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Hi-Res Audio for Play Bar PLEASE!

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Please can we have hi res audio for play bar?

I can’t see it on the list of supported products and plan on keeping it for another couple of years yet.

Thanks,

Duncan

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Ken_GriffithsAnswer

Qobuz supports 24bit audio with the older Sonos Playbar, I believe🤔. See this link:

https://en.community.sonos.com/music-services-and-sources-228994/playbar-24-bit-playback-6863344?postid=16569069#post16569069

jgatie

Don't expect this to be coming. If the hardware could support it, it would have been enabled when it was released on the newer products.

Ken_GriffithsAnswer

Qobuz supports 24bit audio with the older Sonos Playbar, I believe🤔. See this link:

https://en.community.sonos.com/music-services-and-sources-228994/playbar-24-bit-playback-6863344?postid=16569069#post16569069

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Duncs85Author

Contributor I

If the old gen Beam supports it, hard to see how the playbar doesn’t.

And if that was the case then it should have come with a big red warning on it to advise buyers it would be limited compared to their other cheap products. Bought the playbar months before the Arc was available and it already now feels dated and limited in function but the cost of purchase did not reflect that.

Feel very let down.

jgatie

If the old gen Beam supports it, hard to see how the playbar doesn’t.

And if that was the case then it should have come with a big red warning on it to advise buyers it would be limited compared to their other cheap products. Bought the playbar months before the Arc was available and it already now feels dated and limited in function but the cost of purchase did not reflect that.

Feel very let down.

Playbar release - February 12, 2013

Beam Gen 1 release - July 17, 2018

ratty

Bought the playbar months before the Arc was available and it already now feels dated and limited in function but the cost of purchase did not reflect that.

Playbar release - February 12, 2013

Arc release - June 8, 2020

7+ years between products. If the Playbar was purchased in early 2020 it’s just an unfortunate luck of the draw. It would however qualify for 15% discount on any new product or set.

Ken_Griffiths

Feel very let down.

I perhaps wouldn’t feel too let down, as it’s still a great Soundbar. I suspect very few folk would be able to hear a difference between 16-bit and 24-bit audio anyway. I know I can’t.

melvimbe

I think the moral of the story is, never assume the product you’re buying is the most modern hardware. Always check the release date.

Second moral, do not expect a product to eventually have features it doesn’t currently have. Yes, Sonos and others will add new features from time to time, but consider it a bonus, not a guarantee.

Danny

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John B

Feel very let down.

I perhaps wouldn’t feel too let down, as it’s still a great Soundbar. I suspect very few folk would be able to hear a difference between 16-bit and 24-bit audio anyway. I know I can’t.

Me neither. Not even on a pretty good hifi system. Not on my Arc, either. To suggest this is an issue on a soundbar is unreasonable.

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Duncs85Author

Contributor I

If they are willing to support the current and last gen of the Beam there is no reason they shouldn’t continue to support the sound bar unless they are trying to push sales of the Arc or Beam.

Unless there is a physical reason it cannot be supported it is poor customer service.

ratty

If they are willing to support the current and last gen of the Beam there is no reason they shouldn’t continue to support the sound bar unless they are trying to push sales of the Arc or Beam.

Unless there is a physical reason it cannot be supported it is poor customer service.

No, it’s called the advance of technology. As already pointed out, Playbar is more than 5 years older than Beam/gen1.

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