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

I’m considering returning my Era 300’s. I am using them paired to a Arc and two subs and replaced two sonos five’s. For non atmos tv viewing the surround sound seems to be greatly diminished even for 5.1 content. I’m guessing this is the reason why.

I agree, I think many of us want both music and home theater surround with the same investment. I hate twice-a-day reconfiguring my setup in the app and re-running Trueplay. I work during the day listening to music in the same room as my home theater setup. So in the morning, for better sounding music, I am ungrouping the HT setup and grouping 2 Era 300’s as stereo pair, plus Sub.  Then at night, I totally reconfigure in the app as HT, with the Arc+2 300’s+Sub, then re-running Trueplay, then for better sounding surround, increasing Surround Audio -> TV Level way up. Yuck.

Please allow us configuration options to use these easily as multi-purpose speaker systems. Thanks. 

Was thinking of getting the 300’s for movies and music listening in my living room. Using beam + plus 2 of my old 3’s for back channel with mini sub right now. Glad I found this post. Will hold off until this changes.

This thread explains a lot.  I was wondering why my 300’s that replaced my two Play’s as surround sound sounded inferior.  It’s because the center channel is disabled.  To get around this somewhat, I had to crank up the surround sound volume to 10, after true play did its thing.  I also use these to listen to music and would be great to be universal for both music and surround.  The arc defiantly does not sound that great for music and as a previous poster mentioned, disabling the arc and letting the music roll from the 300’s only or +sub seems like a great option. 

As for returning,  I purchased directly through Sono’s, they have a 100 day return policy.  I don’t want to return these, but if this feature is not improved, I can’t really. justify spending $1K on surround sound speakers that only really work with Atmos content.  Please Sonos, can you address this and let us know what you are thinking. 

I'm going to be contrarian with regard to music quality. 

Era 300s replaced Ones in my home theater set-up with arc and sub gen 2. Trueplay re-run and all EQ tweaks set to zero.

Listening to Atmos music via Amazon Music over a couple of days, my ears are telling me this is a solid improvement. For me, it's a sense of being on stage with the band arrayed around me. This feeling noticeably more present with Era 300s vs Ones.

This is just opinion from my jaundiced ears.

That’s awesome! Have you tried playing them as a Stereo Pair with all drivers firing outside of the home theater set up?

also for utilizing the center channel. at least have the option to on/off jt BUT also have the options to increase the center channel loudness as well as the side firing drivers like how you can increase the sub/height options. 

A simple music or movies toggle in settings would do the job.  Or use the centre channel for ambient sounds or something. I dunno, just seems odd not to use it.

Sonos Turnplay™. Using one simple toggle in our app, flip the orientation of your home theater system 180 degrees for an optimal music listening experience. Let ERA 300 take center stage fully enabling its six custom drivers, while Sonos Arc or Beam 2 fill in the background with ambient effects. Set aside time in your day not facing a screen and letting your ears enjoy an immersive critical listening experience. It’s not just our logo that works when turned around.

Sonos has made some questionable software choices lately. This is absurd.