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May 18, 2017 11:20 PM UTC

How about an all digital connect?

Request to add a Sonos connect which has no preamp, amp, or speakers, all digital with the addition of a usb port, to the presently provided coax and optical ports.
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    John B
    May 18, 2017 11:49 PM UTC
    The purpose of the Connect is to turn a conventional hifi into a Sonos player. I am struggling to see how your suggestion could do anything but hinder that purpose I'm afraid.
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    Kumar
    May 19, 2017 12:24 AM UTC
    All that it would do is reduce Sonos net sales by eliminating the need to buy play units; would you do this if you were the Sonos CEO?
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    BobH1
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    May 21, 2017 4:44 PM UTC
    All that it would do is reduce Sonos net sales by eliminating the need to buy play units; would you do this if you were the Sonos CEO?
    I don't think it would reduce sales, it would add sales from those who would like to use a higher quality DAC and play their Sonos stream through their high quality HiFi
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    ratty
    ratty
    May 21, 2017 4:49 PM UTC
    This sounds like the topic which recurs almost as regularly as the infamous 'HiRes' demand, namely for a 'cheaper CONNECT'.

    It won't happen, at least not dramatically cheaper à la Chromecast. To do so would undermine Sonos' core business lines. Sonos will charge what the market will bear.
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    John B
    May 21, 2017 4:57 PM UTC
    All that it would do is reduce Sonos net sales by eliminating the need to buy play units; would you do this if you were the Sonos CEO?
    I don't think it would reduce sales, it would add sales from those who would like to use a higher quality DAC and play their Sonos stream through their high quality HiFi    This is possible now, and as @ratty says, while people with higher-end hifis keep buying the existing Connect at the current price, there is no reason for Sonos to sell it cheaper.
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    ratty
    May 21, 2017 5:17 PM UTC
    If it's not a cheaper CONNECT, I'm not clear what the OP is requesting unless it's async USB output. The existing CONNECT does everything else, and the parts cost of DAC/ADC for the RCA connections must be tiny.
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    John B
    May 21, 2017 5:29 PM UTC
    I have a suspicion that the OP and @BobH1 are seeking different things, and possibly that the OP thinks the existing digital connections are inputs not outputs.
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    ratty
    ratty
    May 21, 2017 5:35 PM UTC
    Oh, okay.

    it would add sales from those who would like to use a higher quality DAC and play their Sonos stream through their high quality HiFi
    CONNECT already can, and does. The S/PDIF output is 24 bits wide and jitter -- when measured many years ago by Stereophile on ZP80 -- is 'low'. Any decent DAC will re-clock anyhow,.
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