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Sub Controls

  • April 11, 2025
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I know this subject has been posted before, I’ve gone through and read many posts about it already, which is frustrating cause so many users agree and have already voiced their own frustrations. Yet after so many updates to the app it’s honestly bewildering why the Sonos team has not provided an easier way to access the Sub speaker controls on the homepage or control panel
 

Every audio system I’ve ever had dating back 30 years has always had a separate button to turn on and off the subwoofer and it’s usually right on the head unit and not buried through a menu of options. And it’s not as if the function doesn’t exist in the app, there just needs to be a shortcut that doesn’t take 6+ clicks to get to. 
 

And on a sidenote, I’m not sure why you didn’t think of this already but shouldn’t ‘night sound’ in the control panel turn off the subwoofer? The whole point is to make it less loud at night time and doesn’t it seem like it would be smart to turn off the sub at night? The button is right there! Why is it not functioning?

 

Also voice command missing for the same function

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jgatie
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  • April 11, 2025

I’ve had subwoofers of one type or another for 25+ years.  In those years I’ve lived in single family houses, townhouses with adjoining walls to other townhouses, and condo complexes surrounded by dozens of other units.  I have never once found the need to turn off my subwoofer, and I’ve never had one complaint. 

So I don’t feel the lack of this functionality is as “bewildering” as you think, especially when the function already is there, and it is 3 clicks (Settings> Room Name> Sub Audio) to get to it, not 6.  

Also, on my system ‘Night Sound’ significantly reduces the subwoofer output.  I don’t know if it turns it off completely, but it might as well be off, because I can’t hear it at all.


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