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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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Contributor I
October 24, 2017
Will I be able to buy this at an Apple Store in Canada when it launches? We currently don’t have Amazon Echo in Canada and this will be the first Alexa enabled device. I kinda want to compare Alexa with Siri using a demo.
You'll be able to buy the Sonos One world wide, but Alexa will only work with it in countries where voice is available.

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.


Question Ryan
I live in Canada and own two echo dot and now Sonos One and I can voice control using my echo Dot also play Pandor simply by changing the zip code 🆒

Thx
Michel
1 x PLAY:5 | 2x SUB | 2 x PLAY:1 | 2 x PLAY:3 | 6 x CONNECT:AMP | 1 x Playbar |1 x ONE
Contributor II
October 24, 2017
I just recevied my Sonos One yesterday and so far I am pleased. A few questions though:

1. Are there plans to be able to change the wake word for each Sonos One respectively? I don't see the need to but just out of curiosity.
2. How soon will you be able to launch Spotify via voice control from the Sonos One?
3. Are there plans to be able to turn off the microphone LED on the top? In the bedroom this is very bright at night.
Ryan S
Ryan SAuthor
Retired Sonos Staff
October 24, 2017
Hi Joe, glad you're liking it.

1. Definitely an idea on the list, but not something we have a timeline or specific plans for right now. We'll let everyone know if or when there's more on this one.
2. It's coming soon, our current plan is by Christmas.
3. Absolutely, 100%, not planned. This is a privacy and security feature and there is no plan, and I can't imagine there ever being one, to turn it off. The LED is soldered to the microphone in such a way that if the microphone has power, the LED is on. It's not possible to turn the light off as long as the microphone has power. We did this so you know when you microphone is on and when it isn't.
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Contributor II
October 24, 2017
Thanks Ryan. Outside of that support it's been a good experience. My first Sonos devices. I bought 3 of the One's. The microphones seem to be a little less sensitive to your speech (You have to speak up a little more to get Alexa activated).

I understand the LED situation. I turned off the Status light so we will see how it is tonight. Is there a feature parity list between the Echo and Sonos One somewhere to see what features the One does not support? I'm wondering around the calling features.
chickentender
October 24, 2017


I understand the LED situation. I turned off the Status light so we will see how it is tonight. Is there a feature parity list between the Echo and Sonos One somewhere to see what features the One does not support? I'm wondering around the calling features.


Perhaps a tiny bit of electrical tape? :)

I've got my ONE up and running. I'm pleased overall.

Currently my only real disappointment is the lack the ONE's ability to in any way change the different speaker groups. This is a very very common task in the Sonos experience for me at least - hoping this is coming sooner than later. Support for Deezer would be very much appreciated at well.

Looking forward to the upcoming Google support - I'd likely prefer it, but Alexa does the trick for now.
Contributor II
October 24, 2017


I understand the LED situation. I turned off the Status light so we will see how it is tonight. Is there a feature parity list between the Echo and Sonos One somewhere to see what features the One does not support? I'm wondering around the calling features.


Perhaps a tiny bit of electrical tape? :)

I've got my ONE up and running. I'm pleased overall.

Currently my only real disappointment is the lack the ONE's ability to in any way change the different speaker groups. This is a very very common task in the Sonos experience for me at least - hoping this is coming sooner than later. Support for Deezer would be very much appreciated at well.

Looking forward to the upcoming Google support - I'd likely prefer it, but Alexa does the trick for now.



What do you mean by "change the different speaker groups"? Sorry, I'm new to the Sonos world
Airgetlam
October 24, 2017
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Bruce
chickentender
October 24, 2017
One quick question - I cannot seem to get the "Teach Alexa Your Voice" to work on the ONE. In the Alexa app it is available and I click to "Begin" but the step is to select the device to perform this on and all my speakers are listed as online (obviously only the ONE will be able to do this) including the ONE speaker, but all options are grayed-out/non-selectable so it's impossible to continue. Is there something I may be missing?
Ryan S
Ryan SAuthor
Retired Sonos Staff
October 24, 2017
There's a good list of what can and can't be done with the Alexa on Sonos One here.

@Chickentender, voice training is only available on specific Echo devices right now. You can find the list of those devices here. It's not on the Sonos One right now.
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chickentender
October 24, 2017

What do you mean by "change the different speaker groups"? Sorry, I'm new to the Sonos world


If you have multiple sonos speakers in different rooms, you can group them together in any combination so that they play the same music. It's always been possible to have different sonos speaker (or groups of speakers) playing different music simultaneously. This is all still possible within the Sonos app of course, but for instance I cannot say "Alexa, play rock music on Kitchen and Bedroom". You must pick a single room as far as my understanding/experience is thus far. I also cannot say "Alexa, remove Bedroom from current group" etc. or something like that.

Again - this all possible within the app still.