I am upgrading my home theater with an Arc Ultra and would like to use my existing, wired surround speakers and Velodyne sub-woofer. Is that possible; if so, how?
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Using existing, non-Sonos surround speakers with an Arc Ultra
Best answer by Airgetlam
For the surround speakers, you could power them with a Sonos Amp, which would be ‘bonded’ to the Arc Ultra. There is no way to use a third party Subwoofer with a Sonos soundbar, I’m afraid.
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For the surround speakers, you could power them with a Sonos Amp, which would be ‘bonded’ to the Arc Ultra. There is no way to use a third party Subwoofer with a Sonos soundbar, I’m afraid.
Bruce
OK, pending arrival of my Arc Ultra, I connected the Amp to my in-ceiling speakers, grouped the Amp with one of my Era 100s and played some music from Sonos Radio. No sound from the in-ceiling speakers. 😔
The only wrinkle that comes to mind is that I’m using the banana plugs that were already attached to the speaker cables rather the banana plugs that came with the Amp. Can’t imagine why that would be a problem, though.
Thoughts?
Very, very unlikely that the banana plugs are the issue. Connect the ends of a flashlight cell to a speaker wire. At the instant of connection there will be a “thump”. If there is no thump, the speakers are not connected to the wire.
Yeah, it wasn’t the banana plugs. It was the fact that I had plugged in the patio speakers instead of the surround speakers -- because the speaker wires were mislabeled. Everything works as expected now. Hope I can say the same later today, after the Arc Ultra is installed and paired with the Amp.
Thanks for the quick response(s)!
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