So, ACE are just headphones?

I had imagined that Sonos headphones would be part of my system and let me seamlessly and via WiFi be able to listen to either music or telly via the headphones without a reliance on my phone - right now I bluetooth onto the telly and its a bit of a fiddle to get it to work with me having to manually reduce the telly volume so its not seamless - I was hoping for headphones that Id just pick up put on and have the telly audio be adopted seamlessly - I have an older Playbase/Play1 system - this is not the case for me is it… these will just be a set of good headphones exactly like my Sony over the ear or buds… wont it… so not offer any closer integration into my Sonos system that covers all the rooms in my house - is it also the case that any audio I listen to on the Sonos headphones will be via the phone and so not direct from source via WiFi

Does anyone think that this closer phone less integration will be something that will be added in the future or have I missunderstood.

It’s still unclear to me - do the headphones allow you to listen to music via the arc? Say for example:

My Five is connected to my turntable and playing a record. I connect the Arc to the Five. Can I now get the turntable’s audio out of the Ace by connecting them to the Arc? 

From what I’ve read it seems you can only get TV audio out of the Ace but it’s all a bit confusing. 

The way I read it is that the headphones can be registered as an adjunct to the Arc (like a set of surround sound additional Play:1s), and as such become part of the Room that the Arc is attached to. Therfore anything you play through that room *should* be redirectable to the headphones via Wifi… Normally this would be the attached TV, but I presume that playing music to that room could be redirected.

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I have the same question, but have not seen a definitive answer.  I don’t understand why Ace would only be able to get TV audio via an Arc.

Because that is what the code they have written so far can do.

Looking at all the information they have published Ace looks like a Sonos platform with Bluetooth and WiFi comms. Expect the capabilities to expand as they update the code that runs on Ace. The integration with Arc will be to show off Spatial Audio.

In 12 to 1 months Ace could have lots more options for connecting o Sonos and playing music.

Sonos Rep Marco B says that it is limited to TV Audio at leas that’s what I think he’s saying.

https://en.community.sonos.com/product-updates/the-long-awaited-first-headphones-sonos-ace-6894915/index7.html?postid=9061#post9061

It’s still unclear to me - do the headphones allow you to listen to music via the arc? Say for example:

My Five is connected to my turntable and playing a record. I connect the Arc to the Five. Can I now get the turntable’s audio out of the Ace by connecting them to the Arc? 

From what I’ve read it seems you can only get TV audio out of the Ace but it’s all a bit confusing. 

 

Sonos Rep Marco B says that it is limited to TV Audio at leas that’s what I think he’s saying.

https://en.community.sonos.com/product-updates/the-long-awaited-first-headphones-sonos-ace-6894915/index7.html?postid=9061#post9061

 

That’s too bad. The Ace headphones don’t seem to offer much over AirPods Max right now. I’ll wait to see if they get more features via software/firmware updates in the future.

I would not count on Ace getting any new features that have not already been promised. Particularly with the currently backlog of already features added back into the app and promised for Ace.

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