![]() ![]() The road to slick home entertainment has never sounded, or looked, so sweet. If you've always discounted professional installs because you assumed sky-high pricing, it's definitely worth getting a quote because you really may be surprised. I may be using the Sonos Architectural system for home theater, but it's just as capable for a more discrete multi-room system, and the fact you can run several sets of Sonance speakers off a single Amp makes filling a much bigger space all the more realistic. The result is a system that sounds better and looks cleaner, and with the convenience that Sonos is known for. Voices are precisely placed, and extremely clear, the spread of sound is in a completely different league, and there is texture and depth to the bass. Not a massively surprising statement perhaps, given that it was competing with the TV’s speakers still, instant gratification nevertheless. well, I wouldn't try to give myself a filling instead of seeing an actual dentist, and I think this falls into the same category. It’s safe to say that the Arc was instantly impressive. Being able to hand that responsibility over to a team who absolutely knows what they're doing. Of course, you could just as easily discover a weekend or more of work, including patching up plaster or worse. You might even get lucky, cut the right sized hole in the ceiling or wall, and find no unpleasant surprises waiting for you inside. I'm fairly confident that Sonos Architectural could be installed by a reasonable DIYer. At the same time, the range tries to bring some of the polish Sonos is known for to pro-installs. ![]() Launched in early 2019, it shifts away from the self-contained model for the company's other speakers, instead assuming that the speakers and their amplification will be separate. The result was the Sonos Architectural by Sonance lineup. And then there's that they're exposed, anything that goes wrong the client can potentially see." There's this insane level of attention to detail and craftsmanship. There's this people-managing-expectations kind of skillset. What I was blown away with, was you think of an AV professional as a tech, kind of a nerdy person, but this profession is so much more than that. And then going on-site and seeing them applying their craft, their trade. In any case, we should find out more details about both speakers in the coming weeks."It started with Sonos Amp," Benjamin Rappoport, Director of Product Management for Architectural at Sonos, explained to me, "and it really started with going out in the field and first talking to installers in their home turf. It's also understood that you'll need to buy a so-called combo adapter if you want to plug in an Ethernet cable as neither speaker has a built-in port. Meanwhile, it's expected that Sonos will separately sell a line-in adaptor for USB-C audio. They'd be the first Sonos devices to do so. The report suggests they'll work with Trueplay calibration on Android phones. There are workarounds involving an Apple TV 4K and Sonos' soundbars, though for the time being, it seems that standalone Apple Music Dolby Atmos playback will remain an exclusive HomePod feature.īoth Era speakers are said to have WiFi 6, Bluetooth 5.0 and AirPlay 2 support. While the speaker reportedly supports spatial audio from Amazon Music Unlimited, it's believed that Sonos has not reached an agreement to stream Apple Music’s Dolby Atmos tracks directly on an Era 300. It's anticipated that the Era 300 will cost around $450, which is less than the Sonos Five. Like the Era 100, the 300 is said to support Bluetooth audio and USB-C line-in. The Verge indicated that, when a pair of the Era 300 speakers are combined with the Arc or Beam (Gen 2) soundbar - used as rear surround speakers in this case - they'll deliver Atmos surround sound with upward-firing audio. The drum-style Era 300, meanwhile, appears to have similarly indented controls and seems to be designed with spatial audio in mind.
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