Zp 24/96

Sonos are a commercial company - they are in business to make money. They've chosen to do this is a certain way, and that doesn't include pandering to the fantasies of audiophiles.

Aptly put. Without malice or directly denigrating anyone. :)

Sometimes the reason that people consistently say the same thing is because it's true...

And that is the underpinning of the Audiophiles worst fears. Science!! (w/musical reference to Thomas Dolby) ;)

If no-one else is making one, perhaps there's a good reason...

Using logic. Now you're just being mean :p

Excellent Post

Best of Luck

Apologies if this is a repeat of a post elsewhere - I had a little look and couldn't see anything obvious.

It looks like someone has picked up the 24/96 Sonos thing and run with it

http://www.bluesound.com/

Very similar product, but with 24/96 support and a ripping / storage option.

Apologies if this is a repeat of a post elsewhere - I had a little look and couldn't see anything obvious.

It looks like someone has picked up the 24/96 Sonos thing and run with it

http://www.bluesound.com/

Very similar product, but with 24/96 support and a ripping / storage option.

Very nice indeed, cant find any delers or a price for the UK.

Personally I now have two Simple Audio Roomplayers which I am happy with.

http://www.bluesound.com/

Very similar product, but with 24/96 support and a ripping / storage option.

Interesting, but not really enough info yet - can't see that it's even available yet.

That's what it said in the email. The title on the recent Sonos email promotion got my attention straight away, "HiFi MEETS HiDEF" in bold letters, and I thought, just for a moment, maybe, just maybe, Sonos are finally doing something with with Hi Res, 24/96 and similar formats, so I clicked the image, which took me to the Sonos Playbar page

And not a mention of "HiDEF" to be found... Just richly textured, HiFi sound

Sigh.

If only I didn't love everything else about the whole system

If only I didn't love everything else about the whole system

I think that a lot of people have their likes/dislikes/gripes about the Sonos system (including me), but at the end of the day it's the only proven option for multi-room sync at any vaguely sensible price point.

That's what it said in the email. The title on the recent Sonos email promotion got my attention straight away, "HiFi MEETS HiDEF" in bold letters, and I thought, just for a moment, maybe, just maybe, Sonos are finally doing something with with Hi Res, 24/96 and similar formats, so I clicked the image, which took me to the Sonos Playbar page

And not a mention of "HiDEF" to be found... Just richly textured, HiFi sound

Sigh.

If only I didn't love everything else about the whole system

The Playbar is made to be used with an HDTV. The vast majority of people in this world, when they hear the phrase "HiDef", think HDTV. A very, very tiny minority know 24/96 audio exists, never mind think of it over HDTV when they hear the phrase "HiDef."

The Playbar is made to be used with an HDTV. The vast majority of people in this world, when they hear the phrase "HiDef", think HDTV.

Got to disagree with you for once Jgatie, I don't know anyone that uses the term "HiDef" when talking about TV. Even my missus calls it HD, never HiDef.

A very, very tiny minority know 24/96 audio exists, never mind think of it over HDTV when they hear the phrase "HiDef."

It's a bad advert, it's asking for more complaints like this, as soon as I saw it
I thought "the s***'s really going to hit the fan now on the forum...". It almost seems designed to annoy people who want High Definition support (I'm not one of them particular btw).

Got to disagree with you for once Jgatie, I don't know anyone that uses the term "HiDef" when talking about TV. Even my missus calls it HD, never HiDef.


Must be a regional thing. Where I am, the term HiDef refers to TV. In addition, we have this:

www.highdefdigest.com/

Blu-ray and HD DVD news, release schedules, reviews and discussion forums.

- and -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HiDef

HiDef (short for high definition), also called 24p, is a 24 frames-per-second digital video format for high-resolution capture of motion pictures. The 24 refers to the frame rate (24 frames/second) and the p stands for progressive scanning (as opposed to interlaced scanning).[1] As of 2003, there are two 24p HD formats: Sony 24p and Panasonic 24p.

Personally, I've always considered the term "HiRez" or "Hires" as referring to audio and HiDef as video, though I can't say it is orthodoxy and I've probably intechanged them a bit.

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It's a bad advert, it's asking for more complaints like this, as soon as I saw it
I thought "the s***'s really going to hit the fan now on the forum...". It almost seems designed to annoy people who want High Definition support (I'm not one of them particular btw).

Maybe, but so far we have one person complaining. Though I'm sure the rest of the thunderous horde (all 3 of them) will be here soon. 😉

The vast majority of people in this world, when they hear the phrase "HiDef", think HDTV. A very, very tiny minority know 24/96 audio exists, never mind think of it over HDTV when they hear the phrase "HiDef."

Quite right, and justifiably so I would say. Day and night difference in HD over SD that anyone that isn't visually impaired can see well enough to not want to go back to SD.

And leave alone 24/96, I am not sure how many people know or care about lossless and lossy music files. I can't see that changing either, even I am quite happy with the SQ obtained from recent iTunes purchases.