Sonos Roam 2 | Lightweight Portable Waterpoof Speaker with Bluetooth, WiFi, 10 hour battery life and Voice Control for Home and Outdoor Use - Black

I bought the Sonos Roam 2 for its portability, and it's been a great choice. It’s lightweight, and easy to take anywhere. The sound quality is excellent for its size, with clear vocals and good balance. Setup was quick, and switching between Bluetooth and Wi-Fi is simple. Battery lasts about 10 hours—enough for a day out. Perfect for home and outdoor use, especially if you're already in the Sonos ecosystem.

Great sound, compact, very portable can be used all over home and garden. Quality instrument. Easy set up.I have other sonos speakers and easy to add to system. However it is is also easy to set up if you only have this speaker. It has the ability to automatically alter settings for the best sound each time you move it to different room / area. Has excellent battery life 10 hrs and recharges rapidly. It may appear to be a little pricey for the size of speaker however it is a quality speaker.

This perfect for my use case. Dividing its time between the outdoor coffee table, the shelf in the shower and my bedside table, it’s an extremely portable, great sounding waterproof speaker. Unlike many of its rivals, it integrates into my Airplay list and can be easily combined with other speakers. I’ve heard reports it doesn’t get loud, it’s not bassy enough. I think given its size it does perfectly well. Up to medium loud volumes it’s composed and well balanced. Push it hard and of course things fall off after a point. Want something louder with more bass? You’re going to have to buy something bigger. For something so neat and portable, with the huge bonus of Airplay, this is the one.

This is a neat and very portable speaker. The triangular profile makes it easy to grab and set up anywhere. If you have an existing Sonos (S2) setup, it is easy to add to the system and you can then play music either directly through the Sonos app or by air casting from another app. (I have used this with Apple iOS devices). You can even send music via the Sonos website remotely. Sonos has had some stick recently but the issues around the new app seem to be being addressed. I found the setup and connection to be pretty straightforward and fairly solid.There is a wireless charging base available which makes it very convenient to grab and go - and also keep it available for use on the network. The original Sonos base is quite pricy but there are third party alternatives available. You can also find third party cases and silicone skins for protection.Sound quality is fair - you can't beat physics and you are not going to get body-rocking bass out of a speaker of this size but even so, I found it slightly disappointing when compared to the performance of a similar sized Bose speaker. Not dreadful but not the best small speaker I have heard.If you have existing Sonos system, this integrates well and is a reasonable choice for portable sound. If you are not already wedded to Sonos, then the case is rather more moot and this is perhaps not the most performant speaker of this sort of size available.

We bought this to use as a shower speaker that could also be taken with us on travels. In the past we have had various Bluetooth speakers (one even had Alexa built in but an update removed it much to my annoyance) which have worked well in the shower but found it sometimes a bit frustrating that you put a playlist on and you would maybe change your mind or a song came to mind you wanted to hear. Or you suddenly remembered something to add to your shopping list. So with those you would have to wait until you got out the shower. First world problems I know, but a solution seemed to exist with an alexa enabled waterproof speaker. already having a few sonos speakers in our house I have been impressed with the sound quality of those so figured this should be pretty good.I am not an audiophile so wont ramble on about highs, lows and sound stages, but will say to my uncultured ear, it sounds good to me!I wanted to write a review for anyone who has read anything about issues setting this up.The speaker came with slightly less than 50% charge, so I unpacked it and turned it on and started following the guide that is supplied. When told to, I opened the Sonos app on my android phone and there was a message there about setting up the roam 2. Easy peasy! I just followed the guidance in the app and got it set up (including firmware update it took around 5 mins all in, with no need to add WiFi password or anything like that. All done automatically!)It doesn't set Sonos voice or Alexa control as part of the set up process but I went into settings for the roam2 in the app and there was an easy to see button for adding either of those 2 voice assistants. I selected Alexa and it prompted me to sign into my amazon account.This is where things took a turn for the worse. No matter what I did it would not go beyond asking to set up amazon account. I just kept getting a spinning wheel. Frustrated, I went online and searched and found a long thread on the Sonos forums about this very issue. The fix (at this time) seemed to be to delete the amazon shopping app from my phone, then add the Alexa to sonos roam2 then reinstall amazon app. I couldn't be bothered with that so I opened my work iPhone and very easily set alexa on the roam2 from that. There were no issues signing into Amazon account via the iPhone app. Seems its an issue with android phones and not iPhone. So if you have access to an iPhone I would go down that route to set up Alexa. Otherwise you might need to delete your amazon app first.Anyhoooo, I got it all set up after that very easily, and Alexa is working wellAnother downside is that there is no wall plug for the speaker to charge it. just a cable. I plugged it into my bedside charger and checked the app to see if it was charging OK. The app said it was an incompatible charger and to change it. That being said it did charge up fully!But I went on the Sonos website to see what plug they recommend and they state any 5v 2a 10W plug (including Qi wireless pads) or their own wireless charger. Which looks neat and is magnetic, but pretty steep at near £50! I guess there's a convenience of just sitting it on the charger without having to plug anything in. But the charge port on the speaker is USB C and is easily accessible to plug a cable in (unlike ultimate ears speakers I have where teh charge port is very recessed under a rubber seal, so you need a specific cable to fitinto the recess and plug in. There is no real issue to plug in rather than wireless with the sonos roam. I decided to buy a sub £10 plug instead. I may buy the sonos official wireless charger at some point if I find charging to be a pain and I am feeling flush with cash!Anyway, all in all I am happy with my purchase. Yes, there are cheaper shower speakers that may or may not sound as good. But I really wanted the alexa integration, and that works well (after finally getting it set up!) There may be other Alexa enabled shower speakers, but having had one before and losing that capability after a few short months (thanks a bunch Ultimate Ears!!) I decided to go with the brand I already know and trustThe fact it is part of sonos ecosystem so it can be grouped with the other sonos is neat, but probably not something I will us often.

Perfect sound from a small portable speaker. It is amazing! Definitely a great addition. Stream music on the go. Brilliant!

Sonos say this connects to Google or Alexa. You have to download the Sonos App. Once downloaded, the app does NOT let you connect to Google or Alexa. I looked for a solution online and there are loads of people commenting that it doesn't connect and this has been going on a few years apparently. Why don't Sonos do something about their app.I would not recommend this speaker sadly. It does look and sound good, and is light and portable so if it worked on wifi properly I would be very happy.

Good sound quality and works with the Sonos ecosystem.