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If there’s a Beam , Sub, and A pair of One SLs set up with a tv , can the Ones be removed and then set up as a different room to play the tv sound but not as surrounds? A new cigar shop has these speakers set up and the owner would like to have the Ones play the tv sound but not as surrounds. The Ones are by a different tv then the Beam. Hope this makes sense. 

They can be ‘grouped’ with the Beam as a second ‘room’, but there will be a 75ms delay between the Beam, connected to the TV, and any ‘grouped’ room, such as the Sonos Ones. 

If there’s a Beam , Sub, and A pair of One SLs set up with a tv , can the Ones be removed and then set up as a different room to play the tv sound but not as surrounds? A new cigar shop has these speakers set up and the owner would like to have the Ones play the tv sound but not as surrounds. The Ones are by a different tv then the Beam. Hope this makes sense. 

There’s no way to get the sound from the “different tv” directly into the One SL’s. If the TV’s are showing the same program you might find the sound is near-enough in sync. 
 

Since he already has the speakers, set it up as Bruce suggests above, and see how it is. 

Thanks…I had missed the ‘different TV’ part. 

System: Beam, Sub, pair of One SL’s

Goal: Set up one SL’s as stereo pair rather than surround.

Environment: 1 Room

Input: TV 

Not possible. The Beam will always carry the front right, center, and left signals. You could set up the pair of Ones as a separate ‘room’ in the Sonos software, but there would be a slight delay between the Beam’s room and the One’s room, due to the nature of the way the software works.  As I said above. 

That is for TV input. For streaming music, you just set the surrounds in the controller to be ‘Full’ rather than ‘Ambient’, and they’ll stream a stereo music stream, along with, and in sync with the Beam. 

There is no way in the Sonos ecosystem to have a ‘center’ speaker, and disparate front right and front left speakers. 

Bruce

Thanks for the quick response. It’s not necessary that the beam is a “center” channel. Is it possible to have both the beam and the SL’s play left and right?

It sounds like ok with a streaming service not received by the TV.  I’m primarily concerned with streaming live music from YouTube.

Bruce

Thanks for the quick response. It’s not necessary that the beam is a “center” channel. Is it possible to have both the beam and the SL’s play left and right?

It sounds like ok with a streaming service not received by the TV.  I’m primarily concerned with streaming live music from YouTube.

Bruce has already said: the Beam (or any Sonos soundbar) is always the 3 front channels. Despite many people asking for it, there is no other configuration. (Yet?) It would be popular, I think, if they released a new product that was a “centre channel” speaker/processor, to which individual speakers could be configured as front and rear speakers giving a wider soundstage than a soundbar provides. Maybe, one day…

@nik9669a is correct. As I have said, Sonos does not support a configuration for separate front speakers at the same time as a Sonos soundbar. Nor do they have a setup in which you can get a stereo TV signal to a pair of Sonos speakers. 

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