Sonos Connect Wyred4Sound Mod Any Good?

Thanks for responding.
if your main Sonos Connect became unusable, would you pay the $450 again on your other Sonos to use on the main system?  Just wondering if there was enough difference would you do it over again.

Macdude


what DAC are you using? 
I have a yggy and it seems my stock Sonos gets it clock cleaned by the yggy,  but I would like to be able to give the yggy the best opportunity to excel. 
Can you add any advice of me leaving my Sonos as stock or spending ~450.00 to perhaps not really hearing any improvement ?

Schiits response to my email said to not send an up sample to yggy,. It is better to let it do take care of it.  The only other improvement from the upgrade would the better clock low jitter.  The yggy already says it has s good stream so I don't see how an upgrade to the stock Sonos would be any improvement.   Am I missing something?

I have the yggy DAC from Schiit.  They are not confirming or denying that sending the yggy a better PCM steam with less jitter makes any RATIONAL sense.  If the stream is not good enough the light for "Need Better Stream" comes on.  The stock Sonos stream is good enough and does not cause the light to come on. Only really bad equipment would cause this.  

Anyone have the Sonos and YGGY that had done the mod post getting the YGGY out there care to comment. 

This Schiit already sounds so good matched up with my Prima Luna HP. 

Ethernet?  Let's not get confused here. 
Not trying to be condescending but you can remove that worry as long as you don't get total sound drop outs. Believe me

Mcdude - 
I'll check into the Magna Audio upgrade thank you for the advice. 
Reading through baldr's post of the yggy I did find an indication that the yggy would take the lower jitter stream and it would be an improvement.  They are also very clear to point out that not everyone can hear lower level details.  But I don't think that applies to anyone in this hobby, right? 

Magna Audio is across the pond.  I would go thru wyrd4 audio here.  

I would like to find someone here that has a sonos connect and the yggy that did the sonos mod.  Don't want to be the trailblazer in this one Spending $550 for no noticeable sound improvement and dare I say it no audio eye candy.

I checked the reclocks that was a good idea to be able to compare. Seems it up samples to 96kHz.  Schiit customer support said not to upsample need to let the burrito filter take care of it.   The less equipment in the chain was also a strong recommendation.  

The latest Sonos update was awesome. It is great to see them actively enhancing the front lend and easily delivering updates.   

Yes for the Sonos they can set sample rate but I'll give them a call for the reclocker

yes. Less presses to play and keeps the music going.   I use Deezer, hopefully more financial stable  than Tidal.  

I called Wyred4sound today and asked about  the remedy and the Sonos  modification.  Suggested I go with the modification since it can maintain the non-upsampled stream.

they said it is one of the oldest offerings they have but one of the most  popular over the years so they continue to do it.  

This nagging technical question stopped me Friday from pressing submit of the Wyred mod upgrade.  

Is there any value in using a device (Emperical Audio) that says it performs Asynchronous Sample-Rate conversion between a music streamer and the yggy. Or is this redundant if the yggy is already performing the resampling to improve and reduce the jitter? Maybe this is one of the things yggy does that is responsible for its massive adoption.  

Isn't the Sonos basically doing the same thing as the Emperical device and my yggy DAC would already be doing this?

macdude-did you hear a noticeable improvement in changing the Sonos power cord out? I didn't  realize there was even an option to put a aftermarket PC on the Sonos.

thanks jl35 I would for sure get the Sonos modified,
But  yggdraisal has Schiit's AdaptiClock proprietary technology that takes the stream and reduces the jitter as long as it is not too bad.  
Otjer  DACs may not have this ability

Just can't  seem to find anyone that has a Sonos and yggy that later did the mod to see if there was an SQ improvement or if it is just redundant. 

Just how how much the yggy can clean up the Sonos stream is the ?. $ 550 to find out I guess