Best Sonos Deals (2021): Never Pay Full Price For Sonos Speakers, Beam 2, Roam and more

Sonos is one of the most popular smart audio brands on the market. Its clever speaker system lets you wirelessly beam lossless audio from the biggest streaming services, including Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music HD, TiDAL, YouTube Music and more, as well as radio stations, playlists curated by the experts at Sonos, vinyl, and music backed-up to a local hard-drive. You can add up to a maximum of 32 Sonos speakers around the house, playing different albums or sources in different rooms – or syncing playback throughout the house. You can also add a Sonos Beam 2 or Sonos Arc to transform some of the wireless speakers in your house into a surround sound system for movie nights.

Deals on Sonos speakers can be few and far between (this year, the company only slashed £20 from the Sonos Roam as its only Black Friday discount, for example) so you need to act fast whenever something becomes available. Fortunately, there is a clever way to secure discounted Sonos kit all year round – and that’s by visiting Sonos’ official refurbished store. These speakers have all been revived by the technicians at Sonos and arrive in the same packaging as brand-new speakers. According to Sonos, its certified refurbished products “are thoroughly tested to ensure standard Sonos quality”. They even ship with the same one year warranty as the new models.

While refurbished products direct from Sonos will be serviced by the same engineers that work on the brand-new, boxed speakers, the same cannot be said of refurbished speakers bought from other third-party websites – so be careful out there. Refurbished Sonos speakers arrive in a box indistinguishable from the boxed new models, with everything individually wrapped inside and all of the same cables and documentation.

Since these speakers are refurbished, they’re not always in stock – so while it’s a good place to start your search, it shouldn’t be the only place that you look. Especially if you’re shopping with a tight deadline, like a birthday or Christmas breathing down your neck.

But the real difference between the refurbished speakers and the box-fresh options from Sonos – is the price. While a new Sonos One SL from Sonos will set you back £179, the same speaker can be bought as certified refurbished for just £129. That’s a £50 saving.

Even during Black Friday sales in previous (more fruitful) years, Sonos only reduced the price of its Sonos One speakers down by £40. So you’re getting a better deal than its Black Friday discounts – and no worries about limited stock as everyone rushes to order on the same day.

When bought refurbished from Sonos, the Sonos Move drops from £399 to £289 and the Sonos Beam (first generation) costs £289 compared to £449 for a brand-new, second-generation Sonos Beam soundbar. There’s also £100 off the price of the all-singing, all-dancing Sonos Arc too.

Of course, if you’re desperate for the best deals on new speakers, we’ll share any surprise price crunches below. Prices fluctuate all of the time, so please check back on a regular basis to find the latest discounts.

What Is Sonos?

Sonos was founded in the United States back in 2002 with a simple mission – to untether your audio from a single room and endless pesky cables. Long before the arrival of streaming services and technology like Apple AirPlay, Sonos required its own dedicated wireless network to link up to 32 speakers around your home. That’s all changed, with the latest speakers connecting to your existing Wi-Fi system and allowing anyone connected to that network to queue up a song from their personal library, switch to a different radio station, adjust the volume, or add an extra room into the mix.

By relying on Wi-Fi instead of Bluetooth, you don’t need to worry about the signal detonating as you walk into another room, or step outside into the garden. Streaming music over Wi-Fi is also lossless, so you’ll be able to beam CD-quality audio to every room in your house without a cable in sight. That’s something that’s just not possible with Bluetooth and other older wireless technologies.

Why Sonos?

A lot has changed since 2002 and Sonos isn’t the only company trying to revolutionise home audio. Some of the biggest technology companies, including Google and Amazon have added a number of the same features into their popular range of AI assistant-controlled smart speaker, Google Nest and Amazon Echo, respectively. Apple makes its AirPlay 2 standard available to a wide range of manufacturers, including Bose, Bowers & Wilkins, Marshall, and Roku to name a few, which allows iPhone, iPad and Mac owners to send lossless audio with a few taps – no need to dig into the settings menu, no need to pair with a new device and exchange a four-digit code…

But while the competition is fierce, Sonos remains a hugely popular option thanks to its incredible ease-of-use, design and sound quality. Since it’s such a popular brand, there is a thriving ecosystem of third-party stands, accessories, wall-mounts and much more that you simply won’t find with other options.

The breadth of the line-up from Sonos is also another advantage. As you can start with a single speaker – a Sonos One, for example – before deciding to upgrade the speaker system with your telly, or add a portable Sonos Roam ready for BBQs in the garden in the summer, the list goes on. And since Sonos doesn’t have a horse in the race, unlike Apple, Google and Amazon, it supports pretty much all streaming services and voice-activated AI assistants, including Alexa and Google Assistant.

That way, even if you switch from an iPhone to an Android phone, or from Apple Music to TiDAL, in the future – your home audio system will continue to work just as well as it always has. That’s certainly not the case for anyone who has deeply invested in HomePod and HomePod mini speakers at home.