Spaces & Setups

Hello ! I want to buy Sonos products for my new home that haven’t started yet to be built. I try to anticipate.Please check the image of my plan aht the bottom. For the Home Cinema i will have an “Arc ultra”. I can’t put in ceiling or in wall speakers for the surround, so i’ll have to go for ERA 100/300, so i don’t need to choose right now. And i might never put surrounds. I will go for the SUB MINI. For the dining table area, it will be with a MOVE 2 that i can also carry in the bathroom and outside. Dining table area is not a place where we will listen to music a lot . For the rare occasion of party, i guess the arc ultra + move 2 + in ceiling speakers of the kitchen, it will do the job.And i dont want to add a Sonos amp to have this area by itself. Because i will only want to play music in the kitchen for most of the time. My question is for the kitchen :The wall at the bottom is around 4,5meters (14,7 foots) and on the right is a big bay window  of 4 meters and total is 5,5 meters

No release notes but an update. Can’t see any changes. Now on Build 92.0-73070 on ALL devices. So assume it was just a consolidation of the last update to bring all speakers in line as the Arc and ERAs were on advanced versions. 

Help please. Sony Bravia 7 + arc + Panasonic UB820 4K. Could someone please let me know what the correct Dolby Atmos settings are for these 3 units.I have the correct Hdni cables.Your help would much appreciated. All the best.Greg. 

Hi everyoneI would like to delete some radio stations, but I can't find any answers on this topic in the community.Thanks 

I have seen a lot questions and comments related to the delay that comes with connecting a DJ controller to your sonos system through a sonos port. The delay may is noticeable and is def not ideal at all for professionals in this space. However, if you just want to have fun at home and throw small house parties, it works absolutely great in my opinion. The output from the speakers might have minor delay but you can always use your headphones to mix or have a small monitor speaker directly connected to your decks to help with mixing. Plus, the aesthetics of the apartment also look great without large bulky wired speakers awkwardly positioned around the decks. I have noticed that when more people are in the apartment and connected to the wifi, it can cause sound to drop off and here and there but I just set up a wifi mesh network to tighten up the wifi which I am hoping helps resolve this issue. Will provide an update to anyone interested. My setup: A pioneer XDJ RX2 is connected to a so

I have a Sonos One pair in my living room with GA installed and also a Nest speaker in my bedroom that has updated to Gemini. I use an iPhone 17PM. My entire house runs on google assistant.  Almost everything that can be plugged including all my lights, switches, LED’s curtains, climate, air filter, dishwasher and teapot.  GA was being really buggy so I thought I would reset the speakers and re-add the assistant. Bad Idea.  Obviously it was before I read anything on this forum about all the issues. I spent hours and hours working on it. I finally figured out that the only way I could re-enable GA was if the speaker pair had a new name, and they were in a new “room.” Once I got it installed, however, it refused to respond to “Hey Google.” Then I tried enabling the audio indicator which I always had tuned off and BAM, now everything is working mostly ok. It still often doesn’t work perfectly, but it’s working better than before. My nest speaker in my bedroom usually can hear me, but if i

I was playing with my living room group which includes an Arc, sub 3 and in ceiling surrounds powered by the Sonos amp. My intention was to get a line in through the amp from my turntable (Crosley). After some research I discovered Sonos hides the line in on the amp when it’s connected as surrounds to the system. So I disconnect the surrounds from the system and used the line in on the amp. To my surprise, the line in started playing from the Arc and sub 3!  This is essentially the outcome I wanted, just with the surrounds in the mix as well and not having to screw with the groups every time I want to do this. But I was not expecting the line in to play from the Arc at all given it was a line in to the amp which connects to the in ceiling surrounds. So I guess my question is why is Sonos not allowing Line in with the surrounds connected, since it’s obviously possible. I just want to be able to use my turntable with the system without having to screw with the groups to do it. Are they g

I’m betting this has been asked before but I didn’t know the right phrase to use in the search to find it so I thought I would ask and hopefully this is an easy problem.I’m working on finishing a room and I want to put in-ceiling speakers in it so I can listen to music through services like Spotify.  I think the Sonos Amp is the right product to work with this but the part I can’t figure out is how to integrate Alexa to control the music.I don’t need anything fancy. Just the ability to be in the room and say, “Alexa, play X on Spotify” and the music would come through the speakers in the ceiling.  How could I do that without spending a fortune?  I was going to get a pair of regular in-celing speakers with a Sonos amp hidden in a cabinet to play the music but I can’t figure out the Alexa part without having something like a echo plugged in and out visible.  I’m wanting it to be as simple and as invisible as I can make it.  I thought I was see what some options might be that I’m not thin

Hello! I already have an Arc and I want to improve the sound in my room. My TV room is really small (13 m²) and asymmetrical;  the TV stands in a corner (I tried to recreate the shape of the room, LOL). Do you think adding a Sub Mini would be effective, or should I upgrade to an Arc Ultra? Thanks in advance! 

