Sonos Out. What to replace with?

[JABB]

With Sonos dropping the ability to play my iTunes from the phone, I am selling up and replacing.
We have iPhones. We have Amazon prime. We don’t subscribe to any music service.

Ideally we want speakers which we can both use, freely, with our own accounts. To play from the phone directly with the option for future subscriptions.
Apple home pod is out, to restrictive.
What about joining the Amazon eco system? Can that airplay?
What am I missing, you are the font of all knowledge, I have lost touch.....

Lastly, if we go echo route, it’s bluetooth for playback. Can we both connect once and then have endless access or if my wife was connected yesterday, and I want to connect today, do I have to go through the pairing again or can multiple devices be paired?

Edited by JABB on Friday 21st June 11:21

[AllyBassman]

You can still send music to them via Air Play 2,

I'm assuming you know this and have the older generation Sonos Speakers? The following have this ability. Play:5 gen2, Playbase, Beam, Sonos One

If so, why not sell up and upgrade to the newer hardware? As what you are requiring, the sonos ecosystem fits perfectly and I feel that the Amazon echo's may leave you feel lacking with regards to audio quality.

Edited by AllyBassman on Friday 21st June 11:28

[classicaholic]

Sonos had a great product and we have 3 of them but they have completely lost the plot! I gave up after the last demand for yet another software upgrade that stopped everyones phones working on it, just use it as a remote speaker from Alexa now.

[JABB]

AllyBassman said:

You can still send music to them via Air Play 2,

I'm assuming you know this and have the older generation Sonos Speakers?

If so, why not sell up and upgrade to the newer hardware?

Not sure if they are compatible?

[AllyBassman]

Yeah I don't think Play:1's are,

they were superceeded by the Sonos one (the same speaker, just with 'Smart speaker' capability + Air Play 2)

[derektrimblitz]

Is this correct? are they stopping playing direct from Iphone ?

I know that Airplay 2 will allow but my whole house system is the earlier version and doesn't support Airplay.

It's pretty crap isn't it.. I can't play BBC Sounds app either.

I think if I buy a new Sonos device and add it to my system then I can Airplay to the system through that access point. Maybe someone can confirm that this is a cost effective way to get Airplay 2?

[Kewy]

I didn't think you could ever play direct from iTunes (except through Sonos app) until they added the Airplay 2 functionality?
So whats changed now?

If you're selling up then drop me a DM with what you have and how much you're after for it

[JABB]

There was a message flagged up when I last connected to say the playing of music from my phone will no longer be available soon.
I only have the 2 1s so they are going.
Just wondering what to replace them with. It took quite a bit to make the jump to Sonos and I have always thought they were restricting at best.

[AllyBassman]

If you have one of the newer speakers with the ability to run Alexa etc you will be fine.

This only applies to early Sonos Speakers.

The Play:1's are going for £100+ each on ebay, so i'd sell up and get a pair of the newer Sonos Ones for £350.

[BigTZ4M]

Do Sonos have aux in? If so you can get AirPlay adapters that output to 3.5mm from Amazon cheaply enough and reinstate its ability to play your iPhone music.

[stewies_minion]

Bose Home Speaker 500. I love mine.

[C4ME]

Do the cost analysis of subscribing to a music service versus the costs of changing your speakers and setup. Ditched personal music for a subscription service five years ago and would never go back.

Both Sonos Play 5 and Sonos Connect have a line in function but again expensive solution.

[alorotom]

stewies_minion said:

Bose Home Speaker 500. I love mine.

We have a couple of Bose SoundTouch 300’s and when they were bought it was between these and the Sonos Beam I think.

The Bose app could be better and they only work on 2.4ghz Wi-fi but the sound and connectivity is good.

[Kewy]

Just picked up my first Sonos One from the local John Lewis which is shutting down – £90! Happy with that.

Kind of getting out of hand, the current fleet:

Play:5 (Gen 2)
Play:3 (x2)
Play:1 (x2)
Sonos One


Should probably stop now...

Never used Alexa, what can I do with this new speaker :S

To be honest I'd be happy if didn't even have Alexa, as we needed one for the man cave loft room. But as it does I might as well have a play with it.

[chasingracecars]

Just seen this but take a look at Yamaha Music cast. The vast array of speaker systems amps etc make this soo versatile and the options for playback are huge.

App more useable then Sonos too!

[bristolracer]

chasingracecars said:

Just seen this but take a look at Yamaha Music cast. The vast array of speaker systems amps etc make this soo versatile and the options for playback are huge.

App more useable then Sonos too!

Or the Denon Heos system,does bluetooth connection too, and the basic Heos 1 units have an optional battery pack to make them completely portable

[richie99]

chasingracecars said:

Just seen this but take a look at Yamaha Music cast. The vast array of speaker systems amps etc make this soo versatile and the options for playback are huge.

App more useable then Sonos too!

But be careful if you are thinking about the WX 010. The sound quality is no where near the Play 1.

[chasingracecars]

The WX-10 is almost the same price as the more powerful WX-50 I don’t see the point buying the 10.