The old Sonos equipment may risk to loss of performance.

for A number of Sonos products will be available from may, no new software, updates, more, reports the company on Tuesday in a blog post. This will ensure that the equipment in the future, some of the functions to lose. According to the company, it is not possible to change the product by updating it, because the hardware is not capable of.

It's going to be in the Zone, Players, Connect, Connect: Amp), first-generation and a Play:5, CR200, and a Bridge. These items were all between 2006 and 2009, for the first time on the market, so the hardware is now out of date. For example, the devices with too little memory and the lack of them, to be sufficient.

because of This, it is possible that the new features won't be usable for the old machine. This is a feature that will be introduced by the partners and by the Sonos, such as the muziekstreamingdiensten, spraakassistenten and streamingsoftware, such as Apple's AirPlay.

Cynthia van der Moolen, the president of Sonos, let it in NU.nl to know that the company is unable to predict what impact the decision will have on the users of the system. However, she says, is that with Sonos at this time, nothing to see, and what they are explicitly perturbed. Sonos is expected that, in the absence of the latest updates in the very near future, even not for a lot of problems are going to take care of it, but in the long term may be possible.

in Addition, Sonos devices, and wherever possible, support will continue to be. As will be bug fixes and security updates will be carried out for as long as possible. This means that the systems are safe to use.