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Help needed…

Hello Team, So I am currently renovating our house. I have been a Sonos customer for a long time, through the good times and the bad. Now one option I am considering is sticking with Sonos and adding an Amp with six architectural in ceiling speakers for casual listening and parties (I love music all the time everywhere but am not an audiophile). 

The ceiling is vaulted and so the four speakers along the wall will be angled by the pitch towards the stairs/kitchen space. The two end speakers will be angled inwards also on opposing angles which all meets in the middle at about 4m height. Room is 11 x 4 metres roughly. Hard floors, hard ceilings, hard surfaces. 

Questions/Help asked:
1. 6 or 8 inch? (will be a sub in the bench seat). The 6 inches can be tilted and the 8 cannot but As I’m using for music firing it straight down isn’t necessary I assume and there will be no fixed listening position due to the multi purpose nature of the space. 
2. 4 or 6 speakers?
3. Room Placement- does this make sense? there is no option to create squares due to the pitch or ceiling up towards mezzanine floor. 
4. Height placement- Better to go higher up into the pitched roof or stay as low to the wall as possible? 
5. Any advice from people in general would be kindly received! 
6. No App chat, I know as well as any of you. Like I said it’s an option not a final decision, lot of the principles will be the same. 
7. Any wired networking advice (absolute novice, coming from NETGEAR Orbi which did not play nice with Sonos for a long time)

Thanks in advance…. 

I’d lean to 8” as you will be less unhappy paying a bit extra then in trying to upgrade the smaller ones or living with them if the sound is inadequate.

I’d go with six in that room. Wire then individually back to the Amp so you can play around with various Left/Right combinations as well as Mono to see which you like best. Get good wire labels, if they fall off (don’t ask how I know) it will be a pain to get them re-labeled correctly.

I’d lean to lower, maybe a meter in from the walls. With the angle that should be far enough to minimize reflections off the walls.

 

I’d try to avoid a wired setup, the newer Sonos gear is being released with no support for SonosNet so you’ll end up with a mixed setup (some SonosNet, some WiFi) which might not be optimal.

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