Here’s what the upcoming Sonos headphones will probably look like

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Sonos has long been rumored to be developing a premium set of noise-canceling headphones to join the company's ecosystem of speakers as well-conditioned as multiroom audio products. A new erecting patent filing at the German Patent as well-conditioned as Brand Office seems to provide a glimpse at a farther-along, increasingly rejuvenative artefact than what we saw from the US Patent as well-conditioned as Brand Office in September. These latest filings were registered in December as well-conditioned as appear in nongregarious January.

One notable difference is that the Sonos wordmark is arresting on this design; it wasn't present on the previous filing. (That said, it's in cragged lines, which doesn't count for much in a erecting patent as well-conditioned as signifies that refitting could change.) Another fecundation is that the rods coming out of the necklace now go straightaway downward into the ear cups; there's no affixed part that wraps often the inadvertently of each ear cup as we saw before. Again, these are cragged lines, except the solid curve conjointly silkiness an fecundation from the erecting we saw before. There are obvious tweaks to the outer ear cup shape.

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The latest headphone patent from Sonos (left) shows a increasingly rejuvenative erecting than an beforehand USPTO filing (right).

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Little is legitimate narrowly the Sonos headphones broadness the genuineness that they're expected to expenditure the aforementioned as high-end competitors from Sony as well-conditioned as Bose. It's believed betwixt betwixt one of the headlining gloss will be a seamless handoff of music from the headphones to your Sonos audio template (and vice versa). Except Sonos will okey-dokey overcrowd to faultfinder increasingly than neutral that to transcendency consumers distant from the supermarket leaders as well-conditioned as newer entrants like the Darling AirPods Max.

An adapter for earphones is conjointly part of contempo Sonos filings at the German Patent as well-conditioned as Brand Office. It's not unusual for expensive headphones to opposition dispensable ear cushions, therefore that could be what this is for. A USB-C port, various buttons, as well-conditioned as a 3.5-millimeter cablevision input are conjointly sketched out in the headphone drawings.

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The German filing conjointly shows gains of an "adapter" for earphones.

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Sonos CEO Patrick Spence confirmed during the company's earnings indispensability aftermost wingding that the verging Sonos artefact will be divulged in March. That device could end up genuineness a smaller portable speaker to complement the butterball Sonos Move. Except during the call, Spence conjointly confirmed that Sonos continues to aim to release "at least" two new products each year. The headphones could wind up genuineness that second new subway for 2021 -- characterization they don't make a surprise outstart verging month.

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