so today is the latest Sonos event. Sadly it wont be live streamed. The 'teaser' image attached Any further speculation what it will be New voice enabled Home Theatre device More on Airplay2 More on 'Works on Sonos' New Desktop app ? Something else completely ?

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so today is the latest Sonos event. Sadly it wont be live streamed. The 'teaser' image attached

Any further speculation what it will be

New voice enabled Home Theatre device
More on Airplay2
More on 'Works on Sonos'
New Desktop app ?
Something else completely ?

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Ryan SAnswer

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Great discussion everyone, I just posted the public announcement for the Beam here if you want to get some more information.

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Taps803

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I am going to believe just the 3 already posted out there. Sonos One, PLaybase, Play 5 gen 2. Which really urks me. I asked them before I bought more speakers and they told me it would be on all the speakers.

Ryan S

Retired Sonos Staff

There are some hardware requirements to running Airplay 2 that are only met by Sonos One, Playbase, and Play:5 gen2. Beam is also included in that list now too.

You are also able to group any of those players that's playing the Airplay 2 signal with older Sonos players and the audio will play on all of them. But it takes one of those newer ones to start with as a target for the Airplay 2 signal.

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nicka99Author

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No line in?
No Dolby Digital+?
No DTS?
What else?

Indeed rather disappointing!
What are they thinking not supporting the newer codecs ?
Would have been great if this could also be a center speaker with additional left/right but that’s not supported either.
Really looks like they were trying to hit a certain price point so kept things to a minimum to meet that price.
Personally I would rather pay more for more features.

Smilja

Airplay 2 July software update

Nothing more than an unverified rumour.

Not true, they said it in the conference.

Ah, thanks. Hopefully Sonos will meet the deadline then.

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Taps803

Lyricist III

There are some hardware requirements to running Airplay 2 that are only met by Sonos One, Playbase, and Play:5 gen2. Beam is also included in that list now too.

You are also able to group any of those players that's playing the Airplay 2 signal with older Sonos players and the audio will play on all of them. But it takes one of those newer ones to start with as a target for the Airplay 2 signal.

My issue though is being told on this site all along that AirPlay2 was going to work across all speakers. That is what really bothers me.

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Taps803

Lyricist III

No line in?
No Dolby Digital+?
No DTS?
What else?

Indeed rather disappointing!
What are they thinking not supporting the newer codecs ?
Would have been great if this could also be a center speaker with additional left/right but that’s not supported either.
Really looks like they were trying to hit a certain price point so kept things to a minimum to meet that price.
Personally I would rather pay more for more features.

You can pair the beam with other speakers!!

Ryan S

Retired Sonos Staff

My issue though is being told on this site all along that AirPlay2 was going to work across all speakers. That is what really bothers me.

Understood, and I'm sorry you get the wrong info, it shouldn't have been out there. To begin with, we weren't sharing much around Airplay 2, just that it was coming. While under development, especially early on, we don't want to give out incorrect information so we usually err on the side of not saying much at all. If there's anywhere that says "all speakers" let me know and I'm happy to make sure it's clarified.

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Taps803

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My issue though is being told on this site all along that AirPlay2 was going to work across all speakers. That is what really bothers me.

Understood, and I'm sorry you get the wrong info, it shouldn't have been out there. To begin with, we weren't sharing much around Airplay 2, just that it was coming. While under development, especially early on, we don't want to give out incorrect information so we usually err on the side of not saying much at all. If there's anywhere that says "all speakers" let me know and I'm happy to make sure it's clarified.

Its all removed now. I sent a somewhat nasty email and I apologized for it, but It still urks me that they would not even give out a discount to purchase other speakers for proven the inaccuracy's.

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Colm

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Is the HDMI port 2.1? If not is it possible to future proof it so it could be upgraded to 2.1?