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HEOS-capable gear from Marantz and Denon cover a lot of the applications you referenced. I decided I would never buy another Sonos product after the S2 rollout,

• simondotau 2y ago
  So basically the only USP of Sonos is mindshare.
  • bluescrn 2y ago
    They had a fairly unique and high-quality product in the early days. It just did’t evolve very far or very fast, or even adapt pricing to better fit a rapidly changing market. They switched away from a focus on multi-room hi-fi (or at least mid-fi) audio and users with their own hoard of digital audio to focus more on streaming services and chase the trend of little monophonic speakers. The higher-end devices remained good but became ever more niche. Then they broke everything, particularly customer trust, with the app update.
• kdmtctl 2y ago
  This probably costs a fortune. Certainly there is a market.
• baq 2y ago
  HEOS is amazing for the size of the dev team, which I think is a couple folks somewhere in a large garage in Minnesota[0]. The amount of things they never touch is amazing. I appreciate the stability - my HEOS 1 speaker is still working, streaming tunein and tidal without issues - but when it comes to the app, it's borderline stagnation at this point. [0] I have no idea what it is actually