it's about time it's been 20 years since Sono started making products and the
most requested product throughout that whole time has been headphones now you
can take your Sonos music on the go on
the bus out of your home without looking like a weirdo who's carrying a soundbar
on city transit for some reason Sonos sponsored this video for us to look at
and react to the new Sonos Ace you
trying to be the king but the ace is back it's my favorite um line from Dr
Dre's The Chronic 2001 because I'm old we got white we got black both in these
kind of felt hard cases you can definitely shove this in your bag pretty
low profile case kind of green on the inside this is
pretty sweet and then the headphones
themselves lightweight they got this kind of like Dr Mario pill shape to them
the Sonos logo just embossed there on one of the ear cups black is way more
subdued I'm torn here I feel like the
white ones are impressive but the black ones are Keepers you know man they look
good when they're like brand new and clean are they going to fingerprint up
not really a bit but not really all
right we don't need to unbox them both cuz they're the same but there's a little CD size sleeve in here USB-C Toc
USBC to 3 and 1 12 mil Jack so one USBC
side is going to go to the headphone for wir Lessing and the other would go to your device depending on whether you
know you're using a phone which 99% of them now have USBC or you're going into
something else like maybe you have one of those big fat MP3 players that are
$1,000 check out my unboxing and then
there's some literature please help
power on the ace scan the code to get the app and some quick
controls wow they have this single button that does a lot we will look at
that in a bit pretty compact experience now to take a physical tour of the
headphones themselves and really I have to choose at this point I think for ease
of just visibility so you guys can see what I'm talking about I'm going to go with white but I'll always love you okay
first thing caliper pressure these feel very
springy they don't feel too tight and I
don't feel like they're being stretched out at all for my kind of medium head I
can tell a and C's on already that's pretty cool now they have a kind of
continuous as opposed to ratcheting adjustment here and they go to this big
so if your head is this this
big they'll fit you usually I go to like three clicks into a
headphone here I'm almost at the bottom not quite but they are quite light and
they're they're on their at all right amount this
amount and they have cushy PU leather
memory foam it's this much
memory and this much on the top the top I think is really important cuz if a
headband starts digging in after an hour that's just that's just the nail and the
coffin I often have a problem where my ears particularly this ear might touch
the actual driver in here I don't know it sticks out a bit I guess if that
happens it's toast I can't use those headphones not a problem for me on these
the ear cups are sufficiently deep they're this deep oh look at that whoa
that is cool I've seen ear cups that pop off before but these actually have like
this very fine mesh here that's part of
the ear cup and you can see there's actually an L in this ear cup to
indicate it's left and the other one not only has an R but it's green so just
that is a very subtle way but an
immediate way to know which way to orient the headphones when you put them
on and you know it's good to see that these are replaceable this is always going to be the thing that fails first
on your headphon so I assume they'll be selling these sold separately so to
increase the longevity of your device you can see there's a sensor in here
this thing has eight different microphones that's going to help beam
forming make you sound good it has cancellation of the ambient noise around
you so people can hear you clearly we'll show you guys that in a bit for buttons
we got a tactile onoff button a
tactile toggle between a and c and aware mode and then another tactile ooh little
springy switchy guy called the content key I noticed that they're all different
shapes the power button is a little rectangle over here thec toggle is round
and then the content key is is like a a pill-shaped and a switch so it's very
easy to figure out what you're touching at any given moment all right time to
try them on and hear them we're using black for that okay
they're on I'm going to use this button to toggle thec and see if the hum from
this big electrical Transformer in this industrial building turns
off I'm in a void it's absolutely gone
and it has a little sound toggle when you when you switch it it's
like which is cool cuz I have other
earphones that a little voice comes on it goes like a andc on a and that's just
kind of annoying sweet action all right let's getc on and listen to music all
right so looks like I can sign into this app or just add headphones without
signing in I dig that now as I
understand it this app was recently redesigned to accommodate the use of the
