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Sonos sub, not impressed

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I have a sonos sub paired to two fives, a one and a one sl in my living room. While I like the 5s and ones, im just not impressed with the sub for music. I’ve changed settings in it, turned trueplay off, moved the sub etc, and I just don’t like how it sounds. For $800 it doesn’t seem to produce much bass.

I have an Amp connected to two klipsch aw650s that are outside right now (will be coming inside this winter).

Can I use the amp with a 3rd party sub bonded to the 5s? I think my wife will lose it if I hang up ANOTHER pair of speakers in our living room. Although I do like the 650 more than the 5s.

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UbetAuthor

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You say that when you connect two fives and a sub, the sonos five don't work in full range? Do they start from the sub frequency cutoff? It should be able to be added and thus obtain the complete sound of the five, in that case it is a waste

I have since connected the sub to my ones, and while watching movies, streaming from MacBook via airplay, the sub is ok. Not great, but ok. But while playing music, from Jazz, to folk, to red dirt, some rap crap, and whatever else in between, I am just not impressed with what it does for its price. Maybe mine is defective?

I have the true-lay off in my living room where all this is, I have adjusted the eq up down and in between, and it just does not do it for me music wise. Like I say, watching a movie using it, it is ok, not great. But music wise I am really disappointed.

I am thinking of getting an svs and using it to see what it can do instead.

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carlos1206

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I think that must be happening, What do you think I should do? move it or remove one of them?

Tough call. You can try. Another thing to do is change the phase on one of the Subs (Settings > System > (Sub room name) > Sound > Sub audio > Phase Control). This will change the phase of the sub waves, possibly causing the null to move.

waooo JGatie, I didn't know that you could change the phase of the Sub from the app, thank you very much, that will surely solve it, I know well the meaning of the phase difference, and that is what could have been happening, given that when listening to both subs together, one of the two canceled. I'm going to try it later, I'll let you know. Regards

Hello JGatie, I had not been able to write before to tell you that you have been correct in your assessment, changing the phase from 0 to 180 in one of the subs, the matter has been resolved, from the first moment you could notice after having made the change, the difference in the subs without the cancellation being noticed, again thank you very much for your contribution. Regards

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