2 speakers as a center channel

A Sonos Amp uses two ‘front’ speaker to create a virtual center channel, in addition to the stand left and right channels, when fed a 5.1 signal. It requires a pair of third party speakers to be connected to it. Is that what you’re looking for?

Either another Amp, or a pair of like Sonos speakers can then be used as surrounds, if desired, as can a Sonos Sub. 

Have you perhaps looked at using a Sonos Amp for the front L/R and phantom center channels? See this link:

https://support.sonos.com/s/article/4717
 

The Amp can connect to the TV over HDMI ARC, or Optical, and also be used with another Amp, or Sonos speakers for the rear L/R surround channels and the setup will support upto two Sonos Subs (one of which must be a gen3 Sub).

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Thank you for the replies!

so this is the design so far:

The TV comes down to eye level. I want to put the speakers in the two “holes” you see above the tv on either side of the mount plate that’s in black.

with the amp suggestion, do I use to center speakers for the center channel and then a left right forward and aft or do I just use 4 speakers, one in each corner?

thanks again!

There are no center speakers required with the Sonos Amp, it’s normally just two (or four) 8ohm speakers that play the left/right channels and create a ‘phantom’ center channel - there is no front center speaker.

You can put the 8ohm speakers mentioned wherever you choose - personally speaking, I would just put two floor standers, one on either side of the TV near those wall power sockets.

Then i would choose to add one, or possibly two, Sub(s) to the setup and two surrounds, which can come from a pair of matching Sonos speakers, or another Sonos Amp/Speakers.

If the L/R speakers are close to the TV, a center channel speaker is redundant.

This is great, thank you!

One more questions
 

     It looks as the  amp only for wired setups. Is there a way to do what I want wirelessly? 

thanks again everyone!

What do you mean by wirelessly? The Amp needs a power cable, that is one ‘wire’, it also needs to receive a signal from the TV, that’s another ‘wire’. Finally, it needs to send a signal to speakers, which require wires to carry the power and signal. However, the Sonos Amp can connect wirelessly to both your WiFi signal and other Sonos speakers. 

Thank you for the answer. I was hoping for a wireless signal (wifi) and power (battery) but it doesn’t look like that’s a possibility. Is it?