Sonos Category and observation

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(1) Givent he ubiquity of Sonos as an endpoint and compatibility with version 1.3, doesn’t it now deserve its own category under “Audio Products?” Audiophiles may cringe, but a lot of us have these things deployed around the house. Compatability under 1.3 was a huge win.

(2) I was initially amazed at the application of DSP to a Sonos zone and then something happened where I moved markedly backwards - worse that before. As it turns out, volume leveling appears to have been the culprit - in my experience - turn off volume leveling when using Sonos.

(3) Definitely notice that control of the Sonos transport is much more finicky under Roon control than the Sonos app - go slow and easy on it.

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I was excited when I say Sonos was added as an endpoint, but got less excited when I realized you couldn’t group it with RAAT endpoints. That being said, I am selling all my Sonos stuff and going with all RAAT endpoints (RaspberryPI with Hifiberrys). I don’t have any Sonos speakers, just Connects, so not a big deal for me to switch. I wish there was a way they could have made the Sonos stuff “groupable” with other Roon endpoint types, but I certainly understand (assume) that there are significant complications.

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