If it’s your turn to host a Super Bowl party this year, you might be looking to beef up your sound system before all of your guests turn up. Perhaps with something like that in mind, Sonos is running a sale on its speakers and soundbars on both and . One of its products, the Era 100, has dropped to an all-time-low price of $199. The speaker will typically run you $249.
The Era 100 is our pick for the and we gave it a . It delivers great audio and can reach loud volumes, while Bluetooth and line-in support are certainly welcome. With the Era 100, Sonos has simplified its Trueplay tuning feature by making use of built-in microphones to optimize audio output for the room the speaker is in. On the downside, while the Era 100 works with Alexa and Sonos’ own voice assistant, it doesn’t support Google Assistant.
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Sonos is running a sale on several of its speakers and soundbars. The Era 100, our pick for the best midrange speaker, is $50 off at $199.
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Like other Sonos speakers, the Era 100 can be used as part of a whole home audio system. So you’ll be able to set up units in other rooms so that even when they’re away from the TV, your guests can still hear all of the action at the same time as everyone else.
It’s also possible to set up two Era 100 units as rear speakers in a home theater setup. If that’s the route you wish to go down, you might want to have a soundbar in place too. As it happens, several of Sonos’ models are on sale.
The original Arc soundbar is , which is $250 off. As for the , that can be yours for $100 less than usual at $399. We reckon the Beam is the . However, the Arc Ultra, our recommendation for the best premium soundbar, isn’t on sale this time, unfortunately.
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