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Feature Request: More surround speakers

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Hey

It would be great if you could at 4/5/7 speakers to create a better surround experience rather than relying on the soundbar.

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Sotiris C.Answer

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Hello @Nabster30, welcome to the Sonos Community!

I’ve marked this thread as a feature request and forwarded it to the appropriate teams for consideration.

Thank you for the post.

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Sotiris C.Answer

Sonos Staff

Hello @Nabster30, welcome to the Sonos Community!

I’ve marked this thread as a feature request and forwarded it to the appropriate teams for consideration.

Thank you for the post.

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Stanley_4

Grand Maestro

With Atmos offering so many channels it would be a great opportunity for Sonos to sell a pile of speakers.

Maybe even a new line of unobtrusive surrounds for all but the two main rear ones?

Add low-voltage power delivered over a paint-able invisible connector from the nearest wall outlet and a lot of spouses would not object quite as firmly.

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Nabster30Author

Contributor I

With Atmos offering so many channels it would be a great opportunity for Sonos to sell a pile of speakers.

Maybe even a new line of unobtrusive surrounds for all but the two main rear ones?

Add low-voltage power delivered over a paint-able invisible connector from the nearest wall outlet and a lot of spouses would not object quite as firmly.

To be honest you can deal with one power cable but yes I’m surprised for such a “simple” software development, they could sell so many more speakers. Not to mention Sonos already sell In Ceiling speakers for height channels!

Trueplay to measure the room and balance the speakers, you could have real sides, rears, fronts and centre channel

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Prodigy II

It has come up a few times over the years that a box to act as the brains, that existing Sonos speakers could connect to would be desirable for many over the limitations of soundbars, allowing for actual individual LCR speakers to be positioned better within a room.

In the past Sonos have mention it was something they were looking into, but whether it will ever happen? 🤷

As well as more powerful hardware than they currently use in their devices I can see there could be challenges with latency and keeping everything in sync in the past.

As it currently stands,

Wisa beat them to market with wireless 5.1/7.1 and failed to gain any real traction.

Sony have the HT-A9/Quad systems which are very good and sit above the soundbars in their product range.

DTS gave us play-fi and the less said about that the better. The software team Philips used for the DTS Play-Fi 7.2.4 home theatre made such a mess of it. It had been something I’d looked at due to it being announced when I was looking at changing my system. Somehow they managed to keep releasing production firmware and software with sound coming out the wrong speakers. You’d think listening to the results of the firmware/software update would be part of testing, but what they kept releasing would suggest not. During the months I was looking they hadn't managed to fix it.

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Nabster30Author

Contributor I

It has come up a few times over the years that a box to act as the brains, that existing Sonos speakers could connect to would be desirable for many over the limitations of soundbars, allowing for actual individual LCR speakers to be positioned better within a room.

In the past Sonos have mention it was something they were looking into, but whether it will ever happen? 🤷

As well as more powerful hardware than they currently use in their devices I can see there could be challenges with latency and keeping everything in sync in the past.

As it currently stands,

Wisa beat them to market with wireless 5.1/7.1 and failed to gain any real traction.

Sony have the HT-A9/Quad systems which are very good and sit above the soundbars in their product range.

DTS gave us play-fi and the less said about that the better. The software team Philips used for the DTS Play-Fi 7.2.4 home theatre made such a mess of it. It had been something I’d looked at due to it being announced when I was looking at changing my system. Somehow they managed to keep releasing production firmware and software with sound coming out the wrong speakers. You’d think listening to the results of the firmware/software update would be part of testing, but what they kept releasing would suggest not. During the months I was looking they hadn't managed to fix it.

You don’t even need a brain box, if you’re going use something like a Soundbar, but if you were going to go full 100s everywhere then sure.
Though it manages to pair surrounds to a soundbar and Trueplay pretty well so I’m just asking for some more speakers / more compatible speakers.

The in wall or in ceiling speakers would be ideal if you wanted to eventually upgrade to a couple of ceiling channels for example, just have the soundbar process it all.

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