Skip to main content

New Sonos Roam colors emerge in leaked images

Sonos has a lot on its plate, it seems. There’s a new soundbar on the way — the as-yet-announced Sonos Ray — and seemingly its own voice control platform coming down the pike. And according to a promo email that went out today, Sonos Roam is about to get some new colors.

“Something colorful is coming,” the subject line reads. The email body points to “early access to brand new exclusives beginning Wednesday.” While there’s nothing explicit about Sonos Roam in the email, the included image is named Roam_Colors_Launch.png. So there’s that.

Recommended Videos

Later in the day, after we initially published this post, a Spanish-language marketing image appeared on Reddit from /u/All-Your-Base. Based on that, the new colors appear to be “Sunset,” “Wave,” and “Olive.”

Image used with permission by copyright holder

Roam, of course, is the $180 portable speaker that is positioned for use inside or outside — wherever you may roam, if you will. It’s currently only available in Shadow Black or Lunar White. So additional colors make sense, especially if it’s sort of a bonus release alongside new products like the Sonos Ray and the new voice assistant, which has been rumored since late 2021.

Look slike Sonos is teasing new colors. ¯_(ツ)_/¯ pic.twitter.com/diUl1WBMSd

— Phil (@philnickinson) May 9, 2022

What we don’t know is exactly what the new Sonos Roam colors will be, or if they’ll cost extra above the black or white models.

Sonos Ray, meanwhile, is expected to be a $250 soundbar, and that price would position it well beneath the $450 Sonos Beam, which itself sits beneath the $900 Sonos Arc. Just how much quality gets trimmed out along with several hundred dollars in price remains to be seen. Though given what Sonos is able to do with its bookshelf speakers like the $220 Sonos One, there’s not necessarily a reason to worry that you’re getting below-average quality. It’s just that Sonos has set the bar so high for itself over the years.

Regardless, it looks like we’ll probably get a look at all this new kit later this week. So stay tuned.

Phil Nickinson
Former Digital Trends Contributor
Phil spent the 2000s making newspapers with the Pensacola (Fla.) News Journal, the 2010s with Android Central and then the…
‘Push for speed backfired,’ Sonos CEO says as new products delayed
The Sonos app on an iPhone in front of a Sonos Move 2 speaker.

Sonos CEO Patrick Spence today in the company's third-quarter earnings call said that two new products scheduled for later this year will be delayed until major issues in the Sonos ecosystem are fixed.

The news came on August 7 as Spence continued to apologize and lay out the roadmap for returning customer experience to its former standards following the botched May update to the Sonos app, as well as the greater Sonos hardware wireless system.

Read more
Sonos Ace headphones now work with more Sonos soundbars
The Sonos Ace headphones in front of the Sonos Arc soundbar.

After a few months with just partial compatibility, the Sonos Ace headphones now work with all of the company's soundbars and can take advantage of the TV audio swap feature. That's the feature by which audio will be routed to the Sonos headphones instead of the soundbar itself, which is great for some private listening when you don't want to disturb someone else.

It's the sort of feature that Google has had with its earbuds and Google TV devices, and that Apple TV has enjoyed with the various AirPods models. The main difference here is that Sonos isn't an operating system in the same regard, so it has to handle the audio handoff a little further downstream. And so now the Ace can intercept audio via the Sonos Ray and Sonos Beam, in addition to the Sonos Arc, which worked at launch.

Read more
Victrola’s new Stream Sapphire is the wireless turntable for audiophiles
[EMBARGOED IMAGE – 08/02] The Victrola Stream Sapphire wireless turntable.

After first laying our eyes (and ears) on Victrola's Stream Sapphire turntable at CES 2024 in January, the eminent audio brand has finally released it into the wild, today announcing that the flagship wireless turntable -- that can be played through both Sonos and UPnP enabled speakers with lossless sound quality -- can now be had for $1,300.

The Stream Sapphire is the latest wireless turntable in Victrola's lineup of Stream turntables that includes the previously released Stream Carbon, the Stream Onyx, and the Stream Pearl.

Read more