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the last few years so nose has been steadily adding speakers to its multi-room audio lineup but his flagship tabletop speaker the play five hasn't changed in six years until now that is this is the new play five a bigger sleeker and significantly better sounding speaker it costs five hundred dollars or a hundred dollars more than the previous model but after hearing it I'd say it's worth the extra dough it comes in two colors white and black and can be placed either horizontally or vertically in three different orientations total I personally liked the look of its standing vertically and while the speaker works well as a single speaker with a wider soundstage and better clarity than the previous play five if you can spring for two of these guys can create a stereo pair and get some real stereo separation the speaker also delivers significantly more bass than the previous play five it's got six drivers including three mid woofers and three tweeters as you'd expect the new speaker works with all of sonís existing smart speakers and the company has created a new true play tuning system to help you get the best sound out of your sono speaker's based on their placement in a particular room you calibrate your speaker or speakers using a free app and the microphone on your iPhone or iPad initially at least true play is iOS only though Sonos does have both iOS and Android apps to set up and control your system on your mobile device the speaker itself does have new touch controls that enable you to play pause adjust volume and change the track and what's cool is that smart sensors in the speaker make the touch controls responsive to all orientations so the volume up is always facing up we'll have more about the sound in our text review but that's a quick first look at sonís is new and improved and slightly pricier flagship speaker to play five I'm David Carly from cnet.com thanks for watching