A New "Era" of Sonos Speakers

Since Sonos has not announced the Era speakers (if they exist), or the details, there’s no good way of knowing how they will work. 

I found this article about the Era 300 on the Sonos website.
 

https://blog-stage.sonos.com/en-us/guide-to-spatial-audio

This looks like an article in progress that will be posted later on the Sonos blog. The images are missing or blurred. It says the best use of the Era 300 is as rear surrounds with a sound bar at the front. They also provide some Amazon spatial audio tracks to try.

I stumbled upon this by googling “Amazon spatial audio on Sonos.”

Nice… but odd that outside folks would have access to their staging environment, I’d be guessing a misconfiguration ;)

Looks like the link is password protected now, so legit? 

I hope this doesn’t mean that the Era 300 can’t play atmos music on it’s own, without being bonded to an Arc or Beam (Gen2).  That would be rather disappointing.

The article clearly said (towards the bottom) you can use a single or pair of Era 300’s for Atmos music.

The link to article for the Sonos blog is requiring a password,  so the only information I have is what @dan8558 stated.

Okay Sonos it's March 1st start selling the damn thing already 

This is exactly why “leaks” don’t really help. Sonos will announce them when they’re ready, not when The Verge posts a rumor.

In this case, there’s some evidence that most of the “leak” may be accurate, but we really need to wait for Sonos to announce. 

There’s all sorts of reasons why they may not be ready to do so, too.