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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

November 20, 2017
A lot of people are asking that question. I am guessing that the Play 1 will be going away. They are on sale all the time now.
Airgetlam
November 21, 2017
If you already have a PLAY:1, and want to stereo pair (perhaps even use as surround speakers), then another PLAY:1 is the appropriate speaker. But if you don't already own one, then the Sonos One is the better purchase.

And frankly, there are people who don't want microphones in their homes, no matter what.
Bruce
November 21, 2017
How do they deal with mics in their phones, I wonder...
November 21, 2017
I hope those people don’t have cell phones.
Oh Kumar beat me to it. ?
A lot of tvs these days have microphones too.
Airgetlam
November 21, 2017
I choose to not pass judgment. I have my own set of issues 🙂
Bruce
November 21, 2017
Don't we all :D
On another note I see the Sonos One is already getting a discount for Black Friday!
Lyricist I
November 21, 2017
Hi Ryan/community -
So for surround/theater, I cannot have more than a right and left speaker? I cannot have a Play 1 and a Play One as my active left and right? (please don't mention aesthetics, that is a moot point compared to functionality and sound enjoyment)

I don't want 2 Alexa's (Play One's) in one room, period. I don't want to ONLY have a right and left speaker for my surround. If I want to overspend or fill one room with surround, I should have the ability with this costly speaker system to customize my surround as I see fit, not what Sonos limits me to. My ideal room would be TV/soundbar/sub, Play 1 (left), Play One (right), Play 3 (middle back). This should not even be an issue and the functionality should be a no-brainer.

PLEASE pass along to the Sonos team - the NEED for Sonos customers to create a custom theater systems (this could also be a highlighted marketing message for you). Back in the "wired" days we could add as many speakers as we wanted, wherever we wanted. Everyone has a need that should be fulfilled at this price point. Again, I love Sonos and I talk highly about the sound, but am very honest with everyone I talk to about the major drawbacks (and customer service). Remember we don't all have the same size rooms/houses/outdoor space, home theater or usability needs. Thx.
Ryan S
Ryan SAuthor
Retired Sonos Staff
November 21, 2017
I'll pass along the desire, akawwx. Thanks for the support and for taking the time to reach out.

I don't have any news to let you in on regarding that functionality becoming available one day, but I'll make sure the team hears the request.
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Lyricist II
November 23, 2017
Am I right in thinking if I bought a Sonos One and an Echo I could group the Sonos One and my two existing Play:1 devices then control the entire group by voice both where the Echo is located and where the Sonos One is located?
Airgetlam
November 23, 2017
Yes.
Bruce