Pairing PLAY:5's

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I bought a Play:5 several years ago and wanted to create a stereo pair, so I just bought a 2nd Play:5, not knowing my first 5 was a gen 1 and the newest 5 was gen 2 and apparently you cannot pair them. Is there any way around this? Very disappointed. May end up returning the newest PLAY:5 if there is no solution.

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ChrisAnswer

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There is an iOS app called sonosequencer that supposedly will pair them. I don’t know how good a pair they make but it will supposedly do it.

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K

Kumar

The pairing the gen 1 with the gen 2 via SonoSequence, while perhaps not delivering the quality of sound that two gen 2 speakers would deliver, is MUCH better than simply grouping them together.

If you say so, it is certainly so for you and this may be true for others as well; few have really seen how much the sound differences, once sound level differences are eliminated as they ought to be in stereo pairing, affect stereo imaging. A lot may be just down to not being able to accept the different looks and the psychological impact of that on perceived sound quality.
The sound equalising thought leads to another - I am not sure how this gets done in stereo pairing other than by having the volume sliders get to be in perfect sync, but this does not necessarily mean that sound levels are identical across Sonos models. If they are not, this may be the biggest reason for having identical models for stereo pairing.

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