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Sonos AMP Trueplay?

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Do we know yet whether the new Sonos AMP supports Trueplay?

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Ryan SAnswer

Retired Sonos Staff

The Sonos Amp will support Trueplay in some specific configurations and with specific speakers.

It's buried in a few pages in this thread.

Reposting the specifics here,

Trueplay can currently be used with Amp in two setups:
1. When it is operating as the surrounds for a Beam, Playbar, or Playbase.
2. When the Amp is configured on its own with the Sonance speakers we're working with them to produce.

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jgatie

Ryan S from Sonos answered your question. You don't believe him, so now you want a "real" technical person? How condescending can you be?

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nsfbr

Contributor I

Ryan S from Sonos answered your question. You don't believe him, so now you want a "real" technical person? How condescending can you be?

Do you get badges or something for pointless responses? Just trying to learn the norms of the community. Thanks again for all the help!

jgatie

Do you get badges or something for pointless responses? Just trying to learn the norms of the community. Thanks again for all the help!

Pointless? I thought my point was quite clear . . . I considered your response to be condescending. Guess I need to work on my bluntness.

melvimbe

I would guess that Ryan knows plenty about the tech aspects of Trueplay that he is not at liberating to share on this public forum, and with customers in general. Trueplay is surely patented. @nsfbr, your best option is probably to contact one of the support staff through PM to ask if they can give you a more technical answer to your question, but I would not be surprised at all if they are not allowed to give you any more details, even under an NDA.

Danny

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nsfbr

Contributor I

Thanks melvimbe, I think you are probably right about being able to discuss things. I do hope they consider implementing the technology, or a modified version of it, to Amp and existing speakers. I understand about the profitability of restricting things to selected speakers, but they'd sell a heck of a lot more Amps if Trueplay, let's call it "style" capability were added to it.

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russelk

Lyricist III

I thought Trueplay was Sonos' version of room correction. AV receivers are able to implement sophisticated room correction using ANY brand of speaker. I find it disappointing that Sonos' latest amp is unable to do something that AV receivers have been doing for so long. I think they definitely missed a trick here.

jgatie

Trueplay is not the same as A/V receiver room tuning. Room tuning of A/V receivers sets the volume level and delay of the speakers and sub. There is no equalization going on, so it does not need to evaluate the acoustical properties of the speakers, only volume and distance.

Trueplay, on the other hand, does adjust equalization and DSP values, and without knowing the characteristics of the speakers, it is unable to make the proper adjustments.

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russelk

Lyricist III

It looks like your knowledge of A/V receivers is out of date. That used to be the case many years ago. Modern A/V receiver tuning does include equalization, and it does evaluate the acoustical properties of the speaker and room from the measurement and analysis of test tones.

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russelk

Lyricist III

Here's a brief intro to Audyssey, which has been running on Denon and Marantz receivers for quite a while now:

https://denon.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/32/~/audyssey-multeq-xt

Similarly, Yamaha and Pioneer have their own systems that include EQ.

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