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May 21, 2024
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The long-awaited first headphones: Sonos Ace

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The long-awaited first headphones: Sonos Ace

Today we are announcing the launch of our first-ever headphones, Sonos Ace, marking the brand’s long-awaited entry into the personal listening category. As a leading innovator in sound, Sonos is now using its renowned audio and design expertise to transform the way we listen on headphones.

The premium over-the-ear Bluetooth® headphones feature breathtaking lossless and spatial audio, world-class Active Noise Cancellation (ANC) and Aware Mode, as well as the most precise and immersive home theater experience possible using Sonos’ new TrueCinema technology. Sonos Ace will be available globally in both Black and Soft White.

Sonos Ace

Superior Sound on a Personal Level 

Artfully crafted and masterfully tuned, Sonos Ace defies expectations with a range of features that bring the best of Sonos to headphones. 

  • Indulge in high-fidelity sound: Savor every second of your favorite song, podcast or friend’s phone call thanks to Sonos Ace’s two custom-designed drivers that render each frequency with impeccable precision and clarity.
  • Your own private cinema: Sonos Ace lets you enjoy a surround sound home theater experience while giving your household the gift of quiet. Instantly swap the TV audio from a compatible Sonos soundbar to Sonos Ace with just the tap of a button. Spatial audio with Dolby Atmos envelops you in dramatically detailed sound from all directions and dynamic head tracking keeps you centered in the action even if you need to grab a blanket or reach for the snack bowl. Coming later this year, Sonos’ all-new TrueCinema technology precisely maps your space then renders a complete surround sound system for a listening experience so realistic you’ll forget you’re wearing headphones.
  • Turn the world on or off: Make personal listening even more personal with Active Noise Cancellation (ANC), or activate Aware mode when you want more awareness of your surroundings  - be it walking on a busy street or working in the office.

Day-long battery life and ultra-fast charge: Listen or talk for up to 30 hours with an extended, energy-efficient battery life. Ultra fast charging ensures you’ll never miss a beat - get 3 hours of battery life with a quick 3-minute charge using the included USB-C cable.

Sonos Ace Controls

 

Elegant Design and Long-Lasting Comfort

Sonos Ace was made to look and feel as good as it sounds. Its distinctive, slim profile beautifully blends  metal accents with a sleek matte finish, complementing any style no matter how fast trends move. 

  • Endless Comfort: Sonos Ace uses lightweight, premium materials for an airy fit that gently hugs your head. Its pillowy soft memory foam interior is wrapped in vegan leather, while a custom headband and ear cups that hide the hinge create the perfect acoustic seal without catching on hair. 
  • Intuitive Design: Wearing and storing Sonos Ace is a breeze - contrasting colors inside the ear cups subtly signal which way to put the headphones on and beautifully-tactile buttons make controls easy to use while wearing them. When you’re done listening, put Sonos Ace away effortlessly thanks to its fold flat design that fits snugly in its lightweight travel case. 
  • Responsibly Made: Sonos Ace is built to last and made for daily wear. The headphones feature replaceable ear cushions, circular materials that allow us to use 17% less virgin plastic, and a 75% recycled felt travel case made from plastic bottles. Engineered to drive energy efficiency, wear detection pauses your music when you remove Sonos Ace from your ears, minimizing the need for charging. 

Sonos Ace will be available on June 5 for $449 USD (499 EUR, 449 GBP, 699 AUD). For more information, visit sonos.com, and follow along on @sonos.

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310 replies

Lyricist I
May 28, 2024

What a disappointment!

I was hoping Sonos Ace would allow a person to listen to TV at high volume whilst allowing (long suffering) partners to listen via ARC or beam at normal volume, But no. They have taken an age to develop this but it is launched only partly finished in my view

Lyricist I
May 28, 2024

Just had it confirmed through Sonos sales: Headphones are useless without Arc. Only Bluetooth.
No integration. This would make them hight quality, regular headphones.
Magical how Sonos misses the mark twice in one month.

Jeffrey_35
Headliner III
May 28, 2024

Yeah, I think the main capabilities they need to work on that’s missing are:

  • Make the Ace a regular speaker like Move and Roam with the ability to live in your wifi environment. Be able to add, group and remove as need be to ALL speakers (not high priority but would be nice).
  • Have the Ace be added to an Arc, Beam, Ray for accessibility so hard of hearing can get the volume that they want.
  • Add multiple Aces to an ABR for movies at night-kids or apartment scenario.
  • Ability to Bluetooth into any device directly (Apple TV, Roku, TV itself, Fire Stick, etc.., iPad, phone, etc..)
  • Support all codex no different than any other BT speaker or Headset. 
  • What else am I missing?
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Lyricist III
May 28, 2024

Yeah, I think the main capabilities they need to work on that’s missing are:

  • Make the Ace a regular speaker like Move and Roam with the ability to live in your wifi environment. Be able to add, group and remove as need be to ALL speakers (not high priority but would be nice).
  • Have the Ace be added to an Arc, Beam, Ray for accessibility so hard of hearing can get the volume that they want.
  • Add multiple Aces to an ABR for movies at night-kids or apartment scenario.
  • Ability to Bluetooth into any device directly (Apple TV, Roku, TV itself, Fire Stick, etc.., iPad, phone, etc..)
  • Support all codex no different than any other BT speaker or Headset. 
  • What else am I missing?

