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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

Contributor II
October 4, 2017
Does the Sonos One have the same sonic qualities and performance as the play:1?
Definitely not pleased that the One cannot be paired with a play:1. I have paired speakers in most rooms in my house (play:1 or play:3) and would like to have a One but seems like Sonos is introducing a new constellation of speakers that won't be compatible with the 9 Sonos speakers I already own!
Prodigy I
October 4, 2017
Does the Sonos One have the same sonic qualities and performance as the play:1?
Definitely not pleased that the One cannot be paired with a play:1. I have paired speakers in most rooms in my house (play:1 or play:3) and would like to have a One but seems like Sonos is introducing a new constellation of speakers that won't be compatible with the 9 Sonos speakers I already own!

The comment elsewhere is that Sonos One and Play 1 will be similar.

I don't think you're looking at incompatible speakers at all though. You simply can't use two different speakers as a stereo pair. Be nice if you could.
Ryan S
Ryan SAuthor
Retired Sonos Staff
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.
Depending on where you purchased the PLAY:1 you may be able to return it. Otherwise, they two will work well together, you just can't stereo pair them as a single room.
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Enthusiast I
October 4, 2017
Just ordered my Sonos One! Very excited. Thank you for answering all my questions!
Contributor I
October 4, 2017
When will voice service be available in Canada??? Had 8 in the pre-order cart for xmas presents until I saw not available in Canada yet.
Prodigy I
October 4, 2017
When will voice service be available in Canada??? Had 8 in the pre-order cart for xmas presents until I saw not available in Canada yet.You will have to ask Amazon that.
Contributor I
October 4, 2017
Ryan are there technical differences that would drive that decision? It's surprising to me that it's not currently planned for.

Same here. This was the first question I had when I read the announcement. I have a surround setup in one room and I’m planning another in a new basement. Would prefer to only buy two new speakers instead of all 4.
Contributor I
October 4, 2017
When will voice service be available in Canada??? Had 8 in the pre-order cart for xmas presents until I saw not available in Canada yet.You will have to ask Amazon that. I own sonos products not amazon products so I think Sonos should have the answer:?
Ryan S
Ryan SAuthor
Retired Sonos Staff
October 4, 2017
When will voice service be available in Canada??? Had 8 in the pre-order cart for xmas presents until I saw not available in Canada yet.You will have to ask Amazon that. I own sonos products not amazon products so I think Sonos should have the answer:?
Bringing a voice assistant to a country has a lot of details that go into the whole deal, I wouldn't want to speak too much to it as I probably don't know it all myself. I think this says it well:
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.

We'd love to have the support available world-wide, so as voice becomes available in your region we'll be jumping to get it up as soon as possible.
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Airgetlam
October 4, 2017
Since the controlling system is run by Amazon (Alexa), I don't think Sonos can predict or reveal when a partner will release their software functionality in another country. I suspect that it would create an issue between the two companies if Sonos were to give some date for Amazon's release.
Bruce