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According to people familiar with the product, Optimo 2 includes twice as much RAM and as much as eight times more flash memory than any previous Sonos speaker. Size-wise, it looks to resemble something like the Sonos Five / Play:5. The 3D recreation above is bronze-colored, but Optimo 2 will likely stick to Sonos’ traditional white and black color choices. It includes an arsenal of drivers, including several that fire in different directions from beneath the shell between the front speaker grille and backplate. Encased in a funky, dual-angled shell, the new device will be positioned as the best-sounding speaker that Sonos has ever produced. The Verge has viewed early, work-in-progress images of Optimo 2, and it marks a substantial evolution in design compared to Sonos’ existing products, such as the Sonos One, Five, Arc, Beam, and Roam. Aside from the upcoming, delayed Sub Mini, the company is also at work on a completely new high-end speaker codenamed Optimo 2. The Sonos One with Alexa gets the Double Senior Discount Seal of Approval from this household.After spending 2022 focused on midrange products like the Ray and the rollout of its own voice service, Sonos is about to shift its attention back to upscale devices.

I've read here that the Alexa function is not great on the Sonos, but again that depends on your needs and perspective. I have asked Alexa the time asked her to set an alarm and to tell me a joke. Of course all of the music can be accessed without problem on the app. In the interest of fairness I must say that Alexa does not seem to recognize Sirius XM and even told me it was not installed. That worked and now my wife can get her old friend playing at 6am without using any apps. For example, after a number of fails we looked at the app and noticed that our local classical music station was titled Classical Public Radio. There's a bit of learning curve in finding what gets Alexa's motor running. The more specific your request the better. The Alexa thing was our biggest surprise as both wife and I were skeptical and had put Alexa in the broad category of "things we will never have."Īlexa's default play for us will be something from Amazon Music. We are obviously not audiophiles but to our aging ears the Sonos is a huge upgrade over what we had and fills our room with deep, rich sound. And the biggest bonus, our local classical music station is among the many radio stations that can be added. We had discovered that Sirius XM now offered an app based streaming version of their service which also connected easily with a little switching back and forth between the apps. The Sonos app connected seamlessly with Amazon Music. My wife actually has this same complaint and, as with my marriage the app eventually suggested we just move on. It kept failing, telling me I was making too much noise. The only exception here is in a tuning process that involves waving your iPhone while you walk around the room.

Download the app and follow the simple steps. I dread the day when I buy a new piece of tech and have no clue how to make it work. We have Sirius XM in the car, love the variety and often wished we could get that at home.īased on the specs and reviews it looked like Sonos One had the potential to be our new best music friend. The downside here is that my wife has no notion of how to use the app to make Amazon music work. We have access to Amazon music and recently bought a little Bluetooth speaker that worked very nicely. Our basic music needs were being met by a 10 year old Sony "shelf system" a radio tuned only to the local classical music station with a CD player that no longer worked.

Since I think it's important that you know the perspective with which a review is written let me briefly tell you what this Sonos One was meant to replace. Like many my ability to check out new tech with the systems administrator or a Millennial colleague came to an abrupt end along with my final paycheck. I am a 70 year old struggling to keep up with technology because, well it's important.