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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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Lyricist I
October 4, 2017
I have existing 1, 3, and 5 already in home. Will this new One work with them?
Enthusiast I
October 4, 2017
I have a Play:One and don't want to (and definitely won't) pay AU$299 for a Sonos One just to add voice control (which anyhow is currently inactive in Australia) BUT I would pay $299 for a Sonos One if I could create a stereo pair with my Play:One. Stereo plus voice control is definitely worth $299 - but voice control by itself isn't. I bought my Play:One to listen to music and have no trouble controlling it from my iPhone or from the top buttons. If I buy a Sonos One, my Play:One (which I bought new last year) won't be used anymore since I have no need for 2 mono wi-fi speakers, even if they can play the same mono music simultaneously (which I assume is possible). If stereo pairing isn't possible, please allow us to trade-in our redundant Play:One's which were bought with the understanding that they would continue to get "better over time".
Airgetlam
October 4, 2017
jennygrossner, it will group and play well with all of your existing speakers. It will not stereo pair with any of them, however.
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jgatie
October 4, 2017
I have a Play:One and don't want to (and definitely won't) pay AU$299 for a Sonos One just to add voice control (which anyhow is currently inactive in Australia) BUT I would pay $299 for a Sonos One if I could create a stereo pair with my Play:One. Stereo plus voice control is definitely worth $299 - but voice control by itself isn't. I bought my Play:One to listen to music and have no trouble controlling it from my iPhone or from the top buttons. If I buy a Sonos One, my Play:One (which I bought new last year) won't be used anymore since I have no need for 2 mono wi-fi speakers, even if they can play the same mono music simultaneously (which I assume is possible). If stereo pairing isn't possible, please allow us to trade-in our redundant Play:One's which were bought with the understanding that they would continue to get "better over time".

Sonos One will not give you voice control if your country does not have Alexa support. Conversely, your Play:1s will support voice control via any Alexa enabled device just fine as soon as it is available in your country.
jgatie
October 4, 2017
I have existing 1, 3, and 5 already in home. Will this new One work with them?

Yes, as will any Alexa enabled device. You could use the cheap little Dot to control them now. You just can't stereo pair the One with anything but another One.
Ryan S
Ryan SAuthor
Retired Sonos Staff
October 4, 2017
I have existing 1, 3, and 5 already in home. Will this new One work with them?
You'll be able to use the Sonos One to use Alexa and control what's playing in those rooms. You can also group it just like you can with any of the others.
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Contributor I
October 4, 2017
Really excited to add to my flock of alexa devices

Does the sonos one suppprt all the alexa skills or is it just for music.

Does the sonos one support ESP ie if I have a mix of echo and sonos alexa devices will the nearest device always respond regardless of whether it’s echo or sonos, or can it only tell which is the nearest sonos device?

Can I use the intercom/dropin capability of alexa devices on the sonos one, how will I know if there is a message?

Thx
Enthusiast I
October 4, 2017
Why don't you activate and use the microphone in wi-fi connected phones (or tablets) for voice control of the Sonos system? Why are the microphones built into the speakers? My iPhone's microphone is used for Trueplay to calibrate (tune) my Play:One so surely it could also be used for voice control. Since our phones are always with us and can be spoken into directly, there should be no need for a "6 far-field microphone array with advanced beamforming". Keep it simple!
Lyricist I
October 4, 2017
So what does this mean for interaction with an existing Echo or Echo Dot. I recently purchased a PLAY:1 and was informed by Best Buy it had a 3.5 jack, it doesn't. But the sound quality was amazing and everything Sonos was saying was integration was coming, so I kept it. Does the Sonos One kill integration with existing echo devices?
Ryan S
Ryan SAuthor
Retired Sonos Staff
October 4, 2017
So what does this mean for interaction with an existing Echo or Echo Dot. I recently purchased a PLAY:1 and was informed by Best Buy it had a 3.5 jack, it doesn't. But the sound quality was amazing and everything Sonos was saying was integration was coming, so I kept it. Does the Sonos One kill integration with existing echo devices?
You found your way to the wrong annoucement 🙂 Check out this one. You can use that Dot to control what's playing on your PLAY:1 today.

Does the sonos one suppprt all the alexa skills or is it just for music.
It'll support most Alexa skills, but the emphasis is music.
Does the sonos one support ESP ie if I have a mix of echo and sonos alexa devices will the nearest device always respond regardless of whether it’s echo or sonos, or can it only tell which is the nearest sonos device?

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.
Yes.

Can I use the intercom/dropin capability of alexa devices on the sonos one, how will I know if there is a message?[/quote]
I don't believe this will be enabled to begin with, it might show up later.
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