Evening all. My father in law has an existing set up in his house on a Vodafone WiFi. It has a playbar and a play 3. All working harmoniously.  He now has a play 1 in his workshop and garage a ways down the property. The house WiFi does not stretch to these outbuildings. He has run a cat cable from the router down to the garage underground into the workshop. And it is connected to a new WiFi extender type thing that emits its own WiFi signal.  The aim, is to have a separate system from this house WiFi on this "new" WiFi signal. My belief is that if he resets the Sonos app, and then creates a new system, he can add his play 1 on this new WiFi network and operate it as a separate system. Ans then switch between the 2 systems once all set up . Is this a good line of thought ?  Attached picture of the device at the other end of his cat 5.  In that photo he has another lead plugged into the play1. Is it better to hard patch or set up wirelessly.Cheers all   

Hey guys. I'm renovating my apartment and switching to Sonos.I have a pretty large living room / media space and i wanna make sure i get the speaker placement right. We use it for movies and for hosting. It is an integrated space, which makes things harder.I wanna balance the surround movie experience with the music experience in the other spaces.Which of the following options do you guys think would be better? A:  B: If I do go with the AMP's route, would I be loosing out on Doby Atmos or any other features? Thanks for the help in advance.

Please help:I have purchased and moved into a new house. The last owners were not the purchasers or installers of the pre-existing wired sound system and do not have the details. The house is 3 stories and 4000m2 in size, there is a very complex lan and wlan nbn enabled tree network that has a server room and cables running throughout. There are 5 wireless routers and the current speakers a visible in spotify via at least 2 different wifi routers. I am looking to transfer the sound system ownership of the new house and merge it with my current (small in comparison) s2 sonos wireless speaker network. The pre-existing speakers are built into the ceiling and are indoor and out door (there are around 15 speakers in 3 rooms).  I think the old system is about 5-10 years old and the mounted installed sonos s1 wired speakers might have integrated amps and the system seems to be run via lan network, with inputs via the wifi routers coordinated via a netgear switch in the server room. There is n

Hi,For you, is more interesting to replace my 2 One SL with 2 Era 100 or add sub to existing configuration ?If sub, I can buy sub g2 or it could be more interesting to buy sub mini ?Area is approximatively, 40m2 and I’d listen often music and sometimes action film.Thanks

Question regarding Spotify using Alexa. I have multiple Echoes and dots throughout the house. On both the Spotify desktop and mobile apps it shows all devices so I could select which one to play music or all as the everywhere group.   Other day I bought a Sonos era 100 and downloaded Sonos app. I can still use Spotify desktop app to select any/all devices (living room option is actually the Sonos). But now on my phone it's only shows desktop (pc app and speakers) Living Room/Sonos and my phone for playback. I want to be able to control each device on my phone but now can't. The Alexa app can't find the Sonos.   

Tengo una barra de sonido sonos arc sl cuándo quiero registrarla en la aplicación nó me la detecta si no está conectada al cable Eternet pero cuando la conecto al cable si la detecta la aplicacion cuándo la quiero añadir dice preparando la barra y luego me dice se ha perdido la conexión con sonos arc sl asegurate de que sonos arc sl este encendida le pico volver a intentar y me dice buscando barra arc sl y me sale un mensaje que dice No se ha podido configurar tu Sonos Arc SL. Desconecta el cable de alimentación, vuelve a conectarlo e inténtalo de nuevo. Y el problema sigue saliendo 

Just installed a Sonos Arc Ultra below our TV (77” Sony A80J) in a room that is 20’ x 15’ (TV on the 20’ wall).  Trying to decide whether to add two Era 100s and perhaps a Sub-Mini, and thought I’d check here to see if there is a consensus how much the Arc Ultra benefits from adding Era 100s?  And, would adding a Sub-Mini add more to the Arc Ultra sound experience?  If adding Era 100s, can they be added to the front far left and right corners of the room, or should they go to the rear corners (which would cause them to be mostly in line with viewing/sitting positions rather than behind).Thanks and Happy Holidays!

SO has there been another update which has turned everything to **** again, or is this my own personal hell?My D:\ is  inaccessible no matter how I try to trick it.

