So, ACE are just headphones?

It sounds as though Ace connects to ‘compatible soundbars’ (=ARC) via wifi, with this possibly being extended to Beam later.

Wierd. So if I want to go down the garden with ACE headphones I should be able to connect them (eventually when the updates catch up) via my gen 1 Beam in the back room, and stream music from there? There is much debate as to whether this ‘bonding to the soundbar’ requires active participation form a phone and THE app… Currently far to much of a pig in a poke to experiment with, methinks.

Very classy design with bizarre use profile - some might say bonkers 😜😁🎧

It seems these headphones ‘that everyone was asking for’ are the same as the app ‘that everyone was asking for’……a massive letdown. 

I’m a retired techie with a Dilbert-like mistrust of marketing types. I guess it boils down to ‘this is what we’ve managed to create so far, so rush it to market and now try to persuade the customers and prospects that this is the Emperor’s new clothes’ then apply sticking plaster patches to the deepest wounds.

I would add that a fully functioning wifi headphone player would possibly render the rest of the Sonos system obsolete unless playing for more than one listener and/or upsetting the neighbours… I do smile as the £45 offer for buying a pair of Aces - a perfect image of today’s isolated society!

I *really* had hoped they’d be able to act like a “room”. That would be their defining feature. As it is, the idea they can beam the sound via the soundbar to the product is nothing new - the Apple TV’s all allow me to send the audio to the Apple family of headphones (Beats included) at the press of a button or play via the soundbar. 
 

I’m a little fed up of tech companies saying they’ll “listen to feedback” before launching features.  Innovation seems dead - it’s just regurgitating what everyone else is doing. Sonos has an ecosystem and 
loyal fan base so why not leverage your USP instead of hoping you’ll be better than people who have been doing it for years. 
 

I was hanging on to see if they did the room capability but as they don’t I shall be getting the AirPods Max. They work with Apple things seamlessly of course and are the same price, and they offer me nothing more or less in terms of my Sonos setup. Sonos has missed a trick so I’ll go with tried and tested. 

No integration with my Sonos system !!!!!!!

We’ve all been waiting for headphones we can add to our Sonos systems like any other Sonos speaker product.

These new Ace headphones are just fancy bluetooth headphones - no better than Sony or Bose.

First the app upgrade disaster and now headphones that won’t work as part of an existing Sonos system.

Ridiculous!

It’s a “no purchase” from me! 

(Credit Reddit)

I have to agree with you Mathew, I was expecting much more from Sonos in regards to the Ace headphones. I will not be dashing out to purchase especially at the quoted  $699  Australian dollars and this on top of the S2 update debacle that I am still struggling with.