The house time continues.
SONOS BEAM is a product that has three roles: a sound speaker connected to the TV, a smart speaker equipped with a voice interactive AI assistant, and a wireless speaker that regenerates music by wireless communication from smartphones.In Japan, it was released when SONOS in 2018 landed.
About three years later, a new generation SONOS BEAM (G2) will appear.The color is white and white, and will be released in Japan this year.The price is 59,800 yen (tax included).
Compact size is compatible with Dolby Atmos and CPU is also up by 40 %.
The new SONOS BEAM (G2) can now enjoy realistic three -dimensional sound in correspondence with Dolby Atmos.The CPU has been improved by 40 % and the processing speed has been improved.According to SONOS, the new tuning seems to be able to hear the conversation more in detail.With the newly developed phase dray speaker, not only Dolby Atmos, but also stereo, 5.It seems that all sound quality such as 1ch surround will improve.The number of speaker arrays has increased from three to five.
Although the price has risen about 10,000 yen compared to the previous model, Dolby Atmos only supports the large screen model "SONOS ARC", so it seems reasonable.SONOS ARC costs more than 100,000 yen.
In addition, "True Play" (iOS only), which measures the familiar room environment and produces the optimal sound, "Speech Enhancement", which makes it easier to hear the lines, and "Speech Enhancement", "Speech Enhancement", "I use it when watching TV at a small volume at night.Night sound is also alive.It seems to be a reliable sound bar to watch a movie at home.I want to enjoy a powerful sound, but it may be perfect for people to be worried about the neighborhood.It doesn't take up space, so it looks good for living alone.
Voice assistant supports Amazon Alexa.Google Assistants are not currently supported.According to SONOS, "Google Assistant will respond in the future."Nevertheless, it can be operated with SONOS apps, TV remote controls, Apple AirPlay 2, and various music distribution apps.
In addition, SONOS products will support Amazon Music Ultra HD in the latter half of this year.In addition to SONOS BEAM (G2), the device that supports the SONOS S2 app can play up to 24bit / 48kHz roses audio.Unfortunately, it is not currently supported by Apple Music, but according to the company, "Amazon Music will be the first music distribution service partner, but we plan to build various partnerships in the future."
If you look at the comments, it seems like a strategy to build a partnership with Amazon and increase the number of corresponding services in the future.I think that SONOS's appeal is that it is easy to handle various apps because it does not have its own sub -skops, so I would like to expect it here ...!
Sony has just announced an affordable "HT-A5000".The sound bar market is likely to get hot for the holiday season.
