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May 21, 2024

WHY I am NOT dumping Sonos

1.  The hardware is high quality

2.   The design aesthetics are excellent

3.    Sound quality is very good to excellent

4.    New app is flaky and looks amateurish (android) BUT there are acceptable substitutes

5.    Comparable alternatives are expensive & subject to same proprietary whims & errors

6.    Sonos has the largest list of music services (compared to competitors) 

 

Carry on 😁

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    Kumar
    May 22, 2024

    Even at retail new, the play 1 were excellent buys and barring the absence of a line in jack, were the best single product Sonos has ever made. Excellent sound in versatile and flexible set ups.

    And the simplicity of hardware buttons - My bedroom set up now has both Echo Spot and a S1 Connect, wired to two pairs of audio input jacks on high quality signal sensing Pioneer powered speakers. Since my NAS/Sonos has 2000 track plus long self curated playlists organised by genre, once picked for play in shuffle mode I don't change it for days. Playing it then just needs reaching out for a button press as does stopping it, no need for the phone/app. And it is easy to choose something on Spotify as well, usually by voice command to the Spot, where I get album art for every track that plays, via the same Pioneers.

    As little that comes between you and music play the better, so this no phone/no app thing suits me perfectly. But then I am old and therefore old fashioned and not app happy. 

    PS: With this arrangement of easy physical access to the buttons on the 2011 vintage Connect, I find that I am playing music from the NAS much more often than when I needed to open the Sonos S1 app on the phone, wait for it to connect to Sonos units, and then play from the NAS. Button press, music from the loaded playlist starts almost instantly. Button press, it stops. Couldn’t be simpler. One important precondition for this are powered speakers that have a robust signal sensing to wake from standby feature.

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