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sonos beam and speakers

  • 1 September 2021
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i have a sonos beam. want to add two speakers for left and right stereo. what speakers to use and how do they connect to the beam??

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Best answer by nik9669a 1 September 2021, 14:14

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Beam is already front left and right, plus centre channel. You can add two rear surrounds and/or Sub. 

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You can use any matching speakers for a front right/left stereo pair.

While you can’t add them to the Beam as additional front speakers you can Group the Stereo-Pair Room and the Beam Room and have all play together. May give you a muddy stereo image though.

Technically, I’ll disagree. That extra pair of speakers are not “front” speakers, nor do they get sent the front right and front left signal of a 5.1 signal. Instead, because they’re a separate “room” in the Sonos software, they get only a standard stereo signal consisting of all data from the TV. Definitely not “front” speakers in any home theater setup. Nor, in that case, does the sound bar become a “center” only speaker. And as Stanley points out, there’s a slight delay between the “home theater” room and the second “stereo” room, which would muddle the entire sound image.