Sonos Era 300

Sonos’s wireless speaker is an immensely immersive experience

View online review whf.cm/Era300 The Era 300 is a wireless smart speaker that comes packing all the goodness and seamlessness of a Sonos system, with a key stand-out feature that Sonos believes is the next generation of sound: spatial audio. Spatial audio features in Dolby Atmos-soundtracked movies, TV shows and now music. Spearheaded by Apple, ‘spatial audio’ has turned into a catch-all term that covers any music that uses the Dolby Atmos format to create multiple channels of audio (beyond the standard two) to deliver a greater sense of immersion. Like or loathe its bulky, “cinched hourglass” design, it’s one born out of necessity. With spatial audio playback being the Era 300’s focal point, this means a carefully considered but unusual arrangement of drivers and amplification that can fire out…

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What Hi-Fi? (Digital) - 1 Issue, August 2024

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