Switching between Music and TV seems inconvenient

I don’t think I would personally want the TT audio soundstage set behind my listening position - that’s almost like turning your back on the Artist/Stage. Who would want that? My own preference would be to put the TT and another stereo pair of speakers/sub out in front (as that’s my normal/preferred listening position for Music).

If anything here, I would much prefer to switch off the rear surround speakers and perhaps listen to the stereo music through the Soundbar only, that’s if there was no alternative, rather than having the audio behind me, but obviously the line-in TT audio is disabled on Sonos Surrounds, so that requires another Sonos device with a line-in option anyway.

So I’m sure adding another stereo pair of Era 100’s would be my personal chosen route here, rather than all the faffing of bonding/unbonding devices and re-Trueplay tuning the rooms etc.

If you wish to dual purpose your surrounds/Sub as a stereo pair and Sub, then yes, that is the way you must do it.   

Hi @ngakalden 

Below is a link to a post I wrote regarding vinyl. It’s rather long and was greated with mixed responses. Although I think sone of the responses interpreted my reason for the post incorrectly. However, that’s water under the bridge. Take a look at my post and take from it what you will.

Cheers!

EDIT: It won’t resolve your issue but may make an interesting read. 😊

• If You Are Serious About Listening To Vinyl

I’d really lean to getting a pair of Sonos Fives to put in the front of the room for music.

Second choice would be replace the Beam with an Arc and leave the Surrounds set to Ambient or off, whichever sounds better to you.

The Arc/Sub is going to sound pretty good for TV and music but the Fives would likely give you a better stereo image if they and your seating position are properly arranged.

The surrounds are not behind me, they are “surrounds” in the app, but are front, left and right channels. 

Is there a way to automate this process, maybe with a 3rd party tool? 

Even if I used 5s, wouldn’t I still have to go through all of those steps I listed to transform listening into Stereo for vinyl? 

That’s the very worst you could do for surrounds.  They are actually messing up the front soundstage and destroying any directional cues.  Might as well keep them as music only speakers, because they aren’t doing the TV any good where they are. 

I see. Doing some research now and it seems I’ve had this configured all wrong. 

So perhaps the solution is use the 100s as (rear) surrounds. Get the 500s for LP Vinyl listening as a separate group. 

The only issue I still see is that the Sub will have to be removed from the Beam and linked to a 500 each time. Is this right? 

It sounds like you are much more interested in stereo separation, for TV and  music, than a home theatre setup.  You might want to consider getting a Sonos amp, which can connect to the TV, bond with sub, and give you the stereo separation you’re looking for.  You will have to deal with wires to passive speakers in the front though. 

I think for now I’ll move those 100s to behind me, where they belong, and just play the vinyl in the same configuration as the TV. Later, I’ll update to the 500s and use a separate group for music. 

There are no Sonos Era 500’s (yet). There are 100’s and 300’s.

Missed my point, not putting the Fives into the TV’s Sonos Room but as a different Sonos Room and set as a Stereo-Pair.

You would have to manually move a Sub between the two Sonos Rooms if you had only one and decided the Fives needed it. I’d sure try them without and be really sure I wanted a Sub with them, you could move an existing Sub for testing. Might even consider a mini-Sub for the Fives if you find the full Sub a bit much.

My budget dreads the thought, but if Sonos sold a pair of Fives and two mini-Subs that could be set up as one Stereo Sonos Room I’d have to start being extra nice to the decorating committee here. Maybe even the Era 300s but they are a bit ugly to get spousal approval.