Dear Sonos team,
I love my 7 of my 9 Sonos speakers. Please help me love my Era 300s.
I recently upgraded my surround setup with the Arc ultra and two Era 300s. I did this for two reasons:
- 1 I wanted a better home cinema experience with Dolby Atmos. This is working great.
- 2 I wanted a better music listening experience. This was what convinced my wife that we should get the era 300s, and she is less than happy (I am sad also).
The Era 300s are marketed as premium surround speakers, but when setup as surrounds their main driver is turned off. This would make perfect sense if you could seamlessly switch to a stereo pair for music with the main driver on. Unfortunately, you have to completely reconfigure and re-Trueplay the system to switch between music or watching a movie.
Please please Sonos team, could you answers the following questions:
- 1 Will it be possible (with a future update) to save two different configurations including the Trueplay information so that we can seamlessly switch between the surround sound set up for movies, and the stereo pair set up for listening to music?
- 2 if the answer to 1 is no, please explain the technical barriers to implementing this. Maybe someone in the community could help come up with a solution.
- 3 if the answer to question 1 is no, then why does the Era 300 have the front facing driver? If it’s supposed to be a surround speaker Should it not simply be a smaller, easier to place, and more affordable speaker without the front facing driver?
Please give me hope that I can learn to love these speakers. Right now my wife wants me to send them back and I don’t have any good arguments not to. The only thing I have told her is that it is surly an oversight and Sonos must be working on fixing it.
Hopefully yours,
Another confused/frustrated Era 300 user.
