Switching from Sonos soundbar to the Sonos headphones now doesn’t require the most expensive soundbar Sonos makes.
Sonos is making changes, and not just to come back from the launch of its refreshed app, an app that the CEO has had to apologise for.
Rather, its latest update is all about its new headphones, the Sonos Ace, a pair that launched with some clever features including the ability to swap sound from a TV’s soundbar, provided that soundbar was made by Sonos. It’s a little like how a pair of Apple-made (or Beats) earphones and headphones can play nicely with an Apple TV, but with Sonos gear instead.
At launch, however, the Sonos Ace TV Audio Swap feature was limited to working with just the Sonos Arc, the priciest of the company’s soundbars, with support for other models to come.
This week, that time has come, as the latest Sonos update not only rolls out support for TV Swap on the Beam Gen 1, Beam Gen 2, and Sonos Ray, but also provides compatibility across all its soundbars for Sonos owners with an Android. Previously, the feature only worked for folks running iOS, but now the love has been spread to Android owners, as well.
TV Audio Swap isn’t the only feature rolled out in the update; Sonos is also include performance improvements, returning mute buttons and group volume controls, while also improving the reliability. Here’s hoping so many of those bugs are fixed, too, because like so many Sonos users, we’re all getting a little tired of the update making our previously stable multiroom audio experience so problematic.
