Enthusiast I

Who will buy the Sonos Ace

Forum|Forum|2 years ago
May 17, 2024
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I don't know if the new app was rushed out the door because the Sonos Ace (headset) is about to be launched. But my gut feeling days yes. Why else release an app in this state.....

With this context. Where you interested in buying the Sonos Ace before the new app release? And has the new app release changed your interest in buying the Sonos Ace?

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fraolim

Enthusiast II

I wont buy any sonos products again.

Lost faith

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Gaham

Headliner I

Not me.

Don’t trust Sonos.

Don't own an Arc.

Don't watch TV that often on my own.

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fraolim

Enthusiast II

Lack of innovation.

Headphone, huh?

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stevepow

Prominent Collaborator I

This is a company that is has turned their back on their core product and is grasping at straws to remain in business. I reckon most of their customers like me have saturated their homes and don’t need any more product. They forced us to churn our older components into S2 while trimming their workforce. Now what? Headphones? Leaving stock analysts scratching their heads.

Even if the cans are innovative, if that market matters, someone with deeper pockets like Apple or Sony or Harman or whoever will simply catch up. By the time the app debacle dust clears, there will be more choices. I’m already sorry I’m so neck deep in Sonos. They’ve jumped the shark.

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limcungwei

Enthusiast II

This is a company that is has turned their back on their core product and is grasping at straws to remain in business. I reckon most of their customers like me have saturated their homes and don’t need any more product. They forced us to churn our older components into S2 while trimming their workforce. Now what? Headphones? Leaving stock analysts scratching their heads.

Even if the cans are innovative, if that market matters, someone with deeper pockets like Apple or Sony or Harman or whoever will simply catch up. By the time the app debacle dust clears, there will be more choices. I’m already sorry I’m so neck deep in Sonos. They’ve jumped the shark.

100% AGREE

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Ken 354

Enthusiast II

Fixing the broken app is one thing, fixing the broken trust is another thing. I don’t feel mad over all this, I feel betrayed. Anger goes away but the sense of betrayal stays. So I have to pass on the headphones or any Sonos products until there is a new CEO. The app isn’t the problem it’s a symptom, the CEO is the problem.

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limcungwei

Enthusiast II

Fixing the broken app is one thing, fixing the broken trust is another thing. I don’t feel mad over all this, I feel betrayed. Anger goes away but the sense of betrayal stays. So I have to pass on the headphones or any Sonos products until there is a new CEO. The app isn’t the problem it’s a symptom, the CEO is the problem.

Yup. Untrustworthy

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bvorka

Lyricist I

Will I buy the Sonos Ace? Not under the current state of things. I'm not angry, I'm frustrated. I'm frustrated that I can now only play my local library, the thing I listen to the most, via an external service (Roon). I'm a minimal streamer, yet that is the entire emphasis of the "improved" app. Changing is coming RSN; sure.

To speak directly to the Ace, no, I'm not interested. As described, it offers nothing over my Sennheiser Momentum 4. It's nothing more than an expensive BT headset, and if I'm going to spend premium money, maybe I'll look at a Focal. My hope for the Ace was wifi connectivity, just like Sonos speakers, and that would mean lossless 24-bit/48khz. Alas, no, just another BT headphone. Yawn, no thank you.

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Ken 354

Enthusiast II

Rumor is Sonos rebuilt the app to concentrate on streaming because they want to morph in to a paid subscription streaming service in addition to a hardware company. Every business strives to have a subscription component because it is steady revenue. Sonos sales were down considerably last quarter. They are trying to address that with a new product, the headphones and possibly down the road a paid subscription streaming service.

jgatie

Rumor is Sonos rebuilt the app to concentrate on streaming because they want to morph in to a paid subscription streaming service in addition to a hardware company. Every business strives to have a subscription component because it is steady revenue. Sonos sales were down considerably last quarter. They are trying to address that with a new product, the headphones and possibly down the road a paid subscription streaming service.

I don’t think you can call that a rumor, Sonos has had a paid streaming subscription service for years now, and it didn’t need a rewrite of the app to do it.

https://www.sonos.com/en-us/sonos-radio

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