With everyday liveliness returning to some sort of normality , it ’s still been a challenging year with monetary value - of - living crisis , splashiness and chip shortages affecting mark of all sizes .
But much like it did before , Sonos launched a pair of new production in theRay soundbarandSub Mini . count back at the predictions we made forSonos in 2022 , we got the Sub Mini right , but a few other products did n’t make it to market .
There have been hints that Sonos is look to expand its products outside of the home theatre sphere , so what do we expect from Sonos in 2023 ?
Another new wireless speaker?
We carry a new wireless speaker from Sonos in 2022 , and one arrived and not the one we expect in the Roam SL . We had cerebrate that the lack of a new Play:3 would have provided an loose slot for a new speaker .
It call on out we were sort of justly in expecting a young wireless speaker , but our timing was off . In the summertime , The Vergereported that a new , eminent - goal speaker codenamed Optimo 2 was in the works . Three mannequin are expected in this range , the other given the name of Optimo 1 and an SL reading without built - in microphones for spokesperson helper .
Initially these do n’t appear to be alternate for the Play:3 , and we ca n’t quite see it replacing the Five tout ensemble give that ’s only been on the market place for two - and - half - years . Our impression is that they ’ll act as a new range of speakers especially asDolby Atmossupport is being shoot a line , along withBluetooth audio .
If the renders of the Optimo 2 gang true , it ’ll run around an interesting dual - angled cabinet , with doubly as much RAM and eight sentence the processing powerfulness of late speakers . On the glasses front , this is wait like a beast of a wireless speaker unit .
A headphone, any headphone
There have been rumours for years that Sonos was looking to get into theheadphone market . When it ’s hinted that Sonos is count at products outside of its traditional home theatre playpen , this is the area where we cogitate Sonos is looking to make a big splash in .
In 2021 we reportedthat Sonos had acquired Scottish - based audio brand RHA , changing the name of the fellowship to Origin North LTD . before of this , Sonos had lodge patents for a true wireless , the image of which you could see up above .
We ’ve also ascertain plans for apair of wireless over - capitulum , which have been in the employment for even longer than the true wireless , but has stay nothing more than a rumour so far . There have been suggestions that Sonos is looking to desegregate Wi - Fi into its purpose headphones too …
Home Theatre OS
before in 2022 there were job advertising for its Home Theatre OS project , including a UX Lead – Next Generation Home Theatre Experience whose office would be to lead “ next multiplication content delivery experience ” across mobile , idiot box , tablet and remote .
It ’s unlikely this would substitute the S2 as a whole and credibly even less likely that it would function as a single app given the lack of convenience that would present in having two Sonos apps to take with . We ’d think , a second like Sennheiser ’s Smart Control , that this would be specific software that reveals itself calculate on the product connected , such as a soundbar .
We ’d surmise that Sonos ’ competitor in this outer space would be Roku , and that whatever its equivalent Home Theatre OS looks like , our guess is that it ’d take on a standardised shape in blending music and video streaming apps along with its own discovery portal . That ’s just speculation on our part and it remains to be seen whether this would launch in 2023 , but it does look like Sonos is interested in becoming a bigger actor in the living elbow room .
