Dial
Volume · 02 of 06
Thirty-four means thirty-four.
One dial, the same object on every screen: a brushed-steel dial, sixty hairline detents, one ember tick at the level, the room and the number in the middle. The platforms differ only in what turns it.
The remote’s dial is the volume dial
Circle the Siri Remote’s touch surface and the dial turns with your thumb, a detent every six degrees; click left or right and it steps. The tick travels, the number counts, and the room follows — because “a bit louder” is not a setting.
The lit moment
While you are turning it, the tick burns and a thin ember arc traces from where the level was to where it is. Let go and the light holds a beat, then goes out, the arc the last thing to leave. The television, the phone and the watch all light it the same way, on the same clock.
Per room, or the whole group
Controlling one room changes one room. Controlling a group rides everything together, keeping the balance you set between rooms; open the group and each speaker has its own slider. Sonos owners lost exact numbers in the new app; here they never left.
Exact volume, sleep timer, alarms
Timer on the rail opens the Extras layer: a sleep timer that stops the room and lets the speakers sleep, a volume you can type to the digit, the alarms Sonos set and this app can change. On the phone the same three live a long-press away.
Why it doesn’t lag: volume changes travel over your own network straight to the speaker, and confirmations come back the same way. A whole turn of the dial is one message to the room, not one per notch. Nothing about turning it down at midnight needs the internet.