Sonos doesn’t make stand-alone speakers: Every Sonos speaker (or soundbar or amp) is built to connect as part of a greater ecosystem, the same way an ant or bee is part of a colony. So when a Sonos speaker’s connection to its colony breaks down, as the new Play did for me in the first week of review, it’s extremely frustrating. When it follows a massive software debacle that affected users for months, it’s akin to a recurrence of a chronic injury. “This again?!” Sonos has worked hard to repair..