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Mike H
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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    Corry P
    Corry P
    Sonos Staff
    March 8, 2023

    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?

    You can bond Sub Mini with Era 300’s, yes.

    "Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen." - Albert Einstein
      Corry P
      Corry P
      Sonos Staff
      March 8, 2023

      When the Era 300s are used as surrounds with the Arc or Beam (Gen 2), is it considered a 5.1.4 or 7.1.4 setup? What specific channels do the side-firing drivers of the Era 300 play when playing a 7.1 or 5.1 audio track?

      7.1.4

      Together with Arc’s side-firing speakers, the Era 300’s will virtualise side channels for a 7.1 track. 

      "Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen." - Albert Einstein
        Corry P
        Corry P
        Sonos Staff
        March 8, 2023

        What is the price of this cool device?

        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

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

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

        Oh, I didn’t realise the Era 100s weren’t compatible with the Playbar and Playbase as surrounds!

        My assumption would be as the Amp is S2 only they would work as surrounds with it, but the support pages need greater clarity around this.

        Corry P
        Corry P
        Sonos Staff
        March 8, 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? 

        With the Era series we are slowly moving away from SonosNet as modern home networking is getting so great that SonosNet’s 2.4GHz network is simply too slow for the demands in data throughput we are starting to see.

        "Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen." - Albert Einstein
        Corry P
        Corry P
        Sonos Staff
        March 8, 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?

        They will make direct connections to the Arc/Beam just as with previous surround speakers. 

        "Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen." - Albert Einstein
          Gubes
          Avid Contributor I
          March 8, 2023

          Given that the Era 100 and 300 have USB-C ports (which are digital), wouldn’t it be possible to connect these speakers to a TV ARC port using a HDMI-USB-C cable?  The Sonos 5s only had an AUX line in which is never ideal because of audio lag.  

          To Sonos:  A lot of people live in apartments with only 1 living room where they watch TV and listen to music in the same room.  Some prefer to prioritize music for audio more than movies.  That is why many like to use their stereo speakers also for their TV.  It shouldn’t be difficult.  Sound bars are nice enough for TV but will never deliver the sound stage of a dedicated 2 stereo speaker set up for music.  

            arcadelt
            arcadelt
            Enthusiast I
            March 8, 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? 

            With the Era series we are slowly moving away from SonosNet as modern home networking is getting so great that SonosNet’s 2.4GHz network is simply too slow for the demands in data throughput we are starting to see.

            So why not up gun the SonosNet radios and network to match? With home automation increasingly putting more demand on the network, would the imperative to shift Sonos onto its own mesh be greater not less?

            arcadelt
            arcadelt
            Enthusiast I
            March 8, 2023

            Given that the Era 100 and 300 have USB-C ports (which are digital), wouldn’t it be possible to connect these speakers to a TV ARC port using a HDMI-USB-C cable?  The Sonos 5s only had an AUX line in which is never ideal because of audio lag.

            The lag isn’t entirely cause by limitations of the 3.5mm analog jack requiring conversion to digital, but also the requirement for a buffer to be created to keep the multi-room audio synchronised. I presume that hasn’t changed.

            Corry P
            Corry P
            Sonos Staff
            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.

            @Mr. T Is correct - only Era 100 can be used with Amp or Beam (Gen 1), and neither Era model can be used with Playbar or Playbase.

            I’ll get the page updated - thanks for flagging.

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