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Switching between SURROUND and STEREO

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Feedback for Sonos on a new app feature that would be very useful… it is very common for a speaker installation to include two in-wall speakers in the back of a living room for surround sound for watching TV. However, when not watching TV and instead listening to music you can’t switch the speakers into stereo mode without a long drawn-out process of removing the surround speakers. It would be awesome if you could add a feature in the app to toggle between surround and stereo in two speakers in such an installation. I believe this would be used quite a bit.

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Ken_Griffiths

Is setting the HT surrounds to use ‘FULL’ (range) stereo playback for music audio not working for you in this instance, as mentioned here…

https://support.sonos.com/en-us/article/low-audio-from-surround-speakers-when-listening-to-music

In my own use-case, I don’t like the music soundstage behind the listening position, but each to their own, I guess.

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jgatie

It’s important to understand what is at work here. When adding surrounds/Subs, in order to maintain sync with the video, the radios are reconfigured to a low latency, one-way dedicated 5 GHz connection from the soundbar to the surrounds and Subs. This requires a series of handshakes to get right, which is why adding surrounds/Subs takes a bit of time. The reverse happens when the surrounds/Subs are removed. So therefore, a quick toggle between the two is not possible. They could place a hot button that does the add/remove at the touch of the button, but that is not going to speed up the actual process, and doesn’t save much from the system menu commands we have today.

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