Adding Sonos 5 in Home Theater

This is a setup I have in my living room. As @Mr. T states, having the pair of Sonos Fives as part of the home theater room is not possible, so I use that pair for music only, and keep the Arc for use when watching TV. 

Same as myself Bruce. The Fives up front for music only are superb.

I was thinking about having 5s for front speakers that are music only too (perhaps later down the track particularly if I decide to get a turntable)
 

So how does it work in practice?  So the arc surround system could be designated as say Living Room while the pair of 5s are in say Living Room 2?  
 

in that case, the 5s would not be about to take advantage of the subwoofer I take it? I guess you could group music in both so called Living Rooms but maybe the sound signature gets distorted?

Gubes - Yes, you’d end up with two rooms.

You could fool with which room the sub is in (TV or music) and decide where you liked it best. I’d guess the TV, you could also buy a second Sub and do both.

If your Fives and seating are arranged for the best stereo imaging then adding in the ARC and surrounds would interfere with that. For a party or when you aren’t in the stereo sweet spot you might like the rooms grouped and the surrounds set to “full” mode.

Hi all,

I own a Sonos one SL and a Sonos Five, actually for music only.

I would like to upgrade my tv audio and I was thinking about Beam or Arc.

Consider that I cannot put speaker in rear position but only in front, I need help!

Solution 1: Arc/Beam + 2x One SL (as surround even if they will be in front)

Solution 2: Arc/Beam + 2x Five (as surround even if they will be in front)

Solution 3: 2x Five connected to tv with 3.5 jack (is it possible to connect first Five with Jack and the second be paired wireless?)

In solution 2 can the Sonos Five changed to stereo playing when I listen to music?

Thanks for your support

Why insist on bonding speaker that are not used for surround (rear) to the proposed soundbar in solutions 1 and 2? This will not sound right, especially when whatching TV? Setting the One SL's or Five's up as a stereo pair in a different Sonos “room” will give you a good stereo effect for music, while the soundbar-room will take care of TV-sound.

If you really want to you could try if grouping both rooms for music is to your liking.

Solution 3 would introduce a 75ms delay on the sound and so severe lipsync problems.

So do you mean to use only soundbar for TV and separately Sonos Five for music purpose?

I know that the surround speaker can be set as “ambient mode” or “full mode”.. thanks again

I have thought about this myself actually, but moreover in the guise of “ I wonder”.

The Sonos 5’s are great, and pretty powerful. I was thinking how a setup would sound if you could (although you can't at the moment) use the 5’s as Front Left + Right, and also Rear Left + Right - leaving the ARC or BEAM as a pure centre speaker. 

I guess this would waste some of the capability which comes with the ARC and Beam, but it would be a great experiment to be able to have that near separate feel using that configuration. 

Anyone else ever thought about that? 

Yes quite often.  I’m ok with the soundbar, sub and one SL rears for tv and movies. But for music I feel it’s sub optimal and it doesn’t need to be. I could get a set of 5s as front 2 speakers but it’s waste that they can’t share the sub I shelled out cash for.

Besides I think with the right software the arc and the 5s as fronts could actually enhance the surround effect as well.