Sonos says theEra 100 Pro — its first loudspeaker aimed specifically at the professional induction grocery store — is formally available for order and shipping today . The verbaliser , which gets both its power and internet connexion via an Ethernet cable television , is only sold in pairs and has to be purchased through select Sonos partners specializing in professional installment .
Pricing on the Era 100 Pro is at the discretion of these married person . I talk to Jeff Gosselin ofCloud 9 AVin Toronto and he says he expects to sell the epoch 100 Pro for $ 409 CAD each ( about $ 284 ) , or $ 499 CAD ( $ 346 ) with the uncommitted wall mount . Gosselin steer out that you ’ll also ask a powered ( PoE ) Ethernet connexion for each utterer , since the Era 100 Pro is n’t compatible with typical wired home web .
To support the launching of the Era 100 Pro , which is designed to be used in commercial placement like restaurants that could have many individual speakers in a exclusive room , Sonos has also update its app with a Modern feature calledzones .
zone are similar to the existing groups feature : you could bring up to 16 compatible Sonos equipment to a single zone , to make what the party calls a “ semi - permanent ” collection of talker . Each gadget in a zone will fiddle the same content and play at the same volume horizontal surface , unless you line up the “ intensity trim ” on an case-by-case speaker to be higher or low than the geographical zone level . you’re able to also adjust EQ on a speaker - by - utterer basis .
One of the benefit is that zones can be grouped — with other zone or with other individual Sonos components . Since you ca n’t put chemical group inside groups , this lets you keep specific collections of speakers coordinate as a single entity and move them in and out of groups without having to create Modern group each time .
Zones can be added , edited , or removed in the Sonos app . There ’s also a bell feature you may pick out that help you name a specific talker within a zone when the loudspeaker system ’s name may not be enough to determine its location .
There are some limitations on how zone are used . Unlike groups , they ’re only compatible with select Sonos components : Era 100 Pro , epoch 100,Era 300 , Sonos One SL , Sonos One(all generation ) , and Sonos Five . Sonos soundbars , portable , headphones , and components like the Port and Amp are n’t currently geographical zone - compatible .
Sonos also notes that an Ethernet connection is powerfully recommend for every loudspeaker system in a zone . If that ’s not possible , it say to limit zones to a maximum of six Wi - Fi - connected devices for the beneficial results .
Along with support for the Era 100 Pro and the addition of geographical zone , the Sonos app has also received more fixes and update as the company continue to rectify the job due to the ill - conceivedlaunch of a redesign in May 2024 .
These changes include :
