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Audiomad
Contributor I
September 27, 2023

Sonos not decoding music at full Hi rez - Shame !

  • September 27, 2023
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I think this topic may have been raised about two years ago but wonder if anyone has any further updates.

I have a high rez subscription to Qobuz but am disappointing to find out that any music file from Qobuz that is not native 24/48kHz will get truncated to 16/44.1 kHz file stream.  I understand this is to do with backward compatibility with older speakers on the S2 platform.

As I don’t have any speakers older than 2 years , it’s a real bummer..

 

No problems with non Sonos equipment I have which decodes at the native resolution beautifully. Would love Sonos to enable this to add to all the other positives in owning their speakers .

 

Anyone has any further insider updates on this ?

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Steve251
Chromatic Producer I
September 29, 2023

I think this topic may have been raised about two years ago but wonder if anyone has any further updates.

I have a high rez subscription to Qobuz but am disappointing to find out that any music file from Qobuz that is not native 24/48kHz will get truncated to 16/44.1 kHz file stream.  I understand this is to do with backward compatibility with older speakers on the S2 platform.

As I don’t have any speakers older than 2 years , it’s a real bummer..

 

No problems with non Sonos equipment I have which decodes at the native resolution beautifully. Would love Sonos to enable this to add to all the other positives in owning their speakers .

 

Anyone has any further insider updates on this ?

I tried Hi-Res a few  years ago but eventually came to the conclusion that my ears just could not hear the dfference but that is me and my ears and may not be the same for anyone else. I like the sound of Sonos and love the new Era 300. I do hear the difference between my Alexa speakers and Sonos. The quality of Sonos is excellent. I started listening to music around 1970 and have a great stereo setup for my vinyl which I still play a lot but love the convenience of Sonos. Also I love playing soundtrack music like John Barry and Hans Zimmer and that sounds excellent on the Era300

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