New 'Sonos One' Speaker Launches With Upgraded Internals and No Design Changes

"it seems Sonos is simply future-proofing the Sonos One with better internals that ensure more features will be available to Gen 2 owners down the line."

This makes me glad that I'm investing in SONOS at home. I can't stand it when they leave a stale product on the market for years. I feel no obligation to replace any SONOS product that I have but I'm reassured that when I do buy a SONOS product I'm getting the (very nearly) best specs they have available. Premium priced products should be upgraded incrementally.
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"it seems Sonos is simply future-proofing the Sonos One with better internals that ensure more features will be available to Gen 2 owners down the line."

Is this a commercial? I like SONOS products but I am very disappointed that only 18 months after release they are updating the speaker. It's not a computer. I get that the original Sonos play one needed upgrading after 5 years, but this? Its more like the gen 1 Sonos one was rushed to market and we early adopters go to be beta testers. Such is the tech world these days I guess. But a speaker? I think the author downplays the significance.

This is absolute nonsense, I see that this is (clearly) a strongly held belief of yours, but the idea that an updated product somehow impacts your 'sunk costs' of something you purchased (as much as 18 months ago) you ignore the 18 months of enjoyment that you've gotten when you imagine yourself as a beta tester for the previous version of a product. I think purchasers of premium-priced products should be getting (very nearly) the best that is available at that time.

My One is sitting unused because Sonos can't seem to get airplay 2 working on it without cutting out every minute or two. Total disappointment.

"it seems Sonos is simply future-proofing the Sonos One with better internals that ensure more features will be available to Gen 2 owners down the line."

Is this a commercial? I like SONOS products but I am very disappointed that only 18 months after release they are updating the speaker. It's not a computer. I get that the original Sonos play one needed upgrading after 5 years, but this? Its more like the gen 1 Sonos one was rushed to market and we early adopters go to be beta testers. Such is the tech world these days I guess. But a speaker? I think the author downplays the significance.

I wonder if the extra RAM and upgraded processor would help AirPlay 2 run smoother. I find both of my Sonos One's skip and go out of sync a lot, but AirPlay 2 works fine on my HomePod's and Apple TV 4K.

I have a homepod and two sonos one's. The Sono's go out of sync on airplay 2 once in a while, so I connected them via ethernet to see if that was the issue and they still go out of sync once in a while. Not a network issue as I used to have speakers connected via airport expresses on airplay 2 and they all seemed to work fine. Hopefully this update fixes any of these issues for people, but sucks that I only bought these 2 months ago and now there's an update haha.

I wonder if this is related to the Google Assistant support, which Sonos announced was in development some time ago... it was originally due in 2018, but put back to 2019.

"it seems Sonos is simply future-proofing the Sonos One with better internals that ensure more features will be available to Gen 2 owners down the line."

This makes me glad that I'm investing in SONOS at home. I can't stand it when they leave a stale product on the market for years. I feel no obligation to replace any SONOS product that I have but I'm reassured that when I do buy a SONOS product I'm getting the (very nearly) best specs they have available. Premium priced products should be upgraded incrementally.
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This is absolute nonsense, I see that this is (clearly) a strongly held belief of yours, but the idea that an updated product somehow impacts your 'sunk costs' of something you purchased (as much as 18 months ago) you ignore the 18 months of enjoyment that you've gotten when you imagine yourself as a beta tester for the previous version of a product. I think purchasers of premium-priced products should be getting (very nearly) the best that is available at that time.

Chuckles. Sorry, it's absolutely stupid to suggest a speaker needs to be updated as often as a computer. Sonos sold us on the Sonos One upgrade for Airplay 2 compatibility, and just a mere 18 months later (not years as you say) Sonos says, 'oops that was not enough, let us tweak it.' Since the introduction of the Sonos One to my network of Sonos products, my network has become LESS reliable, LESS stable, and now I guess I know why. I was paying for SONOS to beta test.

This is not about incremental updates of premium products, this is Sonos acknowledging they put out an inferior product and rushing to correct that.

Anyway, carry on. Regardless of what you think, my main point is that the MR article is overly rosy and complimentary of SONOS when they should at least question whether this is crap or not. Maybe your friend wrote it?

And btw, what other SONOS product was 'incrementally upgraded' in 18 months? Answer. none. Not even close. Nothing less than 5 years.
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Makes me wonder if an updated Sub is coming too. Not that I would get it but a discount on the older model would be appreciated.

Well the sub IS 7 years old, and does not support Airplay 2. Though, it's not likely to be used alone so perhaps thats not as necessary. I do agree though after 7 years an update and cost reduction would be welcome.
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I wonder if the extra RAM and upgraded processor would help AirPlay 2 run smoother. I find both of my Sonos One's skip and go out of sync a lot, but AirPlay 2 works fine on my HomePod's and Apple TV 4K.

I have the same problem. This is likely the problem they are addressing. Unfortunately for us.

Airplay 2 wasn't available 18 months ago. So SONOS didn't sell a beta product just b/c it didn't have something that didn't exist at that time it was sold. So funny how people like this guy expect products to just manifest features before they exist, or support new features that were unknown during a development cycle. mind=blown

I love the people quick to criticize without knowing the facts. Sonos One, Gen 1, does support Airplay 2. How do you explain that? And when it was released it was an advertised feature because Airplay 2 was very much in development then and known to SONOS.

While you are making up answers, what other SONOS speaker got updated in under 5 years with absolutely no housing change?

mind=bored

Have the three people with problems contacted Sonos about this? What did they say? They might have a different solution for you today. No?

I did, multiple times and that's how I arrived at the place I am now as described in my previous post.

That sounds like a you problem. My network is solid. My sonos are flawless and I have dozens of devices on my network without issue.

Thanks. But no. My network is fine. Sonos was fine one day before I added the ones. One day after, the Sonos are skipping. Everything else is fine :) Nor am I the only one experiencing this. So. No. Thanks for your concern.