I must say I do not really feel the need to change sound settings when using different sources. What do you feel the need to tinker with when changing sources?

Tally ho to you,

I found that depending where I was streaming from either Amazon unlimited, TIDAL that streams Dolby atoms or YouTube music that doesn’t have Dolby atoms I would have to change the different levels in the sound settings to compensate because the sound quality sucks.

Not to mention that when streaming movies that same would apply, some movies were produced with better graphics & sound quality.

The other source would of course would be for your own digital files.

if you haven’t experienced any difference in quality on these different platforms tell me your answer you have me wondering.

regards.

Hi

Sound characteristics will be different for different sources. However, I find it only to be for volume levels. Sonos products don’t have the memory available to do what you ask. Quite frankly I don’t know of any smart device that does. However, I don’t have every smart device in the market. Finally, I doubt Sonos has any plans to implement such a feature not just because of cost but as I said memory requirements which would affect cost to a degree.

Sonos soundbars and Amp passes the audio that they are presented with from the TV and streaming sources. It would be impossible to these devices to compensate for the different audio levels produced over the years by the many different production companies. To mention all the things that makes this difficult would take a book.

But suffice it to say that, Sonos is not the only company that suffers from this. And it is not the fault of the speaker companies.

Until ALL production companies come to some agreement on the audio levels (this includes advertisement, and if it's even possible to do) consumers will always be adjusting the volume up and down depending on the content they watch and listen to.

Thanks for your input:

There is a lot of variables of course, depending on bandwidth, advertisers compression in adds that increases the volume, but it’s not all about volume there are other adjustments that increase the base & treble, surround & midrange sound levels  ect; but as far as memory goes that’s cheap these days, consider this upgrading the software (app) and possibly the hardware ( another chip to handle these advanced capabilities, no bid deal, rather than close your mind, expand your mind, that’s what they call development, with these extra features your going to be the leader in the industry, don’t wait for the composition, it’s too late then.
Open minds, great ideas and someone with enough foresight. Quite frankly I thought Sonos was already there, but apparently not that’s why I raised the question. 

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This would be useful for me on my HT Sonos device and tbh doesn’t seen very complicated. The competition is already supporting this. 

​@OzRob You mean you change bass/trebble/loudness to enhance the sound quality? Every time you change sources? Even when there even are differences within sources - I use Spotify and there’s a big variation in sound between recordings. Compensating for that would be very tiresome and standard settings for Spotify would not work because of the variance even within Spotify. Other sources we the same variances.

Without being disrespectful I beg to differ, your obviously are not very tech savvy, to create an algorithm that takes the tedious task out of adjustments for different source scenarios would not require Ironstone to put together, some filters, hardware ( chips & sensors) & a programming update should suffice. Open your mind, think positively.