Sonos Five
Sonos Five: Two-minute review The Sonos Five will look very familiar to anyone who knows their way around Sonos' 2015 Play:5 Gen. 2 (or even the 2009 inaugural Sonos Play:5, originally called the S5), but considering the brilliance of its innovative, long-standing and highly popular speaker heritage, it's no bad thing. The Five is the biggest and most powerful wireless home speaker in Sonos' range, and it sounds every inch as detailed and musically pleasing as we've come to expect from Sonos. This flagship iteration (released in June 2020) adds increased memory, snappier processing and a new, er, wireless radio feature. Not a huge upgrade then? Well, the last Play:5 was mightily good to start with – and the new all-white or all-black styling does look slightly sleeker. More than that, though, the new processor puts to rest any doubts you might have about future compatibility and firmware updates (even though the older Play:5 was already compatible with the company...