Lack of Support for Legacy Products – Sonos S1 Controller Review

Sonos was one of (the?) first linked wireless speaker products several years ago. We really liked their control app, speaker design, sound quality, etc. However, last year, they tried to “upgrade” their operating system to make our older generation products obsolete. Those older products happened to be mainly the ones that required a Sonos amp and used built-in third party speakers. Sonos was trying to push consumers to their newer all-in-one amp/speaker combinations. We do have several of those, and they work fine. However, we really resented them forcing an upgrade on us. You only have to look at Sonos’ website to note they are charging a premium price for their products. At these prices, you should be able to expect 15-20 year product life in my view. Sonos eventually caved to angry consumer demand last year, but the app has started to get VERY balky with the first generation products. I’m not techy enough to figure it out in fact, but it certainly feels that the first generation products are being slowly neglected. If we weren’t so invested in Sonos already or we had to start fresh, we would not go with Sonos.
Review by Paoli Passemger on Sonos S1 Controller.