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Sonos’ Roam 2 speaker is easier to use and available today for $179


This is what the original tiny Sonos speaker should’ve been.

Sonos is refreshing its small portable speaker, the Roam, with a second-generation model that mostly adds some minor quality-of-life improvements. The compact speaker’s max continuous listening time of 10 hours is unchanged, but Sonos CEO Patrick Spence told me there are under-the-hood tweaks. Internally, the speaker has the same driver layout as before — one tweeter and one midwoofer — and Sonos isn’t hyping any sound quality improvements.

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