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Pairing or combining Era 300 with 2 Roams

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Dear Folks,

I am using 2 Roams as a stereo pair right now.

Can an Era 300 be paired with them, for use all in the same room ?

If so what aesthetic benefit might there be ? ( application is not HT , just living room listening )

Thanks,

Garrett

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Garrett_L.Author

Contributor I

There’s the Sonos lingo again. This depends on what you mean by “if my 2 Roams are combined with only 1 Era 300, in the same room”. This phrase contains two words that could be seen in different ways.

To start with the word “room”. Would this be a room in a physical sense or a “room” in the Sonos app? Because if you would try to put the Roams and the Era in the same “room” in the Sonos app you would find you could not - a Sonos “room” is a defined set of (stereo or surround) speakers and two Roams and an Era cannot form a stereo or surround set so can’t be put in a “room”. To use your phrasing: they cannot be “combined” in a “room”.

Since you have to use two “rooms” in Sonos (one for the Roams and one for the Era) you can “group” both rooms, see my link above. In this way they can be “combined”.

Now to answer your question in the correct lingo: when grouped with other rooms consisting of Sonos speakers that are not Atmos capable, the Era will not play surround and pick a non-surround stream.

Thanks 106rallye, sorry to be dense , I am not new to sound reproduction , professional musician working with both live and studio sound amplification for many years buuuut am new to the Sonos referential terms, but I think I got it finally 😀 ; Atmos IS surround sound , and surround sound IS Atmos , right ? My bad, I somehow thought Era 300 played any audio feed as surround sound regardless of whether it was Atmos or not.

‘Garrett

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vinrmthy

Lyricist I

So I understand the room concept and sterio pairing to the lowest capable one . I got a Sonos Roam in addition to Sonos Era 300, but they just wont pair even in stereo mode. It says no compatible device. What am I doing wrong?

Ken_Griffiths

So I understand the room concept and sterio pairing to the lowest capable one . I got a Sonos Roam in addition to Sonos Era 300, but they just wont pair even in stereo mode. It says no compatible device. What am I doing wrong?

You can only stereo pair ‘like’ devices that are acoustically the same, as examples, an Era 300 with another Era 300, or a Sonos One with a One SL, or a 2x Roams, or a Roam with a Roam SL etc. If the two speakers are different, then the next best thing is to just group them. See this link:

https://support.sonos.com/en-us/article/group-and-ungroup-rooms

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