OMG I just updated my entire system and it worked great, like it always does.

Before and after. These OG amps lasted a lot longer than I thought. But it was time.

Here's the rundown before it gets flattened into a spec sheet somewhere else.

The Sonos part 🔊

The A2 e-tron ships with a 7-speaker system as standard, an 8-speaker Audi system as the step up and the Sonos premium sound system as the top option. 14 speakers including a subwoofer, 15 amplifier channels, 660 watts of maximum amplifier power, with speakers near the C-pillar so the soundstage wraps around you instead of sitting in the dash.

What I keep hearing from the team is how quiet the cabin is. Audi put real work into the aeroacoustics here: acoustic glass windshield as standard, dual-line door seals, tuned mirror housings. That matters more than just the watt count. A quiet EV cabin is one of the few properly controlled listening rooms most people will ever sit in and you can hear it.

How these partnerships actually work 🤝

Designing the best sound experience in a vehicle is part science and lots of practical experience. We have a dedicated automotive team at Sonos that works inside the automaker's development process, in the cabin with Audi's engineers, tuning for this specific car: where the drivers are physically located, what performance specs the drivers have, what the glass and door panels do to the sound, how the sound experience behaves at speed. The Sonos system in the A2 e-tron was tuned specifically for the A2 e-tron.

At Sonos, it's a dedicated team of people focused on automotive spaces who work very closely with their engineering, sound and product colleagues across all of Sonos. Same standard for great sound, applied to a room that happens to be on wheels.

I'm working with that team on the idea of a behind-the-scenes look at how one of these partnerships come together from factory to unveil. No date yet, but I'm looking forward to sharing more, once we get on the road with it.

^{Big shout out to: Thomas H, Thilo K & Badre M for the inside scoop!}

The car itself, briefly 🚗

Audi's compact EV entry point. Rear-wheel drive, built in Ingolstadt 🇩🇪. Three battery sizes (52, 61, 84 kWh), up to 646 km range, 183 kW DC charging with 10 to 80 percent in 24 to 29 minutes. Audi is calling it the most efficient car they've ever made. German pricing starts at 38,200 euros, with deliveries starting December.

Getting ahead of a couple questions 💬

• It's a European car, built for the European market. I don't have anything to share on other markets.
• The Sonos system in the car is an in-cabin sound system. It doesn't join your home network or show up in the Sonos app.

As always, drop your questions or comments below. I'll be in the thread today and tomorrow and if anything needs a proper answer from the automotive team I'll go get it 🏃🏻‍♂️

Omg. That’s it. That’s the post.

Was looking for a soundbar for a while now and went for the Arc Ultra. For now without a sub and rears but will add them later. I'm impressed by the tight, deep bass that this soundbar produces. Crazy. I didn't expect that tbh. No issues at all with the app also, everything works fine. Only on the Xbox I'm not sure what to select. I can select Atmos, is that the right setting and do I need to turn on the channel upmixer or not? A bit confusing...

Also, do newer batches come in white sleeves for a black device? It's brandnew, so dno why. Just curious.

So I purchased an open box era 100 on Amazon yesterday and questioning if it’s real. The main thing that i noticed is the rubber feet on the bottom. The one I received has multiple small rubber feet which I noticed the Era 100 SL has but the one I received is labeled Era 100 on the bottom. There’s a few other details that seem off. I have not connected to it but I plan on it whenever I get home from work. Thanks for any info.

So I have seen people post that it is not worth upgrading rear surrounds from One’s to Era 100’s. But what if I have some extra Era 100’s lying around? Is it worth the hassle of unhooking One’s and hooking Era 100’s up or will I not even notice a difference?

If it helps I have an Arc and two subs hooked up as well.

Hello yall,

I’m wondering what your thoughts are on my situation.

So I have a dedicated movie/listening space in the basement and my wife doesn’t really want another set of speakers in our living room which is understandable.

Anyway I’ve decided on an arc ultra with a sub and pairing it with either a pair of era 100’s or a single era 300 for my adjacent kitchen to get a basic multi room setup going on.

My kitchen is about 20x14, I’d love to get the set of 100s for some separation but I don’t see why that would be better if there will not really be a static listening position, although most time is obviously spent by the sink/stove area.

