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May 30, 2023

Era 300’s as front left & right (request)

  • May 30, 2023
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I was thinking how my Sonos Home theatre set up would sound with the Arc as a centre speaker and Era 300’s additional left and right.

I have the Arc, 2 x Sub Gen 3 & 2 x Era 300’s for the  rears. When listening to this set up, I can’t help hear that the Arc is the weak link in the set up. For example, listening to the Era 300s as a pair sound great for Spatial content, but the Arc alone just sounds empty IMO, 

Im wishing Sonos would add the ability to use the Arc as a centre and Era 300’s or 100’s as front left and right. I think this would be an awesome Atmos setup. 

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    Mandyla
    Trending Lyricist I
    November 25, 2023

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    AjTrek1
    AjTrek1
    November 25, 2023

    So the 300s are only very expensive radio speakers and very expensive surround movie speakers. 

    They are more than what you wrote. The Era 300’s will reproduce Spatial Audio which a plain stereo speaker of any brand cannot do. They also complete the full immersive sound field for Dolby Atmos movie content when used as surrounds with an Arc or Beam2. All said they will also act as regular surrounds for DD 5.1 audio. Also they are still respectively less expensive compared to a single or pair of Fives. 

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    frost44
    Contributor I
    March 9, 2024

    C'mon sonos allow us to add more surrounds!! 

    Stanley_4
    Stanley_4
    Grand Maestro
    March 9, 2024

    Which would be your priority, more surrounds or more height channel speakers?

    Having a four Amp setup with front and rear main and height channels would be nice.

    Maybe a couple Five class for the front L/R and six 100 class for height/surround?

     

    frost44
    Contributor I
    March 9, 2024

    Ideally both!  But if we could use another pair of 300's for the front I would buy them right  now!!

    Mallymal
    Lyricist I
    March 13, 2024

    Again, I curse that stupid YouTube video. 🙄

    Haha. I'm new to sonus and that video had me "waste" money. It's been a few days imwith the 4 300s. I wish they would just support LCR for the 300s and Arc combo. I'm going I'm 90% sure I'm going to return my extra 300s and just wait for a much needed update. 

    Mallymal
    Lyricist I
    March 13, 2024

    I was thinking how my Sonos Home theatre set up would sound with the Arc as a centre speaker and Era 300’s additional left and right.

    I have the Arc, 2 x Sub Gen 3 & 2 x Era 300’s for the  rears. When listening to this set up, I can’t help hear that the Arc is the weak link in the set up. For example, listening to the Era 300s as a pair sound great for Spatial content, but the Arc alone just sounds empty IMO, 

    Im wishing Sonos would add the ability to use the Arc as a centre and Era 300’s or 100’s as front left and right. I think this would be an awesome Atmos setup. 

    I'm sure you've seen the "illegal" Sonus setup. I ended up buying all that for me to kinda like it because it's louder but not necessarily better. I'm hopefully sonus actually makes a change for more customization. With the equipment that I currently have, I would love to pair the Arc with Front L/R 300s, Rear 300s, in ceilings, and 2 subs. Being able to fully customize your system like that would blow the competition away or force more innovation. Sonos please read all this lol

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