Sonos Roam Bluetooth Stereo via Audio MIDI Setup on Mac

  • 13 June 2021
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Hi,

I'm thinking of getting another Sonos Roam but bluetooth stereo is a must for me as I can't stereo pair via wifi (I don't have a stable internet connection). Can someone help test the latency between the two speakers when setting up bluetooth stereo on Mac via Audio MIDI setup?

Here's a guide: https://titusbatson.com/how-to-connect-mac-to-multiple-bluetooth-speakers/

Appreciate it!

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Hi,

I'm thinking of getting another Sonos Roam but bluetooth stereo is a must for me as I can't stereo pair via wifi (I don't have a stable internet connection). Can someone help test the latency between the two speakers when setting up bluetooth stereo on Mac via Audio MIDI setup?

Here's a guide: https://titusbatson.com/how-to-connect-mac-to-multiple-bluetooth-speakers/

Appreciate it!

I’ve done this, and there is still alot of latency, as well as they don’t sound perfectly in-sync over BT when hacked together like that (I thought BT would be lower latency than AirPlay so I could use them as computer speakers, but it’s about the same on these). Also, they don’t sound perfectly in-sync over BT. I would expect your wifi will be good enough tho if you use AirPlay for music, instead of music services. Maybe it’s only your internet connection that is the issue.

Actually, I had only tested that on the Move, just tested on my new Roam, the BT latency is only about half a second on these for one speaker, AirPlay is 2-3 seconds, I was misremembering, but when both of them are connected to a mac at the same time they skip like crazy, interference … this probably explains why they didn’t have stereo BT pairing.

But also, you can’t make a stereo a pair with Audio MIDI Setup, it’ll just blast same audio to both speakers. I used an app called Loopback to get that done.

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Hi,

I'm thinking of getting another Sonos Roam but bluetooth stereo is a must for me as I can't stereo pair via wifi (I don't have a stable internet connection). Can someone help test the latency between the two speakers when setting up bluetooth stereo on Mac via Audio MIDI setup?

Here's a guide: https://titusbatson.com/how-to-connect-mac-to-multiple-bluetooth-speakers/

Appreciate it!

I’ve done this, and there is still alot of latency, as well as they don’t sound perfectly in-sync over BT when hacked together like that (I thought BT would be lower latency than AirPlay so I could use them as computer speakers, but it’s about the same on these). Also, they don’t sound perfectly in-sync over BT. I would expect your wifi will be good enough tho if you use AirPlay for music, instead of music services. Maybe it’s only your internet connection that is the issue.

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