Reviewers Liked
- Great sound
- Excellent build quality
- Skips privacy concerns by dropping voice assistants
- Wide integration with music streaming services
Reviewers Didn't Like
- No Bluetooth
- Requires Trueplay tuning every time its moved
Sonos One SL
If you’re not interested in voice assistants, the One SL is a smarter choice than the Sonos One. Slightly cheaper, it offers the same great features and sound. Whether you’re after a standalone speaker or want home cinema rears for your Sonos system, the One SL is a super choice.
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By TrustedReviews
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If you’re not interested in voice assistants, the One SL is a smarter choice than the Sonos One. Slightly cheaper, it offers the same great features and sound. Whether you’re after a standalone speaker or want home cinema rears for your Sonos system, the One SL is a super choice.
By The AU Review
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At A$269, the SL is well-priced, albeit only slightly cheaper compared to the A$299 Sonos One. The small price bump represents a modest saving if you’re going for the stereo pair, but its still a saving. And it’s easy to justify shelling out less than $300 to make any home-cinema set-up significantly better. It’d be hard to find a smart speaker released in the past few years that isn’t placing a huge emphasis on voice control. For those who don’t really care for such a thing, the SL just makes perfect sense.
By TechRadar
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Hate voice control? Or simply don’t need it on everything? This microphone-less version of the Sonos One – in effect a direct replacement of the Sonos Play:1 – can be stereo-paired with a Sonos One and also used as home cinema rear speaker if you’ve got a Sonos Playbar, Playbase or Beam.
By What Hi-Fi?
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Whether stereo paired, added to a home theatre set-up or used solo, at this level it’s a solid sonic win from Sonos
By techadvisor.co.uk
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The One SL replaces the Play:1 as the cheapest Sonos speker in the range, and does a gret job of it. There's not a huge amount of change here but it wasn't needed.
By TechGearLab
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For those looking for a great sounding home speaker on a budget, the Sonos SL is a fantastic choice. It booms with such bass power and sings with such clarity that belie its small stature, and does so while costing significantly less than many of the top models in the market. It also comes with the ability to easily pair with other Sonos speakers, should you ever have the desire and ability to start expanding into a multi-speaker system.
By WorldWideStereo
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Overall, this is a nice upgrade for the single speaker, the Play One, the Sonos One just to have no microphones, some people don't want that. So you don't get that here, but it's the same sound quality that you've come to expect from Sonos. So it's a great sounding single speaker. Create that stereo pair or whatever you want.
By Pocket-lint
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With a design and internals the same as the Sonos One, the Sonos One SL has all the foundations to be another fantastic speaker from Sonos and one that meets the needs of those after a little more privacy too.
By Computer Bild
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The Sonos One SL is the smallest speaker in the large Sonos family. Acoustically, it corresponds to the tried and tested Sonos Play:1, but is additionally equipped with AirPlay. This technically resembles the Sonos One, but dispenses with built-in microphones for Alexa and Google Assistant. There's nothing wrong with the warm and pleasant sound, apple mobile device owners should use the Trueplay automatic measurement for sonic fine-tuning. The infinite choice of music from all imaginable streaming services is typical of Sonos.