I ’m of the mind that there are more than enough actual products out in the world that I lean to not expend too much time worrying about the ones that do n’t actually exist yet . But a couple of things stand out about two rumored Sonos endeavors that are too obvious to ignore .

I ’ll introduce this with the caveat that it ’s all speculation on my part . But it also cook plenty of horse sense , particularly yield that Sonos itself has said it has a couple of merchandise ready to announce — and ship — anytime now . They ’re presently stuck in limbo while it look for the2024 app debacleto refine itself .

Let ’s take up with the Sonos Arc Ultra soundbar , which has had a few passing water of late . There’sthe post on X ( formerly Twitter ) in Septemberthat came with marketing materials . There ’s also a latent Best Buy number that appears in a Google hunting , though you range into a stagnant remainder when you clack through to the Cartesian product page . This is exactly the sort of thing that happen when you have a Cartesian product ready to go that thengets shelved for a while .

Most recently , what are propose to be Arc Ultra specshave appeared on Reddit . For the most part , there ’s nothing particularly out of the ordinary . Seven tweeter . Six woofer . Trueplay . All the Dolby standards you ’d expect . Even the presence of a microphone should n’t be surprising — Sonos has baked them into speaker for years now . There ’s also theTV Audio Swap featurethat lets you hop back and off between the soundbar and theSonos Ace phone . Not even the imagine addition of a quad - effect A55 mainframe stands out — the original Sonos Arc also has a quad - core CPU .

What specify off warning equipment bells for me , then ? The inclusion of 16 GB of RAM and 8 GB of NV . That stands for non - fickle memory . That ’s a ROM , boy and girls , with enough RAM to run whatever sorting of apps it has on circuit board . The first - propagation Arc only has 1 GB of RAM and half as much NV memory . Combine that with the marketing range of a function from September that intelligibly testify some form of Sonos represent filmdom , and we have a very real possibility ( I ’d even go so far as to say probability ) that when the Sonos Arc Ultra in the end sees the light of solar day , it ’ll do so at the same time as Sonos TV . Not listed in the supposed spec ? A remote controller , whichcould well be tough .

As for Sonos TV itself ? That ’s a completely unlike question . You probably do n’t have to go too far out on a tree branch to figure that it ’s something akin to what Roku has done with its soundbars — a fully engraft operating system . Chances are it ’s an Android crotch , though maybe we ’ll be surprised by something fresh .

What ’s all this mean ? For one matter , we all demand to stop refer to Sonos TV as some form of “ Seth - top boxwood . ” Never mind the fact that that ’s a legacy gadget pattern that does n’t really be anymore , come across as how TVs are n’t stocky enough to put anything on top of them . That goes for myself , too . When Iasked Sonos administrator Eddie Lazarus in a late interviewif he want to babble out “ about this supposed curing - top box , ” he replied : “ I do n’t have any idea what you ’re speak about . ”

I should have ask about the Sonos Arc Ultra instead .