Up at the top end, though, the rattle and hiss of The Magnetic Fields’ Andrew in Drag lacks a little body.
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It’s as adept at articulating a singer as any similarly priced portable rival. There’s no mistaking Waits’ voice, but even so the Sonos exposes so much detail it’s enough to make a listener’s throat sore. The extraordinary vocal performance during Tom Waits’ Heartattack and Vine allows the Move to show off its midrange poise and detail, too. And there’s plenty of texture and detail revealed, which helps definition no end. Bass notes start and stop on time, so the sound is of individual notes rather than a badly defined drone. There’s real control and authority to the bass sounds, despite how deep the Sonos extends and how hard it hits – everything moves along speedily, with negligible overhang.
Koushik’s Battle Rhymes for Battle Times demonstrates the ‘loud’ and ‘punchy’ aspects of the Move’s performance perfectly.
Down in the garden there are none of these boundaries, so if a speaker isn’t going to sound a) weedy or b) lost or c) both, it needs to be loud and punchy. In your home there are physical boundaries everywhere, which helps the sound of a speaker no end. The trouble with the outdoors, of course, is how open it is. The Move may share quite a lot, tonally at least, with its Play:5 stablemate, but it’s a far more effective outdoor proposition than anything else in the Sonos range. We’ve waited long enough for a portable Sonos speaker, so it’s good to find the company’s done a bit more than shoehorn a battery into one of its existing speakers and hoped for the best. As well as the USB-C socket, the Move is provided with a large mains-powered plastic ring in which it sits to charge – a bit like it’s got its own toilet seat. Sonos reckons the Move will last for ten hours on a single charge of its (replaceable) battery, and that the battery itself is good for 900 charges before it will need changing. Thanks to onboard accelerometers, Move knows when it’s been repositioned and will recalibrate itself accordingly. As well as using its own exhaustive mapping of numerous different listening environments, ‘Auto Trueplay’ also draws on user’s calibrations to recalibrate Move each time it’s, well, moved.
Sonos has finessed its ‘Trueplay’ feature to take account of the Move’s portability. In time-honoured Sonos fashion, details about the amount of Class D power delivered by the pair of onboard amplifiers, or indeed about the composition of the drivers, is conspicuous only by its absence.
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Regardless of whether you use Wi-Fi, Bluetooth or Apple AirPlay 2 to get music into the Move, though, it’ll be dealt with by a 16bit/44.1kHz DAC and delivered by a forward-facing mid/bass driver and a downward-facing tweeter sitting above an acoustic lens. Just as well, then, that Move has the best wireless range of any Sonos product, so if you’re just popping out into the garden (with the sunscreen and the mustard in the other hand, obviously) there’s every chance you’ll be able to maintain a Wi-Fi connection and not have to resort to Bluetooth at all.
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