Sonos is wading into budget speaker waters with the new Era 100 SL speaker

No voice assistant means it won't accidentally order you a pizza mid-playlist, which depending on your willpower is either a bug or a feature. What it will do is sit quietly on a shelf — at 182.5 × 120 × 130.5 mm, it genuinely disappears into a room — and then completely contradict its size the moment you hit play. Under two kilograms, looks like nothing, sounds like considerably more.

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Sonos ends long product draught with the $299 Play speaker

So when the company announced two new speakers, the collective reaction from the audio world was somewhere between cautious optimism and "please, just don't mess it up."