OPINION : We ’ve been get word about it for months but now it feel more concrete than ever – the Sonos Arc Gen 2 is coming .
According to theleaks report by The Vergeand previouslyBloomberg , it looks like the new Arc could be using technology from a Dutch loudspeaker system ship’s company previously bonk as Mayht .
You ’ve believably never try of Mayht , but it was a party that came onto our microwave radar in other 2022 . I was invited on a trip to Amsterdam to see its upcoming technology ( regrettably I could n’t make it ) but the Cliff Notes version is that Mayht was founded by two brothers ( Mattias and Timothy Scheek ) who were make speakers at the years of eight in their bedroom .
They produce Heartmotion technology , which allows manufacturers to produce speakers that are ten times smaller , flat , and lightweight without compromising the “ wakeless quality , stove or output ” . After demoing the engineering science and receiving reportage at case including CES , they were bribe by Sonos towards the end of 2022 for a cool $ 100 million .
Am I missing something?
Codemaned Lasso , theArc Gen 2looks like it ’ll be the first production that uses this loudspeaker system applied science . Though I ’ll be honest and say that , found on the leak I ’m not entirely sure what the welfare of having the Mayht technical school will have on the soundbar . peradventure I ’m missing something here .
If according to leak the soundbar is in effect the same size and profile , then it ’s not reallybenefittingfrom having smaller speaker unit , which at the very least would take into account the soundbar to funk in distance , depth , and tallness .
count the late vogue inthe soundbar worldof becoming skinnier and light so they can be paries - mounted , you ’d presume that ’s the steering Sonos would be looking at .
disregarding , all we have are fiddling snipping of the soundbar and not the full reveal ; so perhaps it is small and thinner or it allows more room for an integrated subwoofer within the chassis , which could help make the Sonos Lasso a betterall - in - one soundbar solutionwithout the pauperization to tot an expensive subwoofer for that cinematic freshwater bass performance .
I ’ve read online the idea that with Mayht ’s technology , you could get the performance of a Sonos Five speaker in the size of theOne speakerbut – and I could be wrong – that does n’t seem like it ’d apply to a speaker that ’s already bragging in the Arc unless we ’re get a smaller , lighter model .
We can expect it to get all the feature we ’ve seen on theEra 100and 300 speakers , which means Bluetooth cyclosis and the power to deactivate the microphone , as well as being capable to connect the Ace headphones for spatial audio tracking in the same ( but hopefully even safe way ) as is potential with thecurrent Arc .
The price doesn’t seem right
What does put a slightly acrimonious taste in the mouth is the turn over price – $ 1200 ( which likely means £ 1200 / € 1200 ) ; which is a fair agio on a soundbar that originally launched at £ 799 / $ 799 before it got bumped up to £ 899 / $ 899 a few year later .
Is the Mayht speaker technology , Bluetooth and integration with the Ace ( headphones that already cost £ 449 / $ 449 – so they ’re not in particular affordable in the grand scheme of thing ) enough to make hoi polloi upgrade ? discombobulate in a duad ofEra 300speakers as rearward artilleryman and maybe a poor boy ( in this type the 3rdGen Sub ) , and you ’re easily looking at over £ 2000 / $ 2000 for a environment speaker package .
The impression I was getting from Sonos ’ late moves in the marketplace was to move into new spaces ( headphones and outdoor verbalizer ) , make for new technical school to the table in a commodious form ( Dolby Atmos ) ; and expound its audience in the process .
The rumoured price does n’t feel like it ’s go to do that at all for the soundbar grocery store . This is positioned as an acclivity for the honest-to-god faithful , the hardcore Sonos lover unforced to pay for it .
Will it work ? I ’m not certain . There have been a few unintended missteps such as the revised app , and the miscellaneous receipt to theAce earphone , while theRoam 2seems like it ’s scantily much of an upgrade – and also seems to have incur very little marketing attention . It ’s not as if Sonos is puncher - drunk but it could do with a solid win .
And could we get actualDTS : Xsupport this sentence around Sonos ?
