Month: March 2023
Sonos Era 300 review: A big bet on spatial audio
If you pay attention to the music industry, you’ve probably heard about spatial audio. The promise is that music will envelop the user from all directions without needing a room full of speakers to achieve the effect. Apple has pushed it a lot in the last few years, in Apple…
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Sonos Era 100 review: Affordable multi-room audio that actually sounds good
Of the two speakers Sonos announced earlier this month, the Era 100 is much easier to sum up: it’s a replacement for the Sonos One, which was first introduced in 2017. Unlike the Era 300, there’s no need to ponder the value of spatial audio; the Era 100 is a…
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Sonos Era 100 review: the new default smart speaker
This is how you follow up on what was already a good product. Over the course of my time reviewing the new Era 100 speaker, which succeeds the Sonos One introduced in 2017, that’s been my consistent takeaway. It’s gone up in price slightly — now $249 compared to the…
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Sonos Era 300 review: too ahead of its time
I close my eyes. When “Don’t Know Why” by Norah Jones starts playing, her captivating jazzy vocals sound like they’re coming from directly in front of me, and I could be fooled into thinking there’s someone playing a stand-up bass right there in the room. Then comes “Boom” by Sevenn…
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Sonos Era 100 Review: The New Smart Speaker Standard
The $249 speaker streams in stereo, and it comes with some of the best room-tuning software I’ve ever heard. Source
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Part of Twitter’s source code was apparently leaked by a disgruntled programmer
Court filings have revealed that parts of Twitter’s source code had been leaked online for a time and hosted on popular code repository Github. Per the New York Times (opens in new tab) (NYT), Twitter filed a copyright infringement claim to have the code removed the same day. The NYT’s…
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