Spaces & Setups

Here is the situation: I have a fairly large space (including living room, kitchen, dining room, tv area) which is pretty much all open plus a deck. Currently renovating and planning for audio. Number of speakers: Living room 6 , kitchen 2, dining 2, TV area 2, deck 2. I'd like on/off/volume control for different areas. I can't see playing different sources but I suppose that would be a feature. Option 1) 1 Connect:amp per speaker pair. That's 7 x $500 = $3500 Option 2) 1 Connect for each area + multichannel amp. 3 Connects (living room, kitchen/dining/tv, and deck) plus something like the Russound D1650. That's 3 x $350 + $1000 = $2050 plus I get two extra channels or I could bridge to the outdoor speakers. The D1650 has screws for volume control on each speaker so I could fine tune before using Connect for volume control. I'd lose some of the savings in wiring and figuring out some 12V trigger workaround. Thoughts?

My suggestion is that "Pause All" actually pauses everything straight away rather than popping up a dialog box which asks "Are you sure you want to pause the music in all rooms?". Yes, I'm absolutely sure I want to pause all and when I do I'm usually in a hurry and I don't want to move my eyes and finger to the dialog. It not like "Pause All" is anywhere near the normal pause button on any of the controller apps. Using a dialog box here is so early 90s UI/UX. Give users a little more credit. It not like it's a Delete All (you music) function which of course would need an 'Are you sure..?". At least make the display of the "Are you sure you want to pause the music in all rooms?" dialog a configuration option in case you're worried someone will actually miss it and drive everyone else in the household mad with all their accidental "Pause All"s. And while you at it, please consider adding 'Pause All' to the iPhone app's force touch shortcut menu. The really big ask/suggestion

So…here goes the Sonos v. Heos Comparison…version 2.0. As noted previously, the former draft disappeared, never to be seen again. Which is sad, it took a while to write. As you may recall, I have been irritated with Heos over the last couple of months and have been looking at Sonos as a viable competitor. Sonos is the market leader so there must be something good going on there right? My comments below primarily concern sound quality, as this is the most important factor to me in any speaker. On a ten point scale, sound quality gets 5 points, app 2, design 2, and reliability 1. Sonos One v. Heos 1 Reliability This is the hardest category to judge as it requires months or even years to sort out, and unless you are reviewing dozens of copies, a failure of one particular device doesn’t really tell you a whole lot. What I can say is that at present I own no less than six Heos speakers, some since the inception of the line and they all still work, nor have the even given

I have thousands $$$ invested in Sonos over the last 10 years. Covers my entire house, every room including the deck. I wonder if anyone at Sonos actually uses the product. The UI is utter crap, thank goodness you dropped the horrendous white background. I mean, that was just low hanging fruit you created to begin with. 9 times out of 10, late nights on the deck, I can't make Sonos do what I want it to do. Your software wasn't always great, but it also wasn't always this bad. Get a clue.

Hi all, Since I've switched to the PLAYBAR as my primary speaker I wasn't able to play my vinyl records anymore. After researching for a solution without having to spent over 350 euros for the a CONNECT unit I stumbled on the topic below: https://en.community.sonos.com/components-228996/playbar-and-turntable-with-pre-amp-6735603/index1.html Today I received the AD converter and Toslink switch and connected them to my PLAYBAR, tv and turntable. The sound coming out of tv is as good and crisp as ever. The problem is when I switch to the signal from the turntable. When I play the record the sound keeps falling away. You can also hear it when you turn off the record and turn the volume of the PLAYBAR up, you hear intervals where the the signal falls away. It is like the signal isn't strong enough. I tried several things: - Tested the cables and switched them between the PLAYBAR, converter and switch. Same noise. - Connected the turntable directly to the PLAYBAR, without the

We have a Bose 1-2-3 in the small family room of our condo. It has a subwoofer, but we are never able to play it very loud as it would disturb people in the next unit. We recently bought the Sonos 1 and are quite impressed. I'm thinking of buying the Playbase to replace the Bose unit, but do not want to buy the subwoofer -- at least not at this time. We may add a pair of 1s in the next future. Can anyone advise as to the audio quality compared to the Bose?

