Hi all,
I have a Arc soundbar, two Era 300 and a Sub Gen 3, I feel missing something in front like no power or big sound, is it a good idea add one or two Sonos Five in front and is it possible ? Thanks for your advice.
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Two pairs of surround
Best answer by Rhonny
No, you can’t add two lots of surrounds, the function doesn’t exist. The only additional speaker you can add to the home theatre setup would be another sub.
You could add two paired speakers at the front, and group them with your home theatre setup, but that will completely ruin any surround sound work your other speakers are doing, as those two extra speakers will just play all your TV’s sound in stereo - plus they will add a 75ms delay to the sound, creating an echo. (Correctly-added surrounds are bonded to the soundbar via its own 5ghz network to keep the surrounds in sync - adding extra speakers will be outside of that, creating a lack of sync.)
So in short - no.
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+5Cool idea! How does it sound with Atmos music? If Sonos wasn’t having so many issues with the 80.x app maybe they could program a way to steer the proper channels to the front L-R speakers and just use the soundbar as the center channel.
I ended up going back to using my 300s as surrounds. The above configuration made the fronts sound louder, yes, but muddier with home theater TV. audio. Music, streamed from Apple Music was pleasing, however.
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