Sonos Era 300 review 2024: great sound quality

This manufacturer is planning to introduce the Sonos Era 300 in the year 2023. This home-use stereo speaker comes in both Black and White and features an easy integration with your other Sonos products, including their soundbars. The speaker is meant for use in the home and is available in both colors. It is the first speaker from the manufacturer to have standard Wi-Fi capability in addition to Bluetooth connectivity, making it the first speaker available with the Sonos Era 100.

Users of Android devices may now take use of the ‘Quick Tuning’ option, which was previously only available to iOS users. Premium sound capabilities such as Trueplay room correction allow you to tune the speaker’s output based on the specific acoustics of your environment. In addition, support for Dolby Atmos enables you to take full use of Dolby Atmos Music when using compatible streaming services like Apple Music.

Sonos Era 300 Specifications

Build and Design

The Era 300’s hourglass shape, which is needed to keep the speaker’s profile small while fitting in four tweeters and two woofers. Even though it doesn’t have the refined confidence of the Sonos Five or the dense regularity of the Era 100, we like to look at the Era 300 when we have the rare chance to interact with it. In the Era series, Sonos used a capacitive concave slider to make the volume settings more tactile. This was a much better solution than the twitchy buttons on older models like the Sonos Five and One.

The Era 300 also takes advantage of the quality-of-life improvements that Sonos has been making recently. On the back, there is a specific Bluetooth pairing button and a USB-C port that can be used as a line-in or Ethernet port with the optional adapters ($19 and $39, respectively). Because of this, Sonos can get away with not including an Ethernet cable in the box, which it did with all earlier models. If you’re one of the few people who still wants to wire everything, you’ll have to pay $40 more. You can buy this speaker from its official website

Audio quality

You can feed the Era 300 normal songs from Spotify, Bluetooth, or other services, and it will pump out great stereo sound from a single box with a nice wide sound. But it can also play Dolby Atmos songs from Amazon or Apple Music. This creates spatial audio that makes you feel like you are inside the music rather than sat in front of it.

Sonos isn’t the first company to use spatial or “3D” sound, but the Era 300 is the best version I’ve heard. It can be a truly life-changing event that adds to stereotypical sound.

Price and availability

Sonos has placed the Era 300 at £449/$449/AU$749, which puts it at the top of the smart speaker market. That’s quite a lot of money. The closest competitor, the Apple HomePod 2, costs £299, $299, or AU$479.

It’s still £50/$100 less than the Sonos Five, which is their most expensive portable speaker at £499/$549/AU$700. The big difference between the two is that the Five can only play music in stereo, while the Sonos Era 300 can play music in three dimensions.

Final Words

The Sonos Era 300 is one of the best wifi speakers you can buy. It has clear sound that will make you hear new parts of songs you’ve heard before. It sounds great in stereo, but it really comes to life when you play it well-made Dolby Atmos songs that fill the room with sound and completely immerse the listener. The problem is that it’s hard to find good Dolby Atmos tracks because only Amazon and Apple Music have the technology and both of them have a lot of bad mixes.

For the speaker to sound its best, it needs space around and above it, like a clear table top or stand. It shouldn’t be put on a shelf. Aside from that, it’s easy to set up and use, works with almost every music service out there, and will be kept up to date for years. It has a choice of voice assistants, including Sonos’s own, and can be linked to and expanded with any of the company’s speakers for multiroom music.

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