Does anyone use their touch controls on their Arc Ultra? If I want to change volume I do it with my TV remote or the Sonos App. From a design perspective, the touch control unit looks awful and makes the regular Arc look way better.
I would rather have had Sonos add another HDMI port and support for the DTS formats as a pass through than add touch controls. I just don’t get the decision to add touch controls?
What’s everyone else’s thoughts?
Having touch controls as up (empty phone battery) back is good. I mostly use them for grouping on my speakers.
Having touch controls as up (empty phone battery) back is good. I mostly use them for grouping on my speakers.
I have no idea what you’re talking about? How do you use the volume, pause ect to group speakers? You do that though the app?!
If you’re phone is dead, (I presume this what you meant grammatically) why wouldn’t you just use your TVs CES remote? So you would rather touch controls over an extra HDMI port, just incase your phone dies of battery power? Each to their own I suppose. 
Meant to say “back up”.
You can press and hold the Play / Pause button on any Sonos product to group it together with another room (or group of rooms) that's currently playing audio. You can press and hold the same button to remove a product from a group.
When you play music from another source than the TV the remote does not work. So you need the phone or the touch controls. And I do not see a need for an extra HDMI since I use my TV as my media hub, as Sonos intends to. To each their own indeed.
Meant to say “back up”.
You can press and hold the Play / Pause button on any Sonos product to group it together with another room (or group of rooms) that's currently playing audio. You can press and hold the same button to remove a product from a group.
When you play music form another source than the TV the remote does not work. Whence you need the phone or the touch controls. And I do not see a need for an extra HDMI since I use my TV as my media hub, as Sonos intends to. To each their own indeed.
Ahh, thanks for the explanation, you learn something new every day. Definitely, not something i would use, but glad you are getting use out of it.
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