Need possibility of adding delay in addition to the normal 70ms

I know you are aware that when connecting a Sonos Connect to an external receiver, there is processing of the signal at the receiver level. This of course leads to a delay between the output of the connect to the output of the signal to speakers attached to receiver. Which is fine when playing by itself. When grouped with a sonos 3 it causes a sync issue. I know it's not your fault, it's the receiver processing creating a delay. Do you have any plans to help us audiophiles? A delay setting to the sonos 3 or 5 would be a much welcomed feature.
Thank you. This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled Add a Manual time delay for separate zones.

Whole hartedly agree that a delay feature is a must have. Come on Sonos! Your product is fantastic, however, when used with high end equipment like an AV receiver this is a feature that surely many people are crying out for?. I personally had no problems until I bought a decent yamaha av receiver and now I cannot use sonos in my living room due to the delay. Having the ability to control delay by zones/sonos controller would enable me to introduce a delay everywhere else but on the sonos connect which is connected into my amp.

Hi,
as many others report, when connecting the Sonos system through a modern A/V receiver (late 2012 Yamaha in my case) and listening to music both from the Receiver (via Sonos Connect) and from Sonos Players (typical "party" setup) there is a very significant delay coming from the speakers connected to the A/V receiver, which is caused by the processing happening in the receiver.
Without a simple delay compensation setting in the Sonos app the music is not in sync anymore, unless you listen to the speakers connected to the A/V reciever in "pure direct" modes and the likes, which means that usually you then listen to only 2 speakers out of maybe 7 which are connected to the system. Not good.
Net, WE NEED A DELAY COMPENSATION OPTION IN THE SONOS APP: MUSIC IS OUT OF SYNC WHEN PLAYED OUT TO AN A/V RECEIVER AND ONE OR MORE ZONE PLAYERS!! This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled Delay compensation feature needed.

Hello, Thank you all for the comments. This request has been passed on to our Product Development team for review.

thank you for responding Sonos. As an audiophile, I like your products but I love my B&W speakers. I had to return my Sonos 5, and connect. I kept one 3. Please let us know when you add this feature, so we can enjoy your great products even more!

thank you for responding Sonos. As an audiophile, I like your products but I love my B&W speakers. I had to return my Sonos 5, and connect. I kept one 3. Please let us know when you add this feature, so we can enjoy your great products even more!

I must say that I'm quite concerned with my Sonos setup after buying the new Yamaha receiver RX-A1020. I have exactly the same problem as described above. The Yamaha is able to delay the sound some milliseconds but just as stated above the problem are that the Play 5 are ahead of the sound from my Connect played through the receiver. I really hope Sonos will supply with a solution very soon as I right now has paused investment of further planned Sonos products as I must have music in sync. If I understand correct the problems is related to every high end receiver out there who is processing the sound in any way from the Sonos Connect so therefore it seems to be a quite serious problem for Sonos multiroom solutions. Sad as I really loved my Sonos until this problem occurred.

Please add me to the list of those looking for this delay feature being added. If I group my connect (Bose system off of this) and my Play 5's I get a slight echo.

+1 crucial functionality

Don't let the boilerplate "this has been forwarded to development teams" get your hopes up. Look at the discussion forums. This was reported years ago but hasn't changed so it is either something they consider a non-priority or is something they can't change due to hardware limitations.