The Sonos Ace are loaded with tech, yet designed with simplicity in mind. Does that give them an edge versus top rivals from Sony, Bose, and Apple?
To say that Sonos ’ first wireless headphones have been hotly anticipated is something of an understatement. Sonos fans have been clamoring for them for years, and we’ve had a consistent flow of rumors and leaks fanning those fires for almost as long.Recommended Videos I’m going to do something a little different this time as I answer this question. Instead of a full, scored review, I’m starting with an overall impression of these new cans.
It also means that you can’t treat the Ace like Sonos’ other products. They won’t show up in the Sonos app among your other speakers. You can’t stream to them from the music sources you’ve added to the Sonos app. And you can’t group them or enable things like alarms or timers. The app lets you adjust various settings on the Ace, like EQ, ANC, and spatial audio, but that’s as far as it goes.
The matte-finish plastic resists fingerprints better than Sony’s, and the color-matched, tubular stainless steel headband sliders combine reassuring strength with high-end looks. The magnetically attached ear cushions is a nice touch. Great comfort Balancing clamping force so that a set of headphones exert just enough pressure to stay put, yet not so much that they cause discomfort is something that even the most experienced headphone brands occasionally get wrong.
The only other control is a small button for power and Bluetooth pairing that sits on the bottom edge of the left earcup. Each control can be used while wearing gloves. The ANC button is slightly less effective. To avoid loud clicking sounds inside the earcups, Sonos has used a soft-touch mechanism. It’s perfectly silent. But sometimes — even though I thought I had pressed it deeply enough to trigger the mode change — I needed to press it again a little harder.ANC and transparency Sonos says it developed a proprietary solution for the Ace’s noise management system, and it shows.
Transparency also was excellent, though in this category there is Apple and then there’s everyone else. I’ll say a lot more about the Ace’s audio chops in my full review, including their lossless audio capability and their rendering of spatial audio sources like Dolby Atmos, both with and without head tracking.
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