Just putting it out there. Hope option for Front speakers happen soon.

Uhhh, yeah.  That’s kind of my point.  They found edge problems, so they didn’t release it.  

It’s not what you said earlier.

I was not implying that it was released, only that both should have been held back.   One was held back, one wasn't, both should have been.

I think there are a few issues that people aren’t considering if they were to provide this feature.

• Unlike SonoSequencr, Sonos would actually need to provide some level of support for this.  Even if they provided some sort off non-guarantee that the product doesn’t always work as advertised, they would need to spend support time and effort helping customers through these issues.
• They would  need to provide trueplay tuning support for all the additional configurations that would be opened up by this feature.  Would this only be available with the an Arc Ultra front end, or would they need to support arc and Beam configurations as well?
• How would the ceiling atmos channels work if you want to use an Arc Ultra and Era 300s up front? Are you repeating those chanels, not using some of the upfiring speakers, or re-writing the logic of what audio goes where? 
• For the customers that go and spend $500-$1200 on a pair of front speakers, and it turns out not to work well, how will the react?  At the very least, they will return the product., which isn’t good for Sonos? At worst, they will stop buying Sonos altogether and go complain on the internet about how Sonos doesn’t work, and it’s not my network because all my other smart devices work fine.
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Like others, I would be in favor of this.  I already have a pair of 5s flanking my Arc Ultra, more than 3 feet apart, so this would likely work well for me.  I wouldn’t have to buy anything, and it would probably be a 5 minute setup. I would be welcome it.  I’m just seeing at a definite win for Sonos to do this, unfortunately.

Truplay to my knowledge works with SonoSequencr and there steps on how to do this online. So I will say that box already been checked.

Far as Arc Ultra vs Beam. Allow support and use of feature be exclusive to the Arc Ultra. It is the premium Sonos product and level. Many, many, many, companies only offer complete features only with their higher tier product offerings. This would be the norm and not unheard of. Beam does not even offer up-firing speakers to my knowledge? It is all virtual height speakers?

The Arc Ultra up-firing, I’m going to suggest could be handled by utilizing the code. How do other surround systems (5.1.2 or 5.1.4) utilize the speaker layout? Code is used from my understanding? Sonos home theater already do turn off drivers depending what speaker configuration being used, so I feel comfortable saying most this already figured out, speaking linguistically, at least.

Next bullet point. What about the customers that paid $2500+ for a system that is essentially being neutered from achieving full potential? At the very least, when at full potential people will buy 2 more speakers as fronts, which selling more speakers would be in Sonos best interest. At worst customers will simply skip over Sonos since able purchase legit and functioning 5.1.2 or 5.1.4 systems from other manufactures.

Far as any above references to customers complaining. We can all pause and look at the Sonos App fiasco. Sonos absolutely needs a win at this point in company’s history. Allowing front speaker setup and finally getting onboard with DTS:X would be exactly that. A MUCH, MUCH, needed win for Sonos and Sonos customers.

Sigh.  Sonos wouldn’t explicitly disable a feature which would sell more speakers unless there were actual problems with the implementation under some conditions.  Problems which are specifically stated in the reddit post quoted above. 

Who in their right mind, surrounded by kith and kin, spends $1,000 on a wireless soundbar only to use it as a center speaker?

One thing mentioned in the post was the of 6Ghz. Let’s say Sonos finds the right formula to make having left/right speakers flanking the Arc series and/or Beam2. The elephant in the room become a network issue requiring those that support 6Ghz. Today that maybe a ask for a user to upgrade their network maybe not so much further down the road as 6Ghz become a standard.

Someone that uses soundbar for just TV watching (mainly during the week with sub and surrounds off) and also for part of home theater setup when watching movies (mainly during weekends with full speaker utilization). Especially 4k movies.

It is called flexibility and options. Many consumers enjoy it. 

I doubt, and don’t think it’s possible for tuning to be accurate when there are speakers present that are not actually tuned. Those 2 front speakers may have no tuning applied, or they may just get copy of the tune for the soundbar.  Not sure, but I can’t see that really being good enough for Sonos to just pass off as being an actual tune of the speakers.

You’re missing the point.  If you have front Era 300s in your setup, much the Arc Ultra is overkill and wasted in your setup.  The upfiring speakers, side firing speakers, and wider front stage of the Arc  Ultra have no value in this setup and very likely sound better with them turned off than on.  Given the backlash Sonos received for turning off the front speakers of Era 300s when used as surrounds, it’s hard to imagine this will be ok with consumers.

Yes, there would potential be up to 6 upfiring speakers, with potentially 2 pair of speakers providing the same audio location from the ceiling. The pairs could maybe share the load, or turn them off, which as I mention before doesn’t go over well with consumers.  Again, this is a big reason why a Beam makes a lot more sense for this configuration than an Arc.

A system isn’t neutered when it already has all the features that it was designed and marketed to do. Yes, they may get more speaker sales, but they may also get more dev and support costs and could hurt an already damaged reputation with consumers if it does not work as well as it should, which seems to case.

As far as other manufacturers go, I’m not aware of any other product that allows wireless front 3 speakers, 2 wireless rear speakers, 2 wireless subs, with multiple upfiring and side firing speakers.  Wired?  Yes.  And that has also been an option that existed.  

It would very likely be a win for me personally, and a lot of others who already have a lot of Sonos gear and don’t mind experimenting.  There are good reasons to believe it would not be a win in the eyes of consumers at large.