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We recently purchased a new home with ceiling speakers already installed. In order to get them working do we need do purchase and amp?  

How to fix this? 

I have an Arc plus two Ones and a Sub to form a surround system.  I’ve noticed that TruePlay completely reduces the surround levels making way too quiet. Even turning them up +5 or so doesn’t sounds right. It’s a small room but it sort of defeats the purpose of having surround if you can barely hear it.  Turning off TruePlay and manually setting the surround distance to “2 to 10 feet” adds all the ambience back.  Anyone else experience this?

If I watch tv I cant hear the people’s voices clearly as they speak. Can it maby be my optic cable?

I have an ATV connected to a projector. it goes through an Arcana before the split HDMI feed gets to the projector and Arc  When I finish using the ATV, I leave it at the Home Screen. It is set to sleep after an hour’s inactivity currently, and I’ve previously tried it with sleep disabled. There is no HDMI-CEC on my Sony projector so the only thing that controls my ATV is me, with the remote, and the sleep function. Fairly regularly (maybe 1/5 of the time) when I turn on the projector then try to wake my ATV I get no picture or sound. I can successfully ask my iPhone to Screen Mirror to it. This makes me think the ATV is functioning and waking up, so I’m assuming the Arcana isn’t noticing it waking.  Does anyone else have this setup or this issue?

Please bear with me, as I’m not an audiophile! We have a first generation Bridge and Connect, which we had connected to a stereo receiver to play on wired speakers in our house as well as outside.Our stereo receiver died, and hubby wants to replace it, but I’m wondering if we’re better off just changing up our whole system (and taking advantage of the upgrade program). I realize it’s 2022 and wires are no longer needed, lol!Without wanting to pay a fortune, I’m wondering what our best options are. Just get a Roam or Move for when we’re outside and a One for inside, and get rid of all the wired speakers in our house? Or what about the Amp — is that something that can just be hooked up to the existing wired speakers? (Though yes, I realize it’s on back order…). I’m assuming that an actual receiver is no longer needed, as everything we’d be listening to is streamable…Thanks for any help you can provide to an old dinosaur!

I know the topic of speaker selector switches has been discussed before  but i would like to add a few points and or questions to the discussion. I’m presently using a sonos amp with 2 sets of wired speakers (one indoor and one outdoor). I understand the ideal setup would be to use two amps but that would be so expensive. The obvious option would be a speaker selector switch but there are complications with this eg. sound degradation, impedance, and possible damage to the amp. My question then is could Sonos not produce their own speaker selector switch that would be guaranteed compatible with the Sonos amp or at the very least make some recommendations of switches made by other manufacturers ? 

Hello Sonos community! I have a Sonos arc and I’m using an arcana to get audio to it from my Apple TV 4K. As I currently have it set up I am unable to control the volume from the Apple TV remote, either the physical version or the iOS widget. Before I start tinkering around I would really appreciate it if somebody could confirm whether or not they have volume control working with a similar set up? If you do then it will either be my Sony projector or my HDMI switch that is to blame. Could these be the problem?

The Roam charger cord is permanently attached to the base, which is already bad, but then the other end of the cable is a USB-A plug.  Welcome to 2015.  

Is it possible to have a quicker way to switch between Ambient and Full modes when listening to music? Depending on where I am in the room I may bounce between the two modes, currently a bit tedious to navigate through the settings to do this. A simple button on the main playback screen should suffice 

Hey everyone, I hope it’s allowed here to talk about this, I want to showcase of what’s possible to build using the Sonos Developer Platform: https://auxcord.org I’ve seen hundreds of threads here on the Sonos forum, asking for a Jukebox for their Sonos system: Allowing guests to queue their own songs easily. https://auxcord.org does exactly that:Never replace the currently playing song: always queue Your guests can use any phone to add songs Your guests don't need any account or login Disable the speaker's hardware buttons, so you control the volume and playlist Share a link or QR code ahead of time, so guests can pre-queue Prevent the same song from being played multiple times No need to hand over your phone, or have your friends spell the title of the songThis is a new project I’ve built, because I needed it for myself. It’s completely free, and I have no plans on commercialising it. Depending on the feedback, I might continue working on it, to improve the design and make it easier

could there be any issues if sonos fives and sub are always plugged in but I play only for some time(1 hour) ?

I am trying to get my Innuous mini mk3 library available on my Sonos Port.  Support has told me a.  No hard connection is necessary, they communicate via wifi, b. Connect them directly with ethernet cable and c. Connect them directly with rca cables.  I have tried all with no luck.  I have no confidence in support on this matter.  Have any of you experience with this?  Thanks in advance.

Hello all, within the last week my app has pinged up there is a new update (even though auto update is turned off).What exactly does the new update address?, has anyone updated yet.It's also really annoying the certain settings are now "ghosted out", just because it's sniffed an update.Is there any way to stop this happening in the future (blocking access at the router etc?). 

