Sonos Debuts $449 Ace Ultra Headphones, Expanding Battery Life to 35 Hours
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Updated · What Hi-Fi? · Sep 8
Sonos Debuts $449 Ace Ultra Headphones, Expanding Battery Life to 35 Hours
3 articles · Updated · What Hi-Fi? · Sep 8
Summary
$449 Sonos Ace Ultra headphones made their first hands-on appearance at IFA 2026, with an initial demo pointing to comfortable fit, clearer sound and stronger noise cancelling than the 2024 original.
35-hour battery life with ANC, up from 30 hours, is paired with Sonos-designed 40mm drivers, 10 microphones and a claimed doubling of ANC performance.
Fabric multi-room features now let audio jump between the headphones and all current Sonos speakers, broadening a transfer function that had been limited to select soundbars on the first Ace.
Sonos is keeping the original Ace on sale while pitching the Ultra against premium rivals such as Sony's WH-1000XM6 at roughly the same $449 price, leaving fuller testing to determine whether it can close the gap.