Inside the Sonos anechoic chamber

Get a glimpse inside the anechoic chamber at our acoustics lab in Santa Barbara, CA. Anechoic, meaning “no reflection”, this space is designed to remove any echo from the room, allowing our audio engineers to hear the faintest of details when testing our speakers.

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[LuddeVinje]

How can immersive music sound good in an anechoic chamber if the side and upward firing speakers wont get any walls or ceiling to bounce sound on?

[legendaryeats]

I'm a little confused. She says "...you can hear things coming from the corners, the ceiling, and behind. Immersive music sounds really cool in here." But isn't the entire point of all that sound absorbing treatment is to stop reflections of sound waves. She even uses a clap to demonstration of the room's lack of reverberation. But the Era 300 relies on sound reverberation to create spatial effects, doesn't it? Am I missing something here?

[Captainboubi]

Salut merci de nous montrer cette impressionnante salle acoustique sonos ❤

[myyearoldman]

Amazing that this is infrastructure can be in the middle of downtown Boston.

[Robetx]

Woow.. i will stay inside this room till die just play music to my ears 😅

[JonMoralesLA]

I can’t imagine anything sounding good in an anechoic chamber. Seems like it would sound lifeless and dull with Zero reflections. I get the use case for evaluating speaker but this isn’t for listening.

[CinePhil]

Sonos f-ed-up when they dropped S1 for S2 and it's spatial sound gimmick. For music lover, which was supposed to be the whole point of Sonos, Stereo beats Atmos most of the time.