Tech tools: New era of smart speakers with Sonos device

Era 100 is voice-enabled, works with Alexa and Google Assistant, and gives you great sound

Sonos One: The Era 100 adds new features and tweaks the design. It comes with a second tweeter and a mid-woofer to help produce audio as it is meant to sound.
Sonos One: The Era 100 adds new features and tweaks the design. It comes with a second tweeter and a mid-woofer to help produce audio as it is meant to sound.

Sonos is ushering in a new era with its latest line of speakers. The Era 100, which replaces the Sonos One, adds some new features and tweaks the design, bringing a second tweeter and a mid-woofer to help replicate your audio as it was meant to be.

It’s also smart. Not only is it voce-enabled, working with both Amazon’s Alexa and Google Assistant over wifi, but it adapts to the acoustics of where it is placed, meaning you get great sound no matter whether you put it in a small corner or out on the open for all to see.

The speaker will also connect over wifi and bluetooth, so you have a choice about how you get your audio to the Sonos device.

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Ciara O'Brien

Ciara O'Brien

Ciara O'Brien is an Irish Times business and technology journalist