Hello everyone,
I recently purchased an ERA 300 and the hardware is absolutely brillant; I didn´t think that Dolby Atmos could sound so good with a single speaker. So much that I’m probably going to ditch Youtube Music for Apple Music once my trial period is over. Seriously it’s that good.
However, the lack of dedicated Android TV app is a really bizarre omission to me. I know that most people will tell me to buy a soundbar but:
- Not all of us have the disposable income for that.
- Not all of us have the means to plug a soundbar. I use, for instance, a projector which single HDMI input is already occupied by a mibox S. And even if I did have the money, and an available HDMI, I would need a 6 meters HDMI cable to connect the soundbar; not really practical.
I currently connect the era 300 to my mibox by bluetooth and I experience no delay in the sound, thanks to a built-in compensation I presume. This works reasonably well and the speaker does a surprisingly good job when watching series or movies; much better than the internal speakers of my projector, or any TV speaker honestly.
But given the choice, I would really prefer to find a way to connect my era 300, or any other Sonos speaker, to an android TV through Wifi. Not only would it be much more elegant, but it would also permit the era 300 to be used with dolby atmos movies.
All in all, and while I understand that neither the era 300 nor other non-soundbar speakers were designed with movie-watching in mind, more options is always great and I am sure that I am far from the only one who would make use of such option. Unless there’s a fundamental technical limitation preventing an Android TV app, I feel that it would solve what is in my opinion the main limitation of Sonos speakers. I wouldn’t dare to say (well, I would) that it is a deliberate choice by Sonos in order to sell more soundbars...
Thank you for reading my message, and I hope to have a nice surprise in the months, or years, to come.