Sonos has been excluding its first music speaker designed for spatial audio from earlier gross sales occasions because it was launched final 12 months, so pay attention up: The corporate is promoting refurbished models of the Period 300 for $359, or $91 lower than retail. Sure, it is not model new, however Sonos’ refurb program has a very good monitor report. In the intervening time, solely the white Period 300s can be found at a reduction — the black model is offered out — however should you do not care about colour, then you’re going to get three free months of Apple Music together with your buy.
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Sonos is promoting refurbished Period 300 audio system for $91 lower than retail.
We discovered the Period 300 to be one of many best-sounding audio system Sonos has made after we reviewed it. The mannequin’s spatial audio expertise generally is a hit and miss in that generally, the Atmos variations of songs may sound like they’ve an excessive amount of reverb that the vocals get misplaced within the combine. However total, it exhibited glorious sound high quality and might make songs shine by reproducing bass, vocal and instrumentation in nice element. It makes songs sound wealthy, crisp and vibrant. We suggested not shopping for the Period 300 just for the sake of spatial audio in our assessment, for the reason that library of tracks that help the function stays fairly small. That might change sooner or later, although, particularly if Apple really does begin rewarding artists for providing their music in spatial audio.
It is price noting that Sonos recommends pairing two Period 300 audio system for “mind-bendlingly life like encompass sound,” and getting the cheaper variations would make {that a} extra reasonably priced prospect. The mannequin is fairly simple to arrange anyway — simply add the speaker to your Sonos app after which pair it together with your music companies of alternative — so having two or extra will not be a difficulty. In case you are searching for one thing else, although, Sonos is promoting extra refurbished units on its web site.
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