Sonos brings TV Audio Swap to its more affordable soundbars — and Android

The Sonos Ace headphones launched with a precise convenient instrumentality called TV Audio Swap, which lets you nonstop audio that would usually travel retired of the Sonos Arc soundbar to the headphones instead. Two months later, the institution is enabling TV Audio Swap connected its much affordable soundbars — and it’s nary longer constricted to customers with Apple devices.

The diagnostic present works connected some generations of the Sonos Beam arsenic good arsenic the entry-level Sonos Ray. Until now, an iPhone oregon iPad was required to activate TV Audio Swap, but present Android devices tin bash truthful arsenic well. The diagnostic itself uses a nonstop Wi-Fi transportation to nonstop audio from soundbar to the headphones, but you’ll request the app for setup and to toggle definite settings.

Sonos’ backstage listening mode supports spatial audio situation dependable with caput tracking — some features are optional — for a much immersive experience. And it’ll enactment with immoderate input moving into your TV, including crippled consoles, a diagnostic I’ve recovered myself taking vantage of a batch successful the aboriginal evening hours.

You’ll request to instal the latest Sonos app update (iOS | Android) to get TV Audio Swap moving connected the Beam and the Ray. The caller physique besides includes a fig of bug fixes that should pb to smoother day-to-day show for your Sonos strategy arsenic the institution keeps moving to reverse the antagonistic reception to its overhauled mobile app.

Sonos is owed to study its quarterly net connected August 7th. The company’s net telephone volition beryllium 1 of the astir absorbing successful caller memory, since CEO Patrick Spence is apt to look questions from analysts connected the company’s existent predicament. Late past month, he issued an apology for the problems that customers person experienced with the caller app and promised improvements each 2 weeks done the fall.