How to prevent Sonos rooms from becoming ungrouped?

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How to make the grouping of Room Grouping option stay as chosen?

Eg: Beam connected to TV (Group 1) + One pair (group 2-stereo pair) = New group (Group1 + Group 2)

When i ON the speakers and TV, by default the sound coming out from the TV only goes to the Beam and not the ONE pair. I need to use the Sonos App and choose the “New group” everytime i restart them in order to get sound from the One pair.

Any solution ?

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John BAnswer

If you are powering off your speakers they WILL ungroup. Sonos speakers are designed and intended to be left powered on.

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Tsukasa CAuthor

Contributor I

Not new, it’s been this way for surrounds for a long time, since the concept of the sound bar and surrounds were introduced by Sonos.

Go to Settings, System, select the room that has your Sonos Sound bar, then Surround Audio, and the switch is labeled Music Playback. You can select either Ambient of Full.

i see….then the problem remain un-resolved. I know about music (Full/Ambient) function which applies to music only stream such as Spotify, etc. This works perfectly.

Am talking about the sound from the TV here which does not have Full/Ambient setting capability. Been talking about this for over a month around #Beam #One Pair #Five pair TV full sound. There were a few people asking for this...where they complaint on not getting sufficient sound from the TV via thier surround speakers. Hope this shed some light on this ask.

Airgetlam

Ah, now I understand what the issue is.

Sonos has never offered a “repeat the center (voice) channel in the surround channels” feature, which would be beneficial for many. I’m not familiar, honestly, with any surround speaker system that offers such a thing.

It has come up multiple times, however, in various threads as a request, so it may be slowly rising on the Sonos backlog of things to implement. However, given that they don’t share that roadmap with us, likely for good reason, we won’t actually know if it is being worked on until such time as they release it. Or frankly, even if it is being worked on. It’s entirely possible the number of people it would benefit is so low that there’s not a financial benefit as there may be for other features.

I guess what I’m saying is, yes, Sonos has heard the complaint before, and no, don’t hold your breath to see it implemented.

Bruce

Tsukasa CAuthor

Contributor I

Ah, now I understand what the issue is.

Sonos has never offered a “repeat the center (voice) channel in the surround channels” feature, which would be beneficial for many. I’m not familiar, honestly, with any surround speaker system that offers such a thing.

It has come up multiple times, however, in various threads as a request, so it may be slowly rising on the Sonos backlog of things to implement. However, given that they don’t share that roadmap with us, likely for good reason, we won’t actually know if it is being worked on until such time as they release it. Or frankly, even if it is being worked on. It’s entirely possible the number of people it would benefit is so low that there’s not a financial benefit as there may be for other features.

I guess what I’m saying is, yes, Sonos has heard the complaint before, and no, don’t hold your breath to see it implemented.

However dissapointing this seems, i guess i have no choice but to respect this decision of Sonos on not to implement it.

But the idea of having full sound coming from the surround speakers does not mean just to repeat the center (voice). Not that simple. Its more like serving like a back reverb sound of what is playing from the front kind of effect. Not sure if i use this word correctly - complementary sounding speakers (for the surround) to widen the sound stage and enhance clarity without raising the volume kind of effect. I had this effect (or at least similar effect) when i group them together instead of surround. But problem is that the group got ungroup when power off-on. Having this allows the One pair or Five pair enhances the sound so much better (with Beam or Arc). So am not sure if Sonos team is getting this idea or just thinking that the ask is just to repeat the center (voice). I am more than happy to give further elaboration as i really enjoy this if it can be implemented. ;)

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