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  • 6 October 2022
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Thought this was a feagure of s2. 

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Best answer by ratty 6 October 2022, 19:41

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Belly M
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Correct Sonos plays upto 24/48 from your local library.

Edit also from Amazon Music and Qobuz, possibly other streaming sources as well now.

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Thanks, that's what I thought... Five plays 24/48 but pair of Play:1s don't - but they are supported on S2... 🤔

Tried factory reset.. Installed one only, then the pair, no joy.

Stumped. 

ratty

For Amazon Music, 24-bit isn’t supported on Play:1.

https://support.sonos.com/s/article/3248

Ultra HD audio playback is not supported on Connect:Amp, Play:1, Play:3, Playbase, Playbar, Sub (Gen 1), and Sub (Gen 2).

 

One would assume that the same applies for other sources.

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Thanks, that's helpful, couldn't find that anywhere. Assumed as S2 supports 24bit and Play1 is still supported on S2... anyway it was worth a try.

Thanks for feedback. 👍

 

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For Amazon Music, 24-bit isn’t supported on Play:1.

https://support.sonos.com/s/article/3248

Ultra HD audio playback is not supported on Connect:Amp, Play:1, Play:3, Playbase, Playbar, Sub (Gen 1), and Sub (Gen 2).

 

One would assume that the same applies for other sources.

 

I think with Amazon music that might be a legal/service specific thing. Afaik all S2 players support 48khz for local streaming. 

 

https://support.sonos.com/s/article/79?language=en_US

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ratty

Everything has always supported 48kHz. And always used 24-bit (or more) internally. 

I can’t see why it would be a legal thing with Amazon. Why allow Sub/gen3, but not Sub/gen2? Makes no sense. It just seems that the older players are unable to decode FLAC 24-bit.

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It does seem inherently implausible that Amazon would allow 24 bit on specified products. Why would they do so?

The Play:1 and Play:3 have the least memory, and probably the slowest processors, of those devices supported under S2. (They can't do Airplay 2 either.)

Finally, the wording in this blog post seems to me to imply that it is device dependent.

https://blog.sonos.com/en-us/hi-res-audio-guide

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Thanks John B. 

Yes, Five shows up on every controller, (android, iOS, PC et al) as supporting Airplay, but the Play1s are never shown. Heading towards replacing soon I think. 

Reckon there was such a fuss about the S1/S2 original declaration that basically so much would be bricked they looked at the number of Play1s in play (pun intended) and decide tgey could just about keep them alive as a sop to the outrage. 

Airgetlam

The PLAY:1s don’t have an AirPlay 2 receiver built in to them, they were designed before AirPlay 2 was a thing. I usually just group my PLAY:1s with a Sonos One, and send the AirPlay 2 signal to that, and it then extends to play on the PLAY:1s. Much as I’d love to replace the PLAY:1s, there’s not really a need, as long as grouping continues to work. 
 

All of my system is S2, though. 

Bruce
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