I used the Sonos Ace everywhere at work, home, plane and gym and this is what I found out... 

Got my Ace yesterday as a Father’s Day gift. Other than cracking when full music volume, I’m satisfied.

Great job explaining in detail! I’m waiting a little bit before I take the plunge on getting them. Maybe they will release an update on movie sound. Love these videos you guys do! It really does help us out a great deal.

Well done as usual. Received these up last night as a Father’s Day gift and as usual it was a breeze to set up. I haven’t tried the TV swap yet so the tip of disconnecting the Ethernet cable will be helpful. I’ve always thought that having the ARC and Beam Gen 2 connected by Ethernet was the reason my systems are always stable. We shall see.

Peter Pee, I really like your channel. I don't care about the heaphones. I like my Sonos Hometheater systems. I absolutly hate this new app, particularly the adds and forcing me to update so often WTF. I have payed premiun mony for Sonos product to be now anoyed by f* ads. Sonos, leave alone with the f* ads. Ads have its place with free things but Sonos are not cheap speakers.

Awesome work mate! Subscribed 👊🏽

One thing it is missing for work is that it is missing a mute/unmute button. Other than that. I love it.

Got my Ace for Father's Day as well. Very happy with the sound. Excels when using USB cable connected to my Mac. I do wish I could turn up the volume more and I need a longer USB C cable.

Thanks for this review, you mentioned that the sound swap from Arc is not good enough in terms of volume, any idea if a software update in near the possible future will be able to improve this?

These Headphones are so good to me. I have all of the big boys. These are perfect for me.

Peter, apparently you have not tried sound swap using a good Dolby Atmos 4K Blu-ray movie. Trust me you will not be able to turn it all the way up. It sounds amazing! I'm really surprised that none of the reviews I have seen so far have discussed this. It was the main reason I bought them... and they most definitely deliver! Streaming could use a volume increase, but high fidelity 4k blu ray is where they truly shine. Kudos to Sonos. They've truly done it! I could care less about streaming. One thing to note here, at least with my Vizio H1 OLED TV when playing a 4k blu ray movie passing eARC through the TV, the TV audio must be set to Digital, if set to Auto it will dampened the Atmos before passing it through to the Arc. I recommend setting your TV's audio setting to Digital when testing if passing the Atmos from your blu-ray player through the TV. I get the same dampening when using my external Sonos system. It took me a long time to figure out it was my TV and not the blu-ray player or my Sonos system. Hope this helps.

@PeterPee Please let me know if I can use them this way: I have a hearing issue, and want to be able to play my TV sound through the SONOS headphones, while still getting the normal audio through my Arc, Sub, and Surrounds. I don't want to swap it and have it stop coming out of the speakers normally, I just want to add the headphones to the group. Is that possible? That way I can watch & listen to it where I am comfortable, and the family can still listen normally.

@PeterPee do you think the White will be easy to keep looking clean? Wearing them outside for yardwork, or sweating them up at the gym, I would think they would look pretty bad quickly. Your thoughts on this, or just best to go with black?

I really wanted to like the Sonos Ace but i sent it back and replaced it with Bang & Olufsen H95’s. The price difference is significant but also is the sound.

So far I am happy with my Aces. I got some crackling noices when connected with my Arc but I hope they will fix this with further updates. Anything else is very good, the ANC is mindblowing compared with my air pods pro 2

Can you tell me how wide and high the space for my ears is within the ear cups? Many say it’s relatively small and you have to fold your ears in them if they are a bit larger than average.

I tried the Aces on a plane side-by-side with the Bose QC Ultra Earbuds and the AirPods Pro 2. The Bose Earbuds cancelled more noise. Surprising, but the Aces either let more engine noise through or have their own white noise. Still good, but the Bose Earbuds were better for pure ANC.

I love them. The tv swap is amazing. Playing games with them is the best experience I had with an headphone. ANC is weird to me. At home when the external sound is not that intense the ANc is insane but if I’m in the bus commuting I felt the ANC was really subpar versus my AirPods Pro. Is there a reason for this?

