What if Sonos disappeared?

What is this third party voice control you speak of, pilgrim? :P

Alexa voice control. Sonos has stated they will have it in 2017, and Sonos has never failed to deliver on a promised feature.

I invested / believe , Sonos will survive , like what everybody said.... with multi room system ( you can start from 1 system and grow as you needed) , which can incorporate a 5.1 for TV system, I have not seen system as good as Sonos.

Well the world would keep spinning for a start.

1st World problem (and a made up one at that) if ever I saw one.

Quite what "not catering for the latest and greatest audio formats" means I don't know. I wasn't aware that mp3 or AAC had been usurped by some hitherto unknown great format. Maybe the OP can edamucate us?

If you don't know what I mean by the latest and greatest audio formats, then I guess you are not interested in home theatre set-ups. Sonos obviously are interested, as they market their Player/Base and surround set-up for their other speakers.
If you wish to be "edamucated" then go find out about these things and "edamucate" yourself.
It's a shame that an honest question on a helpful forum, should illicit such a reply.

Jgatie, saying that Sonos is the first system to have voice control when they officially don't is very misleading.

I don't doubt that it will arrive, and probably within the next couple of months, but although some of us have found solutions, it ain't here yet.

Actually Amazon themselves could be the first to offer a multi room voice controlled audio system. I also read a similar article that's already been posted here about Amazon adding the multi room feature yesterday, and it made me wonder if the integration with amazon that Sonos are working on is being delayed due to some kind of agreement between Sonos and Amazon?
For all we know it might have been stipulated in the terms of the deal that Sonos can't add the voice control until Amazon themselves have a working multi room solution?

just sharing the link, which was mentioned by Johnnie Walker - about amazon echo skill for multi room:
http://www.trustedreviews.com/news/amazon-echos-next-big-alexa-skill-multi-room-audio-3247722

[...] For all we know it might have been stipulated in the terms of the deal that Sonos can't add the voice control until Amazon themselves have a working multi room solution?
Maybe with a little help from Sonos... 🙂

[...] For all we know it might have been stipulated in the terms of the deal that Sonos can't add the voice control until Amazon themselves have a working multi room solution?
Maybe with a little help from Sonos... :)

Yeah, that might be the case, as after all they are both, or soon will be, a multi-room voice controlled wifi streaming home audio system, except of course Amazon have the advantage of easly being able to stream from a bluetooth source too, which although reduces audio quality, probably won't matter that much to the majority of people who use Amazon Echo devices.

It'll certainly be interesting to see how things work out, but as Amazon have recently overtaken Sonos to become the largest supplier of wifi speakers I actually think that Sonos need Amazon more than Amazon need Sonos.

I actually wouldn't be surprised if Amazon acquired Sonos at some point in the future, if Amazon can't or doesn't want to create their own high quality speaker systems then why wouldn't they?

[...] I actually wouldn't be surprised if Amazon acquired Sonos at some point in the future, if Amazon can't or doesn't want to create their own high quality speaker systems then why wouldn't they?
It takes two to tango even in a game of make-believe, you know. 😉

I was an early adoptor of the Palm Pre smartphone back when it launched. Way ahead of its' time in terms of usability and OS design. It all went to s**** when HP took 'some' money in their hands and aquired Palm. There have been other, quite similar takeovers in the global tech industry in the past and most of them didn't exactly turn out in favour of the purchased company.

It'll certainly be interesting to see how things work out, but as Amazon have recently overtaken Sonos to become the largest supplier of wifi speakers I actually think that Sonos need Amazon more than Amazon need Sonos.


That's such a misleading stat. It's technically true, but comparing the sales of echos to the sales of sonos devices is apples to oranges. There are obviously huge differences in features, pricing, and core market, not to mention the fact that the two products will soon be integrated. You actually make an argument that the success of echo is more likely to bring in more sales for sonos.

Going off on a tangent now, but if/when echo's gain multiroom, what are the changes that they still remain in sync when Bluetooth is involved? For example, you've got two echo dots, each utilizing Bluetooth speakers. I'm doubtful they would still be into sync.