SONOS 7.1 Surround Sound System

If customers think Sonos should sell a Connect for $50, are they correct? Because there are plenty who think they should!

Actually, yes. If customers felt the value of a Sonos Connect was $50, then that is the price point at which Sonos should sell.

As it stands, customers believe it has a higher value and a willing to pay more.

This is economics 101.

There is a *massive* customer base of Sonos who desire more options in their Home Theater equipment.

Sonos is pulling what Apple did with the AppleTV. Apple made the grave mistake of treating movie and television customers the same as their music customers. These things are completely different. Thus, the failure of the AppleTV.

While Sonos could pay this game when it came to music - refusing to cover hi-res audio or SACD because these are relatively obscure items with little demand ... the same is not true of the cinema market. When it comes to movies - we are up sold on these audio/visual features. Surround sound. 4K. There is a demand for these things.

This is why Sonos makes determining whether or not you are getting 5.1 signal difficult rather than putting it into the main part of the app.

They say they don't offer better audio in home theater because they are concerned with the "modern customer" who streams content. Well, golly gee ... I can stream Dolby Atmos, DTS, DD+ currently. Sonos needs to wake up.

Is 7.1 or 9.1 a massive market ... no, I would think not. 5.1 is the sweet spot right now ... but Sonos can't even handle that with aplomb.

+1 I would implement this in my two setups, and all of my client's home setups

Let's get with the program 11.2!

Sonos, we need 7.1 surround sound now! With DTS support!

”Generally speaking, the bandwidth of an optical connection isn't enough to pass a 7.1 audio signal at all. This would make it extremely difficult to get a 7.1”

Isn’t ”optical” just how you transfer the audio. S/pdif can use optical with only 2 channels. ADAT use 8 channels with optical and 7.1 are 8 channels?

7.1 even compressed requires bandwidth that is higher than what can pass over optical

It's a pitty that no one decided to create and updated optical port with higher bandwidth, optical is better than HDMI right now because ARC has so many issues (when the Beam releases Sonos customer support is going to be busy lol) but I really optical just need higher bandwidth but the industry is not focused on this now

Agree - come on sonos.

Come on everybody, add your voice to a SONOS 7.1 need,... the more that join the request, the more chance it will become reality,..... COME ON SONOS

To sonos team,
Hi,
I want to add two more speakers to my sonos 5.1, how do I do that?

It's not possible.

Will it be enough to upgrade software to make it possible?