Sonos One

By Joe Osborne

Sonos has at last debuted its Amazon Alexa-powered smart speaker, the Sonos One. It looks quite a bit like the Play:1, but now comes equipped with a six-microphone array that the firm claims can pick up your voice anywhere in the room, no matter how loud the music is playing from its Class-D amplifiers.

The speaker marks an interesting evolution in not only Sonos’s product line, but for Amazon’s Alexa assistant on the whole, with the ability to control audio in any room from the Sonos One speaker. Sonos dubs this level of multi-room control ‘continuity of control.’

That continuity extends beyond voice into touch controls as well as through the existing Sonos app, which will be updated with Alexa capability today, as of this writing. (Yes, this means that all Sonos speakers that aren’t the One will support voice control, but through your phone.)

Price and availability

Sonos is selling its One speaker for $199 or £199, which is largely on par with Amazon and Google’s smart speakers. You can pre-order the Sonos One starting today, as of this writing, on Sonos’s website – all orders ship starting October 24.

If you want truly stereo sound from the Sonos One, however, you’ll have …read more

Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac