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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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passopp
October 11, 2017
How much does the sonos one energy consumption? is it the same watt as play1?

Microphones on: 3.8W (US), 4.1W (EU)
Microphones off: 2.9W (US), 3.2W (EU)
Contributor I
October 11, 2017
How much does the sonos one energy consumption? is it the same watt as play1?

Microphones on: 3.8W (US), 4.1W (EU)
Microphones off: 2.9W (US), 3.2W (EU)


How come new play 5 is more energy efficient than the new play one :)
it looks like this, then :

| US | EU
PLAY:1 | 3.4 Watts | 3.8 Watts
PLAY ONE | 2.9/3.8 Watts | 3.2/4.1 Watts
PLAY:3 | 4.1 Watts | 4.4 Watts
PLAY:5 (gen1) | 6.9 Watts | 8.0 Watts
PLAY:5 (gen2) | 2.1 Watts | 2.2 Watts
PLAYBAR | up to 5.8 Watts | up to 6.1 Watts
PLAYBASE | 2.8 Watts | 3.0 Watts
CONNECT | 5.0 Watts | 5.6 Watts
CONNECT:AMP | 6.2 Watts | 6.4 Watts
SUB | 3.6 Watts | 3.8 Watts
BRIDGE | 3.9 Watts | 4.2 Watts
BOOST | 2.2 Watts | 2.3 Watts
Prominent Collaborator I
October 11, 2017
This may have been covered but:
1.) Will the Sonos One perform like a Echo Dot in that if I ask a non Sonos question like, "Alexa, what's the weather", will it respond on the Sonos One?
2.) If I ask the Sonos One, "Alexa, what's the weather", will it respond on all grouped speakers or only the Sonos One that picked up my voice?
Ryan S
Ryan SAuthor
Retired Sonos Staff
October 11, 2017
This may have been covered but:
1.) Will the Sonos One perform like a Echo Dot in that if I ask a non Sonos question like, "Alexa, what's the weather", will it respond on the Sonos One?
2.) If I ask the Sonos One, "Alexa, what's the weather", will it respond on all grouped speakers or only the Sonos One that picked up my voice?


The Sonos One will respond, and only the Sonos One that heard you best (if you're using a stereo pair). Most of the Dot functions will work on the Sonos One, but a few, like the "drop in" feature, won't.
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stesab92
Lyricist I
October 12, 2017
Are there plans for Alexa to come to Play:3 and Play:5 speakers?
chickentender
October 13, 2017
Question: with a ONE connected to my existing Sonos network (a Connect and 2x Play1 speakers), when speaking to Alexa will her voice responses be heard through any other speakers that grouped with the ONE (by default or as an option)?? I'm hoping that is indeed an option.

Pre-ordered mine a week ago and it is what finally made me decide to return to Alexa.... primarily the fact that it will support other voice assistants in the future. I was on the pilot program for the Amazon echo years ago before it launched and at the last minute decided not to receive one - just didn't seem worth the trouble or privacy concerns.
I'm disappointed that you cannot stereo-pair the ONE with a Play:1 as well as surprised with all that was made about the ONE being mostly identical to the Play:1. Not the end of the world but fingers crossed there aren't any other disappointments. Overall I'm excited to get mine connected.
Airgetlam
October 13, 2017
Since the Sonos One hasn't been released (and apparently some people have received it, but the software won't install it yet), we're not sure. But to be honest, I'd be extremely surprised if the "alexa" voice were to be spread across all associated (grouped or not) devices.

But since you've preordered one, perhaps you'll be kind enough to come back when you get it installed, and let us know?
Bruce
October 13, 2017
I don't know but based on the way Sonos grouping works I'm going to guess that grouped Sonos speakers will all play an Alexa response meant for any speaker in the group.
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chickentender
October 14, 2017
Since the Sonos One hasn't been released (and apparently some people have received it, but the software won't install it yet), we're not sure. But to be honest, I'd be extremely surprised if the "alexa" voice were to be spread across all associated (grouped or not) devices.

But since you've preordered one, perhaps you'll be kind enough to come back when you get it installed, and let us know?


I certainly will. I thought Ryan or another Sonos-folk may have a definitive answer.

I don't know but based on the way Sonos grouping works I'm going to guess that grouped Sonos speakers will all play an Alexa response meant for any speaker in the group.

This was my initial thought when I ordered it but then I second guessed and popped in here. Based on Airgetlam's response, second-guessing may be in order. Guess I'll find out on my own.
Contributor I
October 17, 2017
When will this be released with currys,amazon and other retailers as i have some gift vouchers i would like to use. Hi i recieved my Sonos One yesterday from Currys in Uk . They also sent me an email with the following..."it will only become operational on its release date of 24th October 2017. You do not need to do anything on the release date as this will be done automatically via a software update from Sonos.".