Sonos, Inc. is an American developer and manufacturer of audio products best known for its multi-room audio products. The company was founded in 2002 by John MacFarlane, Craig Shelburne, Tom Cullen, and Trung Mai. Patrick Spence has been its CEO since 2017.
Sonos has partnered with over 100 companies that offer music services, including Pandora, iHeartRadio, SiriusXM, Apple Music, Spotify, Tidal, MOG, QQ Music, and Amazon Music. Sonos products work with the three major voice assistants: Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, and Apple Siri, although the last is currently only supported through Apple's Home app. In 2019 Sonos acquired Snips SAS, a privacy-focused AI voice platform for connected devices with the goal to bring a music-specific assistant to its devices.
The company's product line consists mainly of powered speakers, amplifiers and peripherals. Current products include:
Speakers: One, One SL, Five, Era 100, Era 300
Portable speakers: Move, Roam, Roam SL
Soundbars: Arc, Arc SL, Beam (Gen 2), Ray
Subwoofers: Sub (Gen 3), Sub Mini
Components: Amp, Port
Bridges: Boost
In addition, through a partnership with IKEA, the following products are also part of the Sonos ecosystem:
Bookshelf speakers: SYMFONISK Bookshelf
Lamp speakers: SYMFONISK Table lamp
Picture frame speakers: SYMFONISK Picture frame
The following is a list of all of current and past Sonos and Sonos-ecosystem products:
Sonos currently makes car audio systems. The first automotive brand to partner with Sonos is Audi in the Audi Q4 e-tron.
Automobile brands that currently have Sonos audio systems available in their vehicles are Audi.
Sonos was founded in August 2002 by John MacFarlane, Craig Shelburne, Tom Cullen and Trung Mai, with MacFarlane wanting to create a wireless service.
During 2004, MacFarlane brought prototypes of the first Sonos products to several industry events, including the June 2004 "D2: All Things Digital" conference in Carlsbad, California (where Steve Jobs told MacFarlane that the Sonos controller's scroll wheel might violate Apple patents related to the iPod,) and the December 2004 Digital Music Summit.