home cinema set up

The Play:1s can be used as surround speakers with any of the current Sonos soundbars.  Both the Beam and the Arc support eArRC

Yes, the Two Play:1’s can be used as rear surround speakers with the Sonos Arc and Beam (gen2). Both those soundbars have HDMI-ARC/eARC connections for TV connection …and both can be used with the supplied Optical adapter for connection to a TV Optical port, but that’s just FYI.

That's good to know ,just got a new OLED and picture quality is stunning and I feel it deserves a sound bar set up ,would I need to use the boost ,also would I need a sub or would sound bar and play1 be enough bass,not wanting it booming 

The Boost can stay in situ, if you prefer ‘wired mode’, or you can try running all on your WiFi signal, that’s up-to you. Maybe this link will help you to decide…

https://support.sonos.com/en-us/article/choose-between-a-wireless-and-wired-sonos-setup

My own choice would definitely be to add a Sub, but see how things sound, you can always add that later.

I see the Sonos beam gen 2 is on offer at Currys £379 seems like a good price ,would this be ok for a living room HC set up ,it doesn't need to be massively powerful and would bee connected with 2x play 1 and eventually a sub 

Yes but for £20 more you can go here and get a free 6 year warranty too…

https://www.smarthomesounds.co.uk/sonos-beam

It can pay to shop around and select what’s perhaps important to you. 

So I have pulled the trigger and ordered the beam gen 2 and sub mini in white to go with my two play1''s

For anyone interested if you order from very using code VKEYB it is 12 months interest free to pay off what you want and after the first month you get 10% back refunded on to your account and you can pay it off in full , so I'm paying  £644, alternatively if you don't have a very account ,if you open one you get 20% off your first purchase which would make it £572.80.

So thinking about set up ,I would like to use my Sonos boost as part of the set up as my WiFi in the living only gets about 40mb speed,so I'd rather it was on its own network .

Am I correct in thinking at least one of the play 1 has be connected to the boost to allows HC set up .Beam will be hdmi 2:1 to e-ARC on my G3 TV and the rest will be wireless connections

Any advice on the best way to set this up would great 

No need to connect any device to the BOOST, it generates the SonosNet signal as its primary function. Note that the newer series of Sonos speakers don’t connect to a SonosNet signal, however. 

I’m not sure what HC means.

Remember, surround speakers and the Sub, if it exists, connect in a home theater room to the soundbar in use (your Beam) and not SonosNet. The Beam itself, would connect to SonosNet, however. 

HC is home cinema.

I thought I read somewhere that the beam 2 would not connect to boost and it had to be one of the surround speakers that connects to it .I want to use the boost so it's running on its own network and not degrading the network for the TV or others using phones tablets etc .