Right. I’m going to stop after this as brain is getting carried away.
Any chance of there being an IKEA collaboration, similar to the Sympfonisk, to create a ceiling light with built in Sonos speakers to work as either dedicated down-firing Atmos speakers or “invisible” music speakers?
Context: I’m a “tech-on-show minimalist” and would rather hide/ghost it all as much of it as possible. The Symfonisk lamp speakers are okay and all but better for surrounds or discrete ground level music (not a great fan of the look personally). Upfiring speakers in the Arc and Era 300s are great and all but definitely doesn't have the power/presence/directionality of a dedicated in-ceiling speaker.
Given most rooms have a ceiling light via ceiling rose in the centre of the room, I would LOVE Sonos Atmos speakers built discretely into a ceiling light where either music or dedicated Atmos down firing speakers would live. That way, even if you don’t have any other speakers, you get the benefit of music in a room that’s not on show or without the distraction and would have people wondering where it’s coming from (which would be cool)
It’s a bit of a crude (non-structural) diagram but in my head it would look something like this or this:
…..but there are SO many design possibilities when you start thinking shapes, sizes, LEDs and strips at the what not.
Come on Ikea and Sonos. Hopefully it would happen before I make a trip to IKEA and tear down some old Play:1s and try going full Macguyver :-)