Report: Sonos’ next flagship speaker will be the spatial audio-focused Era 300 - Ars Technica

It pointed to a heightened focus on making Dolby Atmos content shine, as well as improving music using spatial audio.

According to The Verge, the Era 300 will be a "multidirectional speaker built to get the most from spatial audio" by way of a "completely re-architected acoustic design."

This week, it identified more evidence of the speaker's development in the form of two recent documents from TV mount-maker Sanus that name the Era 300.

In August, The Verge, citing "early, work-in-progress images" it reportedly viewed, said that Sonos' upcoming flagship speaker would include "an arsenal of drivers, including several that fire in different directions from beneath the shell between the front speaker grille and backplate."

It also suggested a more beefed-up product, with twice the RAM and eight times the flash memory as the highest-specced Sonos speaker today.

Besides superior audio quality, a new Sonos flagship could score points with shoppers by playing better with non-Apple devices, such as by including Bluetooth and by besting the Apple speaker's Wi-Fi 4 support.