Sonos Holiday Sale Brings Back Black Friday Prices on Ace Headphones, Arc Soundbar, and More

I have a sonos household but I won't give them another dime. All these months later and the app still doesn't follow directions. It's terrible. I hope Apple fills the gap.

I have a sonos household but I won't give them another dime. All these months later and the app still doesn't follow directions. It's terrible. I hope Apple fills the gap.

Same here. I really don’t think Sonos can do anything to win back my trust or dollars.

Sonos REALLY wants people to buy those headphones that don't even connect to their ecosystem. When I open the app, the ad for them is front and center. What a joke.

I never get to comment on these Sonos posts since I had never owned one, but I bought the Arc Ultra to go with the 77" LG C3 OLED that I got on sale for $1499 the other week for starting my home theater build in the basement, and it is amazing. I'm not really an audiophile but my ear is good enough that I can tell that it's a top quality soundbar. I can hear things in songs that I never even noticed before. It's wild. And in movies it does a really good job of bouncing around the sound to make it seem more like surround sound. I like that it is modular so I can add a couple rears someday if I want to.

I was kind of hesitant to get it since I've heard people here complaining about the app, but for its use as a soundbar, I haven't really had much use for the app beyond the initial setup and tweaking a few settings for voice dialog and such. But in the reviews of the Ultra that I read, they said that since it's new, it was built from the ground up to work with the new app so that might be it? None of the reviews I saw mentioned it having issues with the app. So for that reason I might wait for them to come out with new rear surround speakers. Didn't get a woofer because those irritate my wife, and the Ultra already has a pretty good one built in with that brand new speaker tech from Europe or whatever that makes it a lot bigger.

Sonos’ app faux pax was horrible. But even after all that their software is still years ahead of anyone else in this space.

Think you mean hardware. Their software has never been years ahead.

I have a sonos household but I won't give them another dime. All these months later and the app still doesn't follow directions. It's terrible. I hope Apple fills the gap.

I don't know...Apple, the same company that let Siri languish for almost two decades? I'm not fond of that idea.

Pair that thing with twin 300s for true "surround" sound (the real thing, where audio meant to come from "back there" actually comes from back there). Then, you'll have left front, right and center in that ARC and surround left & right in those 300s.

I don't know...I'm trying to ELIMINATE the whole "reflective sound" thing from my house. It's already too hard to set up my Bose speakers from 20 and 30 years ago. Why would I want to make it MORE difficult by buying even more reflective sound devices?

Don't let this crowd's biases fool you. Start a thread with a picture of any Apple competitor's "anything" and 'we' tear into it like it's toxic poison.

You're not wrong! People hate the iPhone for this or that, or they hate the iPad for this or that or the other.

But put a competitor's product in front of us, and man, the fangs and claws come out!

Curious how all the Sonos defenders are writing paragraph responses.

I generally prefer to write in paragraphs.

And interestingly enough, I rarely have problems with my Sonos system. I wonder why that is?

Yeah, the app is crap. It will keep on randomly connecting to the TV sound bar in the basement instead of my speaker in the kitchen. Searching for songs is pretty spotty as well.

On occasion, my Apple Podcasts app won't play to the Port in the living room through airplay. But the Sonos App always does. And if ever one or more of the devices won't connect, it might need to have the network rebooted.

But they do sound good.

They do, even with only one speaker in a room.