Can Play:3 be placed in two different rooms?

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After reading several different sites for product descriptions and reviews I am still unclear if a single Play:3 system is right for me. I'd like to have 2 speakers in the living room setup as a pair and the other speaker upstairs in my bedroom. Is this possible with buying only one Play:3 system?

My understanding of some of the descriptions is that all three of the speakers need to be in the same room (one for left, one for right, and they don't really say what the third one is for). My question is: Can I take the third one upstairs to my bedroom, or is that going to leave a void in the sound downstairs?

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tgardAuthor

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Hmm...the sound is great, but I thought I would be three physically separate speakers (so I could have 2 downstairs and 1 upstairs...as I mentioned in my post before buying). I also didn't know that I couldn't connect it to my TV.

Both of these are very disappointing. I'll probably return it later today. I wish this information was more clear before I purchased it.

Stuart_W

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So I just bought a PLAY:3, but there's only one speaker. Shouldn't there be 3 speakers??? Am I missing something?

The 3 speakers are inside the single unit you purchased. They can be used separately around your dwelling but you must remove them
individually, using a screwdriver and hammer, from the single Play 3.

Arc + Sub (Gen 1) + 2 x Play 1/ Stereo Play 3s/ Era 100 Stereo in Kitchen, One Stereo in Bedroom, Play 1 stereo pair in Study, Play 1in Bathroom, Sonos Move 2

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Kumar

Is this possible with buying only one Play:3 system?

Jargon can be confusing. What you call a system, I call a speaker. What you call speakers when you refer to three of them in the play 3 system, I call drivers or drive units.
A single play 3, when you buy one, is one speaker. It has three drive units inside, which are just components of the one speaker. If you want sound in two different rooms, you need to buy 2 play 3 units. Or 2 play 1 or play 5 units. One speaker for each room.
You will find the same components in almost every speaker you buy today, whether made by Sonos or anyone else.

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John B

@Kumar. It's a wind-up. Save your effort.

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