It’s almost pointless to report new bugs with Google Assistant on Sonos these days, but for the benefit of those still using this combo:Google has new problems identifying which speaker to respond from if you have both Sonos and Google Home speakers in the house. The microphones are sensitive enough to pick up “Hey Google” from a couple of rooms away, but the multiple pickup is normally resolved by timing to identify the closest speaker. Lately there seems to be a new delay between Sonos and the Google servers, because now frequently a more distant Google Home speaker responds before Sonos, which belatedly chimes in with its own duplicate response. Sadly Google has never implemented alternative wake words to replace the tongue-twisting “Hey Google”, so there is no way to resolve this except to speak quietly.

Sonos really needs to figure out a way to get full Gemini or Siri integration.  I have a bunch of Sonos speakers that I’ve been mulling upgrading to new ones for a while now.  That said, no way I do it given the current limitations on using the speakers for voice assistants like Gemini.  I recognize this may or may not be Sonos’ fault, but that doesn’t mean they should not be going nuclear on figuring out how to do it.  If they aren’t able to fully integrate with systems like Gemini, I’d guess their footprint will shrink until they disappear or get bought.  Neither case is ideal as I’ve been a fan for many years, but this feels like an existential issue for them.I’m rooting for you Sonos, but need to see a solution no matter how you achieve it.

Touch ID and the Sonos app: Pad users can add Touch ID to limit access to the Sonos app - the question is how to remove this if you find you don’t want/need this feature. I asked the Sonos help desk who suggested that this feature could be toggled in App Preferences (not in my version - 80.35.8 - it can’t) or in iOS settings for the Sonos app (no, not there either) or the Touch ID section of settings (no, not there) and sadly could not help beyond that. By chance I discovered that a long press on the Sonos app icon on the Home Screen solves the problem as this allows you to enable/disable Touch ID in Options. Perhaps everyone already knew this - if so, sorry for being late to the party!

Hi,I want to purchase the optimal surround setup for my new 65 inch TV.i was thinking Arc Ultra, Sub 4 and era100sHowever my room is only 13 ft * 14ft and read online that the above may over power the room ?Would a smaller sound bar and sub be better or would the Arc and Sub 4 still be the best to buy ?Thanks in advance,Jim 

Just received my Sonos Port yesterday to replace my Connect.I was in 2 minds given some of the reviews. First thing is the size only about half the size of the Connect.I am really impressed the sound quality is excellent. Indeed the negatives in reviews have not surfaced!Early days but highly recommended, well done Sonos 👏👏👏

I’m using a google pixel phone, the 9 pro xl to be specific, and i recently bought the sonos ace headphones. The headphones are nice spec wise however i was disappointed to see that the only Bluetooth codec i can use for wireless listening is SBC. I understand they support Aptx but google phones DO NOT support Aptx. I think its lame that I’m stuck with the most inefficient codec with such cool headphones simply because of the chip my phone uses. With Bluetooth 5.4 onboard it more than meets the requirements to add LE audio support and LC3. Aura-cast would be nice too for good measure but I’d love to see an update for LC3 support at the very least. Do you guys think this is possible to expect in an update?

Has anyone else had persistent problems with Gen 1 speakers and the playback from Spotify?I've had issues with Spotify pausing at the start then again mid songs/podcasts/audiobooks as if buffering and stopping at the end of some tracks. I reached out to support awhile back who checked my setup (Play 5.1) from their end and said it was wifi interference as Spotify 'uses a lot of data'. I had it set to play back at the lowest quality and it would still do it. The speaker was 3m line of sight from the router. Using a bridge was slightly better. Was suggested I use an ethernet cable. Spotify played fine on my phone and PC even if 25+ meters away in the garden (on wifi). Makes you wonder how much data Spotify uses when 4k movies stream flawlessly...I found a solution. Ditch the genocide funding Spotify and use Tidal. Tidal pay the artist about 4x as much as Spotify. The UI is pretty much the same. Just as many artists a Spotify. You can copy your library and playlists (of which only 2 songs

I recently upgraded my bedroom setup with an Arc (thank you to Sonos refurbs on eBay) and Era 100 surrounds (already had a sub mini) and I absolutely love it.But… my old Hisense 4k tv only has an arc, not earc, so no atmos for me at this time.With potential xmas sales on the horizon, I’m looking to upgrade the tv to something that will pass atmos from my ATV - are there any particular brands I should/should not consider (I’m currently considering lower priced mini led or Oled from TCL, LG, Philips or Samsung)?Having read several posts on here, I get the feeling that simply having earc may not be enough? Also, does the tv need to support atmos itself? My guess is no, as it will be routing the audio directly to the arc?Thank you!