I would like to be able to manage my music library in one place. My music library is stored on my Synology NAS. I don't use music streaming services. I use bliss (https://www.blisshq.com/) to manage the library, essentially to add and optimise cover art and resolve any track naming issues. Bliss runs as a background service on the NAS, listening for new content and auto applying cover art and track naming rules automagically. When I add a new album my workflow is: 1. Rip CD to NAS 2. If I'm anxious to listen straight away, go into bliss and force a rescan 3. I go into the Sonos PC desktop controller and "Update Music Library Now" It would be fantastic if Sonos Controller would allow me to merge steps 2 and 3. 1. Rip CD to NAS 2. I go into the Sonos PC desktop controller and "Update Music Library Now" Sonos rescans the music library. If it finds new content it makes a call to a bliss API to apply its rules Music appears in Sonos Library with cover art applied

Just ordered a pair of Play:5's and am going to need a floor stand. Looks like the Flexon is the only one that fits the new Play:5? It will only allow landscape orientation though, which is kind of a bummer. Are there any other floor stand options available that will fit this speaker?

I would like to share an idea for a new Sonos function. >> direct (surround) receiver control. < In my living room I have a (surround) receiver where a my Sonos CONNECT is a music source for my receiver. To get Sonos music in my livingroom, I need to turn on the receiver and select the correct line input. And for controlling the volume I need to walk to the receiver and turn the Volume knob. My feature request is: Implement by TCP/IP - LAN control of my receiver. My receiver (Onkyo) and many others (brands) are controllable by LAN. So when I select the living room on my Sonos controller, the receiver automatic will turn on and select the right input source. And that volume control will directly control my Amp/receiver instead of the Connect. Setting this up should not be very difficult, in the advanced setting of the Sonos Connect zone, ad this selection. Could look like: Select brand, select type of receiver, select input source. Optional set max volume ( I have power

Currently it appears that the current song is displayed in the Main Controller under 'Information' but is not displayed in the Mini Controller at all. It would be great if this information could be seen there too. http://grab.by/SgcW http://grab.by/SgcY

I have been an audio Sonos user for many years but have not yet started into the Sonos home theater arena. I have been offered 2 Play:5 Gen 1's from a friend who no longer wants them, and my hope is to use them as rear speakers in my "critical" audio listening room where I have a Connect. The room also has a TV, and is connected to a receiver for left, right, and sub, but I have no rears (or center). So my question is, can I set up the Play:5's as rears, and not have to add or change anything else? The room will still be used mostly for stereo audio as its main use. Thanks!

Me and a friend are interested in play 1 devices. We were blown away in a demo today in store but if we go camping for example where there is no wifi router, could the Sonos be configured to connect to a iPhone Hot spot and play music (assuming there is power) ? Is this possible somehow either playing music from an iPhone or iPad over a hotspot on the device straight to the Sonos without a router ?

Hi, I've always preferred having my rear speakers playing the same as the front speakers. This makes the sound fuller in my opinion, especially with vocals coming from all around you. I don't like how standard surround sound has no vocals at all coming from the rear. My last setup I put everything in stereo and this worked how I wanted it but I can see no way of making my Sonos speakers play in stereo. I have read about trying to separate the playbar and rear speakers then joining them somehow but I'm worried if I do this I won't be able to control the volume of the rear speakers and it will be blasting out from behind me because you can only change room volume instead of individual speakers. Any help in figuring this out would be appreciated. If it helps I also run my videos from my computer to TV using HDMI and from TV playbar using optical. If there is a way that I can force my computer to output in 2.0 stereo I would be more than happy to do it this way if anyone knows how,

I have 2 connects, both hardwired Ethernet to my seitch and have turned Wi-Fi off on a permanent basis to the sonos units. Prior to that I set my stp settings per recommendations. When I reboot everything it seems to work for a while. The problem is with crestron touchpanels which have Native Sonos built in, it ooos up media player first and that’s supposed to show my sonos favorites and what’s playing with transports (next/previous). Those don’t seem to get no populated. So is tells me they are aware and it happened on a recent update but to contact Crestron. Lol. If they are aware, why not offer to downgrade firmware or a solution. They also didn’t tell me what the issue is, or from my standpoint if there really is an issue aside from proper setup. Again, if I call up the sonos app either on Crestron screen or my phone I can get everything playing but still without media player populating. Like to get this working as designed. Any suggestions?

