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Wyleycoyot
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April 26, 2026
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connecting turntable to existing surround sound

I have a Beam and plan on using two Era 300s to create a surround sound group for my tv setup. My question is I have an existing turntable that is playing through a Sonos Five. Am I able to connect the five through the beam and era 300s to play my turntable through the house? Or once they are setup as surround sound am I unable to do that?

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jgatie
jgatieAnswer
April 26, 2026

I was seeing that the line in doesn’t work once you have the beam and era 300s grouped for surround sound. Is this true??

 

The line-in is deactivated on any speaker(s) used as surrounds.  But that only applies to the line-in capability of the surrounds.  Any line-in on other speakers not being used as surrounds will work just fine. 

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jgatie
jgatie
June 10, 2026

Thanks for your reply.  Sure, I get the private connection, for me its between my Arc and Era 100 surrounds.  It works excellently and so I wouldnt even suggest that a difficult work around to make it a two way transmission is needed.  My thoughts are more along the line of “unbinding” the surrounds when I want to use the line-in function, and then “re-binding” when using surround sound.  This could be done from the Sonos app.  This can be done already of course, the painful part is having to go through the Tru play setup every time.  If such settings could be saved and then reloaded that would be a good solution in my opinion.

 

Also been requested many times.  I’m not going to bother citing the reasons why this isn’t likely to happen, just going to say that the current “binding” and “unbinding” process takes a few minutes for a reason, and automating it isn’t going to speed it up that much.  But you never know . . . 

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    Stanley_4
    Grand Maestro
    June 10, 2026

    No need to do a lot of searching, that input disable is in the user guide and on the support pages here.

    As said, unlikely to be added as  an option and removing the surrounds gets old fast. Far better to just buy another Sonos that has a line in option.

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