![]() ![]() You want to make sure that everybody who’s in front of the speaker can clearly hear it no matter where you are.” “The second thing that we learned that we to carefully … control the radiation pattern of the loudspeaker. “What learned is a lot more firepower than you need indoors for a satisfactory experience because the sound just dissipates so fast,” he said. ![]() Self-tuning audioĪccording to audio technology manager Hilmar Lenhert, each of the Move’s components was carefully engineered to tackle challenges unique to outdoor environments, where the surroundings distort sound in unpredictable ways. It provides up to 10 hours of continuous playback, or up to 120 hours when in suspend mode. ![]() You won’t have to charge the Move often, in theory. “We found out that when there’s a charging base, people take it as a kind of home to bring it back to.” “Just picking up the cord and plugging becomes another action to take,” Sonos creative director of experience planning Youjin Nam told VentureBeat. Its sides slope inward toward the center, ensuring a painless docking experience every time. The USB-C port below the power button can charge the Move, but included in the box is Sonos’ preferred solution: an oval-shaped base with embedded metal pins that make contact with corresponding pads on the Move. ![]() Flipping the speaker around reveals a power button and a Wi-Fi/Bluetooth toggle centered in an oval-shaped recess. “We think it sets a new bar for durability in the space,” said Spence.Ĭapacitive playback controls sit atop the Move, adjacent to LEDs that communicate the speaker’s status and indicate when the microphones are active and listening. Two Class-D digital amplifiers are tuned to match a downward-firing tweeter (for high-frequency sounds) and a mid-woofer (for mid-range vocals and deep bass), along with a four far-field microphone array for voice recognition and noise cancellation. The bulk of the Move’s components are housed within a tall, jet black cylindrical cabinet (9.44 x 6.29 x 4.96 inches) encasing a matching shadow black grill. “Listening doesn’t stop at the front door, right? People want to listen to their backyard, and they want to listen to the beach.” Smart speaker “The Sonos Move really builds on the last 17 years of everything that we’ve done … and everything that we learned, but it also breaks from a kind of rigid ideology we had that was holding us back from becoming the world’s leading sound experience company,” Sonos CEO Patrick Spence told reporters during a press conference at New York City’s Milk Studios, adding that a portable speaker has long been one of the most popular wishlist items in Sonos’ customer surveys. But this week, the Santa Barbara, California-based company finally filled its portfolio’s gap with the Sonos Move, a battery-powered speaker designed for outdoor listening. The roughly $18 billion home audio market’s shift toward portables threatened to leave in the dust Sonos, which competes both against incumbents like Yamaha, Marshall, Riva, Klipsch, and Bluesound and against tech giants Apple, Google, Amazon, and others. Even Bose, which for years was loath to offer a “smart” portable SKU of its own, earlier this month took the wraps off of a Wi-Fi and Bluetooth speaker designed to be carried around like a knapsack. After a few false starts, like Amazon’s now-discontinued Echo Tap, stereos like Ultimate Ears’ Megablast (which features Alexa) and JBL’s Link 20 (with Google Assistant) now fly off store shelves at a steady clip. When John MacFarlane, Craig Shelburne, Tom Cullen, and Trung Mai founded Sonos in 2002 to develop high-end audio hardware for the home, they surely never envisioned a future in which AI-imbued portable speakers would become ubiquitous. Head over to our on-demand library to view sessions from VB Transform 2023. ![]()
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