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Hey community, question regarding Arc and supporting speaker limitations. 

Context:

  • I’m way deep into the Sonos ecosystem. I have a whole house setup with multiple rooms, garage, outdoor patio, etc. 
  • Living room setup: 1 Arc, 2 Gen 3 subs, 2 rear surround architectural Sonance paired with Sonos Amp. 
  • I recently added 2 front architectural Sonance speakers paired with a Sonos Amp in the living room. These speakers are a game changer, and sound incredible. 
  • Problem: you can’t add more than 1 set of speakers/Sonos amp to the Arc system. Therefore, I can’t tune the room with the additional speakers and amp. I can only Group them in the app. 

Any suggestions for tuning everything together. This seems like a poor limitation with Sonos. 

 

Thanks, Michael

 

Sonos doesn’t support adding an extra pair of front channel speakers to a Sonos sound bar setup. The Arc alone already includes the center, front left, and front right channels. Adding another pair of front channel speakers would be redundant and defeats the purpose of using a sound bar.

Your only option is grouping the second Amp with the Arc setup in the Sonos app. But this will likely result in a delay from the grouped speakers when playing TV audio. Streaming music will be in sync though.

@GuitarSuperstar Thanks for the response. 

  • As mentioned, I’ve already grouped them. There’s no delay.
  • I know the Arc has C/L/R. I’ve been using the Arc with 2 subs and rear Sonance surrounds for a couple years, it sounded good. Contrary to what you mentioned, adding the front L/R+Amp sounds way better. I just wish it could be 1 system instead of 2 so I could use the TruePlay.

It’s quite a shame that Sonos won’t let you pair more than 1 Amp/Surround.

As long as you think it sounds good, that’s all that matters. But keep in mind that with the second Amp grouped, when you play a 5.1 or Dolby Atmos audio track, you are not hearing the audio mix as it is intended to be heard as the surround audio is also playing from the grouped front speakers.

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