A recent study conducted by smart
speaker manufacturer Sonos, Apple Music and neuroscientist Daniel Levitin revealed that music can actually improve your sex life.
Not exact matches
Apple aims to position its
speaker not only as a digital assistant for the home, but also as a high - end audio device that will compete with
Sonos and other leading
speaker manufacturers, according to some reports.
Second, while Play - Fi is no less proprietary than
Sonos, DTS licenses the technology to other
manufacturers, providing a broad range of products that you can not only mix and match, but also control from the same app.Case in point: While
Sonos still doesn't offer outdoor components, Polk has offered an outdoor
speaker (the Polk Omni S2) for years, and Soundcast's upcoming VGX series of outdoor
speakers will also be Play - Fi compatible.
Now the
speaker manufacturers, including
Sonos, are adding voice assistants in an attempt to take back market share from from Amazon and Google by integrating their voice assistants.
But unlike
Sonos, Play - Fi works with a variety of
speaker manufacturers, including Polk, Wren, Paradigm, Martin Logan, Harman Kardon, and others, all of which can work together, or separately, to source music from smartphones, storage devices, and tablets throughout the home over a single app.
The
Sonos One starts talking, thanks to the Amazon Alexa integration, leading to some of the most interactive usage ever from the popular
speaker manufacturer.
For all the other more than 80 music services that the
speaker manufacturer supports, including Apple Music, Bandcamp and SoundCloud,
Sonos users can still use voice commands to control playback (saying commands like pause, skip and volume up or down), they just need to first queue up the song using the
Sonos app.
Not only do we have Google and Amazon producing a combined 10 models of smart
speakers on their own, they've even started to license the technology out to third - party
manufacturers like
Sonos, GE and others who are making their own smart assistant - equipped sound canisters or packing the AI into unfitting form factors.
Sure, there are other options out there that offer some more features, like the $ 300 UE Megablast (it has a built - in battery) or the $ 200
Sonos One, but I like that Allure isn't afraid of generating too much bass, something most
speaker manufacturers tend to shy away from.
I saw numerous
manufacturers rush to include either Alexa or Google Assistant in their new
speakers at IFA, and just last week
Sonos debuted the
Sonos One, an Alexa - packing multi-room
speaker.
Unlike competing
manufacturers, Apple's HomePod aims to compete directly with
Sonos» high - end wireless
speaker offerings.
Spotify could soon mount a challenge to the likes of Apple,
Sonos, Google and countless other
speaker manufacturers, after MusicAlly (via The Guardian) spotted three adverts for an «operations manager», «senior project manager: hardware production» and «project manager: hardware production and engineering».
Starting Friday, January 26, the smart
speaker manufacturer will offer two
Sonos One
Speakers for $ 349.