Sonos vs Bose: Which speaker brand is better?

Introduction: Good speaker brand is a necessity. To enjoy quality music we can look for several brands of speakers out there. Speakers can enhance our listening experience and make our living rooms, cars, office spaces melodious. Choosing the perfect speaker would depend on the listener’s taste, rhythm, budget, etc. At this age of wireless speakers, brands offer speakers with higher battery power, immersive sound quality, maintaining the beat and rhythm throughout. Today we will talk about two such brands which dominate and rivaled in this market with their quality products. The prices of such speakers vary from 50, 100, 200 dollars. Both Sonos and Bose have speakers with Wifi capabilities, Alexa compatible, have streaming services, etc. Today we will discuss which brand of speaker would be excellent for your homes.

Build: Both Bose and Sonos offer a premium audio experience with their speakers. Their design is beautiful and sound quality is amazing. Sonos has been in the business of wireless speaker technology since 2002 and users have found fewer issues from the speaker. Both of the brands have Amazon’s Alexa or Google Assistant-enabled. They directly connect with the internet which enables faster audio searches and offers immersive audio quality in your homes. Bose offers their Bose portable home speaker and the Bose home speaker 300 on various platforms. Bose home speaker 300 measures 2.1 pounds and doesn’t have an internal battery. The front-facing panel has a thin LED band and the control pad is full of touch-sensitive controls. It is also equipped with Bluetooth for switching to Bluetooth streaming. Both these models are cylindrical and look good in your homes. Bose and Sonos designed their respective brand of speakers to be highly praised by their user-base.

Features:  Both Bose and Sonos offer of the services of Google Assistant, Amazon’s Alexa helps in taking audio cues from their owners. Bose can use both Wifi and Bluetooth to stream music. Sonos is reliant on Wifi for its music streaming. The “Sonos One” has support for over 50 audio streaming platforms like Amazon Music, Spotify, Tuneln, etc. All these platforms support audio command making Sonos an excellent brand for users. Bose also offers noteworthy features like support to online music streaming platforms like Amazon Music, Apple Music, Spotify, etc. all of which are combines for seamless use. Music is launched by the bose music app making it easy to switch from radio and streaming services alike. Unfortunately, Sonos app has been able to bring all music streaming platforms under one roof making it a high user rated app. In this regard, Sonos is a bit ahead because of its app features compared to Bose speakers. 

Sounds:  The Sonos one has two class D amplifiers tuned to match one tweeter and one mid-range woofer. The sound produced is very impressive and engaging. Treble is very clear making it a product worthy of buying. On the other hand, Bose also offers immersive audio experience and its sound quality is exhilarating also making it a worthy purchase too. But users review show that in terms of audio experience Bose home speaker cannot match that of “Sonos One” or its expensive rivals. This makes “Sonos one” the better purchase for your home.

Battery life: “Sonos one” with its internal battery comes with a 10 hours playback time. Sonos speakers also come with suspend mode when it’s not being used making it save battery life. Bose home speaker promises a whooping 20 hours service period while in a stand-by period the speaker can last about 24 hours too. Bose exceeds Sonos in terms of battery duration making it worth a buy if you care about lasting battery time. 

Conclusion: Overall “Sonos One” and “Sonos play 5” have largely been praised for having seamless music search capabilities and excellent sound quality but poor battery life. Bose lags a little behind in audio streaming capabilities but has excellent battery back-up. Overall if you’d prefer immersive music quality over battery life then Sonos is the right call. But if you prefer longer battery back-up over a little compromise in sound quality and online audio streaming then Bose is the better choice.

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