After I-don’t-know-how-many years and ten Sonos units, I’ve given in.
The whole lot are being sold, to save my sanity and pass the burden of these cursed ‘speakers’ to some other naive idiot who thinks a ‘premium’ product with such a fragile network operation is acceptable in this day and age.
My current network is Orbi-based, with several satellites across a large house, and every floor and room has exceptional signal.
All ten Sonos Play:1/Ones are connected wirelessly, and are not near any large objects, sources of interference or peas hidden under ten mattresses…
And yet, despite working perfectly well for the past week, and there being no changes or alterations (including updates) to my Sonos products or network during this time, for the past two days I have been completely unable to use *any* Sonos for any type of stream or playback.
All I receive from the app is the usual spinning circle of boredom before being told that either there’s no connection from the Sonos unit to the service (for internet streaming) or the all-too-common and generic ‘error 1001’, that local audio on my network can’t be added to any queue.
Despite the protestations of some fully-paid-up Sonos advocates, the fragility of the Sonos network is really not good enough. There are so many other types of products that work in conjunction with home wifi and the broader internet, that function perfectly well without requiring constant and ridiculous special treatment just to be anything other than an expensive paperweight. Most of these other products aren’t even classing themselves as a ‘premium’ item, either.
So that’s it for me. I’ve been to-ing and fro-ing over the Era models for the past few months but unless those units have actually been engineered properly to function as a mass-market product, then I think I’d rather just wind the clock back and kit out with quality bluetooth/airplay speakers instead.
Sonos units sound good, but they ain’t *that* good…
Would Era be a sanity saver? Or should I hand in my Sonos badge?
