Sonos announced a new entry-level soundbar, the Sonos Ray, and its own voice assistant for music control. At $279, the Sonos Ray soundbar is far less expensive than the company’s other soundbars, the Beam at $449 and the Arc at $899, but you do give up several features for that savings. The company’s new voice assistant is quite snappy and is coming to all existing Sonos speakers with voice capabilites. Read more ›
Between Fire TV, Apple TV, Android TV, Roku, and several Smart TV platforms, the streaming TV hardware market is already crowded with several players, but it seems as though Sonos thinks there is room for one more. According to sources who spoke with Janko Roettgers of Protocol and several new Sonos job listings, the company, best known for its premium home speakers and TV soundbars, is looking to create a new “Home Theater OS” with a “Next Generation Home Theater Experience.” Read more ›
The Sonos Beam Soundbar is on sale for $349.00 on Amazon. This price matches the price it was during Sonos’s Black Friday sale, which is the lowest it has ever been. The Sonos Beam comes with Alexa built-in, so you can use your voice, hands-free, to control the volume. The Sonos Beam was specifically made to work well with Fire TV devices, so you can use Alexa to launch apps and start playing content without touching a remote. If you have a modern TV with HDMI-CEC, you’ll also be able to turn your TV on or off by voice. It also has a night mode where it will boost the volume of quiet sounds, like whispers, while lowering loud sounds, like explosions, so that you can watch content at an enjoyable level without needing to constantly adjust the volume to keep from waking people up. The Sonos Beam is available in either Black or White.
The Sonos Beam Soundbar is on sale for $349.00 for Black Friday. This is the first time that this premium home theater speaker has ever been priced this low. The Sonos Beam comes with Alexa built-in, so you can use your voice, hands-free, to control the volume. The Sonos Beam was specifically made to work well with Fire TV devices, so you can use Alexa to launch apps and start playing content without touching a remote. The Sonos Beam is available in either Black or White. To go all out, you can add the wireless Sonos Sub, which is on sale at $100 off right now, matching its lowest price ever. Other active Sonos black Friday deals include the Sonos One smart speaker for $171.99, which is probably the best sounding speaker that comes with hands-free Alexa built-in.
Sonos has announced that their Sonos One smart speaker and Sonos Beam smart soundbar, which both have hands-free Alexa built in, now support Alexa Announcements. This feature was previously only available to Amazon’s Echo line of smart speakers until the Eufy Genie was the first non-Amazon Alexa device to add support earlier this week. While the Eufy Genie also added support for Alexa calling and messaging, Sonos hasn’t taken that step yet, so only Announcements are supported at this time. Correction: The Eufy Genie was the first 3rd-party Alexa device to support Alexa calling and messaging, but not the first to support Alexa Announcements. The Ecobee Switch+ supported Alexa Announcements before the Eufy Genie.
The Sonos One Smart Speaker is on sale for $199 for Prime Day. As if that wasn’t a good enough deal on its own, everyone who buys it will also receive a $50 Amazon Gift Card for free. That essentially makes the true price just $149, which is the new lowest price that this speaker has ever been. This deal is available for both the Black and the White versions of the speaker. If you like the idea of an Alexa controller speaker, like the Amazon Echo, but want something that sounds much better, the Sonos One is probably the best option out there.
Sonos has just revealed the brand new Sonos Beam, a smart home theater soundbar with Amazon Alexa that might possibly be the best accessory to the Amazon Fire TV that you could buy. At its core, the Beam is a premium soundbar that costs $399, which, while not cheap, is $300 less expensive than Sonos’ other soundbars, the Sonos Playbase and Playbar. It’s also a smart speaker with hands-free Alexa built-in and will eventually support Google Assistant as well as Apple AirPlay 2. Unlike most soundbars, which usually connect via optical audio, the Sonos Beam connects via a single HDMI-ARC port, which is how it achieves some of its most interesting features and becomes a great companion to the Amazon Fire TV. Read more ›
Sonos has just received FCC approval for a new “Home Theater Speaker” that was first spotted by Variety. The upcoming product is described as “a high-performance all-in-one home theater smart speaker,” which suggests it is the successor to the Sonos PLAYBAR. A diagram in the filing shows that the home theater speaker has a microphone, which is a good indication that it will have hands-free Alexa capabilities, like Sonos’ latest smart speaker, the Sonos One. Unlike Sonos’ existing PLAYBAR, which connects through an optical audio port, the new home theater speaker appears to use an HDMI port for its audio connection.
The Sonos One Smart Speaker is on sale for $156.50 during Amazon’s Black Friday Sale. This is the new lowest price that this speaker has ever been. The Sonos One was just released and has Alexa capabilities built in that make it work like the Amazon Echo. It has far-field microphones that listen for the Alexa wake word so you can control it with your voice. The Sonos One is considered by most to be the best sounding Alexa speaker on the market. Also on sale is the Sonos PLAYBAR TV Soundbar for $529, which is also the new lowest price it has ever been.
The price has been flipping between $156.50 and $174. Be sure to check the other sellers incase the lower price is hiding there.
Sonos is offering their customers a $25 discount on an Amazon Echo Dot, occording to The Verge. If you’re a Sonos customer, you should receive an email about the promotion sometime this week. The email will contain a unique code that can be used to purchase an Echo Dot for $24.99 and can only be used once to buy one Echo Dot. Read more ›
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