Sonos enters the headphone market

The Sonos Ace headphones have the peculiarity that they can also be linked with the rest of the brand’s devices, so if you are listening to television through your sound bar and want to switch to listening to it on your headphones, just lift them up to for the sensors to activate and the hearing aids to start ringing.

This is a way of carrying out technological progress focused on sustainability by extending the life of the batteries because when you take off the headphones, the device pauses the playback of the material automatically and resumes it when you put them back on, which does that the battery is not in use except when strictly necessary.

In an interview with Expansión, Chris Kallai, VP of product at Sonos, commented that being an environmentally friendly brand, good battery performance is something they have worked a lot on, in addition to having a very fast charging system. , which allows you to have three hours of use in just three minutes of charging.

Another sustainability measure of this product is the use of materials in both the product and its travel case, which is made of 75% plastic bottles and 17% of the materials in the headphones are recycled material. In addition to using vegan leather in the product (which is also very fresh for the user), much of their work has focused on making the mix of materials resistant, sustainable and of good quality.

Kallai stressed that an important part of the design of this product is the head tracking, which implies that when using headphones connected, for example, to the television, when the person moves or moves away from the television, they recognize the location of the sound source, which makes the experience much more realistic. Added to this is the Dolby Atmos system and the technology TrueCinema of this brand, which recognizes the space where you are and creating a virtual map of it, reducing the sensation of wearing headphones and the fatigue they cause after prolonged use.

For those who are not audio experts, the Sonos Ace has features that you will value. Kallai highlighted the lightweight and ergonomic design of the headphones that allow you to know without hesitation which is the left side and which is the right, as well as easily renew pads when necessary. He also revealed that more than 580 people were tested to ensure that they were comfortable even for those who use them for several hours, for example, to work, who will value the eight integrated microphones for clearer voice transmission.

Although historically the brand has focused especially on music reproduction, for the development of the Sonos Ace, the team worked hand in hand with experts from different platforms, for example, from the world of gaming, to improve the sound in different activities, not only in listening to music. This development has led them to have incredible spatial audio, active audio cancellation and ambient mode (highly recommended for safety reasons when using them on the street) and, above all, the fusion they have for use in home theater.

With the Sonos Ace, the brand enters the personal listening category with two colors, black and a soft white, although they do not rule out adding more colors as they have done in other of their products. They will be available starting June 5 for 9,499 pesos.