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StefSonos
Contributor I
January 27, 2017
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Minimum Volume is too loud to enjoy background music

The minimum volume on a Play 1 for instance (volume level 1) is too loud to let the music play as background.
It's "no music" or "too loud music" on volume level 1 Nothing in between. Ideally I could lower the music volume like an old amplifier. It's as simple as that. We use the Sonos system on the lowest volume side and the minimum volume is just way too high. I'm surprised that nobody else raises this.
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    Ryan S
    Ryan SAnswer
    Retired Sonos Staff
    October 9, 2018
    Hi everyone, starting today with Sonos 9.2 there's the ability to use the mobile controller for Android or iOS to set a maximum volume for each of your Sonos players. The reason I bring it up in here, is that if you have the maximum volume set at 50%, the whole volume bar will still go from 0-100, but 100% will now reflect what your volume limit is set to. This has the added benefit of being able to get more granular control of players at low volume, as the volume steps will scale up or down with the max volume.

    So, if you never set your players above a certain volume, this is a great chance to improve the control at lower volumes. Play around with it and see if this helps.
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    Traveller
    October 9, 2018
    Let me be the first, at least on this thread, to say what a great move this is.

    Really useful.
    Richard
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      rUnIcOrN
      Lyricist III
      October 9, 2018
      Sounds promising. Testing tonite ?
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      rUnIcOrN
      rUnIcOrN
      Lyricist III
      October 9, 2018
      Where do i go to do this please?
      Cant find ..
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      rUnIcOrN
      rUnIcOrN
      Lyricist III
      October 9, 2018
      Think i found btw. VOLUMGRENSE in Norwegian ??
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      Ken_Griffiths
      Ken_Griffiths
      October 10, 2018
      Think i found btw. VOLUMGRENSE in Norwegian ??
      Ja ... I Sonos App goto 'Innstillinger / Rominnstillinger / (Romnavn) / Volumgrense.
      GabrielLogan
      Enthusiast I
      October 10, 2018
      Unfortunately this doesn’t solve the issue. We have now a better accuracy to control low volumes but the minimum volume remains the same... Still too loud in a fully quiet room. Next update I hope.
      I will continue to use AirPlay when I need very low volume.
        John B
        October 10, 2018
        Unfortunately this doesn’t solve the issue. We have now a better accuracy to control low volumes but the minimum volume remains the same... Still too loud in a fully quiet room. Next update I hope.
        I will continue to use AirPlay when I need very low volume.        I think you are mistaken. Set the maximum volume to 25% in the relevant room. Slide the volume to zero then tap once on the volume bar. On my speakers this is just not audible in a quiet room. Without maximum volume limited, it is clearly audible, though faint. It makes a significant difference to minimum volume.
        John B
        October 10, 2018
        I may have to retract that last post. Experimenting further.
        Edit: hmmm. It does indeed seem to jump from silent to the previous minimum volume. Thereafter you do get finer control, but I think @GabrielLogan is correct and it was I who was mistaken.
          Ryan S
          Ryan S
          Retired Sonos Staff
          October 10, 2018
          Unfortunately this doesn’t solve the issue. We have now a better accuracy to control low volumes but the minimum volume remains the same...

          This is correct. The minimum volume itself doesn't change, but there's a bit flexibility control the scale at the lower levels. As a very simplistic example, if you set the max volume to 1% and you slide the volume bar up and down, it'll fluctuate from playing at 0% to playing at 1%, but you won't get 0.5% to play. However, if it's set to 10% as max (again, as a bit of a simple example), it'd be easier to get between the lower audio levels.
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          GabrielLogan
          Enthusiast I
          October 10, 2018
          Unfortunately this doesn’t solve the issue. We have now a better accuracy to control low volumes but the minimum volume remains the same...

          This is correct. The minimum volume itself doesn't change, but there's a bit flexibility control the scale at the lower levels. As a very simplistic example, if you set the max volume to 1% and you slide the volume bar up and down, it'll fluctuate from playing at 0% to playing at 1%, but you won't get 0.5% to play. However, if it's set to 10% as max (again, as a bit of a simple example), it'd be easier to get between the lower audio levels.

          Yes. If we set the maximum volume at 10%, there is no sound from 0 to 10 increments. The sound start at 10 increments and it is equivalent to the sound at 1 increment with a maximum volume set at 100%.
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