Trying to solve for the below goals using the SONOS ecosystem and I’ve been back and forth on how to accomplish. Improve my GreatRoom TVs built-in speakers (Beam/ARC)  Create AirPlay option and power speakers for turntable that sits directly behind TV area  Output vinyl/TV audio signal across all speakers on network (e.g. listen to vinyl on soundbar) Last, I have an additional TV on an HDMI splitter that I’d like to share audio/speakers with main TV Will an ARC/Beam + SONOS AMP (+/- 3rd party bookshelves and sub) accomplish what I’m after? I would like the option of using the sub on either TV/Vinyl signal, and by a similar token, have the option to listen to vinyl across all speakers on the AirPlay/SONOS network. 

This is offered to try and help anyone else who has just upgraded their Synology hardware with DSM 7 and transferred users and media folders to the new device via configuration export/import and/or backups.  It may also apply to anyone upgrading DSM 6 to 7.In my case, I was upgrading hardware and DSM version. Having done the DSM configuration and data imports from the old device, I was unable to add the replacement Music Library on the new NAS to S2 Sonos, Error 900 was reported. On the Synology, a log entry showed an SMB1 logon was refused.  This was a complete red herring, as I later discovered.Windows clients also would not connect to the shared folders.After a lot of playing around with SMB settings, it transpired from the raw smb connection log on the NAS that the issue was that the connections were refused due to the user not having application permissions.So if you come across this problem, please check in DSM Control Panel “User & Group” that SMB is allowed in application p

OMG playing a song and toggling the setting on and off in the Sonos App; What an amazing difference!!!I can’t find the words to express what an amazing difference (actually I can but they might not be appropriate in a public forum)Take a bow Sonos well done (Soundbar, Sub and 2x Play 5)

When using a soundbar plus Fives as Surround, but no Sub. Could the LFE Chanel be downmixed to the Fives, to take advantage of their excellent low frequency response.

Hello there, I’ve been a happy Sonos customer for almost 10 years now and have been really happy with my system, upgrading and expanding my setup as time passed.As someone who is fully blind, I especially appreciate the fact that the Sonos app for iOS is fully accessible to me, there have been a few bugs at some points but I’ve always had the experience that once those issues were reported, they would soon be fixed. Furthermore, setting up new devices has always been a smooth experience, with clear textual instructions on what to do provided within the app.Overall, my experience with Sonos really has been that the company does care about customers with disabilities, and so I’ve absolutely been recommending Sonos products to other visually impaired folks over the years. Sadly, however, I was in for an unpleasant surprise when I recently purchased a Sonos Port for my setup.After unboxing the device, I immediately found the big round pairing button on the rear panel, so I figured pairing

Hello Everyone,Below is a simple trick to use your Sonos 5 playback as a normal AMP speaker with Line-In without any delay.1-Reset Sonos, walkthrough initial product setup using wired network connection.2-set delay to 75-ms and disable compression3-connect audio jack from both ends, make sure you can hear the sound of the device connected and playing ( you will notice the delay )4-disconnect or unplug the ethernet, no more delay, and Sonos can now be used as generic speaker. Tip: if you have a managed or smart network switch, you can remotely control the network interface connected to Sonos, so you can switch between Sonos mode and Speaker only mode! Hope this will help someone in the feature. Best

I just bought the Sonos Beam 2, installed it via the tedious phone app, and now all the volume indicators for my LG CX55 are gone! Just a plus or minus sign! Oh and when I use my Verizon box one doesn’t exist at all! So I’m supposed to guess what volume I’m at?!Sonos should be giving me better sound! Not changing my control settings!So in short, if I don’t get my original indicators back when I use the Verizon box AND when I use the remote for my LG tv, this gets returned.

Hi all, why is it that in 2022 there is still no separate equalizer for the music and tv input? when watching a movie i have too much bass, when listening to music there should be more for me.It can’t be that hard too ad?  please….. pretty please make this happen, next week would be ok for me… thanks in advance The world

 I own the arc,sub and  sl1s downloaded the  lasted updated and the volume is at least 20% less then before.. I have a big room and before 60% was loud and now it’s at 100%  with the same movie.. I bought the arc because of my room size and now I’m very disappointed in its performance..  can i downgrade to old software version? 

How long does Sonos to fix an update? My arc sounds way too piercing in the midrange. It's just too sharp sounding now. The arc also has less mid bass with a now overwhelming mid range sound. I wish to go back to the original settings. Even the sub has suffered the low end isn't as solid; sometimes the sub is barely heard. I adjust the EQ and sub level and still not satisfied. This update is no good. 

Hi! I know that this has been asked a lot of times but i have not found an answer for 2022 🙂We have a Yamaha MusicCast wireless vinylplayer and im wondering if they (Yamaha) have fixed so you can use Sonos products (in my cast Ark) to stream your music yet? I know that i has been impossible the last 3 years, but still holding out.