Case Study: Sonos achieves faster, photoreal product visuals and streamlined design collaboration with KeyShot

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Sonos has spent two decades reinventing how people listen to music by marrying accessibility with high‑fidelity audio. Their experience‑led hardware design process requires tight collaboration across industrial design, engineering and global partners, and a way to quickly visualize concepts, materials and tricky details—like the Play:5’s thousands‑hole acoustic grille—without costly physical prototypes.

Sonos adopted KeyShot across the product lifecycle to explore forms and materials, produce CMF spec sheets for global manufacturing, and create high‑fidelity renderings for press kits and packaging. Using KeyShot sped decision‑making, prevented miscommunication, allowed rapid iteration on grille patterns (leading to the chosen diamond substrate), met strict print deadlines, and helped streamline development—saving time and cost while improving product quality.

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