Sound is weak when I was on a flight. I could barely hear my movie playing. I think I’m going to return them and wait for the gen 2 or apple air pods max 2

What about the Atmos presence when using sound swap vs BT?

Would you recommend these for just all around use? I want something for gaming, music, travel, etc. I do have a fully outfitted arc setup.

I have my Arc connected via Ethernet and TV sound swap to my Ace works fine. I didn’t have to disconnect the Ethernet cable… 🤔 Love my Ace 😃👍🏻

I returned mine, After all my SONOS system, Im looking for the B&O BH95, to drop the price.

Hi Peter, Off the topic but can you give us a go ahead for latest firmware and if true play fixed for the ultimate sonos setup? Thanks!

I’ve been using my Aces for a few weeks now and I’m happy with the results. Music sounds the best compared to others I’ve heard. I Will be using on a flight next week and will try on calls inside and outside to complete my testing. Hit the gym! 😅

Arc should be able to use Ethernet and use its onboard wifi to directly stream to the Ace. Thats what a Sonos one does in a pair. (one unit wired)

Great review, but I had to return mine, specifically for the work use. I have a windows laptop (running windows 10) provided by the business and no matter what I did, the Ace did not work with Microsoft Teams calls. My WHXM5’s work perfectly, so I don’t know what the issue is. The ACE could have been the perfect headphone for me because they cover work and play. But without them working for Teams, I just could not keep them.

One thing I wish to clarify - the Sonos Ace does not use Wi-Fi. It does not have Wi-Fi hardware. As Star Trek Chief Engineer Scotty once said "You can't change the laws of physics!" I believe your confusion was assuming that the ARC plugged in via Ethernet with ARC's Wi-Fi disabled was the reason sound-swap wasn't working. I am assuming there is another, situation-specific issue that prevented proper sound-swap, but it was not related at all to Wi-Fi being disabled in the ARC. The Sonos Ace handshakes with the Sonos ARC and then the Sonos ARC sends audio to the Sonos ACE using Bluetooth. Each Sonos device with Bluetooth needs modified firmware to support the Sonos Ace. That's why it only shipped initially with ARC support, but additional soundbars are promised later. If Sonos truly listened to the needs of their customers, they would enable sound-swap with any Bluetooth headphone, as it it technically possible, and then sell the Ace based on it's merits and better sound quality rather than cutting off the ability to use any other headphone to give the Ace an unfair, and undeserved, advantage.

While travelling, did you have a chance to use them while watching a movie on the plane?

Hi Peter. I am not able to message you via the Patreon app. This is not a new issue. Is this no longer a possibility? Thanks for the feedback regarding this problem.

I love my Ace! I use it as much as possible… I wouldn’t use them at the gym though.

Sound need to be more loud

How about walking outside in the Singaporean heat and humidity? 😅

So, sound swap doesn't just play what the soundbar is playing? That makes these a hard sell.

"Focus on me": Sorry no. At least for that moment, no.

Hi Peter. Love your videos on Sonos but am still a little unsure of the Sonos ace due to the fact they don’t connect to my Sonos network. Surely an easy fix for this is for Sonos to build a Sonos Bluetooth transmitter that connects to your Sonos network but transmits anything you select on the Sonos app to your pair of aces. Class 2 Bluetooth transmits a range of 33 feet, class 4.2 200 feet and class 5 800 feet. Even class 4.2 would be enough for most people and would complete the system.

Sound Swap at this stage is not on the Android SONOS app.

But why would you want to wear full size headphones when you're working out anyway?

So you have to disconnect Ethernet to allow the Ace to connect to your system? That’s disappointing…

1:08 hello, how are you doing today? Come here often?

Who the lady that walk in front of you at the gym 😊😅

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Doesn’t compare to Apple airpod max. Instantly makes the Sonos Ace irrelevant considering apples headphones are many years old and will be releasing new ones soon.

This is a half baked product as it doesn't have the sound swap feature for Android... Pathetic really. It's the only feature that makes it different from the rest.