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xPRESS, the Audio Keypad for Sonos, allows you to control your Sonos device anywhere, anytime. Play music, adjust volume, skip tracks, and assign favorites with the press of a button. You can also assign selected favorites to the Keypad to curate music for different parts of the house. And with custom scenes, you can group specific Sonos devices, setting the volume and playing the desired favorite from your Keypad.

The xPRESS Audio Keypad works on 2.4GHz WiFi and includes a rechargeable battery for 4 to 6 months of use before needing to be recharged. With options to magnetically mount your Keypad on a metallic surface, wall, or coffee table, xPRESS gives you instant control of your Sonos players throughout your home, allowing you to access music anywhere you want.

To set up your xPRESS, simply download the IPORT Connect App for iOS from the App Store, add your keypad to your network and add it to a Sonos device, choose a spot to install your keypad, and enjoy!

In this post, I’ll show you the five best remotes for your Sonos speakers. And I’ll throw in a solid budget option if you aren’t ready to go all in just yet.

It controls over 500,000 infrared and Bluetooth devices via Wi-Fi, so it’s likely compatible with all of your home entertainment equipment in addition to your Sonos speakers. You can also use it to control up to60 devices like your TV, cable box, other popular soundbars, your DVD player, projector, streaming boxes, and even Philips Hue lights.

The remote has customizable activity buttons that let you quickly access favorite channels, inputs, or streaming services. You can create an activity like “Watch Netflix” that automatically opens your favorite streaming player, turns on your Sonos soundbar, dims the lights, and launches Netflix for example.

Ah, the Harmony Elite. To quote a recent review I wrote on the Elite, there are 10 reasons that this mature, battle-tested remote just rocks. From its cool color LCD touchscreen to haptic feedback to the ability to integrate with Alexa and Google Assistant for voice control, this is really the best remote you can buy today.

Best of all? In addition to your Sonos speakers, you can also control your entire home entertainment setup and smart home stuff too. What’s more, Harmony’s support for “Activities” lets you integrate Sonos with other speakers such as your soundbar, home theater, and any other Bluetooth speakers you might own.

One for all Streamer is the easy way to control your Sonos soundbar and two additional devices. With four shortcut keys to your favorite streaming service, it’s never been easier to enjoy your favorite shows and music. The learning remote is straightforward to set up, and can copy functions directly from your original Sonos remote.

This remote will control IR devices only. This basically means it will work with Sonos sound bars but not Sonos Wifi-dependent speakers. It will also not work with RF devices like Amazon Firestick. Still, if you only want to control a few devices that include a Sonos soundbar, this is a very affordable option.

If you are interested in controlling your Sonos speakers via a wall switch in your home or apartment, the Lutron Caseta is an affordable way to go. This is a very popular option and it will let you adjust and control music from anywhere in your abode where you install it. It fully integrates with Sonos and customers report ease of setup with very few problems.

You will need a Lutron bridge (sold separately or as part of a bundle) to get this to work with Sonos. Once you have the bridge set up you can buy additional remotes for lights etc.  One bridge supports up to 75 Caseta devices so you can personalize your home and expand at your pace.

TJ Reishus has a wonderful demo of how to set up Lutron Smart Bridge with the Sonos app.  He moves fast, but this is exactly how you do it. I agree! Absolutely, genius!

The Brilliant Smart Home Control Panel is the perfect way to control your Sonos speakers, as well as lights and other smart devices in your home. With everyone at home able to be an in-wall DJ, the only thing you’ll argue with your family over is who gets to play their music next.

Brilliant Smart Home Control (1-Switch Panel) — Alexa Built-In & Compatible with Ring, Sonos, Hue, Google Nest, Wemo, SmartThings, Apple HomeKit — In-Wall Touchscreen Control for Lights, Music, & More

EASY SMART HOME CONTROL FOR EVERYONE: Brilliant touchscreen panels with built-in Alexa make it easy for everyone at home to control popular smart devices, lighting, cameras, locks, thermostats, intercom, scenes and more by simply replacing a light switch.

