pop of the volume slider here. 00:14:26.320 --> 00:14:31.280 Let's have some rap crave on it as well. 00:14:41.079 --> 00:14:47.240 Yeah, it sounds very similar. Maybe a little bit more refined at the super 00:14:45.280 --> 00:14:51.520 high end. It doesn't kind of feel like it's struggling a little bit. Otherwise, 00:14:48.959 --> 00:14:55.760 this is kind of also sounds fine. I have no problems with this. This is a $190 00:14:53.880 --> 00:15:01.760 speaker. This is That's kind of how much this costs. Maybe you're also paying for 00:14:58.360 --> 00:15:02.959 some water rating. This guy is IP67 00:15:01.760 --> 00:15:06.760 rated. I don't know. It's fine. Sonos is fine. 00:15:05.079 --> 00:15:10.360 I wish I could use them as their ecosystem and their, you know, home 00:15:08.560 --> 00:15:14.720 theater. Why can't you make a product that works in your ecosystem if 00:15:12.920 --> 00:15:20.480 you're trying to sell an ecosystem? Drives me crazy. 00:15:17.760 --> 00:15:27.320 Anyway, if you want to check out some more of my Sonos stuff, I did 00:15:23.480 --> 00:15:30.200 another unboxing on the Era 100 and 300 00:15:27.320 --> 00:15:35.040 couple years ago. That's in the video somewhere. 00:15:32.520 --> 00:15:35.040 Thanks.