The Sonos Ace are a fantastic product that got here on the improper time. The corporate’s app disaster just about overshadowed their debut in 2024, which is a disgrace contemplating they’re a stunning pair of over-ear headphones with highly effective, detailed sound and a snug design that permits you to simply swap the ear pads. Sound-wise, you’ll be able to anticipate one thing on par with what you may get from a pair of Bose or Apple headphones, with a natural-sounding transparency mode that’s actually solely second to the unique AirPods Max (no phrase on the Max 2).
The largest draw back to the Ace is you can’t play music over Wi-Fi or group them with the corporate’s in-home audio system (though they do help wired audio over USB-C). Nonetheless, for me, the truth that they’ll leverage Sonos’ TV Audio Swap function is what makes them a standout. The distinctive instrument permits you to immediately switch the sound from a Sonos soundbar — together with the Sonos Arc, the entry-level Sonos Ray, and each iterations of the Sonos Beam — to both one or two pairs of the Ace with the straightforward press of a button. You can even set off the function inside the Sonos app, which helps you to allow spatial audio and head monitoring for a fuller, extra cinematic expertise.
Admittedly, TV Audio Swap is just going to enchantment to these already tapped into the Sonos ecosystem. That stated, I routinely use the function to pay attention whereas watching motion pictures and gaming (with minimal lag!), principally so I don’t disturb of us in my family who could be sleeping. Sonos’ newer TrueCinema mode even lets me fine-tune the digital encompass sound in a similar way to the corporate’s speaker-based TruePlay function, guaranteeing the headphones mirror the acoustics of my area.
