The original system was the Bose Built Invisible that had the sub woofer and rear speakers built into the wall. It had a separate amp for all the speakers that is no longer working.
Want to add an Arc with two amplifiers (one for the rears and one for the sub) for the home theater room.
Will the set up in the Amp allow for a stand alone sub woofer only. Trying to do this without having to get a separate power amplifier to use the sub output.
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Check your BOSE manuals. Many of their speakers and subwoofers required a specific equalizer that was built-in to their amplifiers or supplied as a separate box.
Regardless, you’d need a 3rd party amplifier for the BOSE subwoofer because SONOS AMP’s cannot drive passive subwoofers.
Finally, ARC cannot drive 3rd party subwoofers. Only a SONOS subwoofer will work with ARC. A rear channel AMP cannot drive a subwoofer of any description.
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If you use AMP for the front speakers, rather than ARC, you could use a 3rd party amplifier for the BOSE subwoofer. Currently, AMP in front will not support DOLBY ATMOS.
Check your BOSE manuals. Many of their speakers and subwoofers required a specific equalizer that was built-in to their amplifiers or supplied as a separate box.
Regardless, you’d need a 3rd party amplifier for the BOSE subwoofer because SONOS AMP’s cannot drive passive subwoofers.
Finally, ARC cannot drive 3rd party subwoofers. Only a SONOS subwoofer will work with ARC. A rear channel AMP cannot drive a subwoofer of any description.
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If you use AMP for the front speakers, rather than ARC, you could use a 3rd party amplifier for the BOSE subwoofer. Currently, AMP in front will not support DOLBY ATMOS.
Than you ! Too bad in the set up a sub couldn’t be added just like the rear speakers. They are just 8 Ohm impedance as they were designed to work with other external amplifiers.
If a Port was added to the system with an external amplifier… could that be set up as either a subwoofer or as front speakers along with an Arc?
No. There will be no crossover and there will be time alignment issues.
ARC does not support extra L/R speakers.
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