Sonos One / Airplay 2 latency

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I just got a Sonos One SL, placed it in the kitchen. In the adjacent living room I have an old hifi with an Airport Express connected to aux-in (using a mini headphone to RCA cable) to make it an Airplay 2 target. I played them both together for the first time today using Airplay 2 and Apple Music (streaming) as the source. Sounded excellent for about an hour, then the Sonos One started to drift behind the stereo, until it was unlistenable. I tried pausing and playing again, no luck.

In the experience of the community, is this issue likely to be permanently resolvable, or is it the sort of thing where I’ll need to restart devices repeatedly? The Sonos One will live near the ceiling, so this is untenable. I’m using an iphone with 12.4.1 OS.

I’ve heard of people hardwiring their Sonos with ethernet cable and still having this issue, so I don’t think it’s the wifi. I live in a 950sf house anyway.

The real question is-- do I return the Sonos One, or do I go down the path of fiddling with this in hope of a real solution? I’ve read other posts about this issue, mostly from 2018, and none of them gave a clear indication of someone finding the issue to be truly resolvable.

Thanks,

Stuart

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For anyone else curious about this, the issue seems to have been fixed by recent software updates. Big thank you for that!!