Months ago, everyone's favorite Scandinavian furniture store, Ikea, announced a collaboration with home audio experts Sonos. After much speculation, the companies have finally announced the ...

And as it will be priced below the Play 1 or Sonos 1, it is Sonos's new gateway drug to its music system. IKEA, in turn, gets a way to "democratise sound" and supply a "built-in" sound system.

Ikea's new Symfonisk speaker collaboration with Sonos will be in stores as soon as August, but we still haven't seen what it will look like. We'll get our first look at an event in Milan on April 9.

And as IKEA gets to significantly expand its smart-home range, in a single stroke Sonos also gains access to a massive new market: the 780 million shoppers that visit the 424 IKEA stores in 52 ...

However, according to Ikea, the functionality extends past just using them as light fixtures, as looping in the lamps to an existing Sonos setup allows users to have the Symfonisk floor lamp ...

Ikea has only ever dipped its toes into the consumer electronics business with smart lightbulbs, and Sonos has never been in the furniture business. Yet, the marriage of brands makes sense.

The non-functional prototypes are illustrative examples of what you can expect from Ikea’s new SYMFONISK range. Sonos says that the final products will fully integrate with Sonos’ existing ...

The Sonos/Ikea collaborations was described as a "democratization" of music and sound in the home, so with that in mind, the Sonos/Ikea speaker may not cost as much as a typical speaker from Sonos ...

Sonos and Ikea have fully unveiled the pair of speakers that the two companies have collaborated on for years. The Symfonisk table lamp ($179) and bookshelf speaker ($99) will both ship this ...

Ikea started teasing some kind of collaboration with Sonos back in 2017, before showing off prototypes of a budget speaker range last summer. The company has now revealed that we’ll get to see ...

However, it’s possible that Sonos could produce an Ikea-exclusive product — perhaps a speaker that’s priced below the current entry-level $200 Sonos One.

Ikea and Sonos showcased two different models for now — a bookshelf speaker that will cost $99 and a table lamp speaker that will retail for $179. They will be available in black or white.