On October 20, Sonos, the smart audio brand, released two new products, the portable smart audio Roam SL and the compact bar smart audio Beam (Gen 2), which cost 1699 yuan and 4499 yuan respectively.

Sonos Roam SL is the first portable product of Sonos, 168 x 62 x 60 mm, with a weight of about 430 grams. It is designed to give consideration to indoor, cycling, camping and other outdoor needs. Its competitors should be Bose Soundlink mini and JBL Charge 5.

Roam SL has two colors: dark shadow and white moonlight, triangular body design, 1 tweeter+1 mid bass speaker, dual class H digital amplifiers; It supports automatic switching between Wi Fi and Bluetooth modes, supports Apple's AirPlay 2, and IP67 is dust-proof, waterproof, and drop resistant. The performance is better than many routers. It is a 4-core 1.4GHz A53 with 1GB memory and 4GB storage. 18Wh battery, 10 hours of life, 10 days of standby in sleep mode, and the maximum power of C port charging is 15W.

The most special thing about the Sonos Roam SL is that it can be used as the Bluetooth entrance of other Sonos Wi Fi devices. In the mobile phone APP, all Sonos audio in the same Wi Fi environment can form an array, so that the Sonos system can be "bluetooth" and directly play the audio sources of more than 100 platforms in the mobile phone Sonos APP, such as Apple Music, QQ music, Netease Cloud music, etc.

Roam SL is the world's first product, and the foreign version is Roam. In the One and Arc series, there are products with the suffix SL. "SL" is the abbreviation of speech, so as the name implies, Roam SL is the version that cancels voice assistant and array microphone (voice assistant has been in 404 in China).

The Sonos Beam (Gen 2) is a bar shaped compact smart speaker, which is mainly used with televisions, game devices, etc. This generation has updated the appearance design close to its flagship Arc series, enhanced the sound quality and processor. The processor speed is claimed to be 40% higher than that of the previous generation. There is a new phased speaker array, which can guide and locate the sound in the room and support Dolby Panorama.

In terms of price, although Sonos has the highest configuration, the price is also very high: Roam SL sells for 1699 yuan, Beam (Gen 2) sells for 4499 yuan, and both new models are pre-sales on October 20.

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