08-Feb-2022, 09:28
(08-Feb-2022, 08:32)frogster99 Wrote: I will try, the only reason that I bought the phantoms was because they were wireless. I don't want cables everywhere and if i did i wouldn't buy phantoms.
i just cant understand that my Sonos system is in the same room. Sonos is 5.1 and i never get dropouts at all.
Totally understand and really feel your pain. I know from the periods when my own system has been playing up how maddeningly frustrating it is, especially with these supposedly premium and far from cheap products.
There's a fairly simple explanation but I'm afraid it's not going to help. I worked with two of the founders of Sonos at a software company long before they founded Sonos. They already had a couple of successful exits in the bag and chalked up another one when their company merged with the company I was working for. They are not only serial entrepreneurs but high caliber software professionals, the genius of Sonos lies in the software. Devialet was founded by an electronic engineer, a hardware genius who for a brief period churned out more innovations than the rest of the industry put together. Unfortunately Devialet has never shown any software chops. Au contraire, their short history is checkered with software snafus.
As I describe above Wi-Fi can be really tricky to get right, especially if your house has thick interior walls and/or you live in an apartment block with congested airspace. Please try my Wi-Fi recommendations above and let me know how you get on, but if both of the above factors apply you may be better off testing if they work better on PLC. You can force the Phantoms to use PLC in the app. Unfortunately apartment buildings also tend to have very dirty mains power so it may not help but it's worth a try. It's free, it's easy and it's fully reversible.
