The patent reads: "For example, if a particular piece of content play is currently playing on the wireless headphone, a swap changes the playback to play that piece of content on one or more other playback devices on the local network." In the approved patent is mention of a ‘swap’ feature, which would let owners simply and easily pass the music playing on their Sonos headphones to one (or more) of their Sonos speakers. Sonos users will undoubtedly want a Sonos-savvy pair of headphones – otherwise, what’s the point? – and Sonos appears to be on the same wavelength. Sonos products are all about working together, so it’s impossible to imagine a beatnik Sonos outsider that sits on the edge rather than properly inside the ecosystem. Apple recently managed to separate its AirPods Max from Sony, Bose and Sennheiser rivals with Apple-centric features and a significantly higher price tag (which we found to be justified thanks to their superior sound quality). But in a wireless headphones market awash with excellent pairs, Sonos needs a unique selling point or two, not to mention competitive sound quality. The prospect of this inevitable Sonos expansion excites us, anyway. The question is, does the world want them? Wherever they appear on our timeline, Sonos wireless headphones are almost certainly coming.
Alternatively, the Sonos headphones could arrive later in the year as the company's second new product promised for 2021.
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Suffice to say, we'd absolutely love to hear what they can do.They could be officially unveiled as soon as next month – Sonos is hosting a product launch on 16th March for, as suggested by the event’s invite, a ‘portable’ product, although behind the curtain could just as likely be a smaller version of the Move Bluetooth speaker (also heavily rumoured). The price is an eye-watering $2,199, (which works out at around £1,759 or AU$3,249). Oh, and there's active noise cancelation, helped along by 12 microphones. (Just the 12, then four to support active noise-canceling and eight for beamforming and background noise nixing).Īnd as you might expect, they don't come cheap. To get onboard with your Wi-Fi, the headphones boast their own dual-core processor, storage, and memory, as well as a gyroscope and other trackers to deliver head-tracking motion detection for truly immersive three-dimensional surround sound. Battery life is a claimed eighy hours, whichever way you're streaming.
HED Technologies' HED Unity cans have a frequency response range of 20Hz-22kHz (i.e., beyond what the human ear is capable of hearing at the top end), and remember, that lossless audio is delivered thanks to Wi-Fi streaming.Ĭuriously, when not hooked up to a Wi-Fi network, the cans tote Bluetooth 5.3 but only SBC and AAC codec support is listed – no aptX or aptX Adaptive. You'd also be forgiven for thinking you were looking at the hotly-anticipated AirPods Max 2, but again, that's another product that seems woefully far from release. HED Technologies has trounced them all with this particular world-first.įor me, the sculpted earcups, milled from a single block of architectural-grade aluminum around 40mm titanium-coated drivers, with Wi-Fi squirreled under the hood, are simply begging for some Sonos branding, no? But you won't find any.
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