Symfonisk: Sounds Like Sonos, Looks Like IKEA
These new Sonos-powered speakers are intriguing additions to Swedish furniture giant IKEA's catalog of accessories.
A springtime announcement has come to become a late summer reality: the Symfonisk table lamp speaker ($179) or Symfonisk wi-fi bookshelf speaker ($99) are both now available as intriguing additions to the Swedish furniture giant IKEA’s catalog of living accessories and as extensions of the wireless audio ecosystem of Sonos.
The Symfonisk wireless audio devices have already garnered design kudos as 2019 Red Dot Award Winners before their release. Now that they’re both out, we’ve had the opportunity to listen to both models in person to determine how they compare to similar Sonos wireless speakers, like the specifically the Sonos One and Play:1. Both Symfonisk speakers are equipped with two class-D digital amplifiers to power a single tweeter and mid-woofer for output.
In person the Symfonisk table lamp speaker is as odd-quirky as it seemed in pre-release photos. We’d guess the 360-degree speaker+lamp design is likely split opinion into love or hate camps, with few falling anywhere between. But in person it’s charms are more evident, both as a lamp and as a speaker, especially if you’re some already invested in the Sonos ecosystem and might benefit from a secondary source of light.
Whether solo or in pairs, the Symfonisk can be programmed as the ultimate morning wake-up system of light and stereo sound using the So...
A springtime announcement has come to become a late summer reality: the Symfonisk table lamp speaker ($179) or Symfonisk wi-fi bookshelf speaker ($99) are both now available as intriguing additions to the Swedish furniture giant IKEA’s catalog of living accessories and as extensions of the wireless audio ecosystem of Sonos.
The Symfonisk wireless audio devices have already garnered design kudos as 2019 Red Dot Award Winners before their release. Now that they’re both out, we’ve had the opportunity to listen to both models in person to determine how they compare to similar Sonos wireless speakers, like the specifically the Sonos One and Play:1. Both Symfonisk speakers are equipped with two class-D digital amplifiers to power a single tweeter and mid-woofer for output.
In person the Symfonisk table lamp speaker is as odd-quirky as it seemed in pre-release photos. We’d guess the 360-degree speaker+lamp design is likely split opinion into love or hate camps, with few falling anywhere between. But in person it’s charms are more evident, both as a lamp and as a speaker, especially if you’re some already invested in the Sonos ecosystem and might benefit from a secondary source of light.
Whether solo or in pairs, the Symfonisk can be programmed as the ultimate morning wake-up system of light and stereo sound using the So...
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