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Here’s a bargain: Much of Sonos’ speakers and soundbars are 20% off through Cyber Monday. The sale is live now on the Sonos website as well as Best Buy, Target and other retailers. Almost everything is at its all-time low price, and while there are notable exclusions, including the Sonos Roam, Five, and Sub Mini, it’s always a great time to fill up your Sonos system.
You can pair either soundbar with other Sonos speakers or subwoofers to create a surround sound system. The Sub (third generation) is on sale for $599 at Best Buy and Sonos and pairs best with the Arc; the Sub Mini is (alas) not for sale.
The Sonos One is the best starting point for a Sonos system and is on sale for $176 at Best Buy and Sonos instead of $220. You can use one to fill an average sized room with sound. You can use two for stereo. You can pair them with Sonos speaker bars for surround sound. They are infinitely flexible and they are on sale. If you don’t know what to buy, take this one. The Sonos One SL (on sale for $160 at Best Buy and Sonos, a $30 discount) is slightly cheaper and doesn’t have microphones, so you have to talk to other machines to tell it what to do. It’s an advantage for some people.
[U]Unless you’re adamantly opposed to having pickups in your gadgets, I’d steer clear of the Roam SL. This only saves you $20 but loses some pretty important features like automatic Trueplay sound quality adjustment, the aforementioned Sound Swap feature, and (obviously) all voice interaction. For $99 or $129 I could absolutely see it. But $159 is too much to ask for the Roam SL.
Just under the wire. I guess that makes it a deal.
Sonos also has a variety of bundles on sale, but most offer no savings on buying each piece separately.
