The Unboxing and Initial Impressions of Sonos S5

I'm excited to play with Wolf Gang's Vault, but I think we're going to check out this new Sonos S5 instead. Seriously, I do love Wolf Gang's Vault, but there you go, let's take a look at the Sonos S5 off this too. I love the Sonos S5 seriously, I do. Uh, so there you go, um, going to check this out, let's take it out of the box, we'll get this set up and uh then we will show you how the Android app works.

Kind of hard to do the unboxing here cuz uh this is up high on a table and these things are so tall. So I think we're going to do this, I'm just going to pull the stuff out of the box to show you. In the Box, you get your congratulatory message, "You bought something," and your user guide and all that stuff. You also get your setup CD, so you can get this hooked up to your internet connection and your network music and all that kind of goodness.

Here's the unit itself, smaller than even smaller than it appeared um from the box. I'll show you that in a second inside this box here, you also get there's your power cord and an Ethernet cable, so you can hook yourself up some electricity into your router. You also get a 3 and 1/12 mm cord, uh the device the device the system comes in black and white, someone El was nice enough to give me a choice I opted for the black, so thank you.

I'm staring at it, I'm staring at the thing, it's white, and I said black, go figure. You can't pay attention to yourself who can you pay attention to? So take this out of the bag here, bag is sealed at the top, how do they do that, how do they seal bags, crazy. Now obviously, the size of this thing, you know it doesn't matter if it doesn't perform well and sound good but uh I'm impressed at how small this is, how unobtrusive.

For reference, you know sizewise here's a uh here's a computer keyboard, Little Apple keyboard, I mean literally, it's not that much bigger than the Apple, I mean it is bigger but not that much bigger. Uh what else for size comparison here's a pair of scissors, not all that much taller than a pair of scissors. Here is a ping pong paddle, so you know, it's really not all that big.

Uh depthwise, you know, it's not even as deep as a ping pong paddle is wide to give you an idea um on the top, you've got volume and mute controls with little LED indicator light on the front. Obviously, nothing just your speakers on your base on the back, you've got headphone jack, looks like an audio in Jack there's your AC adapter connection and then uh there are two ports for Ethernet in and out.

Again, you know I think you have to connect one of these uh to your router to get things happening but then you can um connect separately, you know, you form a wireless mesh network uh between the Sonos devices or you can use that bridge that they sent to get this set up. So I'm going to get this thing set up, going to get the Android app happening, maybe do a little comparison between the Android app and the iTunes or the Apple app as well.

And then also, you know me personally, I'm very curious about the difference between using this and using something like uh Apple TV which I already have set up. Apple TV 2 the current generation is $99, the old Apple TV I bought used, I actually bought one because it had a hard drive in and I could use it as a music server and then the Apple remote app is free.

I've been using that in my house for a while now and it's a little bit wonky when it works. It works great but sometimes there are delays in it uh you know queuing up the Music, delays and you know if I'm playing music and then I uh the app has gone to sleep and I open the app back up on a phone or on the iPad to change the music sometimes there's delays there.

You know, it's a little bit wonky. Keep using the word wonky, so you know for $99 a pop with the iTunes, the Apple TV unit rather versus $400 a pop for these S5s now granted you know with the S5 You' got the speakers all built in and everything you don't have to hook it up to an external speaker Source but still you know wondering how much better is the Sonos how does this perform uh by itself you know as a one box music system all that kind of stuff.

