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SONOS MOVE BLUETOOTH STEREO PAIRING IS IMPOSSIBLE

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FYI, You cant stereo pair MOVE speakers while on Bluetooth. DO NOT WASTE TIME TRYING.SONOS does not tell you this and most people assume it when they purchase them. I personally would not have bought my first MOVE speaker or the second MOVE speaker later if I knew it could not form a true stereo pair while in Bluetooth. I now have spent 800.00 on something I did not need and I feel I was misled on. I should have done much more investigating prior to purchase. Maybe hired someone. And it was not easy to find out that Bluetooth pairing did not work after hours of trying post purchase. I am not very happy with the deliberate hiding of this by SONUS. I love the sound that they produce while hooked to WI-FI but they knowingly hid the fact that it will not do a stereo pair while on Bluetooth. JUST WRONG! Shareholder/Stock price over customers does not work in the long run. SAD AND DISAPOINTED.

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Anonymous

Just curious though - where do you need this feature to work?

I suspect this goes to the heart of Sonos’ decision not to include this feature on the Move or Roam. They believe (and probably have evidence to suggest) that the proportion of people who really must have stereo music to accompany their picnic is very small.

Hotels and serviced apartments. There 11 million digital nomads (according to Harvard Business Review) and we travel all the time. You cannot connect these to hotel internet (unless Sonos decides to add a web browser to the app) :smile:
https://hbr.org/2021/07/your-company-needs-a-digital-nomad-policy

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Anonymous

And the ability to butter toast implies some different hardware, too. Which may not exist in the Move or Roam. That being said, I don’t know which chipset is in use by Sonos, or even if it is capable of stereo Bluetooth. My point is that it may not be only software related.

Any $20 set of wireless earbuds on Amazon is capable of stereo bluetooth. I hope this $340 set of speakers has at least as good a bluetooth profile as that.

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Anonymous

I suspect this goes to the heart of Sonos’ decision not to include this feature on the Move or Roam.

My experience of BT speakers that do this via BT is that the link up can be flaky. Perhaps that is an issue inherent to BT, and may be another reason for the Sonos decision.

But I wish they would allow the Roam to bond with Sub via WiFi! Because I still believe that a Roam pair + Sub, over WiFi for use inside the home, would sound a lot better than one may think. And if so, it would be a very cool dual use system.

Every set of wireless earbuds manages to do it just fine.

Airgetlam

I’d love to see it too. But my point as made in the quoted post remains.

Bruce

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Anonymous

I just use a dual-stream bluetooth transmitter and happily play music to both ‘Moves’ in perfect sync when out in the garden. All I need now is more hot weather here in the U.K.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07J58KY3X

The above works fine for me and it comes with a built-in rechargeable battery that lasts all day.

But this requires a wired connection to the device, right?
What we need is a Bluetooth device that can send and receive simultaneously.

melvimbe

I just use a dual-stream bluetooth transmitter and happily play music to both ‘Moves’ in perfect sync when out in the garden. All I need now is more hot weather here in the U.K.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07J58KY3X

The above works fine for me and it comes with a built-in rechargeable battery that lasts all day.

But this requires a wired connection to the device, right?
What we need is a Bluetooth device that can send and receive simultaneously.

No wired connection to the sonos speaker. Many (all?) Android devices have dual stream BT built-in.

Danny

melvimbe

And the ability to butter toast implies some different hardware, too. Which may not exist in the Move or Roam. That being said, I don’t know which chipset is in use by Sonos, or even if it is capable of stereo Bluetooth. My point is that it may not be only software related.

Any $20 set of wireless earbuds on Amazon is capable of stereo bluetooth. I hope this $340 set of speakers has at least as good a bluetooth profile as that.

I wonder if the fact the two speakers are only expected to operate under a foot makes a difference. Really, I wonder.

Danny

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Anonymous

I just use a dual-stream bluetooth transmitter and happily play music to both ‘Moves’ in perfect sync when out in the garden. All I need now is more hot weather here in the U.K.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07J58KY3X

The above works fine for me and it comes with a built-in rechargeable battery that lasts all day.

But this requires a wired connection to the device, right?
What we need is a Bluetooth device that can send and receive simultaneously.

No wired connection to the sonos speaker. Many (all?) Android devices have dual stream BT built-in.

But wired to the source?

Or is it simultaneous TX/RX?

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Anonymous

And the ability to butter toast implies some different hardware, too. Which may not exist in the Move or Roam. That being said, I don’t know which chipset is in use by Sonos, or even if it is capable of stereo Bluetooth. My point is that it may not be only software related.

Any $20 set of wireless earbuds on Amazon is capable of stereo bluetooth. I hope this $340 set of speakers has at least as good a bluetooth profile as that.

I wonder if the fact the two speakers are only expected to operate under a foot makes a difference. Really, I wonder.

Would be distance to the source that matters. I can put my earbuds in different rooms and they both play.

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