Surround portables

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Can the surround capable portable speakers be a stereo pair when they are connected as surrounds? Then when they are moved will they reconnect as a stereo pair?

Mr. TAnswer

Not currently, you need to separate the stereo pair to add as surrounds, then when not being surrounds, the portables are treated as independent speakers which can only be grouped, not stereo paired. To have the portable surrounds as a stereo pair, you need to manually remove them from being surrounds and create the stereo pair, which is the same process for non-portable surrounds.

Confirmed by Sonos in the following thread:

https://en.community.sonos.com/product%2Dupdates/beam%2Dme%2Dup%2Da%2Ddeep%2Ddive%2Dinto%2Dbeam%2Dultra%2D6934684?tid=6934684#post16896476

Mr. TAnswer

Not currently, you need to separate the stereo pair to add as surrounds, then when not being surrounds, the portables are treated as independent speakers which can only be grouped, not stereo paired. To have the portable surrounds as a stereo pair, you need to manually remove them from being surrounds and create the stereo pair, which is the same process for non-portable surrounds.

Confirmed by Sonos in the following thread:

https://en.community.sonos.com/product%2Dupdates/beam%2Dme%2Dup%2Da%2Ddeep%2Ddive%2Dinto%2Dbeam%2Dultra%2D6934684?tid=6934684#post16896476

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MoPacAuthor

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Not currently, you need to separate the stereo pair to add as surrounds, then when not being surrounds, the portables are treated as independent speakers which can only be grouped, not stereo paired. To have the portable surrounds as a stereo pair, you need to manually remove them from being surrounds and create the stereo pair, which is the same process for non-portable surrounds.

Confirmed by Sonos in the following thread:

https://en.community.sonos.com/product%2Dupdates/beam%2Dme%2Dup%2Da%2Ddeep%2Ddive%2Dinto%2Dbeam%2Dultra%2D6934684?tid=6934684#post16896476

Bummer!

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SimonNomis

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I’d like to add my support for an option to restore a stereo pair when portable speakers stop being surrounds. This would make a significant difference to my daily use of Sonos.

I have an Arc Ultra and two Sonos Play speakers. In the evening, I use the Plays as rear surrounds in my bedroom. During the day, I take both downstairs to my desk and want to use them as a stereo pair, receiving Bluetooth audio from my work PC while both speakers remain connected to Wi-Fi.

The portable surround feature is useful, but switching back to stereo currently requires removing the surround configuration and creating the stereo pair again. Returning to home cinema involves another configuration change. Doing this twice a day takes away much of the convenience of having portable surrounds.

I understand the concern raised here about someone taking only one speaker and hearing just one channel. Could this be an optional setting, such as “Restore stereo pair when not using surrounds”?

Ideally:

Both speakers used together away from the soundbar → restore their stereo pair.
Only one speaker taken away → allow independent playback without losing a channel.
Both returned to their surround positions → resume surround playback.

If automatic switching is difficult to implement reliably, even a single “Stereo / Surround” control that remembers both configurations would be a substantial improvement.

Is there an existing Request Line idea for this that we can support?

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