Sonos Roam Lowdown: Everything You Need To Know In 5 Minutes 

Whilst the Roam is a very good little speaker for my use (occasional use in the bathroom - maybe once a week), a lot of people on Sonos forums are very unhappy with the battery life when in standby. I power my speaker off completely after every use so it only loses about 1% per day so is acceptable. It then uses about 10% per hour of steaming tunein radio via wifi so again that is what the figures say I should get. The sound is a lot bigger than you'd think for such a small speaker and I had to take the bass down a few notches on mine to make it suitable for my ears, but that's easy to do in the app. What is unacceptable in my opinion is the battery drain people are experiencing in standby mode. I suspect it gets woken up every time one of the other speakers in the house are used and so doesn't remain in sleep mode. Sonos should also try and put a button in the app where you can tell the Roam to turn off completely because the button on the back of the Roam to do this can be a bit fiddly and I worry about the long term life of it with me using this button twice every time I use the Roam.

Okay, this idea to have a shorter review is a brilliant idea. It can be a drag when a review is too long or short, and it’s great to have a review of both lengths! Good review too!

Ordered a roam off you guys last week. Have to say the ordering experience was excellent by far the best tech buying journey I've had. And the roam has no right to sound as good as it does for its size !!

I live in Sweden 🇸🇪 but really enjoy your channel with sound reviews of SONOS products. You are thorough, calm and objective even though you do make money from selling these products. And you all are very clear and easy to understand for me as a non-native English speaker. I have been looking for a guide to pairing options though and I think you should make a video on this. What products can be paired with what as stereo pairs, as surrounds, add Sub to and possibly more useful combinations. Can you connect sub to a Roam stereo pair for instance? Does a pair of Ones + sub sound better than a pair of fives? I miss a comprehensive guide to this. And if anyone is suited to make one it’s you guys! Keep up the good work!

The roam has good sound. Had trouble with Google Assistant saying cannot connect to the network. Factory reset and seems ok so far

Here in the U,S, love your videos

Absolutely love it! I got this speaker as a gift and I love it! This review was absolutely helpful! Really helpful with the amount of detail about it!! Thank you!

The only downside I've found so far, is that there's no Bluetooth stereo pairing. Learned that the hard way when I brought both of mine on a trip. But these things get loud for their size

I’m waiting on a MOVE gen 2 with all these new ROAM features 😁 love my ROAM

Great video. Mine is currently permanetly plugged into the mains, would that be detremental to the battery life if used remotely?

I tried setting two Sonos Roam in a stereo pair, and the sound was really amazing. On a desk, the soundstage was awesome, for both movies and music. I would say it was quite “magical”…for the 10-15 minutes it lasted. It was so unreliable that I had to unpair them as it was not workable at all. Anyone experienced anything similar…?

Great video as always... sharing with friends as they are looking for quality speaker to carry on hikes.

Roam White would be great for apartment aesthetics!

This product cost 300 dollar in Malaysia along with the wireless charger. Best part is it took more than 10 hours to get it fully charged with their original wireless charger.

Can you do a sound comparison with the sonos move?

My real question is that. Can you use also as a TV. Is it sounds really loud surround like Dolby?

Bought mine for my car as my car stereo/speaker is rubbish. Gutted however that I can't use it as a handsfree speakerphone, hopefully Sonos might make an update for this as its a wide new open market in my opinion.

Very informative and well presented - clear and succinct . . . . don't know what it means but it sounds cool! Thank you! 😎👍😎

Can I use it for conference calls and zoom meetings?

If I hooked up a device with a Bluetooth transmitter would I be able to to connect it to the roam or the move?

Love 💕 your wonderful video’s from Oz 💗🇦🇺

Great video! Can you link the move and roam together on Bluetooth?

Can you tell me why my two move speakers won’t lip sync when watching films through airplay on my iPad Pro ?

Awesome Jonathan !

Great video! Is there anyway to have S1 and S2 working? I'll use the different apps for the different products but at the moment they're blocking each other. Thanks!

I returned mine! Bad connectivity and pretty ordinary sound! Bought KEF Muo...simply heads and hands down so much better.

