The Sonos Ace are $299 at Amazon, Best Buy, and Sonos directly, down $100 from their $399 retail price. That is a better deal than the competing Sony WH-1000XM6, which is only $60 off during Amazon's Big Spring Sale.
The Ace launched in 2024 and got buried by Sonos' own app crisis. That was bad timing for a capable headphone: over-ear, comfortable, swappable ear pads, and a transparency mode that ranks just below the original AirPods Max. The real differentiator is TV Audio Swap, which routes audio from a Sonos Arc, Beam, or Ray soundbar directly to one or two pairs of Ace headphones with a single button press. The newer TrueCinema mode adds spatial audio with head tracking and room-calibrated virtual surround. No Wi-Fi music streaming, no grouping with Sonos speakers, but USB-C wired audio is supported.
TV Audio Swap is only useful if you already own a Sonos soundbar. Read the full review to understand how TrueCinema compares to speaker-based TruePlay calibration, and whether the ecosystem lock-in is worth the price of entry.
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