Can the Sonos sub connect to multiple devices at the same time?

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I have a pair of in-ceiling speakers and use a connect: Amp to play music from Sonos/Spotify. I also would like to purchase a Playbar for my television. Can I use the same sub to provide extra bass for both connections, the Playbar and the Connect:Amp? I would not want to use both connections at the same time but would like to have both connect to the sub for convenience.

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Airgetlam

Not easily. You could bond and unbond the SUB each time, but it's a couple of minutes of effort, and you'd be unhappy fairly quickly, as you'd probably want to run TruePlay each time you did so.

Sonos doesn't make this convenient. I suspect it helps sales of more SUBs, but I'm cynical.

Bruce

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Thanks, Bruce.

I should have known that would be too easy.

John

Airgetlam

Yeah, it's not ideal for the user experience, but probably drives some sales for them, so I wouldn't expect them to spend a lot of energy to make it easy.

Frankly, I tend to leave my SUB bonded with my PLAYBAR, set the surrounds to "Full" rather than "Ambient" and turn them up for music, so that I get the stereo from the surrounds, and the SUB works with them, while the PLAYBAR is much "fainter" in the background. I find it servicable, not perfect. But I'd rather not spend the cash on another SUB.

If I spent more time listening to music, rather than watching TV or movies, I might switch it to be bonded with other speakers. But I don't. And it works for me 🙂

Bruce

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