We're going to find out. Thanks again to Sonos for sending this our way, and we'll have much more coverage of the Sonos S5 on this channel.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enI got a big box what's inside sonos.com Android let's find out what is happening everybody I'm Noah from technobuffalo.com and a couple weeks ago the folks from Sonos reached out to me and said hey to celebrate the launch of our new uh andro and Roid app for the Sonos player we want to send you a Sonos system so you can check out the uh Android app try out the system see what you think and I said all right and so they sent me the system here it is right here the Sonos S5 uh I was on the road last week it actually arrived last week but uh here it is now and basically what you get with the S5 is it's a no wait a second time out time out time out full FTC disclosure I was sent a t-shirt it's the old I like the way they did that I wonder if they had to pay maxl it's the old maxl ad um it's the old maxl ad with the uh the dude being blown away by the sound system but it's the Android Robot that's pretty funny I like that uh anyway so they sent me the system and it's the Sonos S5 which is a self-contained system Sonos Sonos has been out for a while now I once actually saw Herby Hancock the jack as Legend at the Sonos booth at uh Mac world uh way back when uh talking with those guys Sonos is pretty cool I've actually played with the Sonos a while ago and it's it's a you know it's a high-end uh I mean not like super high-end but for Consumer level high-end digital music system lets you wirelessly you know play your music off of a NAS drive or something like that or off the internet and uh you can play your music you know around um different stations in the house you can play different songs on different stations or the same stuff synced up across you know the the different ation that kind of thing now with the Advent of these um you know touchscreen devices like iPad and and iPhone and now the iPad touch and other Android devices you don't have to buy the separate Sonos controller so you can get a lower cost system uh so here's the S5 it's the uh the Sonos S5 here it's a um an all-in-one system it's got your speakers built in uh you can play your music again you have to you know it's Internet connected so you can play stuff off of the internet but uh you have to if you want your own music on here you have to supply it somehow so with a network attached storage Drive uh Apple Time Capsule something like that but uh this device right here the The Zone player S5 it's got the speakers built in so it's a full-on music system uh five driver speaker system with five dedicated digital amps two tweeters two mid-range drivers and one bass driver uh everything's in there you can play off of an iTunes library on a compter computer uh you can play off the internet it connects you know iTunes like I said dieser last FM Napster Pandora rapity Sirius all that stuff and there it is you can get the Sonos controller or you can use the app and now you know again the whole thing here is the Android app so got in the Box we got two of these S5s uh I'm going to set up a two room system and then we've got this Sonos Bridge 100 here so we'll get the system hooked up and the bridge will let me connect to my router um so I can set the S5s up anywhere uh so I don't have to have the router in the same room as the S5 so that's cool so there you go oh I can play wolf gang's Vault off this too I love wolf gang's Vault seriously I do uh so there you go um going to check this out let's take it out of the box we'll get this set up and uh then we will show you how the Android app works kind of hard to do the unboxing here cuz uh this is up high on a table and these things are so tall so I think we're going to do this I'm just going to pull the stuff out of the box to show you so in the Box you get your uh your congrat ulations you bought something uh and your user guide and all that stuff you get your setup CD so you can get this hooked up to your um internet connection and your network music and all that kind of goodness and here's the unit itself smaller than even smaller than it than it appeared um from the box I'll show you that in a second inside this box here you also get there's your power cord and an Ethernet cable so you can hook yourself up some electricity into your router you also get a 3 and 1 12 mm cord uh the device the device the system comes in black and white uh someone El was nice enough to give me a choice I opted for the black so thank you I'm did I just say black I opted for the white wow I'm staring at it I'm staring at the thing it's white and I said black go figure you can't pay attention to yourself who can you pay attention to so take this out of the out of the bag here bag is sealed at the top how do they do that how do they seal bags crazy now obviously the size of this thing you know it doesn't matter if it doesn't perform well and sound good but uh I'm impressed at how you know how small this is how unobtrusive uh for reference you know sizewise here's a uh here's a computer keyboard Little Apple keyboard I mean literally it's not that much bigger you know than the Apple I mean it is bigger but not that much bigger uh what else for size comparison here's a pair of scissors not all that much taller than a pair of scissors uh here is a ping pong paddle so you know it's really not all that big uh depthwise you know it's it's not even as deep as a ping pong paddle is wide to give you an idea um on the top you've got volume and mute controls with little LED indicator light on the front obviously nothing just your speakers on your base on the back you've got headphone jack looks like an audio in Jack there's your AC adapter connection and then uh there are two ports for ethernet in and out and uh again you know I think you have to connect one of these uh to your router to get things happening but then you can um connect separately you know you form a wireless mesh network uh between the Sonos devices or you can use that bridge that they sent to get this set up so I'm going to get this thing set up going to get the Android app happening maybe do a little comparison between the Android app and the iTune or the Apple app as well and then also you know me personally I'm very I'm very uh Curious the difference between using this and using something like uh Apple TV which I already have set up um Apple TV 2 the current generation is 99 bucks the old Apple TV I bought used I actually bought one because it had a hard drive in and I could use it as a music server and then the Apple remote app is free uh I've been using that in my house for a while now and it's a little bit wonky when it works it works great but sometimes there are delays in it uh you know queuing Up the Music delays and you know if I'm playing music and then I uh the app has gone to sleep and I open the app back up on a phone or on the iPad to change the music sometimes there's delays there you know it's a little bit it's a little bit uh wonky I keep using the word wonky so you know for 99 bucks a pop with the iTunes the Apple TV unit rather versus $400 a pop for these S5s now granted you know with the S5 You' got the speakers all built in and everything you don't have to hook it up to an external speak speaker Source but still you know wondering how much better is the Sonos how does this perform uh by itself you know as a one box music system all that kind of stuff we're going to find out thanks again to Sonos for sending this our way and we'll have much more coverage of the Sonos S5 the Android app all