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Introducing Era 300

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Hi all,

Today we introduce Era 300: an unmatched spatial audio experience with Dolby Atmos for listeners and creators alike.

Unprecedented for a single compact speaker, Era 300 boasts six powerful drivers that direct sound left, right, forward and upward, delivering a breakthrough audio performance featuring Dolby Atmos that places listeners at the very heart of their movies and music.

Designed for spatial: Era 300 wraps its beautifully complex acoustic architecture in an elegantly cinched hourglass design, with every angle, proportion and perforation enhancing the direction and dispersion of sound to truly surround you.
Surreal surround sound: Era 300 is the brand’s first speaker that delivers multi-channel surround sound when used as home theater rears. Movie fans can pair two speakers with Arc or Beam (Gen 2) to create a supercharged Dolby Atmos experience that draws them deeper into the action.
Deep music industry collaboration: Sonos worked closely with its community of leading artists and creators - including Sonos Soundboard members - to meticulously fine-tune Era 300 so listeners can enjoy sound straight from the studio that’s true to the artist’s intent.

Premium, responsible design that keeps everyone in mind

Building on Sonos’s timeless acoustic-driven design aesthetic, Era 100 and Era 300 are responsive to the challenges facing our environment—and better for everyone who interacts with our designs, featuring a bold new UI and innovations that will help them last longer, use less energy and make use of recycled materials in each product.

More sustainable sound: Era 100 and Era 300 are made with post consumer recycled (PCR) plastic and packaged in 100% sustainably sourced paper, while also engineered to reduce power consumption with under two watts idle power consumption and a new advanced sleep function.
Built to last: Designed to live in your home for years, both speakers are built for serviceability by reducing the use of adhesives and transitioning to screws for easy disassembly and repair.
Bold, new UI: Era 100 and Era 300 feature an intuitive new user interface, including a new capacitive volume slider for simple control that complements quick and private control of your music with Sonos Voice Control, the Sonos app, Apple AirPlay 2 and Bluetooth®.
Upgraded connectivity: Stream all the audio you care about using WiFi or Bluetooth, and directly connect other audio devices such as a turntable using an auxiliary cable and the Sonos Line-In Adapter.
Expanding Trueplay to more listeners: Using the microphone array in Era 100 and Era 300, Trueplay optimizes the sound for the unique acoustics of your space with just a tap in the Sonos app. Available to both Android and iOS users.

Era 300 will be available for pre-order on sonos.com today, and globally starting March 28 2023 for $449USD, £449, €499 and $749 AUS. For more information, please visit Sonos.com

Read the full press release for Era 100 and Era 300 here.

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EarlOffenwick

Lyricist II

I hear you. It does seem a bit freakish. I'm leaning towards the Fives but am intrigued by the 300s. And I do like the look. I'm curious how they're going quote/unquote enhance 2 channel playback. I enjoy the reverb effects that my surround setup lends to stereo even though it's fake news. 😂

skullc

Prodigy III

I only use my arc surround setup for movies and TV

Due to the reason previously mentioned love the 5’s for music though good rich sound especially with my astell and kern DAP connected to them😊

Network= livewire cpe pro 3 +eero 6 pro wireless

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Molamola

Lyricist I

Good morning, I have a sound system made up of a SUB, an ARC bar, and 2 ONEs. I recently bought 2 ERA 300s to add them to the system. My question is if the ONEs can be combined with the ERA 300s to play movies on the TV.Thank you

jgatie

Good morning, I have a sound system made up of a SUB, an ARC bar, and 2 ONEs. I recently bought 2 ERA 300s to add them to the system. My question is if the ONEs can be combined with the ERA 300s to play movies on the TV.Thank you

Not combined. The Era 300s can replace the Ones as surround speakers, which will give you superior Atmos surround. You can then use the Ones in another location.

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Lican81

Lyricist I

Salve, posseggo una sound bar arc un sub 1 generazione e 2 play 1 generazione ...con cosa posso sostituire il play..da premettere che io uso l'impianto x ascoltare film

106rallye

What do you want to achieve by changing the Play 1’s? Era 300’s would give you Dolby Atmos on the rear speakers.

