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Adding Sonos Immersive package to a Panasonic GZ2000 & Existing Amp / Ceiling Speakers

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Afternoon all. Have a feeling I’ve asked a similar question before struggling with way forward on this one.

I have a Panasonic GZ2000 TV in a small/medium size viewing room. It has built in Dolby Atmos speakers (think 11 small units from memory) but does not really delivery on it’s promise sound wise.

This is linked to a Sonos Amp and two B&W CCM682 in ceiling speakers. There is a budget wireless sub woofer as well which does OKish.

I’ve been thinking to add an Arc, a pair of Ones and a Sonos SW. I previously installed positions for RJ45 & power for the Sonos One’s and the TV has power & Rj45 at the rear to run the Arc off. Same with the SW position.

But …. the Sonos Amp feeds the two in-ceiling B&W’s and they are logically in the wrong place. They are in line with the TV rather than left & right of it. Why? Originally the room was supposed to be just for listening. Then at the 11th hour (after speakers were installed) the plan changed to be a viewing room. I’ve attached photos which hopefully explain that better.

Question is, how to keep the current set up, whilst adding the new one? I have all the connectivity for the new items but cannot get my head round how to keep the current which cost a fair old penny to install.

Talk about a good plan gone horribly wrong 😀 Would appreciate any advice on how to go forward.

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I’m wondering if you can buy a pair of decent quality (cosmetically) blanking plates that would like right.

I’d either leave the speakers in place, retained for some future use, or get a bloke to patch the ceiling properly.

Unfortunately the guy who would plaster it would be moi 😀 …. and that ceiling and walls have been French plastered and polished and very high end paints applied. Not keen to revisit that anytime soon. It may be necessary but I’d have thought there might be some high end inserts in a decent finish available.

That said, 30 minutes searching has not yielded anything yet. Or I could swap in a more modest set of speakers to cosmetically sit there and remove these for re-use. They are about £850 a pair and only 3 years odd old so I’d prefer not to just leave them there.

But the large home cinema room isn’t slated to be refurbished until the end of next year (put off a third year in favour of other projects) …. as you say, maybe just leave them until then when the idea is a full DA 11/13 speaker system based around a high end Denon box and large TV/projector. The majority of that is already in and these would be a relatively simple transplant.

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attacama40Author

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I’m wondering if you can buy a pair of decent quality (cosmetically) blanking plates that would like right.

I’d either leave the speakers in place, retained for some future use, or get a bloke to patch the ceiling properly.

Agreed. I can’t say I’ve looked around much for it, but haven’t seen anything that looks better than the speakers themselves, and those look pretty good. The speakers are on the ceiling to blend in anyway.

Oh these look the business yes. Magnetic covers, the lot. But a tad too pricey for me just to leave in to be honest. I think re-use and transplant in a more budget pair. Thinking on I have a spare unused pair of much cheaper CCM684’s (still overkill) that could satisfy that. The plan comes together. Thanks chaps.

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