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Don’t want surround sound in Music mode

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I just bought a Sonos Arc with two Symphonisk as rear speakers, and although I am very happy with my choice, I feel sorry for one thing.

Indeed, I am disappointed to find that the surround sound is always activated when the rear speakers are on.

When I listen music from my NAS or a streaming music service, I don't need and don’t want a surround upmix.

Unfortunately, the option to deactivate this feature is hidden in the sub menus and must be reactivated each time I want to watch a movie and then deactivated each time I want to listen to music. It is therefore very tedious to manage.

My previous 5.1 amplifiers allowed to listen by default only the original format of the audio content. And I find it a real drawback that Sonos does not offer this option when you associate surround speakers with the sound bar.

Why not offer the original format with the Ambience and Full options in the Music playback submenu in the Surround audio settings?

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Ken_GriffithsAnswer

I’m not quite sure what you are requesting here. These options are currently available for music playback on a Sonos Home Theatre setup :

Ambient Mode - Subtle, low volume audio from surrounds with a limited frequency range. This is the default setting for surround speakers during music playback.
Full Mode - Full range audio for surrounds at the same volume as the home theater speaker
Main Home Theatre device only (Arc/Beam etc.) - No audio from surrounds, which you may toggle ‘off’ in room settings .

All options are available in the main home theatre products ‘room’ settings (Surround Audio) in the Sonos App.

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106rallye

The way people perceive sound is very personal. What you are getting when playing music is double stereo (from the soundbar and from the surounds). I like it, but you don’t. As sketched above there’s no easy work around for this.

Stanley_4

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It would be handy if the surround mode [ambient, full, none] was settable for both music and TV and the individual setting was retained for each source.

Actually it would be great if all the sound settings were kept for both music and TV modes so you could set each as you like and then just switch settings along with the source.

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mani3kk

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I’m not quite sure what you are requesting here. These options are currently available for music playback on a Sonos Home Theatre setup :

Ambient Mode - Subtle, low volume audio from surrounds with a limited frequency range. This is the default setting for surround speakers during music playback.
Full Mode - Full range audio for surrounds at the same volume as the home theater speaker
Main Home Theatre device only (Arc/Beam etc.) - No audio from surrounds, which you may toggle ‘off’ in room settings .

All options are available in the main home theatre products ‘room’ settings (Surround Audio) in the Sonos App.

Exactly.

The problem is, if I want to listen my music only in stereo, I have to:

Go to settings
Choose System
Choose my room
Go to the Surround audio menu in the Sound section
And toogle off Surrounds

And when I want to watch a movie or series in 5.1, I have to:

Go to settings
Choose System
Choose my room
Go to the Surround audio menu in the Sound section
And toogle on Surrounds

And again the same manipulations if I want to listen to music in stereo after that.

Lots of manipulations for just listen the music in its original format (PCM 2.0) when you don't want a surround upmix.

And we lose the immediate and easy side that Sonos normally offers.

What I want, and what my old amplifiers did very well, is to have stereo sound when i’m listening a music source in PCM 2.0 ; and have 5.1 sound when the sound bar receives such a format.

For me it would be easier to have an option like « Original format » in Music playback submenu in the Surround audio settings so that the setting is done once for all.

Edit : And sorry for my poor English :/

Same for me. Stereo PCM 2.0 should be always Stereo PCM 2.0 (+sub). But this is not working in that way. If you listening Stereo PCM 2.0 from HDMI (TV), Sonos will always “upmix” sound to 5.1. Awful. There should be option to disable that upmix.

When listening thru Sonos app or airplay Sonos offer Full or Ambient options but it should be another option “off” without switching off Surround speakers in room.

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