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The Sonos Ace Ultra are the headphones Sonos should have made the first time
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With better sound, better ANC, and Wi-Fi audio streaming, the Ace Ultra are finally worthy of the Sonos name.
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The original Sonos Ace headphones should have been a triumphant entry into a new product category. Instead, they were overshadowed by Sonos’s disastrous app redesign. And while the original Ace are well built, sound good, and are incredibly comfortable, they weren’t good Sonos headphones: Their flagship feature let you reroute audio from a Sonos soundbar to the Ace headphones so you could listen to your TV audio without disturbing anyone. But it was glitchy, and at launch it only worked with the $1,000 Arc soundbar, and only with one pair of Ace headphones at a time (Both of those have now been fixed). It also couldn’t connect to the rest of the Sonos system for music streaming.
Now the Ace Ultra are here, at the same $449 release price as the Ace (which are now $349). They’ve improved on what the Ace did well, while finally adding the ability to pass audio from your Sonos system to the headphones and back (although it’s in “early access”). They’re what the Ace should have been the first time.