Hiya
I have a Beam and two Ones which are set as a hone cinema but only in front, I can't get any power behind our viewing position.
I've set them up with the One's as surround but is there anyway of telling the app that they are Front Left and Rights not rears?
There is no way to set up disparate front speakers in a soundbar system. The soundbar, in this case the Beam, already contains the three channels of right front, center front, and left front.
No there isn’t I’m afraid. Well, you could set them up as a stereo pair and group to the Beam, but there would be an audio lag with the Beam. You could then use the Beam settings to delay the audio on the Beam, but that will create lip sync issues, which seem to trouble some people more than others.
There are ways to get power to difficult spots without room modifications, tell us what you have and see if anyone has a good idea.
Heaps of peeps seem to be asking this and I also would like to be able to setup mu beam as a center channel and era 100’s as left and right. I appreciate the beam has all 3 however some of us are overkilling our gaming setups and using Sonos for our gaming rigs where it is an advantage to be able to have this feature. It is just nice to not be limited and to just be able to setup speakers how we like.
………….. Your request has been added as a feature request and sent to the relevant team …………. just do it!
Where the TV is located in our living room, there are power plugs for…
Thats 11 power plugs - I’m not sure I would want to add another two speakers to the two (only) wall power sockets I am using here, even with the two surge protected tower extensions I’m using. It feels like I’m nearing some kind of limit already. Not to mention the cable spaghetti I see behind the TV - which I do my level best to try to keep neat & tidy.
I think I’d prefer to power any additional front speakers, via pass-through power connections from my soundbar, maybe even use Power over Ethernet… if that was perhaps a viable option.
Here you go, 24 outlets plus some USB power ports.
https://www.amazon.com/Protector-DEPOW-Multiple-Outlets-Extension/dp/B0BVJ8V7NF/ref=sr_1_3
I only needed a dozen sockets for my TV, the computer room is up to 76 in a quick count. Just to make it more fun the house has two breakers for outlets, east and west sides, plus three for the kitchen outlets.
Here you go, 24 outlets plus some USB power ports.
https://www.amazon.com/Protector-DEPOW-Multiple-Outlets-Extension/dp/B0BVJ8V7NF/ref=sr_1_3
I only needed a dozen sockets for my TV, the computer room is up to 76 in a quick count. Just to make it more fun the house has two breakers for outlets, east and west sides, plus three for the kitchen outlets.
I still only have 13 Amps at each wall power-outlet no matter how many connections the extension may have and exceeding that will blow the fuse in the plug and trip the house ring-main, leaving me (usually) to fumble around up a ladder in the garage with a torch to reset the tripped switch.
I feel your pain, we have the two 20 Amp breakers for outlets, one for either side of our house.
Very glad both breakers are reachable from the ground, not so happy that they are outside.
Adding AVR (boosting) style UPS systems to high load/surge rooms really helped.
Ok, I mean I like the sound I just want to get it right for my setup. I am going to try and work around this setting up the era 100’s through audio cable line in to the pc (as a new room) then using the PC sound card to adjust the audio pretty sure this will work as will allow left and right front audio from the eras plus can then fine tune the audio for the beam.
You’ll have difficulty with lipsync, I would expect, as those line ins (on all Sonos analog line ins, like on the Era 100s) are subject to a 75 ms delay.
Soundbars are always a compromise, giving limited front soundstage in exchange for less wires, more convenience, and a neater install. If you aren’t willing to make that compromise, the answer is not to add more speakers to your already fully represented front channels, the answer is to purchase a traditional wired Home Theater, or a Sonos Amp plus passive speakers.
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