Is Wyred 4 Sound's Sonos Connect upgrade worth it?

Apart from all else, what does the mod do to reliability? Sonos warranty obviously will no longer apply.

Reliability is always a concern with modifications but this modification has been around for years. I have only been running mine for a few weeks and it has not had a single burp. I dropped it off at my local retailer to let those guys see what they thought. Coincidently, the Golden Ear reps were schedule later that week to demo on their new flagship Triton Reference Speaker (~$9K out the door). After listening to the Connect for a few days they thought enough of it to include it as a source along with a stack of Moon Audio equipment to drive the Tritons when they had a demo night of the product with a room full of potential customers. Wyred4Sound has been been around for 10 years now and they answer the phone. I would give Wyred4Sound a call and talk to them if I was thinking about a purchase, I did.

Yawn.

your forgot :8

No, I'm past being annoyed by nonsense like this. Just bored now.

Though the goldens ears thing was hysterical. Thanks for the laugh.

No, I'm past being annoyed by nonsense like this. Just bored now.

Great, Always strive for full spectrum emotions.

Back to OP question. I forgot to mention the stream source. I have been using Deezer elite which streams at Red Book standard 16/44. I thought I would try a different source for a listen. I switched over to RadioParadise which streams at aac 320 and is pretty good quality. The first tune that I compared was a little difficult to discern any difference. Then Nine came on from Patti Smith's Banga album. On the stock Connect Verlaine's tasteful guitar is their, present but caged. On the W4S it's unleashed into space and full bloom in the room. Bliss.🆒

Wow, I wouldn't want Tom Verlaine's guitar to be caged. Those Jaguars were meant to be free! Free Tom Verlaine! Free his guitar!

🆒

Familiar voiced problems with Connect:
1. It is too expensive
2. It is too cheap
3. The built in DAC sucks because there isn't enough price left for it by the low Connect price
4. It isn't good enough until it is modified, its clock isn't good enough
5. It is no longer bit perfect to the source and has lost its virginity
6. It doesn't have enough types of inputs/outputs

Sonos has a solution with more up to date tech in them - the play units/Sub, true play tuned for specific room response equalisation.

I look forward to the derisory noises🆒 but lacking golden ears, may not hear all of them.

The OP is missing, but hopefully that is because he escaped the audiophile jungle, not because he is ensnared in it somewhere.

Ah, the "golden eared" types are amusing, so technically ignorant.

Sigh