Sonos CEO Patrick Spence steps down after disastrous app launch

Post by DudeOpotomus » Fri, Jan 17, 2025, 4:27 PM UTC

wilsonnb3 wrote: post #120

DudeOpotomus wrote: post #36

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Apple airplay works flawlessly. Or you can buy an old Amazon fire and connect them to your own hardware. Both of these solutions allow you to use any speaker/amp setup you choose. And if you truly care about sound quality, this is the only path.

In my experience AirPlay 2 isn’t flawless, pretty much every time I try to use it there are stutters. This is using an iPhone 16 Pro to AirPlay to a stereo pair of Sonos Five’s that are connected using Ethernet. AirPlay isn’t a great choice if you are concerned about audio quality anyways - if you’re using AirPlay 2 you’re using 256kbps AAC, so it should sound the same as Bluetooth (or worse if you are comparing some…

Post by DudeOpotomus » Fri, Jan 17, 2025, 4:29 PM UTC

Maxion wrote: post #47

DudeOpotomus wrote: post #36

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Apple airplay works flawlessly. Or you can buy an old Amazon fire and connect them to your own hardware. Both of these solutions allow you to use any speaker/amp setup you choose. And if you truly care about sound quality, this is the only path.

AirPlay and multiroom is still a struggle though

Post by spott » Mon, Jan 20, 2025, 3:26 PM UTC

HelloMcFly wrote: post #154

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What model do you have? The five and era 100 both say they have a line in on the website.

I have two Era 100s purchased in December 2024. I have looked the entire thing over - if there is line-in, it must be through USB-C, there is no aux port.