While Sonos continues to squash bugs and improve the performance of its poorly received mobile app redesign, the company also continues to focus on several new hardware products. Among them is an ultra-premium soundbar that will serve as a successor to the current Sonos Arc — and presumably at a higher price. The device, code-named … Read more
The Sonos Ace The design story starts with Marcel Breuer’s Wassily chair. Bauhaus’s iconic modernist design represented an idealized balance between contrasts – soft and hard, simple and complex, machine versus the human body – and provided the Sonos design team with a perfect aesthetic and functional template for designing what became the first headphones … Read more
Sonos decided to enter the headphone market in May with the launch of the Sonos Ace headphones. The $449 Sonos Ace headphones have some enticing design elements and features you won’t see in Apple’s headphones, so we thought we’d compare them against the $549 AirPods Max to see which is ultimately better. In terms of … Read more
I doubt it would be fun to read Sonos CEO Patrick Spence’s customer emails over the past few weeks. Ever since the company rolled out an overhauled mobile app that was built from the ground up to allow for more personalization and better performance, the Sonos forums and especially the subreddit have been in an … Read more
Ace – that’s not only the name of Sonos’ just-announced wireless headphones, but also how good they seem to be. Should their biggest rivals, namely the Sony WH-1000XM5, Bose QuietComfort Ultra Headphones and Apple AirPods Max, be concerned? They would be stupid if they didn’t. The Ace has a lot in common with one or … Read more
There’s so much riding on the new $450 Sonos Ace headphones. With demand for the company’s speakers and soundbars waning since the pandemic, Sonos could use a hit product — or at least a strong debut in a huge product category . The Ace certainly could be, but these headphones come in the shadow of … Read more