How’s the stereo pairing mode?

Great video! I have two roams and neither will charge using a qi wireless charger. I have tried 5 different charging pads with quality high output USB power brick. Is this happening to others? It begins charging at first, but in a few hours of idle mode, the speaker actually loses charge.

Very helpful!!! Sold!

Hi Guys, I recently just purchased a Sonos Roam and today I found a track that makes the amps kick in. Could you play millionaire by Kelis and tell me what happens your Sonos Roam. I thought mine was defective because this never happened me on any of my Sonos speakers. Look forward to seeing if it is just my device. And play it at full volume 👍🏻

just ordered one :)

Is better than Marshall Stokwell 2 ?

Can it be paired with the Sonos port, to play music from my vinyl player into the garden?

How about it compare to Emberton

Can you select to play via Bluetooth even if in the house with WiFi connection available? Some radio stations such as 181.fm I can only access via Bluetooth (no longer on tunein).

Can it be paried with the move?

its great, enough said

I try to find a review where someone plays music on it but no one does

Why can’t the Roams become surround sounds to say a Beam plus Sub setup?

Can the true-play option of the Roam replace using the iPhone with true-play?

I NEED HELP My sonos roam pauses briefly while playing, I have it connected to my Sonos aRc

When will you have the white version back in stock?

Can it play music wired to your computer through USB

Bought and returned the Roam. On/off/bluetooth button is much too difficult to operate. The standby battery life is totally unacceptable. Sonos - go back to the drawing boards! One should never buy a brand new product until it has been tested in the field. Wait for it to be updated to fix any issues.

Is it as good as the JBL Flip 5?

I just got mine and I'm disappointed. There are parts of songs that I can't hear. I'm not sure whats wrong if it's a problem in the settings but it's like listening to a song with only one speaker. If it can't be resolved it's getting returned

Why is the Sonos Roam hard to turn on even if it's lights are on? I am finding this frustrating. Can anyone please give me a solution?

Thanks for not saying Alexa 😂

I was reading that the battery life is a con.

Had nothing but connectivity problems since mine arrived, hopefully a software update will sort it out otherwise it’s getting returned 👎🏻

Amazing speaker. Too bad the battery is trash

Can I ask an off video topic question...... it you have an arc, 2 x one SL'a and sub, and the sonslos app says your putting out 7.1.... is that true 7.1 due to the arc functionality or still not true as you should have 2 more one SL's???

Why?! Why can’t these be surround speakers for the tv? That’s the dumbest thing I’ve heard in so long. They are probably the absolute best option for pairing with the beam. The size makes them a great buy for the price and for that purpose… please forward the hate to Sonos so that they can learn from it.

I’ve literally not been able to use it ONCE without troubleshooting some BS.

Why can I pair 2 roams to sonos arc for surround ?

Don't waste your money on this tiny speaker. They should have made it bigger as the sound is not that good. Its very glichy as well. I have the Sonos arc and 2 ones speakers i use for my home theater plus one of the Ikea Sonos speakers in another room. They all sound great! I bought the roam and added it to my group. It worked fine till i was using it outside and the battery died. Major problem getting it to join my Sonos app again. They want you to reboot your rougher to get it to work again. I'm not going through all that to get this thing to work again. I did get it to work again kind of. The blue tooth works fine but it was cutting in and out on wifi and i was 5 feet from my rougher. I put it back in the box and returned it. To many problems I'm not interested in fixing with this.

If you could just get on with it, we could have a review in about 3 minutes

Mandatory WiFi for setup? No thanks! And what private data are they collecting from me and my local network??

floppy distorted bass

The Battery in standby mode ( sleep mode) for only ten hours returned this price of sh***t!!!!

It’s overpriced, overhyped crap. There saved ya 5 minutes. Don’t forget to hit the like button.

Dead after a year and 5 months. Solid orange light.

This shit is so overpriced compared to the competition. What you're buying is literally the Sonos name slapped on it

Zero sales to S1 customers. All that processing power yet not backwardly compatible. Fail