When it’s good, there’s no other speaker that sounds like this.
“Rebel Yell” by Billy Idol“No Time to Die” by Billie Eilish“Don’t Know Why” by Norah Jones“The Gambler” by Kenny Rogers“I Feel It Coming ” by The Weekndan early wave of second-rate spatial audio releases. And many of those subpar mixes remain on Apple Music and Amazon Music today. Listening to many rock songs in spatial audio can be dire. There are aof misses, and they diminish the Era 300’s potential to a considerable extent.
And if that’s going to remain the case, Sonos needs to do some serious renovating. For one, there’s no way of knowing if a song is in spatial audio until you start playing it. You don’t see any of that context when searching for a track or album: the Atmos logo only pops up after you hit play. I’d like to see some kind of spatial audio badge or indicator directly in search results. Right now, it’s just a game of pecking around until you find a song in Atmos.
Throughout the Era 300 review period, there’s been no way of turning off spatial audio for tracks that offer it. I couldlisten to the Atmos version, with no way of falling back to stereo in cases where I got stuck with a wretched mix. Sonos tells me there will be an option added to settings by the 300’s March 28th release day for disabling spatial audio, but even that’s a little too ham-fisted.
The Era 300 is the only Sonos speaker that can play rear Atmos height effects when paired with an Arc or Beam .If you combine two Era 300s with either the Sonos Arc or second-gen Beam, the new speakers can act as rear surrounds that now include upward-firing Atmos channels. They also deliver more expansive horizontal sound compared to the Sonos One or One SL since there are more drivers to work with. The Arc setup will be a 7.1.4 configuration, while the Beam will be 5.1.4.
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