Ikea and Sonos are persevering with their collaboration with a brand new ground lamp speaker out there in January 2023. It will likely be added to their common, and inexpensive, Symfonisk lineup of Sonos-powered Wi-Fi audio system.
The Swedish furnishings icon and American wi-fi residence speaker maker started their partnership in 2019 with the unique Symfonisk desk lamp speaker, and have since added to the vary with a bookshelf speaker, an image body speaker, and even a second era of the desk lamp final 12 months, all aimed in the direction of the budget-conscious audio fan trying to get in on Sonos’ ecosystem of community audio system.
The Symfonisk ground lamp is new territory for the 2 corporations, who hope to enhance the flexibility of the road, permitting individuals to “furnish with mild and sound,” and put the ground lamp wherever it’s wanted, fixing the “problem of not having sufficient room for a desk to place the lamp on,” mentioned Stjepan Begic, vary design chief at Ikea of Sweden, in a press launch.
Fairly comparable in design to the gen-2 desk lamp, which our reviewer praised for its room-filling ambient sound high quality, the ground lamp as a substitute sits atop three slender legs and comes with a weaved bamboo shade that, based on the photographs within the press equipment, seems to present off a gentle, heat mild. Further shades will also be bought if that one doesn’t match your decor. The speaker base itself seems to share the identical play and quantity up/down controls because the desk lamp, in addition to an identical cloth cowl.
As with the desk lamp and bookshelf audio system within the Symfonisk lineup, in addition to a lot of Sonos’ personal audio system, the ground lamp could be stereo paired with one other ground lamp (as per Sonos, they have to be an identical audio system to do that, although — you’ll be able to’t combine and match audio system). It will also be utilized in a multiroom setup, or added as rear surrounds in a Sonos system with a soundbar corresponding to a Sonos Arc, Beam, or Ray for room-filling sound for motion pictures and TV.
Sonos customers might be accustomed to the straightforward setup course of with the Sonos S2 app, via which the audio system will also be managed, linked with varied music streaming companies, and configured. Though the Symfonisk lineup doesn’t help Alexa or Google voice assistants like a lot of Sonos’ newest audio system, they’re AirPlay 2 suitable and could be sonically optimized in your room with Sonos Truplay — you probably have an iOS system, that’s. Symfonisk units will also be added and managed via Ikea’s personal Dirigera good residence hub and accompanying Ikea Dwelling app.
“The Symfonisk ground lamp speaker is a good instance of how our collaboration continues to problem the normal thought of sound within the residence,” mentioned Sara Lincoln, principal product supervisor at Sonos. “We created the ground lamp speaker to sound nice by itself, but in addition to be versatile. It really works seamlessly with all our Sonos audio system and is a good choice for individuals who want to add rear audio system to their residence theater setup.”
The Ikea-Sonos Symfonisk ground lamp speaker might be out there at Ikea for $260 on January 30, 2023.
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