headphones cuz they wanted a unified app that had the headphones and all their
sound bars and everything which meant that they had to change the app that people have been using for years and the
new new app is different and also does not include some of the features that
the previous app has Bluetooth iPhone I mean why would it tell me but you know
what you can connect this thing to two devices at once so it's nice to have a
little indicator there we got head trck I'm going to keep that off for now the
EQ oh you can do balance like you're in a car that is wacky I never see that
trouble and base just two different sliders not a lot of resolution there
and what plus or minus five loudness
boost the base and trouble at low volumes uh that's a good thing to do
because your ears are not very sensitive to to Bass so usually the quieter the
volume gets the more baseless it sounds
but it's not the music it's your ears you're the problem uh there's a little
noise control option here where you can make it that circular button actually
just toggle like a wear mode on and off you can do all three modes you can say
offs not an option you can say I never use a wear mode so just toggle noise
cancelling and off I like that I'm going just going to blindly explore this uh
content button here so intuitive you hold it down and
it gets quieter and you can hear this
little that is actually a great volume interface it doesn't matter if your
hands are kind of like sweaty or whatever it's easy to grab there's like
a lot of kind of grip or friction on this thing oh when you get to the bottom
it goes like a different sound it's thoughtful you can click the content
button that's how you pause it what if I double
tap it next track triple P triple back so
will it pause if I take him off no but I did see a setting in the
app so maybe that's relevant here play and pause pause content you take your
headphones off and resume when you put them back on that's what I was looking for and look at this where to answer
you're getting a call just put your headphones on and answers the phone I
feel like that's something I would turn on and and then maybe have a bad experience then turn off forever but for
now yeah
that's pretty good that's pretty good and pretty quick whoa this base is
really it's like the kick drum is like this big just the Baton just slapping it
and they got no pillows in there I think base people will like these I think if
you like Sono sounds you'll probably like these if you like apple type sound
you'll probably like these you can actually stream audio losslessly via
Bluetooth or via the cable let's see what the graphs say we got some
frequency response graphs here from headphones.com thank you guys for
helping us out with the testing you can see the dotted line is our Target curve
and then the color lines are the actual measured performance bit of a
pronouncement in the bass particularly like the higher base you know around 100
htz usually a crossover especially in the home theater world the crossover
from your base to your other speakers is about 80 HZ so right in that kind of
crossover zone is where it's more pronounced here bit of a mix bag in the
mid-range here from 100 to 800 and then
in the treble it tracks pretty closely around 3K but then around 6 7K it's a a
little bit bright and here's some other graphs if you're interested you
nerds this is what the mic sounds like there's not a lot of ambient noise in
here right now but I'm going to turn on this YouTube video of construction sight
sound effects and Ambience drilling Jackhammer metal hammering
soundscape you can find anything on YouTube just amazing
um hi thank you for joining this call I'm sorry I was just couple minutes late
my last meeting went long how was that
you tell me you be the judge now I want to watch some premium content on YouTube
because you could use these for not just music you know in fact you can connect
these to your home system so that anything that would have been routed through your select Sono Soundbar like a
Sonos Arc will actually just get transmitted right to here for secret
viewing at nighttime for example there's lonus you know knowing
lonus in person I can say that this sounds like lonus anyways these of
course support Bluetooth Bluetooth 5.4 Dolby Atmos
Dolby audio for wearables and head tracking head tracking you know the
source of your sound is here and when you turn your head like this you hear it
more here and then you hear more here and it's more like you're watching TV
some people really like it anyways battery life claims on these things are
pretty crazy 30 hours of battery life that's mixed use with ANC on you can
charge 3 hours of playback in just 3
minutes we actually did some battery testing ourselves and we have results
that are not very far off those claims so respect 450 bucks for these These are
available starting June 5th so you can pre-order Now using our link uh thanks
for watching and thanks to Sonos for sponsoring this video bye-bye