A handful of Sonos speakers and soundbars are on sale today

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Today's Dealmaster is headlined by a nice little sale on new Sonos speakers and soundbars. The deals take $50 off the Sonos One, Sonos One SL, and Sonos Beam, bringing the speakers down to $149, $129, and $349, respectively. This ties the lowest prices we've seen for the One and One SL and marks the biggest discount we've seen for the Beam since it went for $319 on Cyber Monday. (The Beam briefly fell to $299 on Black Friday the week prior.) The sale prices are available on the Sonos website and at online retailers such as Amazon.

Before we go any further, let's address the elephant in the room: Sonos recently came under fire for announcing it will end official software updates for a variety of its older speakers. It also drew ire for forcing users to brick those older devices if they wished to trade up to a newer speaker, only to reverse course last month.

It's worth noting that all the devices Sonos plans to "sunset" launched more than a decade ago-and will still receive security patches after the major updates stop rolling in-while the speakers on sale today launched between 2017-2019 and capably work with all the revamped software Sonos has introduced to its lineup in recent years. Still, this is a problem software-dependent speakers face and classic "dumb" speakers do not have. Sonos' official line is that it promises at least five years of software support for a speaker after it has stopped selling that device directly, so the One, One SL, and Beam should have a long road of software updates ahead of them. But, like any other computer, they do have a shelf life.

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