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Mike H
Retired Sonos Staff
March 7, 2023

Introducing Era 300

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Introducing Era 300

Hi all,

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

Era 300

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. 

Era 300 from the back

 

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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122 replies

Local Superstar
March 7, 2023

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? 

That’s amazing and I assume a big surprise to most - many who will have just assumed it would work on Sonosnet.  The main reason given for Roam and Move not supporting Sonosnet was they could move around and make hard work of keeping the mesh stable.

I really wonder what the reasoning is for these?  Sure, we know WiFi in general is getting better and better but there are still many who prefer Sonosnet and quite a few issues even now are caused by speakers starting to connect to WiFi that you don’t want to - because the system then knows WiFi credentials.

SarahN
Local Superstar
March 7, 2023

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? 

That’s amazing and I assume a big surprise to most - many who will have just assumed it would work on Sonosnet.  The main reason given for Roam and Move not supporting Sonosnet was they could move around and make hard work of keeping the mesh stable.

I really wonder what the reasoning is for these?  Sure, we know WiFi in general is getting better and better but there are still many who prefer Sonosnet and quite a few issues even now are caused by speakers starting to connect to WiFi that you don’t want to - because the system then knows WiFi credentials.

I agree and I'm surprised, but that link to the Sonos page seems to suggest they won't work on Sonosnet. I have a boost for my non portable speakers and it has definitely helped in my home. 

Can you have too many Sonos speakers? 🤔 😆
Local Superstar
March 7, 2023

I don’t think it merely suggest they won’t work, it literally states they’re not compatible with it.

  • Era 100
  • Era 300
  • Move
  • Roam
  • Roam SL

It even says, in the ‘Wired setup’ section that that setup  “means it’s possible for Sonos to operate in a room that is beyond the reach of your WiFi.”.  By definition they’re saying you can’t use these speakers out of range of your router.  Reality is you can - but not without complicating your network setup somewhat - and maybe moving into supposed non-supported setups.

Prodigy III
March 7, 2023

Thank you @sjw That is definitely a negative for me. I hadn't imagined for one minute that the Eras would not support sonosnet.

minimalist
Avid Contributor III
March 7, 2023

So if you have two Era 300’s paired with a sub for a really nice Atmos listening experience and you are streaming the same music to other non spatial audio enabled Sonos zones at the same time does the signal just revert to stereo for the zones that can’t handle it? 

Mr. T
March 7, 2023

So if you have two Era 300’s paired with a sub for a really nice Atmos listening experience and you are streaming the same music to other non spatial audio enabled Sonos zones at the same time does the signal just revert to stereo for the zones that can’t handle it? 

I would imagine the overall stream reverts to stereo, which is similar to how Amazon Music Dolby Atmos works when the Arc is grouped with a non-Atmos capable speaker; it changes to stereo when grouped.

Collaborator II
March 7, 2023

As the Era 300 will not support SonosNet, when used as surrounds will they still make a direct wireless connection back to the Arc or Beam Gen2, or will surround traffic be over WiFi as well?

arcadelt
Enthusiast I
March 8, 2023

Can you use Era 300 (or for that matter, Era 100) as surround speakers for an Amp connected to a TV or projectors? The Shop FAQ only mentions sound bar compatibility.

Mr. T
March 8, 2023

Can you use Era 300 (or for that matter, Era 100) as surround speakers for an Amp connected to a TV or projectors? The Shop FAQ only mentions sound bar compatibility.

Era 300 requires an Arc or Beam (Gen2). Era 100s can be used as surrounds with an Amp.

https://support.sonos.com/en-gb/article/surround-sound-guidelines-and-limitations

arcadelt
Enthusiast I
March 8, 2023

Can you use Era 300 (or for that matter, Era 100) as surround speakers for an Amp connected to a TV or projectors? The Shop FAQ only mentions sound bar compatibility.

Era 300 requires an Arc or Beam (Gen2). Era 100s can be used as surrounds with an Amp.

https://support.sonos.com/en-gb/article/surround-sound-guidelines-and-limitations

Thanks for the link; however, interesting that it doesn’t note the Era 100 incompatibility with the Playbar and Playbase.