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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 I
October 4, 2017
Do my existing speakers Sonos speakers work as a Alexa microphone source?
Airgetlam
October 4, 2017
No, your existing speakers don't have the necessary microphones. Even the PLAY5 gen 2 doesn't have enough mic's in it to work as a Alexa microphone source.
Bruce
jgatie
October 4, 2017
I'm really excited for the Sonos One. I'm actually looking at purchasing instead of an Apple HomePod since I already have the play one. That being said, can I still control both speakers in the app and have the two speakers (the One and the play one) play the same music or different songs (they are in different rooms)? And then put the One in the room where I would use Alexa the most (bedroom most likely)? I accept the existing Play One couldn't share Alexa support but can I play and use the speakers for music networked together with App and wifi?

Certainly. You can even tell the One to play something in the Play:1 room and the Play:1 will start playing. Grouping still requires the app, but then both will respond to voice on he One.
Erwin I
Trending Lyricist I
October 4, 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.
? Playbar, Sub, 2 Play:3, and Play:1 ?
Ryan S
Ryan SAuthor
Retired Sonos Staff
October 4, 2017
I'm really excited for the Sonos One. I'm actually looking at purchasing instead of an Apple HomePod since I already have the play one. That being said, can I still control both speakers in the app and have the two speakers (the One and the play one) play the same music or different songs (they are in different rooms)? And then put the One in the room where I would use Alexa the most (bedroom most likely)? I accept the existing Play One couldn't share Alexa support but can I play and use the speakers for music networked together with App and wifi?
You're messing with my head... it's PLAY:1 or Sonos One 🙂... Long day :)

Anyway... The Sonos One will function just like every single Sonos player right out of the box. On top of that, it also has the ability for the voice stuff. You can group it with the PLAY:1, play the same music, adjust the volumes, separate the groups, all that good stuff. And you can use the microphones with the Sonos One to change what's playing, and start music on either or both speakers. (You can't make groups with voice, but if a group exists it'll play to it).
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Contributor I
October 4, 2017
So ... the Play 1 and the new Sonos One are the same price?

Despite the Sonos One having more capabilities, etc?

Are there reasons you would spend the same money for the Play 1 and not the Sonos One at this point?

The pricing is a little confusing, I would assume I would pay more for a speaker with more capabilities .... or less for a speaker with less capabilities.
Ryan S
Ryan SAuthor
Retired Sonos Staff
October 4, 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.
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Trending Lyricist I
October 4, 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.
Great question, Mugenabe. The Sonos One will only pair with another Sonos One, you won't be able to bond One with a PLAY:1 for either stereo or as part of a surround setup with a PLAY:1.

I'll make sure to pass on to the team that you're interested in seeing this at some point in the future, but there aren't any plans to share at this time that this might happen.


I don't use any stereo pairs, but just something on this.

If you want a stereo pair and your only option is 2 Sonos One speakers, assuming a stereo pair will both be in the same room, when you speak to it for Alexa functionality, which one will respond?
Ryan S
Ryan SAuthor
Retired Sonos Staff
October 4, 2017
If you want a stereo pair and your only option is 2 Sonos One speakers, assuming a stereo pair will both be in the same room, when you speak to it for Alexa functionality, which one will respond?
The microphones use beam forming technology to figure out which one you're talking to, that one responds. If you're speaking to the middle of them, one will hear it a little louder and will respond. You can have a lot of fun putting several Alexa devices in the same area and seeing if you can get them to play along, or if sometimes the wrong one picks up.
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Contributor I
October 4, 2017
Hi, I just purchased a Sonos Play:1, is there anyway to exchange it for a One? We don't have the box anymore but obviously want the integration with Alexa.