{"id":5516,"date":"2026-06-17T06:59:03","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T06:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/frontlinenewsng.org\/?p=5516"},"modified":"2026-06-17T06:59:03","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T06:59:03","slug":"matt-audio-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frontlinenewsng.org\/?p=5516","title":{"rendered":"Matt: Audio Wars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It looks like Ubiquiti is coming for Sonos with its <a href=\"https:\/\/store.ui.com\/us\/en\/category\/premium-iot\/products\/upl-port\">PoE Audio Port, a $199 device<\/a> that closely resembles <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4vXqjcH\">the $499 Sonos Port<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/store.ui.com\/us\/en\/products\/upl-amp\">$599 PowerAmp<\/a>. Sonos is going up-market with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonos.com\/en-us\/shop\/amp-multi\">the Amp Multi<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sonos has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/features\/2026-03-10\/sonos-new-speaker-heralds-revival-under-ceo-tom-conrad-after-app-fiasco?sref=tT7Af65V\">had a rough patch<\/a>, but I\u2019m pretty ride or die for them, and some of my favorite people are there: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/tomconrad\/\">Tom Conrad, the CEO<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/hbarra\/\">Hugo Barra on the board<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/miketatum.com\/\">Mike Tatum<\/a> in CorpDev (he\u2019s the guy who got me to drop out of college and join CNET back in 2004!).<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The only time I don\u2019t do Sonos in a home is for the <a href=\"https:\/\/syngspace.com\/\">amazing audio experience of Syng Alpha<\/a>. The triphonic thing can be really magical. (Analog\/vinyl is <a href=\"https:\/\/ma.tt\/2009\/04\/visiting-shindo-labs\/\">still Shindo Laboratories<\/a>, but that\u2019s just for special occasions.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For headphones right now, it\u2019s either <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colorware.com\/collections\/wordpress\">some custom Airpods Pro 3<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/44c5wGf\">the Sennheiser HDB 630<\/a> (<em>Hat tip: <a href=\"https:\/\/pud.com\/\">Pud<\/a><\/em>, who is also making some crazy headphones).<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the go, I love pairing two <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4fQSchD\">Logitech Megaboom 4s<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like Ubiquiti is coming for Sonos with its PoE Audio Port, a $199 device that closely resembles the $499 Sonos Port, and $599 PowerAmp. Sonos is going up-market with the Amp Multi. Sonos has had a rough patch, but I\u2019m pretty ride or die for them, and some of my favorite people are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontlinenewsng.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontlinenewsng.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontlinenewsng.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontlinenewsng.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontlinenewsng.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/frontlinenewsng.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontlinenewsng.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontlinenewsng.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontlinenewsng.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}