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History
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Technical details
10 related topics
Overview
17 related topics
Controversies
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Key facts & relationships
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- Founded
- 2002; 24 years ago (2002)
- Founders
- John MacFarlane · Craig Shelburne · Tom Cullen · Trung Mai
- Industry
- Consumer electronics
- Headquarters
- Santa Barbara, California, U.S.
- Area served
- Worldwide
- Formerly
- Rincon Audio, Inc. (2002–2004)
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Overview
- Santa Barbara, California
- John MacFarlane John MacFarlane (entrepreneur)
- Pandora Pandora Radio
- IHeartRadio
- SiriusXM
- Apple Music
- Spotify
- Tidal Tidal (service)
- MOG MOG (online music)
- QQ Music
- YouTube Music
- Deezer
- Amazon Music
- Amazon Alexa
- Google Assistant
- Apple Siri
- Audi
History
- All Things Digital
- Steve Jobs
- IPod
- United Kingdom
- Japan
- Sonos Studio
- Los Angeles
- Studio
- Art gallery Art museum
- Beck
- The Lonely Island
- Solange Solange Knowles
- Venture funding Venture capital financing
- Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
- Redpoint Ventures
- Elevation Partners
- Google Play Music
- Bruce Mau Design
- Logotype
- Study Experiment
- Laid off Layoff
- SoHo SoHo, Manhattan
- Apple Stores Apple Store
- IKEA
- International Trade Commission United States International Trade Commission
- Philip Glass
- Timothy Scheek Timothy Scheek?action=edit&redlink=1
- Consumer Electronics Show
- Subwoofer
- Soundbar
Technical details
- Ethernet
- AES Advanced Encryption Standard
- Peer-to-peer
- Mesh network Mesh networking
- LAN Local area network
- 5.1 surround 5.1 surround sound
- MIMO
- 802.11n IEEE 802.11n-2009
- Retroactively named Retronym
- Tuning Musical tuning
Reception
Controversies
- Bricks Brick (electronics)
- Trade-in program Trade-in program?action=edit&redlink=1
- Environmentally unfriendly
- Reuse
- Business Insider
- Google Play
Locations
Key people
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Map overview Semantic statistics
Number of nodes, edges, triples, density and central hubs. Use it to gauge the size and connectivity of the map.Sonos
Nodes96
Edges95
Triples201
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.020833
Components1
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Sonos
Top relations
related to history · 81
Sonos → All Things Digital, Amazon Music, AMP, Android, Apple, Apple Music, August, Beastie Boys PLAY, Blue Note Play, Blue Note Records, Bruce Mau Design, California, Carlsbad, CONNECT, Consumer Electronics Show, Controller, CR100, CR100's, CR200, Craig Shelburne
related to Stores · 18
Sonos → April, Berlin, Cremerie, During, It, July, June, London, New York City, November, Paris, Pop Up Store, Saint Honore, Seven Dials, Sonos Sound Showroom, Sonos Store, Summer Olympics, The
related to Communication between Sonos products · 14
Sonos → AES-encrypted, Ethernet, Internet, LAN, Later, MIMO, Multiple Sonos, SonosNet, The, The Sonos, This, Wi-Fi, ZoneBridge, ZonePlayer
related to Offices · 14
Sonos → An, Australia, Boston, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden, There, These, United Kingdom, United States, US
related to John MacFarlane · 10
Sonos → American, California, CEO, He, In, John MacFarlane, MacFarlane, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Santa Barbara, University
related to Controversies · 8
Sonos → Business Insider, Customers, In December, In March, On January, Recycle Mode, Some, Twitter
related to Reception · 8
Sonos → Audio, Best, CES Innovations Design, Engineering, February, In November, Macworld, Sonos Digital Music System
related to External links · 6
Sonos → GoogleSEC, Inc, Media, Official, Wikimedia Commons, Wiktionary-logo-en-v2
related to S1 and S2 operating systems · 6
Sonos → All, In, Its, May, S1, S2
Founders · 4
Sonos → Craig Shelburne, John MacFarlane, Tom Cullen, Trung Mai
Important terminology Word statistics
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Important terminology
macfarlane first company announced speaker products audio play system google music available audi january 2020 support devices ceo may march
Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sonos | Area served | Worldwide | 1.00 | infobox |
| Sonos | Formerly | Rincon Audio, Inc. (2002–2004) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Sonos | Founded | 2002; 24 years ago (2002) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Sonos | Founders | John MacFarlane | 1.00 | infobox |
| Sonos | Founders | Craig Shelburne | 1.00 | infobox |
| Sonos | Founders | Tom Cullen | 1.00 | infobox |
| Sonos | Founders | Trung Mai | 1.00 | infobox |
| Sonos | Headquarters | Santa Barbara, California, U.S. | 1.00 | infobox |
| Sonos | Industry | Consumer electronics | 1.00 | infobox |
| Sonos | Key people | Julius Genachowski (chairman) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Sonos | Key people | Tom Conrad (CEO) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Sonos | Key people | Nicholas Millington (CINO) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Sonos | Net income | US$−61 million (2025) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Sonos | Number of employees | 1,404 (2025) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Sonos | Number of locations | 12 offices | 1.00 | infobox |
| Sonos | Number of locations | 3 retail stores | 1.00 | infobox |
| Sonos | Operating income | US$−50 million (2025) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Sonos | Revenue | US$1.44 billion (2025) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Sonos | Total assets | US$823 million (2025) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Sonos | Total equity | US$355 million (2025) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Sonos | Traded as | Nasdaq: SONO | 1.00 | infobox |
| Sonos | Traded as | S&P 600 component | 1.00 | infobox |
| Sonos | Type | Public | 1.00 | infobox |
| Sonos | Website | sonos.com | 1.00 | infobox |
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