Is the Sonos controller Windows app compatible with Windows 10?

Isoacoustic stands often provide dramatic improvement for monitors and subs regardless whether they are mid-fi or hi-fi by tightening the bass and mids - increasing the fidelity. Question: 1. Anyone tried the smallest L8R130 for the Sonos 1/One? 2. Anyone tried the L8R155 for the Sonos 5? 3. For good measure, anyone tried those for the Sub? And did you hear improvements? Thanks in advance for any help.

I would like to see SONOS develop an APP for Samsung Family Hub Refrigerators. These refrigerators are populating more and more residence as their popularity continues to grow exponentially. Anyone who entertains knows the kitchen is a major part of any party as well as often being a primary location for persons to congregate. In addition, the host(s) will often spend considerable time in the kitchen either in food preparation or simply accessing more food and beverage to serve. As a regular host of parties, it would be nice if I was able to use the Samsung Family Hub as a control center for SONOS system during parties rather than having to access my phone, tablet or PC.

My question is on the SonosNet behavior when there is more than 1 cable connection. My scenario: I have 11 Sonos units. One of them (poorly positioned far though) is connected by cable to the network, which puts the entire network on SonosNet (About screen reads WM:0). But it's choppy, which could be to the poor position of the unit that is cabled. I have a question, if I plug a second Sonos unit to ethernet somewhere in the middle of the mesh network, will it strengthen the entire mesh network? E.g. will SonosNet take advantage from the fact that the second unit has direct access to internet and won't route further away nodes all the way to the same unit which has the cable connection? My guess would be that this would be the default behavior, but I wanted to confirm the SonosNet behavior. The choppiness might be due to two things, either 2.4 GHZ interference from neighboring wifi networks, which is the case in the area. But I also know that far away nodes in the mesh netw

Moving to Houston and working on a Sonos setup. New house has a 10x10 gazebo with power and a tv. Gazebo is 30 ft from the house. I would love to put a pair of Play:1’s in it. What are people’s thought on these speakers outdoors in rain proof environment? Also, will I have connectivity issues that far from the house (airport extreme router)? If so, any thoughts on how to solve? Thanks for your time in advance. CC

Hello, I am remodeling my bathroom and shower and would like to put speaker(s) directly in the shower area on the ceiling powered by a Connect:Amp. The shower is approximately 60”x36”. Is that enough space for a pair of Polk RC60i speakers? My concern is that the ceiling will be a little crowded with two can lights and a ceiling mount shower head. Would I be better off with a single stereo speaker like the RC6s?

I just set-up my play 1 with a bridge and connected it to a nas as a music source. It appears that all my songs are playing faster than they should, and the pitch is higher. What could be causing this?

I wrote a small python script and GUI that should run for people in windows, if you're interested, send me a PM, I'll send you a link. It could use some people testing it. It requires python to be installed. Got tired of waiting for Sonos to improve their software. It will: 1) Limit volume per zone 2) Drop zone to a threshold after a "quiet hour" 3) Mutes the zone after "mute hour"

No way to roll back software updates?

i recently updated sonos app on iphone (running whatever software is before ios11). now sonos will recognize speakers (i have six sonos play:1s around my home) one day and not recognize them another. when playing music it will sporadically cut out for 8-10 seconds. system was working fine with none of these issues before app update! what am i supposed to do to fix? is it possible to re-download older app version?

is the desktop app able to play the selected music stream through the local pc/mac speakers?