connecting turntable to existing surround sound

Just ‘group’ the rooms, starting with your Five that the turntable is connected to. You may prefer to set your surround speakers to ‘full’ in the settings for them, rather than ‘ambient’. 

Or.just select the line in on the Five as a source for the surround setup if you don't want the Five to be playing too 👍

I was seeing that the line in doesn’t work once you have the beam and era 300s grouped for surround sound. Is this true??

This is correct. Note that “Rooms” can be “Grouped”. Speakers are “Bonded” as a “Pair” or “Surround” Room.

Thank you all so much this is extremely helpful 🙏🏻

I’m glad you said “plan on using Era 300’s for surrounds; which suggests you haven’t purchased them yet. A few things you should know…

Era 300’s are best used with a Sonos soundbar that can process Dolby Atmos when used as surrounds. The Beam (which I assume is Gen 1) will not process Dolby Atmos. For a Beam (Gen1) I recommend Era 100’s as surrounds. However, if you plan to upgrade the Beam (Gen1) to a Beam 2 or Arc Ultra then by all means go with the Era 300’s as surrounds. JMHO.

I have found the same issue with the line-in being disabled when used as surround speakers.  My question is, is there any “suggestion box” way to bring a request for change to Sonos.  Its mentioned in many questions in this Sonos community and in general.  I only found it out myself after trying to do it on the weekend and Googling the issue shows its mentioned in a lot of places.  I understand why but if it were possible to take them out of surround sound group and reintroduce them without Tru Play tuning again would be fine.

You can suggest it, as have many before you.  However, the architecture of the one-way, dedicated, private 5 GHz connection between the primary home theater units and the surrounds makes it impossible to send a signal back out from the surround’s Line-In.  This special low-latency connection is to prevent lag when synching with a video source, and is not likely to be compromised for the sake of enabling the Line-In. 

Thanks for your reply.  Sure, I get the private connection, for me its between my Arc and Era 100 surrounds.  It works excellently and so I wouldnt even suggest that a difficult work around to make it a two way transmission is needed.  My thoughts are more along the line of “unbinding” the surrounds when I want to use the line-in function, and then “re-binding” when using surround sound.  This could be done from the Sonos app.  This can be done already of course, the painful part is having to go through the Tru play setup every time.  If such settings could be saved and then reloaded that would be a good solution in my opinion.

Also been requested many times.  I’m not going to bother citing the reasons why this isn’t likely to happen, just going to say that the current “binding” and “unbinding” process takes a few minutes for a reason, and automating it isn’t going to speed it up that much.  But you never know . . . 

No need to do a lot of searching, that input disable is in the user guide and on the support pages here.

As said, unlikely to be added as  an option and removing the surrounds gets old fast. Far better to just buy another Sonos that has a line in option.