The Sonos Move 2 is Sonos’s portable smart speaker, which means it works as part of a whole-home Sonos system over Wi-Fi and then goes outside with you on Bluetooth. There is a handle molded into the back so you can carry it from one room to another, and the battery is rated at 24 hours per charge. Two angled tweeters and a midwoofer sit behind the grille, so the sound comes out in stereo rather than mono, as it did on the first Move. The speaker carries an IP56 rating, and a wireless charging base comes in the box.
Head over to Amazon to get the Sonos Move 2 Wireless Portable Speaker for just $399, down from its usual price of $499. That’s a $100 discount and 20% off.
A portable speaker with serious power that you can take anywhere
Most portable speakers are Bluetooth only, so once you carry one into the house, it is still tethered to whichever phone paired with it last. The Move 2 keeps a Wi-Fi connection and a Bluetooth connection going at the same time, which lets it behave like any other Sonos speaker in the kitchen and then switch to Bluetooth when you take it out to the driveway. You can group it with other Sonos units for multiroom playback, and AirPlay 2 works if you are on an iPhone.
Sonos changed the tweeter configuration to two angled tweeters instead of the original Move’s single tweeter, which allows for the stereo placement of instruments on each side, left and right. The midwoofer is a sealed-enclosure design under the tweeters and is responsible for the midrange and lower-frequency sounds, including vocals. It also helps keep the low end tight and prevents the bass from getting sloppy.
Automatic Trueplay is the part Sonos does differently from other brands. The microphones listen to how the sound bounces off the walls and furniture around the speaker, and the speaker adjusts its output to suit that space. Carry it from the living room out to the patio, and it retunes itself again with no setup on your end. On the original Move, this only worked over Wi-Fi, but here it works over Bluetooth too.
The 24-hour battery figure comes from testing at about 50 percent volume, so a loud afternoon outside will use it up sooner. Setting the speaker on the included charging base is how you refill it, though the USB-C port on the back also takes a USB-PD charger. That same port will charge your phone off the speaker’s battery, and with a separate Sonos line-in adapter it accepts a turntable.
Sonos charges $499 for the Move 2 most of the time, so $399 is a real cut on a speaker that came out in 2023 and has held up since. Do keep the weight in mind, because at roughly seven pounds, the Sonos Move 2 Wireless Portable Speaker is portable in the sense of moving room to room rather than something you throw in a backpack.
