Trueplay - Why are android uses having to wait so long to have this feature?

Chris Sonos has said a definitive no to Connect amp ?

No I'm just giving you an informed opinion not to plan on that ever happening.

Informed how? -via knowledge/experience of drc or inside info from Sonos

Just keep waiting.

So the absence of the feature is the proof it will never happen or.....? Sonos took a long time for playbar. Gut feeling..... or?

Pretty much facts of obstacles in implementing and lack of being a sales driver for those products lines -making it not worth the R&D effort required to overcome those challenges.

Here's the answer for the Connect:Amp: It's not possible. There are too many variables to take into consideration with unknown speaker data. Will it ever be possible? Only Sonos knows if they're willing to put in the time to research thousands of different speaker manufacturers and if TruePlay could reasonably affect the audio output of their products to provide a good all-around sound in any room.

The Connect will never have TruePlay available. As ratty mentions, it's impossible for Sonos to know what the amplifier/receiver connected to it might be doing to the audio as well, so any adjustment Sonos makes could be undone or further enhanced by the receiver's own DSP processing. Most newer receivers offer their own tuning processes anyway.

He doesn't like our answers as non-Sonos employees. Yet he knows no Sonos employee is going to answer the question.

So with a Connect:Amp and generic speakers, why can't Truplay (or a variant thereof) measure the impulses in the room and apply an eq curve to adjust problem frequencies? If you don't move or change speakers it would be pretty reliable. It wouldn't be able to adjust individual tweeter throws, etc. but it could profile the response and attempt to flatten it. I do this with calibrated microphones and real time analyzers in music mixing rooms all of the time. Don't tell me some form of Truplay couldn't be done with Connect:Amp unless, as was mentioned, it lacks the DSP to apply the filtering.

I understand the issue with multiple handsets, but they really should create an option for people that don't want an Apple device, even if it requires a small purchase.

Also find myself wondering about the possibility of them using Alexa for trueplay, that would probably work for a lot of folk.