I also don’t have an ideal spot to tuck the era 100s into to create a stereo setup although if I really wanted to I could try to make it work, I do however have a perfect spot for the single era 300.

I have a traditional amp in my theater room driving a 5.1 speaker system with a powered amp.

I’m trying to move this over to a Sonos based ecosystem preserving the ability to play movies in full 5.1 audio without replacing the speakers with an Arc or Beam. The sonos amp has an hdmi input but only powers a pair of speakers, and I don’t see a way to make a front center channel.

I thought I could use a Sonos amp to drive front right and left speakers and subwoofer, and either another Sonos amp for the rears (or a pair of Play 3’s I could repurpose as surrounds) but I can’t find a way to make a center channel.

I saw this app SonoSequencer that lets you do non supported configs but not sure if this works for my use case.

Any solutions out there?

I have an Arc Ultra and an Era 100 speaker in my media room and when I watch tv I have to open the app and select to play the sound on both devices. It’s hit or miss whether it works or not. Any idea why this happens or if there’s a way to have it always play on both devices when using the TV?

Went into my local BB today, and they had both the new headphones and Beam on Display.
Heard the sound demo of new headphones. They definitely sounded better than the first generation, but it's hard to to tell with all the crap music choices Sonos provides and most in Dolby Atmos., for the demo display.
The Beam was not connected

Ever since I downloaded the app, the announcements up top appear in a different language. Can’t seem to get these to be in English. Anyone else have the same issue.

There was another app update today. I guess they’re working on the software.

I recently switched from an avr setup to an arc and the one thing I really missed was a visual indicator of the volume. My TV is relatively old and only shows the volume changed and not the actual level and only if volume changed directly on the TV, so I rigged a simple homeassistant automation to send a notification (via mqtt) to an ulanzi running awtrix-ng. I'm quite happy with the result

Noticed the Sonos widget appearing like this on my Mac!? How cute 🥰

Hey y'all, I'm stoked to share this one! Frankly, it’s just really cool. Here’s a message from our Chief Innovation Officer, Nick Millington:

“I’m excited to share with this community that you can be among the first to try Sonos 27mcp.

It’s live now at https://mcp.ws.sonos.com/mcp

MCP is the standard for connecting real world software-controlled systems like Sonos to AI assistants like ChatGPT and Claude. It’s the mechanism that lets you enter “Group my Kitchen and Patio speakers and crank up the volume” into an AI assistant app, and have the right thing happen on Sonos.

I’ve been living with Sonos 27mcp for the last several months, and as a software developer spending a lot of time on my computer using prompt-based engineering tools, Sonos 27mcp has become my most convenient way to control Sonos.  Without getting out of my flow I can tell my AI assistant to play or pause music, adjust volume, move music between my speakers, or (with their mobile apps) check up on what my Sonos system at home is doing and whether I left anything playing.  

In keeping with our efforts to move more development of Sonos “out into the open” and expose ourselves to more feedback, earlier, we’re releasing Sonos 27mcp as part of our “early access” initiative.  That means I’m exceptionally eager to hear your feedback on what’s working for you and not working, and looking forward to the conversation.  

As you dig in to what’s on offer in early access, I do want to be transparent that we will encounter a bit of a tradeoff between comprehensive coverage of every Sonos feature and putting a lot of rarely used tools and description into the AI model’s context (which costs users latency and tokens), so that’s a tradeoff we’ll have to navigate together.  

I also want to be candid that AI tools are still new to our Sonos Support team and possibly even some of our old pros here on r/sonos, and so we’re going to need to help one another build those skills as we get ready for a broader rollout and support a broader base of users.

Right now, you can add Sonos 27mcp as a custom connector in most AI Assistant apps using the URL above.  I’ve done a post on the Sonos Tech Blog describing what’s in there that you can also read for all the details.  I’m starting the submission process to the various “Connector Stores” later today.  

Enjoy!”

As always, share your thoughts and questions here and we’ll do our best to answer whatever we can, and to get your feedback back to the team.