that stuff on technobuffalo.com till next time me and my my big head my name is Noah see you laterI got a big box what's inside sonos.com Android let's find out what is happening everybody I'm Noah from technobuffalo.com and a couple weeks ago the folks from Sonos reached out to me and said hey to celebrate the launch of our new uh andro and Roid app for the Sonos player we want to send you a Sonos system so you can check out the uh Android app try out the system see what you think and I said all right and so they sent me the system here it is right here the Sonos S5 uh I was on the road last week it actually arrived last week but uh here it is now and basically what you get with the S5 is it's a no wait a second time out time out time out full FTC disclosure I was sent a t-shirt it's the old I like the way they did that I wonder if they had to pay maxl it's the old maxl ad um it's the old maxl ad with the uh the dude being blown away by the sound system but it's the Android Robot that's pretty funny I like that uh anyway so they sent me the system and it's the Sonos S5 which is a self-contained system Sonos Sonos has been out for a while now I once actually saw Herby Hancock the jack as Legend at the Sonos booth at uh Mac world uh way back when uh talking with those guys Sonos is pretty cool I've actually played with the Sonos a while ago and it's it's a you know it's a high-end uh I mean not like super high-end but for Consumer level high-end digital music system lets you wirelessly you know play your music off of a NAS drive or something like that or off the internet and uh you can play your music you know around um different stations in the house you can play different songs on different stations or the same stuff synced up across you know the the different ation that kind of thing now with the Advent of these um you know touchscreen devices like iPad and and iPhone and now the iPad touch and other Android devices you don't have to buy the separate Sonos controller so you can get a lower cost system uh so here's the S5 it's the uh the Sonos S5 here it's a um an all-in-one system it's got your speakers built in uh you can play your music again you have to you know it's Internet connected so you can play stuff off of the internet but uh you have to if you want your own music on here you have to supply it somehow so with a network attached storage Drive uh Apple Time Capsule something like that but uh this device right here the The Zone player S5 it's got the speakers built in so it's a full-on music system uh five driver speaker system with five dedicated digital amps two tweeters two mid-range drivers and one bass driver uh everything's in there you can play off of an iTunes library on a compter computer uh you can play off the internet it connects you know iTunes like I said dieser last FM Napster Pandora rapity Sirius all that stuff and there it is you can get the Sonos controller or you can use the app and now you know again the whole thing here is the Android app so got in the Box we got two of these S5s uh I'm going to set up a two room system and then we've got this Sonos Bridge 100 here so we'll get the system hooked up and the bridge will let me connect to my router um so I can set the S5s up anywhere uh so I don't have to have the router in the same room as the S5 so that's cool so there you go oh I can play wolf gang's Vault off this too I love wolf gang's Vault seriously I do uh so there you go um going to check this out let's take it out of the box we'll get this set up and uh then we will show you how the Android app works kind of hard to do the unboxing here cuz uh this is up high on a table and these things are so tall so I think we're going to do this I'm just going to pull the stuff out of the box to show you so in the Box you get your uh your congrat ulations you bought something uh and your user guide and all that stuff you get your setup CD so you can get this hooked up to your um internet connection and your network music and all that kind of goodness and here's the unit itself smaller than even smaller than it than it appeared um from the box I'll show you that in a second inside this box here you also get there's your power cord and an Ethernet cable so you can hook yourself up some electricity into your router you also get a 3 and 1 12 mm cord uh the device the device the system comes in black and white uh someone El was nice enough to give me a choice I opted for the black so thank you I'm did I just say black I opted for the white wow I'm staring at it I'm staring at the thing it's white and I said black go figure you can't pay attention to yourself who can you pay attention to so take this out of the out of the bag here bag is sealed at the top how do they do that how do they seal bags crazy now obviously the size of this thing you know it doesn't matter if it doesn't perform well and sound good but uh I'm impressed at how you know how small this is how unobtrusive uh for reference you know sizewise here's a uh here's a computer keyboard Little Apple keyboard I mean literally it's not that much bigger you know than the Apple I mean it is bigger but not that much bigger uh what else for size comparison here's a pair of scissors not all that much taller than a pair of scissors uh here is a ping pong paddle so you know it's really not all that big uh depthwise you know it's it's not even as deep as a ping pong paddle is wide to give you an idea um on the top you've got volume and mute controls with little LED indicator light on the front obviously nothing just your speakers on your base on the back you've got headphone jack looks like an audio in Jack there's your AC adapter connection and then uh there are two ports for ethernet in and out and uh again you know I think you have to connect one of these uh to your router to get things happening but then you can um connect separately you know you form a wireless mesh network uh between the Sonos devices or you can use that bridge that they sent to get this set up so I'm going to get this thing set up going to get the Android app happening maybe do a little comparison between the Android app and the iTune or the Apple app as well and then also you know me personally I'm very I'm very uh Curious the difference between using this and using something like uh Apple TV which I already have set up um Apple TV 2 the current generation is 99 bucks the old Apple TV I bought used I actually bought one because it had a hard drive in and I could use it as a music server and then the Apple remote app is free uh I've been using that in my house for a while now and it's a little bit wonky when it works it works great but sometimes there are delays in it uh you know queuing Up the Music delays and you know if I'm playing music and then I uh the app has gone to sleep and I open the app back up on a phone or on the iPad to change the music sometimes there's delays there you know it's a little bit it's a little bit uh wonky I keep using the word wonky so you know for 99 bucks a pop with the iTunes the Apple TV unit rather versus $400 a pop for these S5s now granted you know with the S5 You' got the speakers all built in and everything you don't have to hook it up to an external speak speaker Source but still you know wondering how much better is the Sonos how does this perform uh by itself you know as a one box music system all that kind of stuff we're going to find out thanks again to Sonos for sending this our way and we'll have much more coverage of the Sonos S5 the Android app all that stuff on technobuffalo.com till next time me and my my big head my name is Noah see you later\n"