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Ryan S
Retired Sonos Staff
October 2, 2017

Introducing the New Sonos One

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Available on October 24th, Sonos One is the smart speaker for music lovers. It’s everything you expect from a Sonos speaker, and now with built-in Alexa and microphones, you can control your entire Sonos system with your voice.




With seamless control, you can start music with your voice, add songs to your playlist from the Sonos app, and even start playing music from the Spotify app in a different room. Amazon Alexa comes built into the Sonos One, and we’re working hard to include more voice assistants in the future. First up will be Google Assistant.

Sonos One delivers rich, room-filling sound in a compact size. Two Sonos One players can be stereo paired, or become rear surround speakers in a 5.1 set-up. They’ll also be able to control the music on PLAYBASE or PLAYBAR while being set up as surrounds in the home cinema.

Some more details on Sonos One:
  • We use echo cancellation technology, created by the same engineering team that worked on Trueplay, which allows the speaker to still hear you over the music – even if it’s cranked up to 11.
  • The volume will intelligently lower, or “duck” when you speak to it so you don’t feel like you have to shout over the music.
  • The speaker includes a six-mic array that forms a beam and focuses on the person speaking to help make sure Alexa understands everything clearly.
  • Since this is a Sonos speaker, you can use TruePlay on an iOS device to easily tune Sonos One to sound great no matter where you place it in your home.
  • Capacitive touch controls on top, like Play:5 gen2 and the PLAYBASE, that you can tap and swipe. There's also a Mic button that can be tapped, to easily enable and disable the microphones.
  • Features a Join button and an Ethernet port on the back of the player.

Security and Microphones
Your security and data are very important to us, as we said in our blog here. With Sonos One we are keeping to that.

Sonos One is designed with extra security: An illuminated LED indicator light ensures you always know when your speaker’s microphones are active, or turned off. You can tap on the microphone symbol to enable or disable the microphones, the light is always tied to the microphone’s status. For security and privacy reasons, it’s impossible to disable the LED when the microphones are turned on.


Pre-order today on Sonos.com in stunning all black or all white for $199 US (€229 EUR, $299 AUD, $269 CAD, ¥1,680 RMB, 1,699 DKK, 1,999 NOK, 1,999 SEK, $4,999 MEX), available worldwide starting October 24.

Sonos One is voice-ready in the US, UK, and Germany. It’s everything you’d expect from a Sonos speaker to start with, and future-ready for when Sonos and a voice service launch together in your region if you’re located somewhere else.

While you wait, check out our community thread here to get yourself ready for the new Sonos One. Already have Alexa devices in your home? Check out our thread here.
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Prodigy I
October 19, 2017
My Sonos One is arriving Monday October 23rd. Will I be able to set it up on the 23rd, or will I have to wait until the 24th? If so, is that Midnight (ET) on the 24th or some other time?

When exactly will setup of Sonos One work?
Contributor I
October 19, 2017
So, is my understanding correct in that the Sonos One will still pair with my Play:1's and my Play:5, but it won't work as a STEREO pair with another Play:1?
Contributor I
October 19, 2017
would you be able to pair a One with a Play:1? I don't think I need to have all speakers to have the microphone, would be nice to mix it up.

I agree, it would be great that Play 1 owners would be able to pair with the new Sonos One
Headliner I
October 19, 2017
Yeah.why do i need a mic on every speaker of my house?

And why there is not a line in in the new sonos one?
Ryan S
Ryan SAuthor
Retired Sonos Staff
October 19, 2017
My Sonos One is arriving Monday October 23rd. Will I be able to set it up on the 23rd, or will I have to wait until the 24th? If so, is that Midnight (ET) on the 24th or some other time?

When exactly will setup of Sonos One work?

Sonos version 8.1 is launching today, it should be available already. That is the software for the Sonos One. Just update to 8.1 and when you get your Sonos One you'll be able to set it up and be good to go.
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Enthusiast II
October 19, 2017
So, CNET says the Sonos One sounds even better than the Play:1. I am very impressed. For the price and the size, the Play:1 is very, very good. I may have to get a couple of Sonos Ones. I just wish they would support the Echo calling feature.
October 20, 2017
Don't do this just because of the CNET comment because many reviews say different - that there isn't any difference in sound. And one review claims that the response of Echo to Alexa commands is a little better than that of Sonos One. That is something that certainly could do with more investigation, including by Sonos.
nicka99
Local Superstar
October 20, 2017
an extensive and honest review here
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/10/sonos-one-review-a-better-sounding-echo-with-some-holes-left-to-fill/

also comment on the drawback of not being able to pair and '1' with a 'one' !
if they are that different then why didnt they call it something else!
October 20, 2017
an extensive and honest review here
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/10/sonos-one-review-a-better-sounding-echo-with-some-holes-left-to-fill/

TFT... seems well balanced...

if they are that different then why didnt they call it something else!
Well, they did - '1' and 'one'. Come on - these are the people who completely redesigned the Play:5 but didn't change the name at all...
Lyricist I
October 20, 2017
Ryan are there technical differences that would drive that decision? It's surprising to me that it's not currently planned for.
There are some big reasons for this, it's not on the scale that the PLAY:5 gen1 vs gen2, but definitely some differences. Besides.... they'd look funny side by side :)


This is the most disappointing fact about the Sonos One. I ordered two, they arrived today. I am considering returning mine due to the fact that they will not create a stereo pair except with another Sonos One - that is unacceptable and was NOT mentioned in the product announcements or onsite literature.

I do NOT think a Play:1 paired with a Sonos One in the same room would look funny - and I don't care. They will NOT be sitting side by side! 😠