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jonmcox
Contributor I
March 28, 2018
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Shortcuts for surround speakers

I have a TV room containing a Playbar, Sub and Surrounds. When watching movies the Surrounds are on Ambient, but when I listen to music I switch the Surrounds to Full. Is there a quick way to make this switch rather than going through the laborious process of Settings>Room settings>(Room)>Advanced audio>Surround settings>Music playback each time?
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Chris
ChrisAnswer
Lead Maestro
March 28, 2018
The full setting is under Sonos setting... room settings...playbar room... advanced surround options.
Once you set to full mode leave it in full mode. Don’t put it back to ambient. When in full mode watching tv will be ambient no matter what the setting. There is no reason to take it back out of full mode ever.
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bockersjv
bockersjv
Local Superstar
March 28, 2018
No, but it's a great suggestion. A single press to get to the equalise would be welcome too.
Stuart_W
Stuart_W
World-Class Superstar
March 28, 2018
To be honest I don't know what difference the "Full" setting makes to listening to TV audio. My own sense is that the effect is when listening to music from a "normal" source rather than TV and setting to the "Ambient" setting won't have an effect on how the Playbar handles TV audio

I stand to be corrected
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    Chris
    Chris
    Lead Maestro
    March 28, 2018
    Full mode has no effect on anything from tv (toslink). In full mode the rears still play as surrounds when watching tv.

    When listening to actual music from Sonos itself the rear speakers then become full stereo speakers. So it autoswitches.
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      jonmcoxAuthor
      Contributor I
      March 28, 2018
      It doesn't autoswitch for me. When listening to music the speakers are still on Ambient. They need to be manually switched to Full to get that wonderful room-filling sound, otherwise it sounds as though the music is simply coming from the Playbar - which sounds very thin.
      Chris
      ChrisAnswer
      Lead Maestro
      March 28, 2018
      The full setting is under Sonos setting... room settings...playbar room... advanced surround options.
      Once you set to full mode leave it in full mode. Don’t put it back to ambient. When in full mode watching tv will be ambient no matter what the setting. There is no reason to take it back out of full mode ever.
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        jonmcoxAuthor
        Contributor I
        March 28, 2018
        Excellent - solved my problem. Many thanks.
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