Hi all, I have just set up a beam gen 2 with a pair of Sonos ones as surrounds. All is working well, however I would like to know, “if I turn off the surrounds in the Sonos app, does the surround content get switched back to the beam, or would I be missing that part of the sound”? I ask this as I would not always want them to be on. Thanks.
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Turning surrounds off
Best answer by Ken_Griffiths
Yes, I’m pretty sure the two rear channels are merged with the front. Not everyone has ‘bonded’ surrounds and so switching off the surrounds means the front channels will handle all the audio sent to the HT main player.
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Yes, I’m pretty sure the two rear channels are merged with the front. Not everyone has ‘bonded’ surrounds and so switching off the surrounds means the front channels will handle all the audio sent to the HT main player.
Yes, I’m pretty sure the two rear channels are merged with the front. Not everyone has ‘bonded’ surrounds and so switching off the surrounds means the front channels will handle all the audio sent to the HT main player.
Hi Ken, thanks for the answer. Could you explain what you mean by, “not everyone has bonded surrounds” please?
If you disable surrounds, the surround content will be played out of the Beam.
Ok thanks for the answer.
I’d be an example of “no bonded surrounds” I have a Beam in a bedroom where we almost never listen to anything with a surround format so we never bought surrounds for it.
+18How would you turn off the surrounds in the Sonos app? In the app I can only see a possibility to turn the volume down to zero. If this is the option you use I do not think the Beam will take over the surround stream.
I’m also curious as to why you’d want to turn them off, since there’s nit much sound coming out.
How would you turn off the surrounds in the Sonos app? In the app I can only see a possibility to turn the volume down to zero. If this is the option you use I do not think the Beam will take over the surround stream.
At the very top of the Surround Audio screen is a toggle for this.
I’m also curious as to why you’d want to turn them off, since there’s nit much sound coming out.
I agree in that if the sound out of the surrounds is negligible there is little gain in switching them off, and if it is non-negligible you would probably be best advised to let the audio do its thing.
Some people prefer just to have music from in front of them, and would rather turn off the rear volume completely than use ‘Ambient’. (But I suspect the OP is talking about TV sound, not music.)
I would be very surprised if Sonos with surrounds turned off behaved differently from Sonos with no surrounds, which I think is the point that
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