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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

Lyricist II
October 23, 2017
Yes Ethernet - I have turned them off and on - moved them to right beside our internet hub - No GO
October 23, 2017
Yes Ethernet - I have turned them off and on - moved them to right beside our internet hub - No GO
Hmm, thats weird. Multiple sonos one devices didn't connect?
Lyricist II
October 23, 2017
I have 4 existing Sonos speakers - they work fine - I have bought two of these new one speakers and they don’t connect
October 23, 2017
It seems unlikely that two brand new speakers would both be defective. Have you tried turning your wifi router off and on?
Lyricist II
October 23, 2017
I would have thought so - but it can happen - I have many Sonos devices in a number of my properties and never had a problem - but these ones are not working - massively disappointing
pwt
Virtuoso
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
Perhaps you could walk through the steps you've taken in a little more detail?
4 x P:5 | Sub | 4 x P:1 | 3 x Connect | 2 x Boost | Connect:Amp | 2 x One | Amp | Move | Port | Era 300
October 23, 2017
I would have thought so - but it can happen - I have many Sonos devices in a number of my properties and never had a problem - but these ones are not working - massively disappointing

Did you update your Sonos app to the latest version? You need the latest one with these speakers. Version 8.1.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sonos-controller/id293523031?ls=1&mt=8

If thats not it I would reboot your wifi and see what happens.
Prodigy I
October 23, 2017
I would have thought so - but it can happen - I have many Sonos devices in a number of my properties and never had a problem - but these ones are not working - massively disappointing

I had to temporarily disable 5ghz WiFi on my router to get my One to connect via WiFi. To reset the One to factory default, hold down the back button while unplugged, while still holding the button in plug it in and continue to hold till it flashes orange. maybe you just need to reset them?
Lyricist I
October 24, 2017
Until Sonos corrects the song limit (roughly 65,000) I will no longer be purchasing any more Sonos products. They need to accommodate the many people with larger song libraries. I have been using Plex, but it is not the optimal solution.
pwt
Virtuoso
October 24, 2017
Until Sonos corrects the song limit (roughly 65,000) I will no longer be purchasing any more Sonos products. They need to accommodate the many people with larger song libraries. I have been using Plex, but it is not the optimal solution.

I'd be interested to know if there really are many people with libraries exceeding 65,000 tracks. I suspect it's a tiny minority of their user base.

That doesn't mean that Sonos shouldn't work to remove the limitation, however. There are ways of doing so, all of which present complications -- one of which involves breaking compatibility with older (more memory starved) Sonos devices. But, for the first time, Sonos is starting to do this, because Airplay 2 endpoint functionality is likely only to be available on certain (to be determined) newer devices, although the audio will still be distributable to all devices. They could play the same kind of game for larger libraries, with suitable software architecture changes.
4 x P:5 | Sub | 4 x P:1 | 3 x Connect | 2 x Boost | Connect:Amp | 2 x One | Amp | Move | Port | Era 300