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The long-awaited first headphones: Sonos Ace

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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.

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.

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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Bumper

As a follow up - how can someone playing vinyl use these to listen to music?

Bluetooth?

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Bumper

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/sonos-inc-_obsessively-crafted-and-masterfully-tuned-activity-7198677146423234560-AJ9k?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

Those comments tho 🤣

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Kumar

As a follow up - how can someone playing vinyl use these to listen to music?

Bluetooth?

How? One needs third party hardware interposed somewhere to do that?

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Bumper

As a follow up - how can someone playing vinyl use these to listen to music?

Bluetooth?

How? One needs third party hardware interposed somewhere to do that?

Yeah you would need something that supports bluetooth transmission. Connect to an output on your system depending on what you have.

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melvimbe

The headphones are bonded to the Arc (and later, other soundbars) so that you can push the button on Ace to have whatever audio the Arc is playing start to play on Ace instead. This appears to be done entirely via WiFi, but I am not at all certain of that.

But the same thing cannot be done if one is listening to music on a 5 pair or Sonos Amp? If so, that suggests to me that these headphones are meant more for movie surround - where they may well be ground breaking in terms of the delivered experience when fully equipped to do so - than for music play.

Yes, the purpose is primarily for TV sound, but I think the reason that a pair of 5 s or Amp are not bonding options because they either do not have the required hardware for such a feature or Sonos did not prioritize development of that feature.

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TheJimster

Contributor I

I have definate plans to purchase a new set of high quality headphones and have been holding off purchasing until such times as could physically see and listen to the Sonos offering.

I have two principle observation that may result in my dropping Sonos Ace from my option list.

My first concern is that the headphones do not appear to become part of my Sonos system where it would have been able to direct an audio sources to the headphones using the Sonos App (I’m confident it will be fixed in due course) as I can currently do with my existing system devices.

Secondly it would appear that the Sonos Ace headphones will not integrate with my older Soundbar, purchase in 2013.

Are my observations on this correct?

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Absolute40

Enthusiast II

I’ve been waiting for SONOS to release a pair of headphones for years and they’re finally here! Just a couple of problems though:

The app - it’s broken. No way I’m spending $450 when the app is broken
They’re just bluetooth headphones. I had expected them to feature like any other speaker. You would see them in the app like any other speaker, add to a group etc., switch between speakers and headphones and so on. They would also connect via WiFi keep your phone as a controller rather than intrinsic to playing the music.

I’m not really sure why one would buy these over Bose/Sony etc. unless switching to/from Arc is a huge benefit.

Maybe I’d hyped these up over the years, but left a little underwhelmed 😟

Exactly this, the use case I would have purchased them for would be to listen to my music by switching from a speaker to the headphones when I want to continue listening and the family want to watch TV etc.

But my other use case would be to listen to my local music library via Wi-Fi on the headphones around my house, even if these headphones could do that I wouldn’t buy any until I am able to search and play local music like we could in the old S2 app.

And TBH, I’m not spending a penny more with Sonos until the new app is sorted or an old S2 app is republished in the app stores, so I can actually use my speakers as I intended when I first purchased them, listening to my local music collection.

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Bring back the old Sonos app. It was clunky, but it actually worked!

Bumper

I have definate plans to purchase a new set of high quality headphones and have been holding off purchasing until such times as could physically see and listen to the Sonos offering.

I have two principle observation that may result in my dropping Sonos Ace from my option list.

My first concern is that the headphones do not appear to become part of my Sonos system where it would have been able to direct an audio sources to the headphones using the Sonos App (I’m confident it will be fixed in due course) as I can currently do with my existing system devices.

Secondly it would appear that the Sonos Ace headphones will not integrate with my older Soundbar, purchase in 2013.

Are my observations on this correct?

Yes on all accounts.

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Lozboz

Chromatic Producer I

That's a very ambitious price for a set of headphones that primarily link to the Arc for watching TV and not music. I think that your phone and Bluetooth connection via the app are then involved. Sounds a complex architecture and hope that lipsync isn't an issue?

Just need to find Arc owners who will forgive you for trashing the ecosystem and are happy to find a lot of money for some niche headphones. I hope it was worth it!

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unahppyowner

Enthusiast II

From todays Wall Street Journal:

“We expect early on existing customers will pick this up in droves” “Spence said.”

Uh, not me! Spence can speak to the WSJ but not to the customers that he expects to pick em up in droves? Fix the app and treat your customers with respect!!!!

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