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rvdmamst
Contributor I
June 8, 2020

S2 Big Deception

What a big deception.

Waiting forever on new software.

After installing S2 to find out it still DOES NOT not play High Resolution audio files.

Well back to Audirvana + USB + my own amp for High Res.

 

 

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      ratty
      ratty
      June 10, 2020

      Come back in five years with your verdicts please.

      By which time Hi-Res could be as successful as SACD. :wink:

       

        melvimbe
        melvimbe
        June 10, 2020

        5 years may be a bit too long to wait.  I do think Hi Res is here to stay, regardless of whether it makes sense or not.  However,  the music industry will definitely have a new format that we all must move to to get the better sound.  They always do, whether it catches on or not.  My guess is that it’s atmos music.

        Danny
        TTT15
        Enthusiast I
        June 10, 2020

        Sonos developed in a time of lower bandwidths.. Music sources and competition increasingly offer Hi-Res. You can argue about the technicalities all you like but I’ve no doubt starting now from a sales and marketing persepctive then Sonos would offer Hi-Res. Sonos themselves are increasing the bandwidth  to start to offer Hi Res so regardless of the sound benefits on a Sonos system Sonos are accepting that tecnology and the market is moving on otherwise Sonos could be as successful in the future as SACD.  

        ratty
        ratty
        June 10, 2020

        All very true about market forces. VHS didn’t vanquish Betamax for any technical reasons.

        jorgen2a
        Lyricist III
        June 10, 2020

        When you use Roon with Tidal and an endpoint without MQA support. Roon is doing the decoding of the MQA stream from Tidal to “regular” PCM. If the source MQA stream from Tidal is 24/92 the PCM stream to the DAC will also be in 24/92. If the endpoint does not support higher resolution than eg 24/48, then Roon will down sample the MQA audio stream to PCM 24/48.

        I think it would have been nice if Sonos would be able to do that (down sampling MQA).

        But I agree with you guys, I don’t know if the end-result will be better than ordinary 16/44.1.

        There is a lot of hype around hi-res audio in general. I remember the “hdtrack/BIS gate”. HDtrack was selling BIS content as 24/192 but the source material was mastered in 24/44…

        In the end, I think the setup with mics, studio layout etc is much more important than the sampling rate.

        John B
        June 10, 2020

        5 years may be a bit too long to wait.  I do think Hi Res is here to stay, regardless of whether it makes sense or not.  However,  the music industry will definitely have a new format that we all must move to to get the better sound.  They always do, whether it catches on or not.  My guess is that it’s atmos music.

        I was thinking more broadly than just music formats.  As you implied, there is no need for anything to have been different on day 1 of S2.  It is the greater capability of S2, and the associated necessary sacrifice of the legacy devices (as far as development is concerned), that will play out over the coming years.

         

        Occean
        Trending Lyricist I
        August 11, 2020

        Disappointment is an understatement. 
         

        I have literally been waiting 11 years. Love the Sonos products….but 11 years, 25% of my life! Bought a house, had 2 kids and lived in 3 counties since I started waiting!

         

        https://en.community.sonos.com/old-content-from-life-with-sonos-229113/naim-music-store-96-24-flacs-13143

         

        Held my breath long enough, now looking at alternatives. 

        pvasseur
        Lyricist I
        August 22, 2020

        I just wish they were up front about all this and made it possible to determine the quality of the audio stream that they DO support.  This is from the web site “ With upgraded audio processing, Sonos S2 supports higher resolution audio technologies for music and home theater, including Dolby Atmos. “

        So what the hell does “higher resolution” actually mean?  I stream Qobuz from an iPhone, does S2 support that file format?  Apparently not.  The table provided lists only stored files, music stored on Android, and internet radio stations.  Does the latter include the streaming services?  And I gave up trying to contact anyone at Sonos.  I have 3 Ports that will soon be for sale.  Not a company I like to deal with.  And btw, 2 of the Ports failed and had to be returned for service.

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