onos has introduced the Transfer 2, a transportable battery-powered speaker in a position to hyperlink as much as the corporate’s multiroom audio platform when used at dwelling.
It’s the follow-up to the unique Sonos Transfer, which was launched in 2019. The important thing inside distinction within the new speaker is a stereo driver array. Sonos’s Transfer 2 has two tweeters, angled outwards to separate the left and proper sound channels.
Tweeters present the higher-frequency components of music, that are additionally probably the most directional. The Sonos Transfer 2 nonetheless has one lower-frequency woofer speaker, sitting in the course of the speaker’s physique.
You can too staff up two of those Transfer 2 audio system as a stereo pair for a way more immersive stereo picture.
Sonos Transfer 2 options
Battery life will increase too, from 11 hours to 24 hours on this new era. Sonos says these figures relate to make use of at “average quantity whereas linked to Wi-Fi”.
The Sonos Transfer 2 has Bluetooth in addition to Wi-Fi for if you find yourself in the course of nowhere, slightly than simply in your backyard.
It’s a reasonably rugged and waterproof speaker, specced to the iP56 commonplace. This implies it’s largely dust-proof and might deal with water jets from all instructions. A spot of rain needs to be no downside.
The Sonos Transfer 2 will even perform as a wise speaker, with a far-field microphone array and voice assistant help, when linked over Wi-Fi.
Like different current Sonos audio system, the Transfer 2 has TruePlay 2, a calibration instrument the place tones are performed so the built-in microphones can “pay attention” to the surroundings. This lets Sonos tweak the speaker’s tone to swimsuit totally different rooms.
As within the final era, the Sonos Transfer 2 features a wi-fi charging dock, one with a slight design tweak this time round.
The unique design had a cabled-in energy adapter. This new model ends in a USB-C cable, letting you disconnect the availability and, should you like, use it to cost your telephone as a substitute.
There are a few different little usability tweaks like this. The Sonos Transfer 2 can now hook up with non-wireless sources. There’s no devoted 3.5mm aux enter however the USB-C on the speaker itself will be made into such a connector utilizing Sonos’s £19 line-in adapter.
This accent can also be used with Sonos’s Period 300 and Period 100 dwelling audio system.
Sonos has redesigned the Transfer’s up-top contact controls, most notably the amount slider. Once more, as within the Period sequence, the Transfer 2 has an indented digital slider to offer quantity alterations a extra tactile edge.
The Sonos Transfer 2 is out there to order now, forward of a September 20 launch date. It prices £449, £50 greater than the unique Transfer, and is out there in white, black and olive.
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