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Kiylea2
Contributor I
December 22, 2020

Sonos Five Grouping does not override surround sound setting for music

  • December 22, 2020
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I am trying to play music from a turntable as line-in to a Sonos Five, and have the music play through all my Sonos speakers in stereo mode.

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I have a Sonos Five speaker in one room with a line-in turntable (Den).  In another room I have an ARC, SUB, 2 Sonos one SLs  set up as surround. (FAMILY).

In the Family room, the Sonos SL speakers will go into surround sound setting automatically when playing a movie, and switch to stereo speakers when streaming music.

However, if I group the room DEN with the room FAMILY, the Sonos SL speakers stay in surround sound setting even when playing music.

I am not able to directly add the Sonos Five speaker to the FAMILY home theater room.  And I am hoping that I don’t have to keep manually moving the Sonos SL speakers to other rooms for the purpose of using them as stereo speakers when playing the turntable.

Has anyone been able to overcome this issue?

 

 

 

 

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    EarlOffenwick
    Lyricist II
    April 17, 2021

    The info I paraphrased without attribution was from a Sonos tech who was apparently weary of answering this question. By “a lot more speakers” I was lazily referring to the maximum number of speakers in a Sonos network. Sorry I forget if it’s 16 or 32 or 128. :vulcan_tone1:

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