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Chap15
Contributor I
December 21, 2017

Suggest Same Volume Levels When You Group Rooms

  • December 21, 2017
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I suggest a capability in the Controller App.

BLUF: When you group rooms, the volume levels are set in order to achieve balance and equality.

Situation. In my great room (living room, kitchen, eating area) I have the playbar, sub, and a pair of play 2 for my TV. I also have a pair of play 3 near the TV and a pair of play 1 at the other end of the great room. In this great room I have three "rooms" in Sonos. TV room (playbar...), Music Room (Play 5), and the kitchen (play 1). Sometimes I like to group them all together. When I do this, I have to adjust the volume for each room in order to achieve balance/ equality.

Could there be a present or another way to group rooms with a present volume control? Or, to create a room of several rooms and then establish levels using the setup?
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    Chap15Author
    Contributor I
    December 22, 2017
    Correction. Could there be a preset, not a present. Must be Christmas time.:D
      Chris
      Chris
      Lead Maestro
      December 22, 2017
      I personally would rather it not. Especially on units like a Connect where the volume may be purposefully low because the volume is being controlled by an attached amplifier. I may also have rooms that I don't want even close to the currently playing room volume.

      I prefer volume at last played in that room. If I'm concerned with what a volume in room is before I group I go to that room and adjust the volume before grouping in.
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      Chap15Author
      Contributor I
      December 22, 2017
      Chris, thanks reading and adding your input. I agree with you.
      Perhaps I didn't convey exactly what I am trying to do.
      I have a number of speakers (8 total) in one room. The speakers are paired together or part of the playbar system. Sometimes I like to play all the speakers at the same time. When I play them all at the same time I have to adjust the mix. Perhaps if there was a room where you could add more than two speakers (besides the playbar tv room) and adjust them mix using truplay. I too use the line-in for my turntable and and tape and there is no issue when I adjust the mix for all the speakers.
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