Good list. The Ace already has the ability to connect via bluetooth with devices that support bluetooth. For devices that don’t support Bluetooth (which I believe is the case for some of the devices you listed), that would never be an expected capability. So not sure I understand your fourth bullet. I agree with your first bullet. But I’d like to strongly disagree with your suggestion that integrating the Ace into the zone ecosystem is not a high priority. From my perspective, not having that integration is a complete deal breaker. I‘ll buy an Ace in a heartbeat once that’s addressed, but not before. 

Prodigy I
May 28, 2024

Yeah, I think the main capabilities they need to work on that’s missing are:

  • Make the Ace a regular speaker like Move and Roam with the ability to live in your wifi environment. Be able to add, group and remove as need be to ALL speakers (not high priority but would be nice).
  • Have the Ace be added to an Arc, Beam, Ray for accessibility so hard of hearing can get the volume that they want.
  • Add multiple Aces to an ABR for movies at night-kids or apartment scenario.
  • Ability to Bluetooth into any device directly (Apple TV, Roku, TV itself, Fire Stick, etc.., iPad, phone, etc..)
  • Support all codex no different than any other BT speaker or Headset. 
  • What else am I missing?

There's a difference in meaning between 'codex' and CODECS.(!?!?).

 

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Enthusiast II
May 28, 2024

Roverandom, Actually not surprising they missed the mark twice in a month, bad shooters consistently miss.  Sonos came out with an app that the alarms didn’t work for about three weeks and the snooze function still doesn’t work.  My am/fm radio from the seventies has a functional alarm and snooze function.  If Sonos can’t master technology that has literally been around for fifty years why would you think they could do anything cutting edge?  I don’t say that to be mean to you, they suckered me in too, big time.  I have thousands of dollars in speakers that since the app update can’t play one song I like since all my playlists are gone.   

Lyricist I
May 28, 2024

I’ve ordered the white pair and cannot wait to get my grubby mits on them

Contributor I
May 30, 2024

Could we have a complete list of supported Bluetooth codecs please? The product page only mentions AptX Lossless, which hardly any phones (with latest Snapdragon chipset) support. Other reviews have also mentioned AptX Adaptive, which again, only a few phones support. What about Apt X (supported on Samsung) and AptX HD (supported by Google Pixels), are these codecs supported as well?

Enthusiast II
May 30, 2024

Let me start by saying I absolutely love the look of the Sonos Ace, especially in white. I even am starting to get used to the new App… But.. and this is a big but for a lot of people I think, why on earth would you not have this headphone act like their own zone within your household? You did it with the Roam and the Move. How is the Ace any different than those speakers? I truly do not understand. That would be the no.1 USP to buy Sonos and not another brand. Let’s face it, sure transferring the sound from a soundbar to the Ace is a nice party trick, but who is seriously gonna use that a lot? I mean most people bought the Arc en possible sub and surround to blow the roof off! I am certainly not gonna buy 2 for me and my wife so we can sit next to each other wearing our Sonos Ace headphones watching a movie when I have invested thousands in Arc + Sub + Era 300. Sorry makes no sense to me..  Hopefully this can be added with a software update.

May 30, 2024

Let me start by saying I absolutely love the look of the Sonos Ace, especially in white. I even am starting to get used to the new App… But.. and this is a big but for a lot of people I think, why on earth would you not have this headphone act like their own zone within your household? You did it with the Roam and the Move. How is the Ace any different than those speakers? 

Smaller, lighter battery I imagine. In addition, beyond knee jerk reaction to omission I’m not sure the use case for acting like a regular zone is hugely compelling. The only thing we really miss out on by not being able to add as a regular zone is access to Sonos line in ports. This is something I would like, but I suspect I’m in a relatively small portion of the potential user base. Everything else (streaming music services and local music library) can be easily played from other apps. We do also miss out on ability to group the Ace with other speakers in the house but I’m not sure why anyone would want to do that.

 

Let’s face it, sure transferring the sound from a soundbar to the Ace is a nice party trick, but who is seriously gonna use that a lot? I mean most people bought the Arc en possible sub and surround to blow the roof off! I am certainly not gonna buy 2 for me and my wife so we can sit next to each other wearing our Sonos Ace headphones watching a movie when I have invested thousands in Arc + Sub + Era 300. Sorry makes no sense to me..  Hopefully this can be added with a software update.

If you live in an apartment you can’t really use full 5.1 or 7.1 home theatre setup to max potential without annoying your neighbours. A single soundbar and an Ace may be a good, and regularly used solution for this group of customers.