What would you like next from sonos.personally a set of rather good headphones,imagine being able to sit with the better half and not here a thing except what YOU want to listen to.even when all the soaps are on.....Heaven
richardw42 said:I reckon Sonos headphones is a genius idea. Write to them.
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skippy said:Personally I'd like to see a remote version of the connect, whereby you'd have a master, plugged into the router then you could buy slave units (for half the price of a connect), that you can simply plug into a pair of monitors in any location in the house.
matt49 said:If Sonos made a stripped-down version of the Connect with a high quality PSU and async USB output, I'd buy one. But it'd be a niche product, and I recognize it's unlikely to happen.
The_Lhc said:matt49 said:If Sonos made a stripped-down version of the Connect with a high quality PSU and async USB output, I'd buy one. But it'd be a niche product, and I recognize it's unlikely to happen.
I get the impression the Connect's quite a niche product already! If there is a new version anytime soon I can easily see it having a USB output, although people would immediately start trying to plug external hard drives into it and I seem to recall Sonos ruled out doing that a while back.
The_Lhc said:skippy said:Personally I'd like to see a remote version of the connect, whereby you'd have a master, plugged into the router then you could buy slave units (for half the price of a connect), that you can simply plug into a pair of monitors in any location in the house.
You don't appear to understand how Sonos works, every player is a self-contained unit, no master, no slaves. The units you describe would be physically identical to a Connect, it would have to be, as it would still have all the same network and audio requirements that the Connect has, so what exactly do you think they would leave out to make it half the cost?
matt49 said:The_Lhc said:matt49 said:If Sonos made a stripped-down version of the Connect with a high quality PSU and async USB output, I'd buy one. But it'd be a niche product, and I recognize it's unlikely to happen.
I get the impression the Connect's quite a niche product already! If there is a new version anytime soon I can easily see it having a USB output, although people would immediately start trying to plug external hard drives into it and I seem to recall Sonos ruled out doing that a while back.
I'm sure you're right, on both counts. I imagine the speaker units sell a lot more than the Connect.
I guess what's interesting about this thread is that no-one's come up with an idea that's remotely likely to take off. Makes you wonder where Sonos will go from here, or indeed if they need to go anywhere at all.
skippy said:The_Lhc said:skippy said:Personally I'd like to see a remote version of the connect, whereby you'd have a master, plugged into the router then you could buy slave units (for half the price of a connect), that you can simply plug into a pair of monitors in any location in the house.
You don't appear to understand how Sonos works, every player is a self-contained unit, no master, no slaves. The units you describe would be physically identical to a Connect, it would have to be, as it would still have all the same network and audio requirements that the Connect has, so what exactly do you think they would leave out to make it half the cost?
I roughly know how the unit works, but I'm just saying if you had a central brain unit (master) which sends the info to the (remote) slave units, that'd be nice.
Is nobody allowed to make a comment about Sonos without you butting in?
You say they wouldn't be able to make it cheaper, but the price of a connect is $400 here, the price of a play3 is $329, this includes speakers, amp and the (brains) internals of the connect, how does that work??
namefail said:^^^ Do you mean if is wasn't selling they'd cut the price?
The_Lhc said:skippy said:The_Lhc said:skippy said:Personally I'd like to see a remote version of the connect, whereby you'd have a master, plugged into the router then you could buy slave units (for half the price of a connect), that you can simply plug into a pair of monitors in any location in the house.
You don't appear to understand how Sonos works, every player is a self-contained unit, no master, no slaves. The units you describe would be physically identical to a Connect, it would have to be, as it would still have all the same network and audio requirements that the Connect has, so what exactly do you think they would leave out to make it half the cost?
I roughly know how the unit works, but I'm just saying if you had a central brain unit (master) which sends the info to the (remote) slave units, that'd be nice.
No, it wouldn't be nice, it would completely change the architecture that Sonos is built on, what would be the point? It also gives you a single point of failure, if that central unit breaks you've got no music. Right now any Sonos unit could fail and you'd either carry on with the others without noticing or, at worst, you'd just need to wire one of your units to the network (if the one that failed was the wired unit). From a functionality point of view, it's a step backwards.
Is nobody allowed to make a comment about Sonos without you butting in?
Why shouldn't I comment? This is a subject I'm interested in. It's the internet, if you don't want people to comment, don't say anything.
You say they wouldn't be able to make it cheaper, but the price of a connect is $400 here, the price of a play3 is $329, this includes speakers, amp and the (brains) internals of the connect, how does that work??
I didn't say the Connect couldn't be cheaper, my point was the unit you're describing IS a Connect, so why would they have two identical units on sale, with one at half the price of the other? Doesn't make any sense.
The Connect pricing is historical, when Sonos first appeared the original ZP80 and 90 WERE the cheap option, the Play units (or the 3 and the 1 at least) are priced to bring people into the ecosystem. The Connect is arguably more flexible than any of them and is targetted at people with half decent existing systems, for who £280 isn't much to pay for a CD quality source. If it wasn't selling they'd cut the price and that hasn't happened since day 1.
skippy said:So, basically the same for the connect... Get it?