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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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195 replies

October 21, 2017
If you have two Sonos Ones, I would hold on to them; they will pair with each other, and Alexa needs in the other space can be met by a cheap Dot. Sonos may enable the pairing you are looking for in the future and if they do, make the changes and release the Dot for use elsewhere.
October 23, 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! :@


It has been mentioned all over the place and in these forums in many pots and just about every review that you can't currently stereo pair with a Play 1. I don't know how you could have missed that.
October 23, 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?


I have mine now and it sounds great. Better than a Play 1. A little clearer, richer, and more bass. I got Pandora and Apple Music to connect but can't get Alexa to connect. It times out on the Amazon page.
Avid Contributor I
October 23, 2017
Mine has arrived. Delighted with it. Very stylish looking, great sound
October 23, 2017
Mine has arrived. Delighted with it. Very stylish looking, great sound

Totally agree, have you been able to get yours to connect to Alexa?
Avid Contributor I
October 23, 2017
Yes, with no issue. I followed the prompts, did the Device discovery and it worked straight away. I have 5 Dots so it was just another to add. Only thing I’d change is the tone that it plays when I say ‘Alexa’ It sounds like a Windows error message
October 23, 2017
Yes, with no issue. I followed the prompts, did the Device discovery and it worked straight away. I have 5 Dots so it was just another to add. Only thing I’d change is the tone that it plays when I say ‘Alexa’ It sounds like a Windows error message

Hmm, mine doesn't work.
October 23, 2017
OK got it to work. When it was trying to login to amazon it went to the amazon app installed on my iPad, flashed them went back to the setup screen. I deleted the amazon app and then it logged me in to Amazon to do the setup.
Lyricist II
October 23, 2017
I have just had the new one delivered and it does not connect - not by WiFi or by hard direct HDMI - v v disappointing to have bought a pair and no success - we have 4 other old Sonos speakers and they work fine but not these new ones
October 23, 2017
I have just had the new one delivered and it does not connect - not by WiFi or by hard direct HDMI - v v disappointing to have bought a pair and no success - we have 4 other old Sonos speakers and they work fine but not these new ones
I assume you mean ethernet not HDMI.
You unplugged them to reboot them and tried again? That worked for me.