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I am unable to move everything to the same room

  • December 25, 2024
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I have a Beam, Sub, 2 Play1's and a Port. For some reason, my mistake I presume, I ended up with 3 seperate rooms: the port in 1, Beam and Sub in 1 and the Play1's in 1. I was able to create a group containing all 3 rooms, but because of this setup no surrounds (stereo pair) in the room with the Beam and the Sub.

I am able to break the stereo pair in the Play1 room, which enables me to add one Play1 to the Beam/Sub room creating a stereo pair with the Beam I think. This leaves me with a Play1 in a seperate room. I would prefer to add both Play1's to the Beam/Sub room as the stereo pair, but am unable to do so.

Anybody, any advice?

Best answer by buzz

Only identical speakers can be “Bonded” as a stereo pair. This pair will become a “Room”. If you unBond the stereo pair, these speakers can be added to the soundbar as surrounds. All three speakers will become a single Room. If you also add a SUB to this surround Room, it will become part of the surround Room too. The result will be soundbar, surrounds, and SUB becoming a single Room.

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  • Senior Virtuoso
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  • December 25, 2024

From the product guide:

 

Set up surrounds

It’s easy to turn two Sonos speakers (same model), or a Sonos Amp and your favorite non-Sonos speakers, into separate right and left channels for your home theater. 

  1. Place each surround speaker about 10 ft from your favorite listening position, angling them toward the seating area.
  2. Go to  > System.
  3. Select a room with a soundbar and choose Add Surrounds to get started.

Note: If you group the rooms or create a stereo pair instead, you won't have surround sound.

Learn more


buzz
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  • December 25, 2024

Only identical speakers can be “Bonded” as a stereo pair. This pair will become a “Room”. If you unBond the stereo pair, these speakers can be added to the soundbar as surrounds. All three speakers will become a single Room. If you also add a SUB to this surround Room, it will become part of the surround Room too. The result will be soundbar, surrounds, and SUB becoming a single Room.


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  • Contributor I
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  • December 25, 2024

Thanks buzz and nik9669a. That was quick. I did as you suggested and voila: surrouds in the room with the Beam/Sub.

Thanks again. 


Stanley_4
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  • December 26, 2024

This was much easier when houses had rooms and Sonos had Zones.

Edited to the old names just to aggravate the Sonos marketing folks:

Only identical speakers can be “Bonded” as a stereo pair. This pair will become a “Zone”. If you unBond the stereo pair, these speakers can be added to the soundbar as surrounds. All three speakers will become a single Zone. If you also add a SUB to this surround Zone, it will become part of the surround Zone too. The result will be soundbar, surrounds, and SUB becoming a single Zone.


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  • December 26, 2024

What confused me, when I unpaired the two 1's, it left 1 of the two in that 'room'. Only one of the pair became "free’ to do something with, I thought. So I did not expect both would come along when adding the surround to the Beam/Sub 'room'.


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