Replacing Sonos One surrounds with Era 100 setup question

Do you expect a big advantage in using Era 100’s?

I did a Play 1 to Era-100 swap a while back. Not a lot of difference as 5.1 TV surrounds or in ambient music mode, seemed a bit better in full mode music. Didn't test with an Atmos source though.

I found adding the Eras, with useful temporary Room names and giving the old surrounds useful names once removed reduced my confusion level. Not essential, just handy.

I saw someone on reddit recently claim that switching from Sonos One’s to Era 100s made a huge difference.  However, I don’t know that you can really make a good comparison between the 2 setups unless you ensure all the configs are identical, trueplay turned off, and source identical.   It’s entirely possible that the users previous trueplay tuning just wasn’t that good (ad the new one is significantly more to your liking. While the Era 100 does have the additional tweeter, I don’t think surround setups take advantage of that in any way.

I really should have done an A/B/C test between the Play 1, One SL and Era-100 when I had them all, but my ears just aren't good enough to report reliable testing results.

I replaced OneSLs with Era 100s and didn’t notice a big difference. But then, my ears are probably as reliable as Stanley_4’s. :)

I can’t argue the point with any certainty as I no longer have  a Sonos One. That said the angled Tweeters in the Era 100 may offer a slight improvement even in surround mode. Top pic is Era 100.

They definitely sounded better. Just not a “big” difference as surrounds. Didn’t listen to them otherwise.

If you listen to any Dolby Atmos music save your bucks and get the ERA 300 pair.

The Era-300s are great but only if you can position them close to properly, my 100s sound better than the 300s in the locations I had to put them.