Sonos Ace Ultra as a room in the S2 app

If you're right about this, it wouldn't be a problem for me. Linking & swapping every time I want to use the Ace Ultra would be a no go for me. I hope you're right. Can anybody confirm this?

 I think you need  to link to a speaker everytime you want to initiate playback over wifi.  And it seems like all that entails is just pressing a button on your headphones, not anymore complicated than a Bluetooth connection. 

That is not what the support pages imply.

Given the linking thing will be in a testing environment and could be subject to change, I will hold off ordering the Ace Ultra until it is fully available and tested. That way, I will know for sure how it will work and will have other people’s experiences to go by on what it’s like 😁That bit of wording saying ‘it may change, be limited, or be temp unavailable’ just makes me think watching and waiting is the best plan.

​@Keith N ​@Liz P. Could you enlighten us about the linking part? Is it one off or something that needs to be done every time when the Ace Ultra is used?

Just a one off. You won't have to do it every time. 

Perfect, thanks for your answer.

IMHO I don’t think Sonos is going to go all-in on a marketing campaign that specifies a unique feature such as Ace Ultra Linking and later bail-out. Doing so would seemingly sound the death-nell for Sonos or a close approximation there of.

My thinking is that during further develpment the software linking feature via the app may go silent as a matter of code adjustment. While the hardware button linking on the Ace Ultra will continue to function.

For example you can start an audio stream via the app to a speaker, delete the app and the stream will continue. At that point it becomes a hardware only control for play/pause (stop).

I may be wrong; but that’s nothing new 😂

Given all the great comments above, I think I may go ahead and pre order a Sand colour Sonos Ace Ultra 😁. I would then sell my current Ace on eBay. I have 1 x 15% credit left on my account so that would take approx. £59 pound off too.