Should you buy a Sonos?

The $200 Sonos One is an Alexa-enabled smart speaker with all the audio qualities of Sonos's lineup. With the help of Alexa, you can use your voice to control your music listening experience on Amazon Music, Spotify, Apple Music, and more.The Sonos One also features AirPlay 2 support, wireless syncing with other Sonos speakers and accessories, and humidity resistance if you decide you'd like a dedicated bathroom speaker.

The $150 Play:1 is Sonos' entry level player in its roundup. With its two dedicated amplifiers, single tweeter, and mid-range woofer, it produces a crisp high fidelity sound for your audio enjoyment. It is wall-mountable and humidity resistant, so you can place it in your bathroom without worrying about moisture damaging its components. While you can't get stereo sound out of one Play:1, if you buy two, you can set them up as a stereo pair of left and right speakers.

The $500 Play:5 is the biggest home speaker Sonos has on offer. With the heftier price tag, comes more features and bigger sound out of one player. Boasting six amplifiers, three tweeters, and three mid-range woofers, one Play:5 is all you need for big stereo sound. Like the Play:3 and Play:1, you can create a pair of stereo speakers with separate left and right channels, but it's not necessary for a stereo effect. Also like the Play:3, you can place it either vertically or horizontally without sacrificing sound quality. Like the Play:1, it is humidity resistant, so take one into the bathroom with you while you shower.It also features a separate line-in jack to which you can connect any device that produces sound and has a 3.5mm audio connector. For instance, you could connect any MP3 or CD player to your Play:5 and listen to music from those devices on any Play:5 in your home, even those to which the devices are not connected.

The $400 Sonos Beam is a compact soundbar with Amazon Alexa built right in. You'll be able to make use of the Beam's beam-forming microphones to give you the same voice control functionality that you'll find in the Sonos One. That means along with controlling your music, you'll be able to use your Beam to control supported smart home accessories in your home. It means you'll be able to do with the Sonos Beam everything you can do with any other Alexa-enabled device.

The $700 Playbar consists of nine speaker drivers: three tweeters and six midrange woofers. It also has nine separate amplifiers to boost its sound output. Using Dolby Digital Audio as the encoding for its virtual surround sound, it offers a superb home theater experience. It connects directly to your television via an optical cable, which is included.Are you a night-owl while your significant other is an early bird? Do you have children? If so, you can benefit from the NightSound feature of the Playbar. NightSound reduces the volume of crashes and bangs while ensuring that softer sounds remain audible so that you can watch the latest superhero movie late into the night without disturbing the rest of the house. Neat, huh?It also functions as a music player, which like the other players, connects to any device with WiFi capability and the internet to stream music through it and any additional players you have in your house.

The $700 Sonos Playbase is a TV stand with full-theater sound. It supports televisions up to 77lbs. This slim, low-profile stand is a home theater sound system that doesn't play around. With only two cords (one for power and one for your television), setting up the Playbase is simple. Once you've got it going, you'll be able to watch television and movies, listen to music and podcasts, stream audiobooks and the radio in rich sound. Thanks to Sonos's Trueplay technology, the Playbase will adjust its sound output based on the space in which it resides. So feel free to place it wherever you want it and let the Sonos system take care of the rest.

The $700 Sub is Sonos' subwoofer and adds richness and power to the bass notes in your Sonos setup. You can use it to add an extra layer (or fourteen) to your home theater system or your music listening system.With its two force-canceling speaker drivers set up so that they face each other, the Sub is capable of frequencies as low as 25 Hz without any cabinet noise.