Zp 24/96

Yet another competitor now able to support hi-res audio; http://en.raumfeld.com/shop/connector/

COME ON SONOS! WE ARE STILL WAITING, BUT WON'T WAIT FOREVER!!


I absolutely agree. The upgrade to hirez-audio support is a must these days.

When the upgrade is coming to the market make it simple and cost-effective to customers already using Sonos.

Thank you in advance

I think Sonos should add Hi res playback, It would make my decision to go sonos instead of something else really easy. my question though is could Sonos do this through a firmware update or would they need to release a new Sonos unit to be able to decode the 24 bit formats?

Even if they do it wired only. I know sending hires files over wireless dosen't work well using a Naim Uniti

The list of competitors supporting 24/96 is growing ever longer! eg Cambridge Audio, Denon, Marantz.
This is reaching into the mid-fi territory where Sonos is placed. I am wondering whether to buy more/another network ready music player. 24/96 support will be one of the factors affecting my decision....

It's incredible. It's been over THREE YEARS since this thread started, the competition are stomping all over SONOS' home ground, and... oh, is that tumbleweed I see?
:rolleyes: 😃

It's incredible. It's been over THREE YEARS since this thread started, the competition are stomping all over SONOS' home ground, and... oh, is that tumbleweed I see?
:rolleyes: :D
The competition may support 24/96, but nobody is stomping all over Sonos, sorry. The whole 24/96 market is a bit of a non-starter. In fact, try to get lossless CD-audio online, and you are already in a dead end for most music. Content is king.

I think that qualifies as anecdote, and says nothing about the Hi-Rez market in general.

I appreciate that 24/96 is very very important to the audiophile community, but in the larger picture it is not very significant. In terms of year over year growth since inception, I can't think of any company in the audio industry that comes close to SONOS.

If anything, from an audiophile perspective, the bulk of online music is sounding worse and worse as we add rather nasty compression to make the music sound "better" to the iPod generation. As a result, we are selling more online music than ever.

I don't think that the tumbleweeds are stalking SONOS, they are stalking the regular audio companies that don't understand networks.

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I wish that the audiophile community could pull more weight, but we are too small -- that's the reality. SONOS has raised more venture capital than the probable lifetime cumulative sales of many audiophile targeted companies. SONOS has big plans and the marketing and technical skills to realize their goal.

Due to the increased bandwidth requirements of 24/96, something needs to change. We'll need to lower our expectation from 32 zones and overall system robustness or move to a different technology that offers wider bandwidth. None of this seems very compatible with current SONOS systems. When SONOS has enough financial and market strength, they can afford to take on 24/96. I think SONOS will get to 24/96 at some point, but for the short term I think that 24/96 would be a distraction.

I wonder how many current SONOS users would replace or augment their current system for 24/96 compared to the number who would move on a SONOS video system. Bean counters want to know.

I augmented my Sonos with a PS Audio PerfectWave Dac with the new Bridge.. I can now stream my Hi Rez files, and control everything with my Ipod Touch.. And Hi Rez just blows redbook away.. I would have really liked to have spent the not insignificant money on a Sonos player that would have done Hi Rez but...FYI the Bridge also sounds better than my Cullen modified ZP90... Frankly I don't think high end audio is where Sonos wants to be, and that's really not a bad thing since it's a very small part of the market.

Since Sonos has a new contest on facebook, I decided to start a 24/96 Sonos topic on facebook. Hopefully we can demonstrate a larger community.