Once Sonos introduces new speakers later this year (and for argument’s sake let’s give Sonos the benefit of the doubt, even though Covid-19 is disrupting global supply chains), those new speakers will be required to run on the S2 software. Or third, you could keep using the Play:5, only you’ll have to decide if you want to run two disparate systems and apps-one for that speaker, one for your newer Sonos One-or keep every speaker running on the less modern Sonos S1 OS and Sonos S1 app. Second, you could “trade in” that Play:5, get 30 percent off of a newer Sonos product, and then do whatever you want with the old speaker-discard it, hand it off to a friend, or store it in your personal speaker museum. First, you can remove the Play:5 from your Sonos setup, upgrade the Sonos One speaker to the S2 OS and new Sonos app, and get all of the latest features on your speaker. So if you have a new version of the Sonos One speaker (2019), but you also happen to have an original Sonos Play: 5 (2009), you have a few options, none of which are ideal. It’s when you mix old and new products that things get confusing. You can still cluster legacy speakers together for multiroom audio. Sonos has tried to stress that the older products are still going to be supported, but it has made the distinction that they’re not going to get new software updates and therefore won’t get most new features, with the exception of bug fixes and security patches.
