Can I setup more soudbars in different rooms with the same source?

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I’d like to setup 3 different rooms but with the same audio source. Is it possible?

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So just for your benefit @FILIBAO - when the three (compatible) soundbars are grouped, any Atmos music audio (from Amazon music for example) via the Sonos App, will output in Atmos format to all the ‘grouped’ soundbars - if you were to then group-in a non-Atmos speaker, the audio on all players falls back to stereo.

TV surround sound audio/video will play on the primary soundbar only and display on its connected TV screen - the two other grouped soundbars play in stereo only. There’s a slight delay to the grouped rooms between 75ms and 2s - depending on settings set in the Sonos App - the stereo audio can be set to ‘Full’ output to play on both the ‘grouped’ Soundbars and their Surrounds/Subs.

I hope that assists. 👍

To achieve 5.1 surround sound audio output to all - you would need to look at a wired option using an audio extractor/splitter - the easiest option is a 3-way optical splitter…but note this is just a solution for ‘audio’ output/input only.

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Thank you.

each room has a synchronised projector, so i need a e-arc connection in each room?

Ken_Griffiths

Thank you.

each room has a synchronised projector, so i need a e-arc connection in each room?

If the Projectors do ‘sync’ in some way themselves, then isn’t it perhaps easier to just cable a Sonos soundbar to each one and have them play the TV A/V source in sync? The current soundbars support an HDMI ARC/eARC or an Optical connection (with an adapter) - the latter does not provide TV Atmos output, but all support compressed 5.1 Dolby, DTS surround sound - Note that HDMI eARC is needed for uncompressed TV surround audio: Dolby TrueHD, or Multichannel PCM.

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