Surprisingly the Play:3 sounds even better than Play:5. The Play:5 is very good but the Play:3 is just amazing. The only drawback is the lack of jack input on Play:3, note the Sosnos wont/can't play play just any music from your laptop wirelessly - it transfers the music asynchronously over internal mesh network and there is a delay. So if you want to use it as a speaker while watching a pirated movie on your laptop you need to connect it via a jack-jack wire.