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mwilburn5980
Contributor I
August 20, 2020

Sonos Five Surround Sound

Hi All,

 

I have a pair of Sonos Five in stereo mode and a Sub,  I also have a pair of SL One.

Right now I have the setup in 2 “rooms” on teh APP and not “linked” as one system

My question is should i be able to add the 2 x SL One to the Sonos Five and sub and make them surround speakers? Right now I have the speakers physically in the same room as i used to have  a playbar.  When i had the playbar it was easy to “Add surrounds” but i dont have that option with the Fives?

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nrgcreator
Contributor I
December 14, 2020

nrgcreator,

I’ve just tried this with my own setup for you here and it looks like you first have to break apart the stereo pair and then the Fives will add as surrounds. I hope you can easily sort that.

 

Wow! Thanks for taking the time to try that out! I'll do that tonight when I get home. 

    Tsukasa C
    Tsukasa C
    Contributor I
    April 9, 2021

    nrgcreator,

    I’ve just tried this with my own setup for you here and it looks like you first have to break apart the stereo pair and then the Fives will add as surrounds. I hope you can easily sort that.

     

    Wow! Thanks for taking the time to try that out! I'll do that tonight when I get home. 

    Yes, you need to break them apart and add the Five individually as surround speakers. But then when all is set up, you will face another situation where the Fives may not give you the sound you might be expecting (when listening as stereo pair) as it is only serving you ambient surround sound while the Beam is doing all the talking. Worse is if you are watching news or MTV channel, FIVEs is almost quiet. But if you airplay Spotify to this “Beam + Five pair - Room”, all the speakers will sound perfectly. i found the possible issue might be that there is this Surround/Music setting (Ambient / Full) in Sonos app but there is no such setting for TV.  

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