Hi Sonos
I’d like to make a simple feature request to make the Sonos Five a lot more usable in aux input mode. Currently, the Sonos Five would switch into standby within 10 seconds after it stops sensing audio input. This is far too short and aggressive of a time. The speaker would go silent from the fadeout of songs, and then the speaker would miss the first few seconds of the next song as it suddenly springs out of standby.
This is even worse with a pair of Fives. Then both speakers go into standby, then one speaker comes out of standby, and only one speaker plays, and then 1-2 seconds later the second speaker wakes up and plays. This happens not just on music, but on movies with quiet scenes too. Can you imagine the annoyance of hearing the speaker go quiet, miss several seconds of dialogue, and suddenly wake up multiple times during a quiet scene?
This also happens on voice chats when I finish speaking, and the other person starts speaking, and I miss out on several seconds of what they say in the beginning. This will happen dozens of times in a conversation, forcing me to play a low volume bass sine wave to stop the speaker from going on standby.
As you can see, such aggressive standby behavior is very intrusive and completely unnecessary from any power savings or amplifier longevity standpoint. This is not a battery powered device. I think there’s a very simple fix for this: Increase the time from the current ~10 seconds to something much more reasonable, say 5 minutes? Most audio products with auto standby do not go on standby until 10-30 minutes of no audio input. Even other Sonos speakers do not go on standby anywhere near this aggressively on Bluetooth aux input. It would be great if the Five could join the rest of Sonos and have a reasonable auto standby behavior.
Thank you