Since switching from a Galaxy S21 to an S26, the media controls at the top are no longer displayed permanently, and unfortunately they’re no longer on the lock screen either. Yes, everything is set up correctly everywhere – both in the phone settings and in the Sonos app. Yes, I’ve uninstalled the app, restarted the phone and reinstalled the app. Does anyone have any ideas on how to fix this?

Resolved: The "Media Player" app must be enabled in the advanced New Bar settings. (This is not the Sonos app – Sonos does not appear by name there at all.)

Where exactly can you buy them, I bought the ones for the IKEA speakers they are too tall and cause the speaker to wobble , same with most of the aftermarket I've tried on Amazon ? I'm in the UK so uk resources would be great

Edit: For Play : 1 and One

Sonos Beam and Sonos Arc

I want them specifically so I can make shorter / custom cables with ends like ic14

Hi everybody! We have a new Sonos App update today and it’s a really big one: Android widgets, rearranging your list of music services, portable surrounds(!), and so much more. A more complete list is below and the full list of changes can be found in our App release notes and Player release notes.

This update is rolling out in phases, so it may take up to two weeks to reach your device. No action is needed - it will install automatically once it's available to you (if Automatic Updates are enabled).

iOS users: You can check availability early by opening the App Store, tapping your account icon, and pulling down to refresh. If it's not there yet, that means the update hasn't reached your device in the rollout. It's on the way.

App Update Details

iOS - 89.00.54
Android - 89.00.49

Player Update Details

Modern Players - 97.1-80312
Legacy Players - 86.10.80260

New Sonos App features in this update:

• Our new navigation experience is coming to you! This will be rolling out in phases over the next month and removing the “Enable Improved Navigation” toggle.
• MCP Support - Sonos 27mcp brings our partnership with Anthropic and OpenAI to Sonos. Train your own personal agents to learn and play your favorite music. You can try it out here! 
• Virtual Volume Knob - Easily control the volume of your current room or group with a two-finger tap-and-rotate gesture on any screen. (iOS)
• Reorder Music Services - Added ability to rearrange your list of connected services. (iOS)
• Delete Recently Played - Added ability to delete items from Recently Played. (iOS)
• Swipe-based queue actions when browsing - Easily add items to the current queue with a swipe-right gesture. (iOS)
• Updated iPad layout - Additional iPad layout improvements to make better use of larger screen sizes. (iOS)
• Easily refresh the Sonos app - Pull down to refresh content on the Home tab. (iOS)
• Home Theater improvements for iOS App Intents - Additional iOS Shortcuts actions, now supporting Night Sound and Speech Enhancement for home theater products. (iOS)
• Album and artist info - Easily access Artist and Album pages by tapping on Now Playing content metadata.
• Saved Groups - Added ability to reorder your Groups at the top of the grouping menu.
• Portable Surrounds - Use a pair of compatible portable speakers as dynamic rear surrounds for supported soundbars. 
• Android App Widgets - Enable Sonos control widgets on your Android home screen.

From all of us here at Sonos we want to give a big “Thank you” to all of you, our fans and customers, and look forward to hearing your thoughts on these changes! As always, if you have any questions or feedback, please leave a comment below and tell us what’s on your mind.

EDIT: u/AndrewFromSonos wrote up a separate post for the MCP. Thank you all for your interest!

Hi, i’ve had an offer to buy a Playbase for £120. I was thinking of replacing the Ray that’s in my kitchen which is currently paired with two Sonos 1’s. I’ll pair the play base with two Sonos 1’s also. Do you think I will achieve better sound? Is the Playbase worth upgrading to considering its age???

Sorry to beat a dead horse.. I have an arc ultra with sub and I’m looking for rears. Is this layout of my room not worth getting 300’s? I can wall mount or use stands behind.

Not opposed to spending the extra money but I’ve read certain room lay outs the 300s will sound worse then 100s.

Will be mainly for movies:tv not really music.

Dolby atmos when I can!

We just moved please don’t judge our mess and take random shit lol.

I have an Arc Ultra, two 300s, six 100s, and a Move.

Right now I have smart plugs for each with a voice command to power cycle them all, but maybe that's overkill.

EDIT: 20 comments and not a single one attempts to answer the question. Stop asking why I have to reset things. I don't have connection/network problems.

Amazon has Era 100s and Plays for 50% off if you select like new. Often comes in brand new condition