Tested |Sonos Roam, a small loudspeaker with a big heart |The press

We may seek her faults, we only find peccadilles to blame the Sonos Roam.This small rechargeable speaker has an impressive autonomy, excellent sound, is compatible with all musical platforms, uses bluetooth, wifi and airplay and even transforms by assistant vocal on your terrace.It smells the perfect note.

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The Sonos Roam ("wandering" in English) is a small portable speaker 16.8 cm wide by 6.2 cm high, heavier than it seems with its 430 grams.It recharges with a USB-C or magnetic induction, with a wireless charger sold by Sonos.It is the second product of the genus of the Californian manufacturer after the MOVE.

Once full, his battery gives him an autonomy of ten hours, which makes him an ideal companion outside if we do not want to bother with extensions.It can be placed standing on its rectangular base, or lying on four small supports.

To configure it, you have to go through the Sonos application, a model of simplicity and what is nicely called "to be agnostic" in technology.This application incorporates very exactly 86 musical services, all those we use and know, and even obscure platforms that we have never heard of.

Quite turned around the pot.What is the sound of this Sonos Roam worth?He is impressive for his small size.

The bass is rich, and the definition of music is up to sound products, champions in this specific area.

We distinctly hear the instruments and the voice, supported by an enveloping bass.Obviously, such a compact speaker will not provide enough power for a dancing party, is not the most efficient for rock or hip-hop, but is a very pleasant companion outside for a good sound atmosphere.

We can also group two to form a stereo pair, a test that we did not do, but we gathered it to two Sonos One, thus forming a very immersive sound trio.

A new function called sound swap has been introduced.By placing the Sonos Roam near another Sonos apparatus and pressing the Play/Pause button for a long time, the music playing on the first will be transferred to the second.The opposite operation also works.The usefulness of this function did not seem obvious to us, since we can do better directly in the application.

Its connectivity is impressive.As Sonos offers it since 2005, you can connect and control it in wifi, from the application, which makes the loudspeaker completely independent of the phone or tablet.You can turn off your mobile device or move away, the Sonos Roam will draw its music directly from the designated platform.Under router range, Airplay can also be used for Apple devices.

If you don't have the internet or router, you can simply use Bluetooth.

If you don't want to bother with your phone, the speaker has three buttons on the left side for the volume and the break function.There is also a switch for the microphone.Because we can also integrate the two most efficient vocal assistants, Alexa and the Google assistant, who can comply with all the orders of these two artificial intelligences.The most obvious is to ask him the songs by artist, genre or reading list.The weather forecast, convert the degrees Celsius to Fahrenheit, the next meetings, the capital of Kazakhstan or lighting the terrace are some of the requests that we had fun submitting him.

If the rain falls on it or you escape it in a swimming pool, do not panic: it is classified IP67, capable of staying 30 minutes under a meter of water.

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The design has a single irritant: you never know too much if we have properly turned off the Sonos Roam.The rear button is poorly designed and, if you press a little too long, the speaker enters in Bluetooth pairing mode.

And Roam does not go out alone after a certain time of inactivity.We have inadvertently emptied his battery a few times.

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We have never had such generous portable speaker in your hands.The sound is excellent, although it does not have the 360 -degree range of certain models of Bose or Sony, nor their survitamin bass.

So yes, for its reasonable price, it is a purchase to highly recommend.