Software rolls up to the store’s hi-fi industry. A sign of the times. The multiroom specialist Sonos upgraded for its customers a new feature for better sound via online update after
In the competition between providers of networked speaker sets the US -Pionier Sonos software that adjusts the sound to the particularities of the premises.
The program for newly unveiled True Play there is initially available as an app for Apple’s iPhones and iPads. For the setting to give the speakers a few minutes a pulsating electronic tone again and the user has to move with the Apple device through the space. This is recognized as spread the sound waves bounce off the walls and.
The result is a noticeably improved sound, because the speaker is working on the basis of the calculation according to its position in space. It is precisely in the compact networked loudspeakers so that buyers do not necessarily advantageous placed commented Sonos manager Patrick Spence.
Overall’ll Software in the business and more important, he stressed. “In this area, the differentiation takes place.” Sonos was one of the first providers of networked multi-room music systems. The California-based company makes True Play initially for three of its speakers available, including a new version of the model Play:. 5 For the previous devices the function via software update will be installed from the network. Other providers use current rather on fixed preferences, such as whether the speakers are on a wall or anywhere in the room
In the new model of Play:. 5 also two microphones were installed, that are not immediately used, said Spence. In future versions of the software so that the sound quality could be improved directly on the device eventually. The user would explicitly warned when the microphones should be activated. Also voice control is a way for the future, even if the function is currently not planned. Per software is also adapted, whether individually a speaker or is used as a stereo pair of two devices.
With the rise of digital music from the Internet is also the device class networked speakers and more important for the hi-fi business. Before the Christmas business, bring the vendors with new models in position. The Play: 5 Sonos comes about against the model A6 from the Danish manufacturer B & amp; O to play, a brand of high-price provider Bang & amp; Olufsen. Also B & amp; O Play working on software for sound improvement, Brand Chef Henrik Taudorf Lorensen said on the sidelines of electronics trade fair IFA in Berlin. At Bang & amp; Olufsen generates the sub-brand now about a quarter of the business and is growing by around 50 percent a year.
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