In the past, setting up a top notch sound system that fits into the environment required having a professional come in, tune up each speaker and arrange the furniture perfectly. Switching it on, the songs ringed with clarity and balance. Without Trueplay, songs sounded too bassy and even muffled. Toggling Trueplay on and off showed the remarkable difference in sound quality. In a demonstration in the kitchen at Sonos' engineering labs, the company placed a Play:1 speaker in wood cabinet and another one in the corner between the wall and a toaster. "Suddenly, the speaker knows where it is and it morphs itself inside the home," said Giles Martin, the sound experience leader at Sonos and a Grammy award-winning music producer. So with Trueplay, the iPhone speaker would pick up on this and boost that high-end frequency range. If you've hidden your Sonos speaker behind a curtain, for example, a lot of the high frequencies are going to get absorbed in the fabric. Once the room has been acoustically mapped out, the speaker will then be tailored to the environment and to wherever the user decides to place the Sonos speaker. (For now, Trueplay isn't supporting any Android-based devices, because there are too many variations in the hardware and software for Sonos to achieve the same level of accuracy that they can with Apple devices, said Michael Papish, director of platform strategy at Sonos.) The user moves the Apple device up and down in a room as the speaker shoots out strange noises at low and high frequencies. In the Sonos phone app, the user goes through the Trueplay setup where they map out the environment using the sensitive microphones found in an the iPhone, iPad or iPod. The new software allows Sonos users to tune their speakers to better fit in with the unique acoustic environment of any room or space.
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The second new update from Sonos - and perhaps even more important than the new speaker - is a piece of software it's releasing for all of its Play speakers called Trueplay. That’s not how you get to an optimal product." "A lot of companies start with hardware engineering, then they get to software engineers to make it smart, and then designers comes in last to make it pretty. They all come together in the beginning of a project and that’s unusual," said Mieko Kusano, senior director of design at Sonos. "We put all these disciplines together, like antenna engineers, acoustic engineers, industrial designers, user interface designers. The plastic grill on the speakers has 66,000 holes drilled into it. Another design decision is that the Sonos decided to go with a plastic grill instead of metal like the previous version metal was interfering with the performance of the WiFi antennas. Sonos' solution was to drill more than 800 holes into the tiny Sonos logo, so it wouldn't interfere with the sound quality. For example, the Sonos logo in the middle of an early version of the speaker was blocking one of the tweeters in the speaker, which was affecting sound quality. Three years in the making, the updated Play:5 contains three sub woofers, three tweeters, six WiFi antennas and six drivers.Īvailable in matte black or matte white finish, a lot of detailed design decisions went into the product. The first Play:5 speaker was released in 2009 and forms the high end of its Play speaker line up - the Play:1 costs $200 and the Play:3 costs $300. The first update on the hardware side is a new $500 Play:5, the company's flagship all-in-one speaker.
On Monday, Sonos announced two major updates that have been a long time coming: a new speaker and some software that will bump up the sound quality on all of its Play speakers.
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