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Avid Contributor I
February 9, 2020

Moves Playing in Stereo over Bluetooth

I purchased two Moves with the intent of creating a stereo pair of portable speakers. Fine on WiFi. Bluetooth is a whole different story. I should have paid closer attention to the specifications - specifically the FAQ. The whole point of getting two Moves was to take my music outside and on the road where there is no WiFi. I am very disappointed in Sonos at the moment. There is an old guideline in product design/development: if you can’t do something fully and completely to what the average customer will expect, don’t do it until you can.

To the Sonos engineers and product management folks: engineering a pair of speakers to work as a stereo pair over bluetooth is very possible and has been accomplished many times. I have a pair of very high quality JBL Flip4s which work nicely in stereo mode while connected to my phone in Bluetooth mode. They do this by pairing the streaming device to one of the speakers and then connecting the two speakers to each other so that the one drives the other. The sound is perfect without any lag. But the fun doesn’t stop there – you can pair over 100 of these things together and they will all play the same music! Get busy and reverse engineer one of these things. If they can do it, you can do it! And your customers expect the best since every other one of your products is far superior to any competing products.

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28 replies

Avid Contributor I
May 11, 2021

I’d like to add on to the “wanting stereo moves in Bluetooth” group.

Down at the fire pit people are amazed at the sound coming from my single move. I wanna blow their minds with stereo paired moves!

Lyricist III
May 20, 2021

I search the phrase Sonos Move Bluetooth Stereo Pair every few days since I got both my Moves back in 2019. Just got back from a beach vacation where it would have been the killer feature. I take them outside and always constrained by my wifi because the spatial sound is night and day from a single speaker. I won’t give up hope! You’ve got both wifi and bluetooth on board - hard to imagine you can’t work out a solution to this. 

Lyricist III
August 14, 2021

Another vote for stereo pairing in Bluetooth mode. 
 

I just bought a pair of Moves 2 months ago. They are great inside our house. But I also bought them for camping, beach trips, our firepit, etc. 
 

I assumed they would have this functionality as it's such a common feature in portable speakers, it was frustrating to learn it's missing in speakers sold at this price point. 
 

It's a real oversight on Sonos’ part. They're portable speakers, intended for use when WiFi isn't available. 🙄

Ken_Griffiths
August 14, 2021

Another vote for stereo pairing in Bluetooth mode. 
 

I just bought a pair of Moves 2 months ago. They are great inside our house. But I also bought them for camping, beach trips, our firepit, etc. 
 

I assumed they would have this functionality as it's such a common feature in portable speakers, it was frustrating to learn it's missing in speakers sold at this price point. 
 

It's a real oversight on Sonos’ part. They're portable speakers, intended for use when WiFi isn't available. 🙄

Perhaps consider using a portable, rechargeable, Bluetooth dual-stream transmitter and play to both speakers at the same time, indoors or outdoors, instead - here is one ‘cheap’ example that works for me:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07J58KY3X

 

Lyricist I
October 11, 2022

Really? For 800 bucks speakers you still cannot stereo pair them on BT. Incredible! I have two UE Boom that work perfectly on stereo mode. I can't believe it's not possible for them Sonos Move. This is my first Sonos speakers system, but I think I won't continue with Sonos if it has such major flaws. Disappointed 

Lyricist I
January 11, 2023

same here, how come SONOS can not develop systems and equipment that can be stero-paired on bluetooth mode to any compatible device. this is disappointing…. this is not rocket science: most other brands can do it.

Lyricist I
August 19, 2023

Where is this feature? Why is it still not available?  These are portable speakers! It’s called a MOVE. Of course we don’t want to have to be tethered to WiFi all the time with these in a pair.

Beyond frustrated with this limitation, I tried for an hour to get the pair of Moves moved to a hotspot using my wife’s phone as the hotspot, but it just does not work at all.  Sonos team themselves say using a hotspot is not officially supported. Had to try.

Such a huge oversight. Guess this second Move is going back to Best Buy. Need to look into something else that is more thought out, and more capable with Bluetooth. 

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Grand Maestro
August 20, 2023

ROAM can stereo pair with Bluetooth.