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arpatil1
Enthusiast II
June 26, 2020

Feature Request: Center Channel Volume and Tuning on Arc

Can we get the ability to tune and control the volume of center channel independently (like surround audio) in a 5.1 setting?  If we get this feature, we won’t have to turn the volume up just to hear the dialogues clearly. 

Bose app already offers such feature for their soundbars. 

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    GuitarSuperstar
    Lead Maestro
    May 11, 2021

    Night Sound and Speech Enhancement work with a stereo signal too. I use Night Sound every night when I watch the news and YouTube videos in stereo. YouTube ads are significantly louder with Night Sound turned off.

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    Airgetlam
    Airgetlam
    May 11, 2021

    Interesting. Is it as much on the stereo feed as it is on a Dolby Digital feed? I’m not at home to do any testing.

    Bruce
    GuitarSuperstar
    Lead Maestro
    May 11, 2021

    Interesting. Is it as much on the stereo feed as it is on a Dolby Digital feed? I’m not at home to do any testing.

    To my ears, I would say the dynamic range compression using Night Sound is comparable between a stereo source and Dolby Digital source. But because multichannel audio tends to have a much higher dynamic range than stereo (especially if it is lossless audio like Dolby TrueHD), I would guess the amount of compression would need to be much more with Dolby Digital.

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      dec1pher
      Lyricist I
      May 12, 2021

      Where is this at? Has anyone at SONOS provided any information or feedback?

      GuitarSuperstar
      Lead Maestro
      May 12, 2021

      Where is this at? Has anyone at SONOS provided any information or feedback?

      Night Sound and Speech Enhancement can be enabled on the Now Playing screen in the Sonos app.

      Night Sound: https://support.sonos.com/s/article/1948?language=en_US

      Speech Enhancement: https://support.sonos.com/s/article/4796?language=en_US

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      Filmhead
      Lyricist I
      May 26, 2021

      Please add a separate centre channel volume adjustment slider Sonos! Many shows are mixed poorly with unbearably loud special effects so it would really help if we could up the volume of the centre channel to help raise the dialogue.

        GaryGorilla
        Enthusiast I
        June 1, 2021

        Do sonos ever monitor this section?  This feature has been asked for repeatedly, including by me.  This would make the arc much better.  At the moment I am forced to use nightmode or things are unwatchable, I.e. voice too low and sound effects way too loud without it.  If I could increase the centre speaker for voices then I could enjoy the system much more and turn nightmode off.

          Corry P
          Corry P
          Sonos Staff
          June 1, 2021

          Hi @GaryGorilla 

          Do sonos ever monitor this section?  This feature has been asked for repeatedly, including by me.  This would make the arc much better.  At the moment I am forced to use nightmode or things are unwatchable, I.e. voice too low and sound effects way too loud without it.  If I could increase the centre speaker for voices then I could enjoy the system much more and turn nightmode off.

          Yes, we do. This thread has been marked as a feature request and will be seen by the relevant teams.

          "Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen." - Albert Einstein
            ChristophB
            Lyricist I
            July 3, 2021

            Can we get the ability to tune and control the volume of center channel independently (like surround audio) in a 5.1 setting?  If we get this feature, we won’t have to turn the volume up just to hear the dialogues clearly. 

            Bose app already offers such feature for their soundbars. 

            Please make this happen.  I would recommend the Arc to anyone until this is added. 

              Kumar
              July 3, 2021

              Please add a separate centre channel volume adjustment slider Sonos! Many shows are mixed poorly with unbearably loud special effects so it would really help if we could up the volume of the centre channel to help raise the dialogue.

              I expect that the speech enhancement mode does not work as well for Sonos as a direct volume adjustment slider would.

              I don’t use bars for TV sound; indeed I use just two front HiFi speakers for TV sound with the centre channel being a phantom effect that works very well except for exactly this problem which can never be resolved because there isn't a centre speaker in my case, where I use a stereo amp.

              My permanent fix for this may be useful till Sonos implements this for its bar type products - I use subtitles for English movies as well.

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