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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

buzz
Grand Maestro
March 8, 2023

@Corry P, can you confirm this?  When the USB-C is used for aux input, will it have the standard 75 ms delay that other aux input (Port, Amp, Five) currently have? 

What is the delay for bluetooth input?

If the 75ms is not honored, the units will not be compatible with any other SONOS products.

melvimbe
March 8, 2023

Without a dongle/adaptor, the USB-C socket doesn’t do anything, presently. 

Ok, so what the adaptor does is replace the bulkier and more expensive Port/Connect; still a very useful feature, especially for the more budget friendly 100. 

 

If you ignore the output capability of the Port, then yes.

Danny
Corry P
Sonos Staff
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, can you confirm this?  When the USB-C is used for aux input, will it have the standard 75 ms delay that other aux input (Port, Amp, Five) currently have? 

What is the delay for bluetooth input?

Yes, Line-In via the USB adaptor will still incur at least a 75ms delay for buffering.

I am working on getting you an answer for the Bluetooth delay.

"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen." - Albert Einstein
buzz
Grand Maestro
March 8, 2023

@Corry P, can you confirm this?  When the USB-C is used for aux input, will it have the standard 75 ms delay that other aux input (Port, Amp, Five) currently have? 

What is the delay for bluetooth input?

If the 75ms is not honored, these units would not be compatible with other SONOS products. Era Line-In would be ahead of Grouped players -- unless the other players don’t insert the latency any more.

Corry P
Sonos Staff
March 8, 2023

Without a dongle/adaptor, the USB-C socket doesn’t do anything, presently. 

Ok, so what the adaptor does is replace the bulkier and more expensive Port/Connect; still a very useful feature, especially for the more budget friendly 100. 

I’m with @melvimbe on this one:

If you ignore the output capability of the Port, then yes.

 

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

I’m wondering if the Era 100/300’s will allow ‘room grouping’ (over WiFi) when playing a Bluetooth audio source, like we see with the Sonos Roam, so that Bluetooth audio can be group-played to any/every Sonos room in the system🤔?

Corry P
Sonos Staff
March 8, 2023

I’m wondering if the Era 100/300’s will allow ‘room grouping’ (over WiFi) when playing a Bluetooth audio source, like we see with the Sonos Roam, so that Bluetooth audio can be group-played to any/every Sonos room in the system🤔?

Yes they will!

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

@Corry P, can you confirm this?  When the USB-C is used for aux input, will it have the standard 75 ms delay that other aux input (Port, Amp, Five) currently have? 

What is the delay for bluetooth input?

If the 75ms is not honored, these units would not be compatible with other SONOS products. Era Line-In would be ahead of Grouped players -- unless the other players don’t insert the latency any more.

 

Essentially yes.  However, the line-in could operate the way TV audio is played, which obviously has it’s pros and cons.  I have no really issue with the delay, but just wanted to confirm.

I suspect the bluetooth delay will be the same, for the same reasons.

Danny
minimalist
Avid Contributor III
March 8, 2023

@Corry P 

The entire group would revert to stereo playback.

Thanks. I guess it doesn’t matter all that much as the times when I would be listening to Atmos I would be stationary in the sweet spot and generally when I’m listening to whole home audio Im moving around doing things.

I assume a pair of Era 300’s could be grouped with a Gen 3 Sub?  That might make for a nice upgrade for the pair of Ones I have grouped with  my home office setup where I listen to music all day while working.

Corry P
Sonos Staff
March 8, 2023

I assume a pair of Era 300’s could be grouped with a Gen 3 Sub?  That might make for a nice upgrade for the pair of Ones I have grouped with  my home office setup where I listen to music all day while working.

Oh yes indeed!

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