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sonos over the years

  • May 20, 2025
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So About 10 yrs ago I dropped 10k on a full house set up. Honestly loved it.. not full audiophile but wow.. bees knees. 

Wtf Sonos !!! Hold your heads in shame!!

When you get info that your s*** is not compatible after 5 yrs that was tough but now my mixed system does what the f*** u tell it to!!! I'm loosing rooms left right and centre... and b4 u interject and tell me to speak to tech... do 1... everything they advise about versions of controllers and all this s1 and s2 ... jog on... I can't update cos of my mixed system and all your fixes involve an update... which it won't allow and I can't remove cos its not highlighted!!!... Really .. I've got Undercrackers older and they still do the job they where bought for.. off to the bose shop!!

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  • Rhonny
  • Prodigy II
  • May 20, 2025

From your bio, the vast majority of your Sonos equipment is old. It really is the ten years old that you refer to.
Older equipment needs to use the S1 app. But you’re right, you can’t mix systems - you might think about upgrading your speakers after all this time.

Name another manufacturer that would keep their speakers updated at ten years??

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  • nik9669a
  • Senior Virtuoso
  • May 21, 2025

From your bio, the vast majority of your Sonos equipment is old. It really is the ten years old that you refer to.
Older equipment needs to use the S1 app. But you’re right, you can’t mix systems - you might think about upgrading your speakers after all this time.

Name another manufacturer that would keep their speakers updated at ten years??

Indeed, old kit. But only now joined the community.

A Sonos device isn’t “just” a speaker, or even just a powered speaker. It’s also a computer, and the app is “just” a remote which is used to send commands to the speaker’s computer. To my mind, old WiFi circuitry and limited memory in older devices makes it tougher to support in a world with far more wifi devices and electronic devices in our homes (and therefore more interference) today than 10 years ago.  

Wasn’t it Bose that, a few years back, introduced a new product line overnight that was completely incompatible with their previous products? 

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  • nik9669a
  • Senior Virtuoso
  • May 21, 2025

To me - and hence my observation - it seems odd to sign up to the community just to list bad experiences and announce an intent to buy alternative products. Most folk post their problems and ask for assistance from this user community. In the rest of my post I gave more information, to try to illustrate the challenge a manufacturer experiences when trying to support and maintain older electronic equipment in an ever-changing world. 

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