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Lican81

Lyricist I

Il problema è che io guardo prettamente film, qualunque sia la calibrazione ho sbalzi di audio improvviso,con voce che non si riesce neanche a percepire,sto seriamente pensando che x i film il sistema sonos non vada bene

Ken_Griffiths

Il problema è che io guardo prettamente film, qualunque sia la calibrazione ho sbalzi di audio improvviso,con voce che non si riesce neanche a percepire,sto seriamente pensando che x i film il sistema sonos non vada bene

I would doubt that changing the surrounds would make the differences you’re hoping for. Have you tried using Night Sound & Speech Enhancement via the App instead, and/or adjusting EQ settings? Also perhaps consider Trueplay tuning the Home Theatre room, if not done already.

Corry P

Sonos Staff

Hi @GuitarSuperstar

With Beam (Gen 2)/Arc and Era 300, you will have 7.1.4 surround sound. With Arc, fewer of these channels are virtualised.

When it comes to Atmos, it no longer makes sense to think about things in terms of channels - during the mixing process, each sound is assigned an XYZ co-ordinate which is encoded in the stream, and it is up to the rendering device (Arc/Beam) to decide how to actualise those co-ordinates, given what it knows about the speakers it has. The same Atmos track played in a cinema, for example, will be rendered across many more speakers, and differently, as a result. More info can be found on the Wikipedia page for Dolby Atmos. The rear speakers will play sounds meant to be behind you, but which specific drivers are used depends on the exact co-ordinate assigned to the audio.

With 5.1 soundtracks, the speakers are used pretty much in the way that you would assume - each speaker has a specific track to play.

With the use of dual Subs, the .1 is still considered .1 as the two Subs do not play different tracks from each other.

I hope this helps.

"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen." - Albert Einstein

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daz72

Lyricist I

Hi all,

Today we introduce Era 300: an unmatched spatial audio experience with Dolby Atmos for listeners and creators alike.

Unprecedented for a single compact speaker, Era 300 boasts six powerful drivers that direct sound left, right, forward and upward, delivering a breakthrough audio performance featuring Dolby Atmos that places listeners at the very heart of their movies and music.

Designed for spatial: Era 300 wraps its beautifully complex acoustic architecture in an elegantly cinched hourglass design, with every angle, proportion and perforation enhancing the direction and dispersion of sound to truly surround you.
Surreal surround sound: Era 300 is the brand’s first speaker that delivers multi-channel surround sound when used as home theater rears. Movie fans can pair two speakers with Arc or Beam (Gen 2) to create a supercharged Dolby Atmos experience that draws them deeper into the action.
Deep music industry collaboration: Sonos worked closely with its community of leading artists and creators - including Sonos Soundboard members - to meticulously fine-tune Era 300 so listeners can enjoy sound straight from the studio that’s true to the artist’s intent.

Premium, responsible design that keeps everyone in mind

Building on Sonos’s timeless acoustic-driven design aesthetic, Era 100 and Era 300 are responsive to the challenges facing our environment—and better for everyone who interacts with our designs, featuring a bold new UI and innovations that will help them last longer, use less energy and make use of recycled materials in each product.

More sustainable sound: Era 100 and Era 300 are made with post consumer recycled (PCR) plastic and packaged in 100% sustainably sourced paper, while also engineered to reduce power consumption with under two watts idle power consumption and a new advanced sleep function.
Built to last: Designed to live in your home for years, both speakers are built for serviceability by reducing the use of adhesives and transitioning to screws for easy disassembly and repair.
Bold, new UI: Era 100 and Era 300 feature an intuitive new user interface, including a new capacitive volume slider for simple control that complements quick and private control of your music with Sonos Voice Control, the Sonos app, Apple AirPlay 2 and Bluetooth®.
Upgraded connectivity: Stream all the audio you care about using WiFi or Bluetooth, and directly connect other audio devices such as a turntable using an auxiliary cable and the Sonos Line-In Adapter.
Expanding Trueplay to more listeners: Using the microphone array in Era 100 and Era 300, Trueplay optimizes the sound for the unique acoustics of your space with just a tap in the Sonos app. Available to both Android and iOS users.

Era 300 will be available for pre-order on sonos.com today, and globally starting March 28 2023 for $449USD, £449, €499 and $749 AUS. For more information, please visit Sonos.com

Read the full press release for Era 100 and Era 300 here.

Today we introduce Era 300: an unmatched spatial audio experience ? bang olfesn been doing this for decades

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