The new Sonos Era 300 speaker is a spatial audio beast
I wasn't able to test this setup for this review, but I'll update when I'm able to get hold of a second Era 300. However, I have heard this system in action in a demo, and I'll cover that in the next section.
Sometimes it's a bigger effect, like the drum beats going for a lengthy walk away from the speaker during Come Together, or the way voices are layered with a sense of depth across Lady Gaga's Chromatica album. The detail being sharp as a scalpel means that it's also quite unforgiving with any flaws in a recording. It's not common to encounter this with the stuff on streaming sites, but it's around – and if you were to play lower-quality stuff from YouTube on it, you'll notice even more. When this happened, it put my teeth on edge – the speaker doesn't paper over any cracks at all.
Compared to the Sonos Era 100, the simplest way to describe it is that you just get more. The Era 100 offers a similar kind of soundstage and dispersed audio, but its stereo effect is much less pronounced, its bass is less well-controlled, and it sounds more confined to a single box. If you want your music to be expressive, that's what you get from paying the extra for the Era 300. And Dolby Atmos, of course.
The thing about this speaker array and design, though, is that you can't be putting this on a set of shelves where it's covered above and to the sides, like many of thecan. It needs to be out on the open, with room to blast soundwaves up and to the sides.
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