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Hello Sonos community, just wanted to share my joy with my Sonos system :D

For context, I'm a student and I'm still living with the fam. Everyone loves audio but Sonos is expensive so almost everything was bought second hand (apart from Amp and Roam SL) by splitting costs across the past few years

With a recent addition of a Playbase (free from a friend), my dining room's audio is much improved. I love its dispersion and how it produces a "wall of sound" rather than the One SL's narrow directed sound. It really fills up the dining room evenly. It means i don't have to turn up the volume too high when im way off axis.

In one bedroom the Ray ($250 second hand, sealed) has been used as a desktop speaker. The sheer bass output still amazes me. I don't know how Sonos has done it but kudos to them. However it was a little underwhelming in the living room, so there it goes continuing as a desktop speaker

The One SL ($179 display unit) has been shifted to the same bedroom. It makes for a nice bgm speaker

A Sonos One ($199 display unit) takes residency in the kitchen and is nicely tucked into the shelf. Ran Trueplay and it sounds amazing despite the not so ideal acoustic space 🍳

In the living room is the Amp ($800+ retail)

The fam believes in decent stereo seperation, so keeping the ancient floorstanding speakers was a non-negotiable 😆 Its beefy 250 watts easily blows up my living room audio and its always a blast on movie nights!

In my bedroom lies a Roam SL ($199 JB Hifi clearance)

I mainly use KEF for listening to music, but I do use the Roam SL for alarms and whenever I'd like to have music in the shower 🚿

In total we've spent about 1.5k on our system and have been enjoying it. The most used item is the Amp. Mom watches dramas, dad watches movies, bros be watching Youtube, i'll be blasting music. On movie nights, we shift the One/One SL over to make a 4.0 set up and it sounds so good!!

Conclusion:

Given the sheer longevity of Sonos products, I think they're very much worth buying second hand. Even the older products. Living with multiple people has helped with the costs and everyone benefits! I don't think I see myself getting the Eras or latest soundbars anytime soon. Or at least until Sonos decides to brick my speakers.

Hi guys, just wanna share my lovely experience with the Monitor III

UPGRADES

Firstly, this is a much needed upgrade of the Monitor series. There's finally some bass and the cusions are so comfyy. Improved ANC and battery life is a huge win too. ANC ain't close to Sony or Bose, but it's enough and not too aggressive.

Preferences

As someome who loves Enya's songs and instrumentals, this is a God-sent in the sea of overly V-shaped tuned headphones. Monitor's V-shape seem to be just nice. Just a nice hill rather than a mountain (red line). Vocals and instruments pop pretty nicely. Only issue with the tuning is that sometimes sounds sibilant, but sliding down 6.25kHz in the EQ helps.

Soundstage feature

It's alright. It does make vocals and rock somewhat feel like im in a concert. It has a reverb effect, but the actual soundstage doesn't seem to be affected by much. I dialed mine at 30% for small room. Too much made music sound echoish and the bass muddy.

Customized EQ

Every now and then I do listen to EDM and other elctronic music, so my customized EQ boosts the bass region (green line) Decided to set the M-button to toggle between default and customized EQ when I change from vocal/instruments to electronic. 6.25kHz dialed down too.

Overall happy with the performance. Slapped in an additional year of warranty because batteries will die at some point and given how much i'll be using these, I do see it happening in 2 years.

I was actually considering Sennheiser's Momentum 4/5, but the tuning sounded too clinical. Would have bought Bower's Px7 S3 if I had the money though

After 2 weeks of no bass, I finally got my hands on this Wharfedale D9 SW100.

Using REW, I heard audible bass from just the KEF eggs down to 80Hz and a peak around 125Hz (yellow) thanks to room gain. Strangely, adding my subwoofer seems to have caused a dip in the 85Hz (purple). It just so happens the crossover for the subwoofer is at 85Hz

Environment:
3m by 4.5m bedroom
Desktop use, table is drilled into the wall

Any way to fix this dip?

Hi guys, this is my first time using REW. Above is the in-room response (yellow curve) of my 3001SE eggs I've been using as desktop speakers. Thanks to wall and desk boundary gain, there's quite a gain in the 100Hz - 200Hz region. Thinking of getting a subwoofer because audio below 80Hz is hardly audible (apart from the 60Hz spike). Should I crossover at 80Hz, or as many have suggested, 100Hz/120Hz?

Yellow cruve - in-room response, near field, 50cm from both speakers, 10 degress off axis
Green curve - 7cm from speaker driver, on axis
Microphone - cheap uncalibrated microphone hanging on my Koss Porta Pro

Always wanted a KEF speaker for my desktop, but retail and even second hand prices seemed out of reach :(

UNTIL NOW because these were going at $200 for 4 pieces! These eggs (HTS3001SE) have a build quality I've never seen in speakers below the 1k mark. And these soundstage and layering is phenomenal.

DARE I SAY these are better than the LSX in mids and highs. I'll probably get a subwoofer real soon because these have practically no lower-mid bass.

Gonna use all 4 eggs for a the bed layer of a soon to be 4.1.2 set up in my room! Wish me luck :D