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is crystal to the verge of here in Boston at the Sonos office we've been touring their space all day checking out the first new speaker in a long time it's called the play Bates now you might know the Sonos playbar that's a sound bar if you're leaving the room the play base also goes in your living room but instead of a sound bar it's a speaker vacant flat that sits underneath your TV sonís isn't working on this for a year so you've spent the day touring all their chambers and test labs and talking to all the engineers who obsess over every detail about disappear we've seen the style speaker before from other companies but Sonos wants you to know just how much work went into this one like the 43,000 individually drilled holes around the sides or the S port inside or airflow travels through now that's all well and good but for you this is still just a speaker that's going to sit under your TV the play bass is equal parts TD speaker and music speaker so it works all the same popular streaming services for multi-room audio there are only three plugs in the play bass optical audio Ethernet and power inside are 10 amplified speakers 6 mid-range three tweeters and one woofer all of them custom designed by Sonos you can buy a subwoofer for deeper rumbling bass or add a pair of Sonos play:1 speakers for a surround sound set up if you add a sub we have engineer engineer it so it it it outperforms with a sub because the sub can takes a lot of the strain away from some of the transitions as far as the low-frequency go so it performs differently with the sub and is a better experience that's Giles Martin who was someone else's sound expert I asked him whether someone already has a play bar should actually upgrade to the play bass and he said no you know what I would say if someone had a someone had to play bar never they weren't to spend them and I wouldn't say get rid your play by their flat plates me personally I'd say you know because the speakers are in your home granular but in truth the plate they send it pretty terrific without those things the demos I saw unfortunately not all is perfect play base doesn't have some features important home theater fans like DTS decoding for the best quality surround sound and the play base doesn't support HDMI Arc so you can't use one remote to control all of your home theater gear but ultimately that's not what so most cares about Sonos wants this to be the do everything speak over people who can spend a little bit of money on something that looks pretty good and sounds pretty fantastic in their living rooms the play base is going to ship in April for $700 that's the same price as the play bar and we're going to have much more on it soon but for now make sure to subscribe to the verge on YouTube for more great videos