Along with the S52A designation, one of many submitted paperwork reveals an oval diagram — seemingly the ear cup — marked with the identify Sonos Ace Extremely, though that identify isn’t listed anyplace else. It follows the naming scheme Sonos has used previously with its Arc and Arc Extremely soundbars. The paperwork additionally record colour choices we’ll seemingly see, which prolong past the white and black of the Ace. The 5 colours named are “greige,” shadow black, agave, blush, and sand.
There’s additionally indication of testing for native networks over 2.4 and 5GHz bands. This could possibly be simply for a similar TV swapping functionality we noticed on the Sonos Ace, or it may imply that these new headphones will help music streaming over Wi-Fi like Sonos’ audio system.
It’s been over two years because the Sonos Ace headphones have been launched, and that launch was overshadowed by the troublesome redesigned app rollout, which was seemingly pushed out early as a result of the outdated app wouldn’t have supported the Ace. Whereas the Sonos Ace have been snug and classy with good sound and ANC, they weren’t fairly pretty much as good as comparatively priced headphones of the time just like the Sony WH-1000XM5 or Sennheiser Momentum 4. And due to the app points, the Sonos ecosystem integration was buggy.
However Sonos has come a great distance and recovered from these woeful app relaunch days with some sturdy product releases, together with the Arc Ultra soundbar and Play speaker. If Sonos takes the teachings discovered from the unique Ace — and we do certainly see new headphones within the coming weeks or months — they might sign the total return of Sonos.
