FEATURE REQUEST: Add option to enable "Center speakers" for the ERA's 300, if they are added as surrounds

These speakers sound is lacking for anything other than Atmos. Playing 5.1 or 7.1 movies the sound is not working correctly or doesn’t soon good because it’s missing the center channel on each speaker. I have to crank my surround sound up to make better. Sonos Ones are better at surrounds at this point. Very disappointed at these speakers and would have purchased them if this information was available before release. No wonder the reviews were not released until the speakers shipped.

Yes Sonos please give us the option to have center channel in use. My pair of One’s sounded more punchy in surround sound than these $1,000 300’s. Definitely disappointing and lacks the impact.

+1 for this feature to be added asap, need a toggle to enable this..

I’m honestly baffled how this was missed. Lots of folks on Reddit returning their 300s this weekend. Yikes guys. 

Guys, thank you all for the support, hopefully someone will hear us and even if it would not be added, at least some deeper clarification would be appreciated.

Was all lined up to buy Some era 300’s but that definitely won’t happen until this is fixed.  Did they really not think people might want to listen to music with these when also set up as surrounds for ATMOS material?  Please give us an option to enable center channel driver, because as things stand now, the Era 300’s set up as surrounds are severely handicapped for listening to music.  

Adding to this request. 
 

Replaced my rear 5s with 300s today. 
 

We listen to a lot of music in this room, as well as watching movies. 
 

A lot of stereo mixed music. 

The 300s are great for theatre. They are crap for music with the center channels turned off. Now the music is primarily from the arc, when it used to be from a pair of 5s, set to “full” & +3 for music playback. 
 

I tried the 300s as a stereo pair with a sub mini in another room, replacing stereo 1s. It was a big improvement. 

I feel you're missing the mark here, giving us a weird, niche product that is less well-rounded by the decision to turn off the center channel. 

I especially feel duped by Sonos not informing their customers of this in a clear and transparent manner, which is an issue Sonos had demonstrated in the past, (ie Moves won't stereo pair on Bluetooth, etc). 

As someone heavily invested in Sonos gear, adding another 1k purchase that lacks basic usability is deeply disappointing. 
 

This is a great feature request, but I want to amend it. Please reply if you think this is a better or worse suggestion.

For music playback, it would be ideal if enabling main drivers in ERA 300 also made ERA 300 the main speakers (along with the sub). The Arc could be disabled or relegated to “ambient”.

In my opinion, the Arc is not that great at music so I would rather turn around and face the ERA 300 for the music experience.

@ProfessorFrag That's exactly what I'd want. It's clear that two Era 300 speakers play music better than the Arc, but because I also want to use them as rears, that functionality is locked unless I'm willing to ungroup them from the home theatre setup all the time, which I definitely won't do.

@ProfessorFrag 
 

Good suggestion. This would be a huge improvement. 
 

This is what I'd previously accomplished with the settings on my 5s as rears.
 

For any kind of serious listening the arc is anemic for music playback. I was overriding it. 

Even with the settings all bumped up on the 300s music playback is weird and inferior. 
 

They were a great improvement in another room as a stereo pair with sub mini, when compared to the pair of 1s/sub mini I'd had in there before. 
 

So they can do music well. Not as well as a pair of 5s obviously, but better than this rear surround restriction allows by a mile.