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Just upgrade from:

 

Arc with play-1

to

Arc Ultra + Sub 4 and Era 300.

 

Sounds awesome !

However two things really buggering me already now:

  • Having a setup with a non eArc projector and eArc enabled TV - both connected to separate ATV 4K’s for the projector I rely on Airplay - I would love to see Airplay support Dolby Atmos - seems that Apple has enabled that recently for 3rd parties so looking forward to getting that supported from Sonos as well !
  • Why on earth not exposing the sub as a regular Sonos speaker to allow it to group with any other Sonos speakers. Right now it gets dedicated to the Arc Ultra and that group needs to be grouped with the other speaker group I want use in order to work ? This actually came as a surprise to me - would have gone for a non-Sonos sub and a Sonos port IF I have only known about this. I read people stating that the sub creates a dedicated 5Ghz channel - which is complete nonsense - sending low frequency information could probably be done using morse code over IR. Please allow sub to pair with multiple groups/speakers.

 

Anyone knowing more about the above ?

 

Cheers,

Alex

Sonos does not share its plans, so nothing is certain. I’d agree with your first idea, but your second idea would be very difficult in Sonos’ current way of working. Not only would a multi-“room” (not “group”) Sub be able to connect to different speakers, but the speakers would also be able to function with or without the Sub, and be able to adjust their set up and know when they are being used with or without the Sub. They would need to remember and adjust different Trueplay setting for both situations too. The Sub would have to be able to adjust to different ways of being commanded - on a 5Ghz dedicated set up from a soundbar or Amp and on 2,4Ghz with other speakers.

And Sonos would have to design al this with the result probably being they sell less Subs, because at least some of the people wanting to use Subs in different “rooms” will eventually buy an extra Sub. Which they won’t do if your idea gets to be real.

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