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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

Enthusiast II
October 7, 2017
Does the new Sonos One have a line-in jack?
Belly M
October 7, 2017
Does the new Sonos One have a line-in jack?

No, missed opportunity in my opinion.
Lyricist I
October 7, 2017
Hi, will audible work on the play one?
Belly M
October 8, 2017
Hi, will audible work on the play one?

Yes... eventually at some point in the future but not when released.

Hi everyone, we've made some really big announcements and I wanted to make sure to share with you all something we said here. We're going to be adding direct control for Sonos from the Audible app. Not quite sharing a timeline on that just yet, but we'll let you know when we can share anything.

We're also hard at work with the Audible team to bring the service back to Sonos as a service first, that'll be soon, but we aren't quite ready to share the date with you all. Stay tuned, we'll be in touch!
otown
Contributor I
October 8, 2017
Somehow my local store sold me one early last week! I can’t use it yet because the software isn’t available until the 24th, see thread here https://en.community.sonos.com/setting-up-sonos-228990/issue-adding-new-play-1-speaker-in-controller-app-6791648
Ollie
Airgetlam
October 8, 2017
You're probably causing trouble for that vendor, as I suspect they signed some contract saying they wouldn't sell them before the release date.
Bruce
otown
Contributor I
October 8, 2017
You're probably causing trouble for that vendor, as I suspect they signed some contract saying they wouldn't sell them before the release date.
Perhaps. They’re a pretty big chain so I’m sure they’ll be fine. 🙂
Ollie
October 11, 2017
I wanted to be excited about this but I'm not. Alexa isn't very good at speech recognition, not that Siri is much better, but Alexa is really limited in what it can do. I certainly don't trust Amazon with my personal information.

Its not worth an upgrade so I'll leave it at that. Still waiting for Airplay and Homekit support, but I'm sensing that Sonos doesn't want to go down that path and its time to start re-considering my wireless speaker choices. Time will tell.


Sonos has been pretty clear they will support AirPlay 2
Contributor I
October 11, 2017
How much does the sonos one energy consumption? is it the same watt as play1?
Avid Contributor I
October 11, 2017
I'm surprised to see that there doesn't appear to be a threaded mount on the rear of the speaker. This very much limits the options for stand mounts or wall mounts (under kitchen cabinet in my case). Will there be any mounts (wall, ceiling, or stand) available?
Simply put, there just wasn't room for the mounting socket. That said, we've worked with Sanus and they have a bracket for mounting purposes, available here.Will the Play 5 have voice responsiveness in the future? I was planning on purchasing one in November but I'm wondering if I should hold off.


WHAT!?! That's crazy. I was about to replace my 10 Play:1 for the new Play: One, but seeing that I cannot reuse the (pricey!) Flexson mounting brackets I have already purchased, that's now out of the question. So unfortunate.

Also, I suppose that the price for the Play:1 will now drop significantly since it will now be faded out and replaced by the Play One..? There is no reason for a new customer to purchase the Play:1 instead of the Play:One....