Sonos Loudspeakers

Santa Barbara company founded in 2002 that created the modern multiroom wireless speaker category.

Founded: 2002
Founders: John MacFarlane, Craig Shelburne, Tom Cullen, Trung Mai
Headquarters: Santa Barbara, California, United States
Manufacturing: Built in Asia
How to buy: Sold factory-direct, and through specialist hi-fi dealers, online retailers and custom installers
Known for: Inventing practical multiroom streaming, Trueplay room tuning, a controlled software ecosystem

Currently, we have 4 Sonos loudspeakers in our database. Below you can find the list of these speakers with their main specs and links to their review pages.

Sonos Powered Bookshelf(3)
Sonos Passive In-wall(1)

Sonos Powered Bookshelf Speakers

Model	Watts RMS	Max Depth / Sample Rate	Woofer
Sonos Era 100 2 pack	—	/	1 x "
Sonos Era 300 2 pack	—	/	2 x "
Sonos Five	—	16-bit/44.1kHz	3 x 2.75"

Sonos Passive In-wall Speakers

	Model	Frequency	Sensitivity	Impedance	Woofer
	Sonos In-wall Speakers	44-20kHz	89 dB	8Ω	1 x 6.5"

About Sonos

Sonos shipped its first system in 2005, several years before streaming services were mainstream, and solved the hard part - reliable synchronised playback across rooms with a controller that ordinary people could use. Almost every wireless multiroom system since has followed its shape. The company has since had a difficult relationship with its own installed base over app rewrites and product end-of-life decisions.

Sonos is the rare audio company whose main achievement is software, and its 2024 app rewrite became a widely reported cautionary tale about breaking a product that people had already built their homes around.

Notable models: ZonePlayer ZP100, Play:5, One, Arc, Era, Amp.

Official Sonos website

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