Pair One Play1 with Arc

Only identical speakers can be paired. You can “Group” the PLAY:1 with ARC and play the same music. If you have two PLAY:1’s you can “Bond” them to ARC as surrounds.

Note that, if you Group PLAY:1 with ARC while ARC is playing TV audio, PLAY:1 voice sync will be second class.

 If you Group the One with the Arc while watching TV you may suffer from dropouts on the One.  Music, though, should play OK.

I don’t know the distinction between “join” and “bond”. I want to hear the tv sound out of both the Arc and the One. I’m hearing impaired and I thought having the One closer to me would help.

Group the PLAY:1 with ARC, then decide if the results are satisfactory.

 The first screenshot would be a Group of two rooms: TV Room & Audio Room.  They will both play the same music or TV sound.  The second screenshot shows a Bonded home theater room consisting of an Arc-Sub-Era 300 pair.  This is essentially a permanent room meant to play surround TV and surround music.  In the first screenshot you can see I made a Group out of the Bonded surround TV Room with the Port in the Audio Room.  That Group can be easily changed to any combination of speakers ( Rooms ) you want.

Thank you, MoPac. I think I understand and Bonded is what I would want.

 You’ll need to dig up another One.

Unlikely, a bonded pair of speakers to a Sonos soundbar would only play the ambient sounds (the surround channels), and not the center (voice) channel. Sonos doesn’t really make anything for hard of hearing folks, unfortunately. I would do as @buzz suggests, or consider the Sonos Ace headphones as the best Sonos alternative. Honestly, if I was more hard of hearing, I’d consider some other solution than Sonos…but I’ve never seen any system designed for that market. 

How does one “dig up” another one?