The Sonos Ace Ultra are the headphones Sonos should have made the first time

September 30, 2026 John Higgins

Sonos Ace Ultra headphones in Agave on a wooden tabletop.
The Ace Ultra look like the Ace, but they’re better on the inside.

The original Sonos Ace headphones should have been a triumphant entry into a new product category. Instead, they were overshadowed by Sonos's disastrous app redesign. And while the original Ace are well built, sound good, and are incredibly comfortable, they weren't good Sonos headphones: Their flagship feature let you reroute audio from a Sonos soundbar to the Ace headphones so you could listen to your TV audio without disturbing anyone. But it was glitchy, and at launch it only worked with the $1,000 Arc soundbar, and only with one pair of Ace headphones at a time (Both of those have now been fixed). It also couldn't connect to the rest of …

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