Dual sub mini setup

The characteristics of sound waves means the location of your Sub Mini will affect the sound it produces. Plug it into a long extension cable and then try it out in different positions around the room; you might find a more satisfying position for it, even as a single unit. 

Thanks nik, but that’s really not a good option for my room.  Bottom line, I know that a second sub mini would sound amazing and truly fill the space.  It’s just kinda weird that Sonos doesn’t want my money.  After all, they know how to make two sub gen 3/4’s work in tandem, so I can’t imagine it would be that hard to also allow that feature in the sub mini.

Sure it’s a fairly niche use case, but so in having two big subs in the same room. Just take my money sonos 😎

Just sayin’

So moving the existing Sub Mini is not an option, but you can place a second Sub Mini somewhere in the room? I hope Sonos introduces the option for multiple Sub Minis soon then. 

I should have elaborated. Yes there is room on the opposite side, but that would create the same problem in reverse. Whichever side the sub is on gets more bass

And again, its  not like I’m suggesting something crazy here. Sonos allows you to use a dual setup with their big subs, and theres planty of people who use 2 of them - in order to spread the bass across the room more evenly. I just prefer the tighter sound of the sub mini - so like those who find it useful to have dual big subs, I’d like to have dual sub minis

So far, the only way is by creating a second setup. If you dont want to spend in Ones or Eras, some people buy an used symfonisk (ikea) and pair it to a second sub mini, then group them. You will need to fisically disconect the speakers in the symfonik if you dont want to hear that one, but the sub mini will still. The symfonik ca be hidden anywhere in the house.

So my question is, right now my setup is an arc, a sub mini, and two era 100’s.  Lets say I got a second sub mini, paried that to the era 100’s and paired the first sub mini to the arc, then group all of them.  Would that result in any degradation of the sound?  

Side note, I do NOT currently use the era 100’s as ‘surrounds’.  I have them set to ‘full’ in the app (rather than ambient).  I use them as front speakers to widen the soundstage.  I love the effect and the setup sounds amazing to me.  As another side note, I don’t have any room behind the couch to properly place them as surrounds anyway.

When Sonos first created synchronised multi-room audio capability, they did so by delaying the stream of audio data by 70(75?)msec. For most audio this didn’t matter - there’s no visual cue for it to matter. With their home theatre systems, lip sync issues meant they dropped the delay for  audio signals to about 30msec. For the home theatre room (be that just an Arc or a fully configured Arc/dual Era effects speakers and dual Subs) this is fine. But when grouping another room and playing the video audio, the delay of 70msec still applies. The result: audio to the home theatre room is 40msec ahead of audio to other rooms. This results in an echo effect. Some folk on here have said it’s not an issue for them, whilst others find it unacceptable. You already have the 100’s so you can remove them as surrounds, set them up as a new room, and listen for yourself. 

Thanks for that info!  Appreciate your knowledge.  Given that extra ‘delay’ I will just keep my system as-is and live without a second sub mini.  

You did just save me $400+ dollars.  But still, if Sonos would just make two sub mini’s work together like they do with their big sub, well I’d throw my $400+ at them faster than you can say ‘overkill’ 😜

You might put a long extension cord on the Sub and experiment with alternate placements. It can take some time but in most cases a location for a Sub can be found that interacts with your room to provide reasonably level response.

Not every room, but still worth a try.

If you set up a subwoofer right, you should not be able to pinpoint where it is. Your statement “Whichever side the sub is on gets more bass”, while being true in some cases, should not be true if you’ve set the sub up well.