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Soro app allows you to easily enable or disable the rear speakers

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Seven months after purchasing a Sonos ARC and two Symphonisk rear speakers, I was very annoyed by the impossibility of easily activating or deactivating the rear speakers as needed.

We're not going to lie to each other, but :

Touch the gear icon
Go to System
Choose Sonos Arc group
Then Audio Surround
Toggle On or Off Surrounds option

is not really what i call ergonomic.

But with the iOS Soro application, what was very painful on a daily use, now becomes super simple.

Thanks to the integration of these functions in iOs Shortcuts app, I can finally activate or deactivate my rear speakers with a simple tap when watching a movie or listening music .

I just think it’s a shame that it is an external developer who offers this solution when Sonos should have already allowed it.

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melvimbe

What does the Soro app do to any trueplay tuning in place?

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zephirickAuthor

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What does the Soro app do to any trueplay tuning in place?

No option for enable or disabled Trueplay settings, sorry.

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nik9669a

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Seven months after purchasing a Sonos ARC and two Symphonisk rear speakers, I was very annoyed by the impossibility of easily activating or deactivating the rear speakers as needed.

If it was 7 months until you got “annoyed” it surely isn’t that bad? How often do you actually want to toggle them on/off?

Personally, I use them about 99% of the time, for both music and HT watching/listening.

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zephirickAuthor

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Sorry, English is not my mother language.

Annoying is may be not too strong. In French it’s “hyper chiant”.

Personally, I use them 5 or 6 time par day.

106rallye

Great that you’ve found a solution? Can you explain why you would want to turn off the surrounds?

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zephirickAuthor

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Simply when i’m playing music in Stereo PCM 2.0 on my Sonos Arc, i don’t want it was upmix with a false surround effect.

Honestly, I think Sonos should offer a Direct mode, as so many home theater specialists have been doing for a long time.

106rallye

If you set the rear speakers to full, you get double stereo with non-TV sources. I use this all the time.

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nik9669a

Senior Virtuoso

If you set the rear speakers to full, you get double stereo with non-TV sources. I use this all the time.

And me. And with a wider sound stage from the surrounds than from my Playbase. It just takes a while to get used to the sound coming from behind rather than in front of you!

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zephirickAuthor

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If you set the rear speakers to full, you get double stereo with non-TV sources. I use this all the time.

And precisely, I don’t want that.

I want Stereo just on my Sonos Arc, not in my rear speakers