Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

This is the product I'm forced to move to in order to keep my Sonos ecosystem functional as it already currently is because my original Sonos:Connect was deprecated is now considered Legacy, despite being just 5 years old. What's more, the Port here is a downgrade - cheaper materials, loss of external button control surface, loss of TOSLINK optical port. The DAC is reportedly improved but I've yet to hear of a report from *anyone* noticing a difference so I am dubious (the previous DAC wasn't stellar, but it was by no means poor). It's smaller and it comes in black. That's the extent of the upgrade for $100 higher price-tag..... A device that does less and one that is quite literally forced upon current sonos ecosystem users/investors just in order to keep *ANY* of other devices I have able to receive upgrades and updates while on the same network. Sonos has lost its way. edit update: If this were priced similarly to a Sonos One, I'd likely bite, perhaps even more than one in order to convert my other room zones to traditional speakers fed by one of these for future proofing. If it were $150 I'd definitely be in, but considering what its, what it does and more importantly what it *leaves out* (bluetooth AptX, digital inputs, surface controls, hi-res output, a headphone jack, to name just a few) for a modern product in 2020, I consider its going price to be a genuine ripoff to be quite honest. It's a bit too bad - many had waited for this product update from Connect for years with no shortage of feature suggestions offered to Sonos from Connect users for an eventual new product throughout all that time. This falls very short.