Will there be a Sonos Five soon? 2020?

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I’m currently planning to buy a pair of Sonos Play 5 2nd gen to replace my current Play 5s gen 1. But I’m concerned that there will be a new Sonos Play 5 3rd gen or Sonos Five. My guess is that the Sonos Five would be release next year because Sonos release the 1st gen in 2009 and 2nd gen in 2015, that would be 6 years apart. So from 6 years form 2015 would be around 2021. I’m just worried that the Play 5 2nd gen would only support for 5 years.

Any thoughts would be appreciated

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AirgetlamAnswer

Sonos doesn’t lay out a roadmap in advance of when they’re going to release speakers. Usually, it’s within 30 days of the release, so that they can get the necessary marketing coverage from the press. There have been many guesses in the past, and certainly all of mine have not been correct.

Bruce

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melvimbe

Danny I do understand that I can leave everything on the S1 legacy system but why would I ? If we except the fact that Sonos is a tech company, then I want the rest of my Sonos S2 compliant kit to be running the latest updates and security patches, after all we have established that there are only so many updates a unit will get before Sonos decide it's fate and calls it legacy .

First, I mentioned this option for clarity, since others may read your post and think S2 capable products must upgrade to S2. As far as the question of why you would choice this option, you will still receive bug fixes and security updates on S1. So the real motivation for upgrading to S2 right now is for new products and features. As you pointed out earlier, not everyone is going to be interested, or find use for new products and features. If you, or someone else, fits in this category, then the logical choice is to remain on on S1 until it makes sense to upgrade to S2.

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Danny by leaving everything on the S1 system the S2 compliant units do not get updates, so you are forced to run a split system to ensure that the legacy unit(s) is not blocking updates to your S2 units. So it's either a split system or replace an expensive unit(s) to be able to run S2 fully as one system .

Airgetlam

There’s no reason why, if you’re uninterested in the S2 updates, why you couldn’t leave all units as S1….as far as I think, based on the limited info we have. No requirement to run as a split system, if you don’t want. But we’ll know more soon, I expect.

Bruce

jgatie

Danny by leaving everything on the S1 system the S2 compliant units do not get updates, so you are forced to run a split system to ensure that the legacy unit(s) is not blocking updates to your S2 units. So it's either a split system or replace an expensive unit(s) to be able to run S2 fully as one system .

That’s for you and your situation. However, when the shifting to legacy products was first announced, there were plenty of people asking to forego new features in order to keep their systems running just as they are now. Sonos accommodated them. All melvimbe is doing is making sure anyone reading this thread knows it is possible.

melvimbe

Danny by leaving everything on the S1 system the S2 compliant units do not get updates, so you are forced to run a split system to ensure that the legacy unit(s) is not blocking updates to your S2 units. So it's either a split system or replace an expensive unit(s) to be able to run S2 fully as one system .

If you stay on an S1 system, all your units, legacy or modern, will receive security updates and bug fixes. What you won’t get is feature updates or be able to add products released for S2 only. If you are not interested in new features and products, there is nothing wrong with keeping all your products on S1.

Danny

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