REPLACES A 1-GANG LIGHT SWITCH PANEL & REQUIRES NEUTRAL & GROUND WIRES: This 1-Switch Panel installs in a standard 1-gang electrical box. Includes a 5" LCD touchscreen, a built-in camera with privacy shutter and a built-in motion sensor.

Here is a comparison table that shows the major features of all my top three best remotes for Sonos speakers side-by-side. These are my universal hard remote picks. The differences between the keypads are fairly obvious.

Custom Activities such as “Good Morning” that turns on your lights, opens your blinds, starts the coffee maker and begins playing a specific Sonos station

Custom Activities such as “Good Morning” that turns on your lights, opens your blinds, starts the coffee maker and begins playing a specific Sonos station

Custom Activities such as “Good Morning” that turns on your lights, opens your blinds, starts the coffee maker and begins playing a specific Sonos station

Custom Activities such as “Good Morning” that turns on your lights, opens your blinds, starts the coffee maker and begins playing a specific Sonos station

If you can afford it, treat yourself to the Sofabaton X1. I use this remote to control my Sonos speakers, my Philips Hue lights, several streamers, as well as my home theater. And I love it for all of the above reasons.

What I like best personally about using x1 with Sonos is the Alexa integration. I can just say, “Alexa play Rock music.” And it automatically plays my Rock playlist on my Sonos speakers in the desired rooms at the desired volume.

Are remotes like x1 and the Harmony Elite too expensive to justify the cost?  What features are important to you when trying to control Sonos with a remote?  What is your take on the wall mounts?  If you really wanted to, you could install a few wall mounts in addition to using the X1 or Harmony remote for the ultimate in Sonos control.

A partnership with the music-video service Vevo allows you to use voice commands to search for music videos from your favorite artists. And as with other display-equipped Echos, lyrics scroll across the screen when you listen to music on Amazon’s own music-streaming service. This is an amenity I’d really like to see with other services, such as Spotify and Pandora.

Amazon put a slightly more powerful Class D amplifier in the new Echo Show (10 watts per channel, compared to 6 watts per channel in the original). Locating the 2-inch paper cone drivers to the left and right sides of the enclosure greatly increases stereo separation, and the new 9.3-square-inch passive radiator in the back of the unit really helps with bass response. I still found the second-generation Echo Show’s audio performance slightly inferior compared to the Google Assistant-powered JBL Link View. And being outfitted with discrete woofers and tweeters, I found that the Sonos One, Sonos Beam, Apple HomePod, and Google Home Max smart speakers all deliver much better sonic performances.

Those criticisms aside, the second-generation Echo Show is Amazon’s best-sounding smart speaker to date, and I imagine some people will like the pronounced Dolby effect. Besides, I’m sure there are also many people like me for whom music is the last thing they use smart speakers for. And unlike the current crop of Google Assistant-powered smart displays, the Echo Show and Echo Spot can be used in multi-room audio systems right along with other Alexa-powered speakers—including Sonos models.

The new Sonos Beam Gen 2 has a bevy of improvements including adding support for Dolby Atmos 3D sound while still keeping popular features such as AirPlay 2.

Sonos first brought Dolby Atmos to its product line with the impressive Arc soundbar. Now, it is being made available on the lower-cost and more compact Beam.

Fitting within the same footprint as its predecessor, the Sonos Beam Gen 2 has much of the same design but Sonos has replaced the fabric wrap with a new perforated plastic that should prove to be more durable.

Sonos says the overall sound on the Beam has improved and the adaptive TruePlay smart EQ is also present to ensure the best possible sound in your living room.

Just like the first generation device and almost all Sonos products, the Beam Gen 2 supports Apple AirPlay 2 making it an excellent choice for predominantly Apple households.

The Hisense U8H matches the excellent brightness and color performance of much pricier LCD TVs, and its Google TV smart platform is a welcome addition. But it’s available in only three screen sizes.

