Spotify HIFI and Sonos S1

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May 5, 2021
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When Spotify goes cd quality later this year will the S1 System and legacy players (of which I have many) be able to stream it? I hope so as streaming cd quality Spotify would obviously not be beyond the capabilities of legacy connects and amps which already stream 16/44 Tidal and Qobuz. Please confirm that streaming Spotify HIFI will be possible with S1.

I do feel let down and stranded as a customer when I am constantly worrying if my expensive system that took years to save up for will be the victim of ruthless planned obsolescence by denial of a software tweak required to keep it functional. If Sonos withhold the ability for these players to stream spotify at 16/44 as a lever try to force existing customers to upgrade to new products it would show considerable contempt and disregard for the loyalty their large historic customer base. Rant over, sorry, but why do I feel pessimistic about this?

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Kumar

My view is that it would be pretty poor customer service to allow a perfectly functional unit to brick itself so your customers have to buy the new one even if they don't really want to.

It was a good thing that there was enough customer outrage that for the first time in their history they made a radical reversal - to the stupid bricking policy as it first stood for a few months.

As to the rest of the S1/S2 thing, it has to be said in their defense that they did this only after fifteen years.

Since I had all bases covered where music play is concerned and did not need any new kit, staying on S1 made perfect sense to me, even more so where most of my players are blessed with line in jacks where the information exchange is the least proprietary - analog electrical signals.

I did learn an important lesson for the future - not to buy bundled smart products, but to use cheap smart front ends on well specced and built but “dumb” kit designed for decades of service life. That way changing the front end even every three-four years isn't a big financial decision. Be it for breakdown, or because there is a much smarter front end out there in that time.

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M_D_FAuthor

It will be interesting to see how Volumio multiroom develops for the Pi.

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