The long waited Sonos and Ikea’s Symfonisk smart speakers will hit the market this year. It is good news for those, who are conscious about the quality of sound. Earlier both have released a teaser video to announce their collaboration, which consists of Symfonisk-branded smart speakers, is finally coming. This joint venture, first announced in 2017, is all about finding ways to integrate Sonos’ audio products into Ikea’s flat-pack furniture.
Besides all, these smart speakers are not cheap, for quality of listening; you shouldn’t have to pay a premium price. It’s also focused on adding “music and sound” to the home.
Symfonisk smart speakers
Sonos has said that Symfonisk will work with Ikea’s existing range of Tradfri smart devices, too, which includes lights, outlets, and shades. Symfonisk smart speaker works exactly like any existing Play 1 in that it links in to the Sonos app and ecosystem. Not only that, it is able of stereo pairing with another Symfonisk and has just as simple a setup. And as it will be priced below the Play 1 or Sonos 1, it is Sonos’s new entry to its music system. IKEA, in turn, gets a way to “democratize sound” and supply a “built-in” sound system.
Tad Toulis, Sonos VP of design, says that although the constraint of placing the speakers in furniture is not acoustically ideal. But this is where Sonos can bring its audio expertise. “It’s a constraint problem – and that’s interesting,” he says. “Mixing and matching digital and analogue components we can do small things with the software to offset the less than ideal solutions.”
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