The Hisense U8H is the best LCD/LED TV for most people because it delivers the performance of a much pricier TV yet starts at under $1,000, for the smallest (55-inch) screen size. This TV utilizes quantum dots, a full-array backlight with mini-LEDs, and a 120 Hz refresh rate to deliver a great-looking 4K HDR image. It’s compatible with every major HDR format. And it’s equipped with two full-bandwidth HDMI 2.1 inputs to support 4K 120 Hz gaming from the newest Xbox and PlayStation consoles. Add in the intuitive, fully featured Google TV smart-TV platform, and the U8H’s price-to-performance ratio is of inarguable value.

That’s not to say the U8H has pixel-precise light control—it’s not an OLED TV, after all—but it does a terrific job most of the time. In fact, in our tests, the U8H bested last year’s upgrade pick, the Samsung QN90A, in certain scenarios: The intro to Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities on Netflix features the filmmaker against a pitch-black backdrop. Though last year’s QN90A failed to maintain perfect control over dimming elements during this scene (the black backdrop brightened distractingly once a sufficient amount of brighter content appeared on screen), the U8H did not. (For the record, the newer QN90B also passed this test.) The U8H’s mini-LEDs also help the screen look uniformly bright: Although the U8H is still not as good as an OLED TV in this respect, it shows very little indication of being a backlight-driven display, even during tricky scenes with large swaths of dim lighting.

The onboard Google TV smart platform is another feather in this TV’s cap. As usual, however, it will be much more satisfying to use if you have a Google account and already take advantage of Google’s connected services, like Photos. The experience of navigating the TV’s smart features—scanning QR codes to sign into apps, using the onscreen keyboard, and browsing your Google Photos to set a photo as a screensaver—was very satisfying in terms of responsiveness and speed. Powering on the TV and booting into an app took just seconds. The included Bluetooth remote is also equipped with a handy “Hey Google” button, allowing you to pull up Google’s assistant and use voice commands to search for content or set a reminder. If you have multiple users with their own Google accounts, you can designate separate profiles (attached to a Gmail account) so that each user can customize the experience to their liking, as well as access their own Google Drive or Photos. While some reviewers have reported instances of momentary freezing while using the U8H’s platform, I didn’t personally experience any instances of slowdown that were egregiously worse than with any other smart-TV platform.

In terms of design, the Hisense U8H is not as svelte as our upgrade pick, but it’s plenty sturdy and doesn’t look or feel cheap. Two narrow, metal feet jut out from beneath the panel and steadily hold the TV. They can be attached in two separate spots, either closer in toward the middle of the panel or out toward the edges, to account for different-size TV stands. The feet are also equipped with cable organization clasps—a nice touch for keeping your TV stand free of cable clutter. Though the TV is primarily plastic, its bezels are lined with metal strips, providing a bit more durability in the long run. I moved it around my home, and it was no worse for wear, but we’ll know more after doing some long-term testing.

The Hisense U8H has some difficulties with banding, or areas of uneven gradation, where transitions that should appear smooth instead look like “bands” of color (sometimes also called posterization). Like many current 4K HDR TVs, the U8H uses an 8-bit panel rather than a 10-bit panel, which affects the color decoding and color presentation process. This is usually relevant only with HDR video and games. When playing games on the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X, I saw a few instances where the content wasn’t rendered correctly and displayed ugly splotches of color on the screen. However, this almost always occurred during static screens (such as a pause menu or loading screen); I rarely spotted it during actual gameplay. Hisense has stated that it would address the problem in a future firmware update, but at the time of writing it was still present. This is a flaw that may give dedicated gamers pause, but we don’t consider it to be a dealbreaker for most people.

Finally, like most TVs that use vertical alignment (VA) LCD panels, the U8H has a limited horizontal viewing angle, which may be a bit annoying if you’re hoping to entertain a large crowd. Our upgrade pick uses a special wide-angle technology to address this.

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