Sonos | Older Products Still Worth Buying

The HiFi Brothers are here to recommend some old Sonos products that you should consider buying for your setup or if you are trying to start new.

Legacy Products: (stay away)
- Sonos Play:5 (Gen 1)
- Zone Players
- Connect*
- Connect:Amp*

*devices manufactured between 2011 and 2015 (Gen 2 are okay)

We didn’t want to recommend these products because they are hard to distinguish from each other. Also, we’ve heard that Sonos may remove support of these products sooner than later. Enter at your own risk.

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[thumb]

Great video Brothers! I have a mix of older, brand new, and symfonisk products. Started with a playbass from eBay in 2019 for $260, now I have 2 play1s, 3 play 5s (gen 2), and 1 play 3 all used and all going strong.

[johnsanabria]

I stumbled upon a Sonos Playbar in a thrift store I visit every weekend know what it was, never heard of the name. Took a gamble on it for $69.99. Bought an optical cabl e for it(rocketfish) for $40 . Put both together--what incredible sound!!! So for $110-120 I have theatre-like sound . And the SPB is 11 yrs old!

[dougiemac]

New sub!!!
Awesome video brothers!!
So much valuable information. Thank you. 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

[yoicer]

Hi brother i have Sonos play 3 and Sonos play 5 I want to hook up together and I can’t 😢, I can do for separate but no together, can you guys help me up whit any idea, I really appreciate any help .

[patricksquires]

6 Sonos 1s 3s and 5 - all 5 of them are 8 years old and running strong. I did have a warranty at year 3 on the 5 but mostly trouble free.

Not sure what feature I am actually missing. Never going to brick them - still very happy with them.

but… I would not be surprised if their eventually maliciously hacked since not being updated.

[larryraigrodski]

So lets say theoretically you are looking for a sub? Would you get gen 1, 2 or 3. I know they are all similar…

[gatlboye]

I currently have 2 Sonos Play 1's (Gen 1) and thinking about adding a couple used Play 3's to help fill the space and bolster the sound. I would eventually like to add a sub and other speakers. Would the Play 1's and 3's become a closed-end system or would they allow the ability to add components later? I currently only use them for playing music via Apple Music.

[VladBomb-qdbt]

Sonos 3 trying to airplay to tv so hard only radio speaker basically now sorta sucks

[df]

Would you recommend a gen 1 Sonos speaker (play 3 or 5) if I don't plan to link it to any other sonos speakers? I'm just looking for the best possible single speaker sound for the lowest price.

[BigBampot]

Are the Play 3 good as surround speakers for a Beam gen 2? I can get then cheaper than Play 1

[detomasso]

No folks, don't buy this garbage