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Sonos ends long product draught with the $299 Play speaker

Digital Trends·@ShikharMehrotra·2 months ago
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Sonos has had a rough couple of years. A botched app redesign, executive shakeups, product cancellations, and a stock price that’s been doing its best impression of a broken subwoofer. So when the company announced two new speakers, the collective reaction from the audio world was somewhere between cautious optimism and “please, just don’t mess it up.” The headline addition is the Sonos Play — a $299 portable speaker that the company is positioning as its most versatile yet. On paper, it’s genuinely interesting: IP67 waterproofing, 24 hours of battery life, a built-in power bank that can charge your phone, and a removable utility loop for carrying it around. The audio setup runs three Class-H digital amplifiers, two angled tweeters, and a midwoofer, with Automatic Trueplay tuning that continuously adjusts sound to wherever you happen to be. The more compelling feature, though, is multi-speaker Bluetooth grouping — something Sonos has never done before.…

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