Sonos Trueplay Now Works With iPhone 14 Models

[CarlJ]

Not at all. Put a Sonos speaker in a corner, and I guarantee you that my 70 year old mother will be able to blindly hear the difference between Trueplay on and off, playing Barbie Girl.

Apropos of little: best version of Barbie Girl ever.

 

[Velli]

Pretty sure you read waaay more into my comment than it contained.

In that case, would you mind elaborating on what you meant by your comment? Why are you "interested" in a blind test of something that blatantly obvious?

 

[Velli]

The first iPhone 14's started shipping about two months ago. Are you suggesting their microphone tests take the better part of two months to perform? I find that rather hard to believe. Two weeks I could imagine. Two months sounds outlandish. It may be complex, but it's a well traveled path for them. And there is likely a fairly noticeable overlap in the Venn diagram between "people likely to purchase the latest iPhone" and "people likely to own Sonos speakers".

I am suggesting that implementing it in the software takes a lot more work than "microphone tests", given the QA process that a company like Sonos is likely to have implemented. Two months seems very reasonable to me.

 

[Velli]

Bass/treble controls only allow broad sweeping general changes, while TruePlay can set a much more nuanced response curve, more akin to a graphic equalizer.

Yes, but you have no idea how accurate it actually is in the real world. More filters don't help if the measurement isn't accurate, which it will never be by waving an iPhone around. So in essence, Trueplay can never be any more than "borad sweeping general changes" anyway, as it is simply not an accurate enough tool to be anything else.

Also, if you actually care about audio being more accurate than "broad sweeping changes", you shouldn't be using Sonos in the first place...

 

[Kabeyun]

In that case, would you mind elaborating on what you meant by your comment? Why are you "interested" in a blind test of something that blatantly obvious?

Just curious which listeners would tend to prefer, particularly when controlling for SPL.

And this is you without the snark? Between that and your post diarrhea I’m pretty sure you should switch to decaf.

 

[Velli]

Just curious which listeners would tend to prefer, particularly when controlling for SPL.

And this is you without the snark? Between that and your post diarrhea I’m pretty sure you should switch to decaf.

It doesn’t make any sense, since the response without correction will be wildly different depending on setup. What would you learn?

 

[FoxyKaye]

I've been in the business of tuning live sound systems. You never hear just the speaker, it's the speaker + the characteristics of the room that you hear. And different rooms color what a speaker sounds like. Trueplay compensates for the environment and puts the system closer to its intended frequency response, all while being easy for a consumer to do. It's well implemented. If you don't hear a big difference, it means you room just didn't change the frequency response much in the first place, which is a good thing.

A couple of folks have mentioned this in replies to my initial comment, and maybe that's just true for our family media room, then. I've got it established in a very symmetrical space in a "traditional," 7:1 format.