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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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melvimbe

So does this mean the two side-firing drivers on the surround speaker will both play the side surround channel of a 7.1 audio track? And on a 5.1 audio track, the front and side-firing drivers will all play the rear surround channel?

Also, I’m still reading some reports that when the 300s are used with the Beam, it is still only a 5.1.4 setup.

IMO, and it’s just that, I’m not going to get to hung up on the volume of channels per se. If your source is stereo, you get 2 stereo. If you get a source in surround sound, you get 5.1(or 2 with 2 subs) audio. If you get a source with atmos, them the Arc or Beam is going to use the meta data to send audio to the appropriate speaker to give the most accurate location for the sound. Obviously, using an Arc + E300s + sub(s) will do a better job of that then Beam +E300s + sub(s), regardless of whether you call it 7.1.4 or 5.1.4. And of course, all the different variations of a home theatre setup, and your room acoustics, will have an impact as well.

This is about the specs that I was expecting in given the links. I was hoping to see a set of 2 Era 300s and a Sub mini, but don’t see it. I would assume these can be bonded as a room? It’s the sub mini perhaps not fit for atmos audio?

I’d assume so. In the FAQ, it states “Era 300 has great bass on its own. For a richer, more powerful sound experience, we recommend pairing Era 300 with Sub (any generation).”

Yes, I saw that, but I didn’t know if sub mini is considered a generation of the sub. In technical terms, it’s not. As well, a recommendation doesn’t say whether a sub mini can be bonded to the Era 300. My plan is to use the Era 300s as stereo pair for atmos music, and much prefer the mini for music since it’s sealed, rather than ported like the full sub.

What is the price of this cool device?

https://www.sonos.com/en-us/shop/era-300 in US.

Danny

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AndyH91

Lyricist I

I don‘t like the design of Era 300 as surround speakers - they are to big imho. For many other use cases they will be fantastic for sure.

I was waiting for upfiring-rear speakers with the design like the Era 100…

Jeffrey_35

Headliner III

This is about the specs that I was expecting in given the links. I was hoping to see a set of 2 Era 300s and a Sub mini, but don’t see it. I would assume these can be bonded as a room? It’s the sub mini perhaps not fit for atmos audio?

I’d assume so. In the FAQ, it states “Era 300 has great bass on its own. For a richer, more powerful sound experience, we recommend pairing Era 300 with Sub (any generation).”

Sub not Sub Mini. Semantics but important nonetheless.

“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.”

melvimbe

I don‘t like the design of Era 300 as surround speakers - they are to big imho. For many other use cases they will be fantastic for sure.

I was waiting for upfiring-rear speakers with the design like the Era 100…

It’s been said by those who have seen the device in person that marketing images have it appear bigger than it actually is. Might be good to measure it out in the space you want to see how it looks. However, you do also need to consider that it needs extra space to the sides and above.

Danny

Mr. T

This is about the specs that I was expecting in given the links. I was hoping to see a set of 2 Era 300s and a Sub mini, but don’t see it. I would assume these can be bonded as a room? It’s the sub mini perhaps not fit for atmos audio?

I’d assume so. In the FAQ, it states “Era 300 has great bass on its own. For a richer, more powerful sound experience, we recommend pairing Era 300 with Sub (any generation).”

Sub not Sub Mini. Semantics but important nonetheless.

That’s why I said assume so, as Sub is not Sub Mini.

Sonos are recommending the Era 300s to be used with the Sub, but they can probably be used with the Sub Mini.

Mr. T

And the answer is YES anyway.

https://support.sonos.com/en-gb/article/sonos-products-that-support-sub-mini

DarqMan

Enthusiast I

Is it Roon Ready?

melvimbe

And the answer is YES anyway.

https://support.sonos.com/en-gb/article/sonos-products-that-support-sub-mini

Thanks for looking this up. Didn’t think to look there.

Danny

SarahN

Local Superstar

Looking on a post on Reddit it seems these new speakers won't work on Sonosnet like the portable ones. That could be an issue for some?

Can you have too many Sonos speakers? 🤔 😆

SarahN

Local Superstar

https://support.sonos.com/en-gb/article/choose-between-a-wireless-and-wired-sonos-setup

Can you have too many Sonos speakers? 🤔 😆

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