Reviewed: Sonos Era 300
“Spatial audio” is the consumer tech industry’s favorite buzzword at the moment, and a big selling point of Sonos’ Era 300 speaker, its first non-soundbar with Dolby Atmos support, which promises to fill a room with sound using four tweeters all firing in different directions, plus a pair of subwoofers. It sounds great, which is not terribly surprising for a $450 speaker, but filling a room with multiple Era 300s for a surround sound experience quickly gets expensive. Sonos’ latest and greatest is also better suited for those fully immersed in the Apple ecosystem, as it lacks access to Google Assistant, as well as Google Casting, forcing Android users to control it through the Sonos app.
