- A firmware update changed the way the sound speakers sound
- Oh no, he didn’t
- Oh if he did
Two days ago, something very strange happened to the Sonos speakers: they began to sound different, but only if you did not work for Sonos.
It all started with a Clearwinter2840 publication at the Subnetdit R/Sonos after installing the latest firmware update. “This new firmware update today has increased the bass toominess in all my speakers significantly!” They wrote. “Others notice this? I had to adjust all my serious configurations, even as a bass lover!”
Other Sonos owners joined together. “Beam 2 also lower after the update even after TruePlay,” Flamicios wrote. “It’s better.” Rampy RS also noticed it. “The bass is definitely up.” Many more posters agreed.
Not so fast, Keith of Sonos said: “FWIW this last firmware update did not literally had changes in the sound profile,” he published. “I’m glad you are enjoying the sound even if! 🤘”
But was right?
Do Placebo songs sound better in the sound speakers now, or is it the placebo effect?
With the Subnet R/Sonos divided between the many users who swore their speakers they sounded better and those who told them that it was the placebo effect, that is, people only perceived that their speakers sounded better because they were encouraged think There had been an improvement: it seemed that the Redditors were going to end in a confrontation in the style of reservoir dogs.
But unlike that movie, this story has a happy ending. Because Sonos Keith returned! Back! BACK!
“Your ears are No Reproducing tricks in you “Keith published yesterday. After two days of” vehemence “standing and telling people that there were no changes in the sound profile in the firmware update, Keith had a confession:”Welp, I was wrong.“
The speakers did it sounds better because they had He has improved, Keith admitted. “It turns out that there were some small DSP corrections included that seemed to have an impact on how the lowest frequencies were represented.”
However, that does not mean that the placebo effect is not real. It is “something we see regularly,” Keith published. It simply does not apply here, although Sonos thought so.
And that makes me think. There is In fact Some small DSP improvements? Or maybe Sonos has realized the marketing benefit of letting people believe there are, especially because the company had to announce imminent price increases, arriving at some point this year? Are the Sonos speakers now with a placebo proof? Maybe we never know. And maybe it’s better not to know.
