Sonos Fives & Lossless is this streamer the solution?

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Hi,

I have a pair of Sonos 5’s and other Sonos speakers and Home theatre set up. I mainly use my fives for listing to music. However, as many already know playing lossless audios through Apple Airplay isn’t possible with Sonos. Fiio have released the SR11 and i was wondering if this would actually work due to the Sonos Fives having a built in DAC? Would the internal DAC just down grade the Lossless input from the SR11 to lossy as its connecting to the Sonos 5’s via Airplay?

https://www.fiio.com/sr11

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106rallye

When you connect something to the analogue connection on a Sonos device, Sonos will convert it to digital. Sonos digital conversion is also lossless.

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SpaddywaddyAuthor

Enthusiast II

When you connect something to the analogue connection on a Sonos device, Sonos will convert it to digital. Sonos digital conversion is also lossless.

Yes, I appreciate that when I plug analog into the fives it will be lossless. However, the Fiio device is using AirPlay to connect to the Fives which is digital. So, will it work?

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SpaddywaddyAuthor

Enthusiast II

It seems that since the new app and latest firmware updates. Lossless audio is available.

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