Sonos, Inc. Launches European Operations Headquartered in Netherlands

Sonos, Inc. Launches European Operations Headquartered in Netherlands

SANTA BARBARA, California. and HILVERSUM, Netherlands,, May 9/PRNewswire/ --

- Award-Winning Sonos(TM) Digital Music System Will Ship to European Digital Music Lovers Beginning in June

Sonos, Inc. today announced that the company has launched European operations and that the award-winning Sonos(TM) Digital Music System will begin shipping to European digital music lovers in June. The Sonos Digital Music System is the first and only multi-zone digital music system with a wireless, full-color LCD screen controller that lets consumers play all their digital music, all over their home, and control it all from the palm of their hand.

Sonos' European operations will be located in Hilversum, Netherlands and will be lead by Managing Director of Sales and Operations for Europe, Middle East and Africa Ingvar Meijers. Before joining Sonos, Meijers lead European sales at Sitecom, a provider of home and office networking equipment, and spent more than nine years at Microsoft, where he was instrumental in the European launch of the Xbox.

"European demand for a multi-room digital music device has been building over the past two years," said Ingvar Meijers, Managing Director Sales and Operations, Sonos, Inc. "The popularity of digital music in Europe continues to exceed analyst expectations and I am thrilled to help bring Sonos to the digital music lovers of Europe."

The Sonos Digital Music System has been recognized both editorially and in the international design community for the product's performance and design qualities. The system was a recipient of both a 2005 iF Product Design Award and was named Best of Audio in the 2005 CEA Innovations Awards. The Wall Street Journal said that "The Sonos system is easily the best music-streaming product I have seen and tested. It's the Lexus of the category."

"Since we launched the product in January, demand from abroad has been overwhelming," said John MacFarlane, CEO, Sonos, Inc. "We are pleased to bring our award-winning music system to digital music lovers throughout Europe and hope to provide them with the ultimate multi-room home music listening experience."

The Sonos Digital Music System is comprised of two stylish components: the Sonos(TM) ZonePlayer, a networked audio player that distributes, plays and amplifies music in any "zone" in the home, and the Sonos(TM) Controller, a wireless handheld device with a full-color screen which allows the user to access, customize and control the music anywhere -- from the bedroom to the backyard.

The ZonePlayer delivers great sound in every room of the house through a powerful and compact 50 Watts/channel amplifier with component-quality audio specifications. The ZonePlayer can access and play a wide variety of music formats, including MP3, WMA, AAC (MPEG4), FLAC, AIFF, Ogg Vorbis and WAV, stored on a PC, Mac or Network Attached Storage (NAS), and comes bundled with customizable Internet Radio stations. Built-in wired and wireless capabilities provide the consumer flexibility of installation at no extra cost.

The intuitive Controller, designed with a full-color LCD screen and touch-sensitive scroll wheel, provides consumers with simplicity -- pick a zone, pick a song and hit play -- unrestricted by line of sight. Music lovers can play the same song synchronized in every room or play different songs in different rooms, queue-up favorites for the evening or rediscover their collection via random play; the options are virtually unlimited. The high resolution LCD shows what is playing in any zone at any time, including album art when available.

Sonos will offer an introductory bundle of two Sonos ZonePlayers and a Sonos Controller. Since the system is scalable up to 32 zones, additional ZonePlayers and Controllers will be sold separately. Final pricing has not yet been announced.

To find out more about the Sonos Digital Music System please visit http://eu.sonos.com.

About Sonos, Inc.

Sonos has a team of highly-talented, music-loving software developers, audio engineers, hardware engineers, industrial and interactive designers, and usability engineers. Working side-by-side, they've created the Sonos Digital Music System, the first and only multi-room digital music system with a wireless, full-color LCD screen controller. The Sonos Digital Music System is available direct from Sonos or at more than 130 North American retailers and custom integrators, including Crutchfield, Magnolia Audio Video, Ovation Audio Video, 6th Avenue Electronics, TheaterMax, cyberManor, Metronet Safe & Sound and more. Sonos is a privately-held company, headquartered in Santa Barbara, CA with offices in Cambridge, MA. Sonos operates in Europe through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Sonos Europe B.V., headquartered in Hilversum, Netherlands. To find out more about the company or the Sonos Digital Music System, please visit: http://eu.sonos.com.

Web site: http://eu.sonos.com

Source: Sonos, Inc.

Thomas Meyer of Sonos, Inc., +1-714-389-4639, or mobile, +1-949-212-6201, Thomas.meyer@sonos.com; or George Warren of BITE Communications UK, +44(0)20-8834-3424, or mobile, +44-7813-085-610, George.Warren@BitePr.com, for Sonos, Inc.

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