Feature Request: Center Channel Volume and Tuning on Arc

people have been asking this for years (literary from play bar era).  

Yes, night sound and speech enhancement both help a little but nothing comes close to being able to adjust canter channel manually to your liking. 

they just added height channel adjustment to Arc which means they should be able to give us control over the other channels in Arc.  

I guess till sonos does this, many of us have to watch TV with a remote control in our hand to constantly adjust the volume. 

Subtitles might work for some folks but I often have the TV on just to hear the sound, ignoring and not even looking at the picture.

I’d even settle for a mute “right, left, sub and surround” button just so I could hear the voices.

Can only agree what has been written about center volume level. I need more of it please.

Adding a reply to see if they ever do anything. Maybe I’ll call the support and complain. My beam has better center channel isolation. You’d think a device over 2x as expensive would sound better.

New Sonos Arc owner here , just come from a home theatre 5.1 setup with projector to LG GX and Arc combo and immediately noticed the centre level needing to be adjusted.

I know plenty of owners asked for the height adjustment sliders but I feel the centre is even more important IMO. I’ll be on a mission now to petition and have this feature added.

Seems a pretty simple and obvious one so let’s hope it gets sorted soon…speech enhancement does help a little so far but still not ideal 

Also a new owner here as of 3 weeks ago. I have an ARC, 2 subs, and 2 One SL’s. Watching anything with Dolby, especially with any action at all raises the sound to a level where I cannot hear any of the speech coming from the center channel through the Arc. For example: I am at the moment watching Shang-Chi on Disney+ and experiencing this issue. It was also an issue watching Dune on HBO Max. I normally turn off the rears and turn the subs down while watching regular TV.

This system was quite expensive, and the only way I can hear the speech clearly is to either turn the subs, and rears down so I can hear the center, or better yet turn the subs and rears off completely.
 

I purchased this system based on all of the rave reviews out there. I even added a second sub to make it more of an experience. Wanting a theater experience in our home was what I was after, although at the theater I can hear what they’re saying along with the action! But I have to say, having to turn down, or turn off half the system to hear the speech with everything is pretty crazy.

I would definitely second adding user control over the center channel levels! And I’m surprised in looking at how many posts have come before mine requesting this feature that nothing has been done about it. Especially when it is an option from Sono’s competitors. If there’s an option to control the volume of the subwoofer and rear channels, how hard would it be to add a feature to control the front? And how many people need to request it before it may become reality?

Luckily, I’m still in my return window! And it’s too bad. The system sounds great, but I’m at an age where I’d like to get as many years in as I can before having to turn on the closed captions!

It’s a must have feature for the quality of the dialogue  it produces now. I have just installed the arc yesterday, and I was a AV system salesman once, I noticed that instantly, it’s not even good as my OLED TV screen speaker (for dialogue)

I’d also really like this feature. 

I thought I was the only one that noticed that about speech enhancement. It makes surround sound less present or not as loud as it should be. Does something to the LEF too. But with DTS content it doesn’t happen 

Absolutely agree with this thread, just 'upgraded' from the LG atmos soundbar and surround speakers which had a present movie mode which ensured rich sound effects while delivering very clear dialogue and I could adjust the centre speakers, height speakers and the surround speakers. 

Considering the Sonos is three times the price, being able to adjust the centre speaker to have clear dialogue should be an absolute basic given!!! 

Sonos really needs to be sorted soon, it's clearly a while spread issue with a lot of people waiting for this.