I have a Play:1 and a Play:5. The latter has greater bass response of course but you can help the Play:1 by placing it in a corner of a room. I was pleasantly surprised by the overall sound quality of the Play:1.
You sure you own a SONOS - they don't have any user addressable/usable storage.
actually I have compared them at a high fi store. the store actually don't make much money on sonos as they are a small store. but they recommend them for many things they are great for bringing sound throughout the house. like I thought about separate speakers and a amp in the bedroom but the bulk of that and my wife hitting the buttons accidentally (she is blind) we went with two sonos 5's. we had a sonos connect connected to so powered speakers and it worked out ok but she wanted better sound in the living room we have a sonos amp powering floor standing speakers and a subwoofer. works great. kitchen has two play 1's. is there better out there? of course there is but sonos works very well for this job and my blind wife can use the app much better then a bunch of separate apps and airplay. she is really happy that alexa can help her control the music over taking out her phone.
thats why they make a sonos amp. overpriced but it works well.
but sonos works and it works very well and it has been very reliable. airplay has not been and always relying on apple can be a real pain.
You still need Airplay 2 compatible speakers...
Not sure why you would spend money, but others might spend money since the smart speakers can be used by multiple people (family/friends), don't require a phone to be tied up playing music, and is used as a stationary product; not mobile. Sometimes you have to look beyond your personal use case.
They use those words because they are trying to sell a product. Plain and simple. More importantly, they're trying to sell a product to "every man", not audiophile man. If they were to do as you suggest, that would mean they are 1. Ignorant of their market and their customer. 2. Really don't want to sell a lot of product. 3. Dumb as hell.
No one really cares Phil. I don't say to be rude. I say that because no one really cares. A self identifying audiophile generally gets tuned out by the general populace. Same goes for any "expert" in a field dominated by the common man. The audiophiles are better off stratifying on sites like HeadFi, The Absolute Sound, or Audiohead.
The storage is reserved for the system. My understanding is that for the original use case to play locally stored audio files, the system maintains a collection of meta-tags for each track in the library; and a copy of this database resides on each player's volatile memory in order to maintain a responsive UI. You can view this library data by pointing your browser to:
Oh I doubt that very much. $150M is nothing! Where are you pulling this figure from?
) for surround sound. I'm still keeping my airplay speakers hoping they will work with airplay two and it has some kind of mesh network separate from wifi. It won't matter if B&W, Martin Logan, Pioneer, or anyone else makes airplay 2 speakers if people buy 3 of them and they dropout when they spread them across a 1500+ sq ft house and are getting dropouts. I'll probably get a home pod to try it out, maybe put in my kitchen and take out the Sonos. This way I can add reminders and stuff to my to do lists (hopefully since apple only advertised Siri for music). Apple just hasn't really said much more about it or airplay. The one great thing is if the home pod does suck I can always sell it for 80+% of what I paid months later!!
