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Sonos was founded in 2002[1] by John MacFarlane, Craig Shelburne, Tom Cullen and Trung Mai, with MacFarlane wanting to create a wireless service.[2]
In June 2004, Sonos announced its first two products, the ZonePlayer and the Controller, to be available in the fall of that year.[3] (They were later renamed as the ZP100 and CR100, respectively. The ZP100 was replaced in 2008 by the ZP120, later renamed the CONNECT:AMP, and subsequently by the Sonos Amp.[4]) The system's concept was that one could attach stereo speakers to each ZonePlayer and play all of your scanned CDs in any and all rooms in a house, selecting music using a handheld controller with an iPod-like click-wheel.
In 2004, MacFarlane brought a prototype of the company's soon-to-be first product, the Digital Music System bundle of smart speakers, to CES and the remote at a Wall Street Journal press conference later that year.[5] The bundle won the "Best of Audio" award at the CES Innovations Design and Engineering awards in November 2004.[6]
and was released in February 2005.[7] In March, the company introduced the ZP100 amplifier (later replaced by the ZP120 and rebranded as the CONNECT:AMP) as an add-on to the current Digital Music System bundle.[8] In April 2005, Sonos announced that its products could play music from Rhapsody, the first of many streaming music services that its products would support.[9] The bundle was also announced to be sold in the United Kingdom later in May 2005.[10]
This was joined shortly afterwards by the unamplified ZP80 (later replaced by the ZP90, rebranded as the CONNECT) with analog and digital input and output connections to link a user's Sonos system to their traditional amplifier.
In 2009 the ZonePlayer S5 (later rebranded as the PLAY:5) an amplified smart speaker was released.
- ^ "Company Overview of Sonos, Inc". Retrieved 3 December 2013.
- ^ Elliott, Amy-Mae (8 December 2011). "The Story Behind the Wireless Music System 10 Years in the Making". Mashable. Retrieved 31 October 2016.
- ^ "Sonos press release: WHOLE HOME DIGITAL MUSIC ARRIVES WITH THE SONOS™ DIGITAL MUSIC SYSTEM Multi-Zone Digital Music System Renders the Traditional Black Stereo Rack ObsoletePress Releases | 2004 | June 7". web.archive.org. 4 September 2004. Retrieved 4 August 2019.
- ^ "Sonos press release: SONOS INTRODUCES THE SONOS ZONEPLAYER 120 AND SONOS ZONEPLAYER 90". web.archive.org. 27 September 2008. Retrieved 4 August 2019.
- ^ Bradley, Ryan (30 October 2014). "How Sonos Built the Perfect Wireless Speaker". Bloomberg L.P. Retrieved 31 October 2016.
- ^ Ozler, Levent (11 November 2004). "Sonos Digital Music System: Best of Audio". Dexigner. Retrieved 31 October 2016.
- ^ "Review: Sonos Digital Music System". Macworld. Retrieved 31 October 2016.
- ^ "Sonos Introduces the Sonos(TM) Loudspeaker SP100" (Press release). Sonos. 21 March 2005. Archived from the original on 2016-11-01. Retrieved 31 October 2016 – via PRNewswire.
{{cite press release}}: Unknown parameter|dead-url=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help)[self-published source] - ^ "Sonos press release: SONOS ANNOUNCES THE IMMEDIATE AVAILABILITY OF THE RHAPSODY® ONLINE MUSIC SERVICE FOR SONOS™ DIGITAL MUSIC SYSTEM CUSTOMERS". web.archive.org. 13 November 2006. Retrieved 4 August 2019.
- ^ Smith, Tony (24 May 2005). "Sonos wireless music kit ready to roll in UK". The Register. Retrieved 31 October 2016.