Sonos Era 100 (White)

Who says you can't improve on perfection? The Sonos Era 100 is the new replacement for the much heralded Sonos One speaker. Does it offer improvements? Absolutely! With Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connections, voice assist and extremely loud playback, the Era 100 lives up to the usual Sonos hype with sound...

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  Surprising upper bass accuracy Bluetooth or Wi-Fi Privacy controls

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  Minimal stereo Imaging Compressed sound

“Once again, Sonos extract magical amounts of sound from a tiny speaker.”

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  Big, expansive sound, Bluetooth now built-in, Optional analog line-in, Super-easy room tuning

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  No Google Assistant option

The Sonos Era 100 is satisfactory for music. The speaker has some features to adjust its output based on your room's acoustics, as with most premium speakers on the market. Its clean and balanced sound makes it suitable for listening to many different music genres.

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  Room correction tools., Bass and treble adjustments.

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  Not quite loud enough for larger rooms., Some compression at max volume.

The Sonos Era 100 is an impressive continuation of Sonos’ entry-level speaker line. It takes most things that were great about the Sonos One, but builds on them with a better audio quality, fresh design, and so on.

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  Excellent audio quality, Slick design, Great smart features, Easy setup

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  No Google Assistant

The Sonos Era 100 replaces the Sonos One as Sonos' entry point for wireless home audio -- and ultimately, it's a worth successor.

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  Excellent audio quality, Slick design, Great smart features, Easy setup

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  No Google Assistant

The addition of true stereo sound, Bluetooth, and enhanced repairability make this wireless speaker a worthy successor to the Sonos One.

Sonos Era 100 are the versatile speaker

Easily the best speaker available for under $500.

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  Sounds excellent, Nice and compact, Looks good

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  Doesn’t have an ethernet port

The Era 100 is Sonos’s best-sounding small speaker, and takes the crown as the new top smart speaker for music. Its compact frame hides powerful, room-filling and high-quality sound with plenty of bass, adding to the winning formula of its popular predecessor.

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  Pros: great sound, good-looking, easy set up, wide support for music services, long support life , wifi 6, Bluetooth and line-in options, can be paired up, good optional voice control, Alexa support, recycled materials.

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  Cons: comparatively expensive, no Google Assistant support, no spatial audio support/Dolby Atmos.

The Sonos Era 100 offers excellent sonics, refined design and one of the best streaming platforms for any speaker.

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  Excellent sound quality, Bluetooth adds flexibility, Robust ecosystem

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  A little more expensive, Competition offers better features, Some compression on bass heavy music, No Google Assistant

I'm using two era 100s with my beam. Overall very much satisfied about music quality and ease of use. Beam sound improved a lot with these sorrounds. Little sad to see I can't use them as sterio pair once setup as sorrounds. Also would like to use trueplay feature for andriod when used as sorrounds.

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  Easy to Set Up, Expandable, Streams All My Music, and More, Superior Sound, Wireless

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  No tuning option when used as sorround

The sound quality is excellent. However, you cannot play more than one speaker with Bluetooth only. I purchased two pairs for a location with no WiFi and only one speaker can work. You need WiFi to play two speakers as a pair. This was not stated in the instructions so will return.

Have a Sonos One and a Sonos Move. I didn't think they could top the sound and quality of the Move or the One. I was wrong. The new Sonos ERA 100 checks all boxes and then some. The sound is remarkable for a speaker of this size.

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  Sound Quality / Build Quality

Sonos speakers are the FUTURE.Easy set up, fully customizable through the sonos app.put these in my gameroom as surround rear speakers....UNBELIEVABLE. Pair them with the sonos arc and sub for a theater like experience unlike any other.5 STARS

Using as R/L surrounds with a beam & sub gen 3 in a 12x12 room.

The sound quality exceeds expectations. It is excellent. The connectivity issues are frustrating. Every time I turn it on or open the app I get a message that my device is not on the same WiFi. I have to go through the set up again to get it to work. That's disappointing.

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  Superior Sound

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  Difficult Setup, Difficult to Use, Unreliable

These are good speakers. I was looking for a good price to buy then as a pair. Yes it's good they have Bluetooth, new volume controls, new inputs, stereo sound, etc. They sound good on their own or as a stereo pair. However, my intent was to use them as surrounds to go with my Sonos Beam (gen2).

Sound is really good. Good base and mid from such a small speaker. I don't use the voice activation so can't comment on that. Sonos app is fairly straightforward.

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  Size, power, base

I bought two era 100s specifically to make a stereo pair and to be able to link directly to my turntable as I am now into collecting Vinyl records.I was blown away by the sound. Firstly listening in stereo is an absolute must as the clarity in the music is clear and you are able to hear the nuances...

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  Easy to Set Up, Links to Turntable, Streams All My Music, and More, Superior Sound, Wireless

Great speakers but annoying that the key features are blocked when setup with my Arc. Bluetooth and Google voice control are blocked. I get it that there's on going issues but sucks that I'm paying both companies for 2 less features.