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We’ve just had a new kitchen extension (8m by 5m) and I’m wondering what best music set up would be? I own a Sonos one but I understand I can’t ’stereo pair’ an old ‘one’ with new era 100…option 1 - buy 2x Era 100 stereo paired and a sub mini grouped togetheroption 2 - by 1x Era 300 and sub mini groupedWhich option would give me best sound fill? option 3 - buy another  Sonos one and just stereo pair with existing Sonos one - and no sub Any advice would be appreciated  

Wondering the best config for a riding arena. I have 4 play 3’s (from 5-6 years ago), 2 fives (late 2023) and am happy to buy another pair if needed. The arena has good coverage (several nodes) from a decco/tp-link wifi 6e tri-band mesh network. I’m wondering a couple specific things. Should I be pairing the speakers or leaving them as individual? Also, will I have a problem trying to connect so many over such a large distance as a “zone?“ Also, will it be better to have them across the arena from each other down the long sides or better to have 1 on each short side as well? Any other thoughts or advice would be welcome as well. Thanks in advance for any feedback.

Hello everyone, I would like to upgrade my Sonos components to have a really good sound for classical music. I’m noit accustomed to thinking in terms of the new surround sound type of all-in-one speaker, grew up with the idea of 2 passive speakers to create a stereo image. A connection to TV would also be nice. My first thought is the Arc plus two One’s, or the new 100 or 300 series. This can get rather expensive, is it worth it compared to a $2000 pair of stereo speakers attached to my Sonos Amp. I have a Beam and am not so impressed with the sound quality. Any and all ideas would be greatly appreciated. 

We are renovating our home and plan to put in new Sonos speakers in three areas: 1) living room with Beam and in ceiling sneakers; 2) covered outdoor patio with two speakers; 3) And pool area with two outdoor speakers. What is the best way to go about setting up this three zone system with Sonos? Will the Sonos Amp allow me to set up three zones? 

have the arc in game room, with 300 eros and sub.,  exterior sitting area about 25 ft awaycan i link exterior speakers to arc, and whats best model to use for this

Hello To All Of You I’m planning to get The Era 300 soon for my Arc&dual Gen 3’s home cinema-system…as surrounds. I got the Beam Gen 2,Era 100&Sub Mini in my bedroom and i have the opertunety to purcase two pair of surrounds…BUT…i never heard a pair of Five’s play(or the Era 300). So i ask a simple question here. Do i leave my Beam-system as is and add a pair of Five’s in front to use for music or do i purcase two pairs of Era 300 and replace the two pairs of Era 100 in my Arc&Beam-surrounds?. For the Beam-system i only use it for Youtube…so not much of movies.What does the audience(you guys’n girls) think? Thanx….

This topic is older and might not have the most up to date information. Please click here to see a list of more topics around the same subject. I am trying to decide on which turntable to buy that will stream into my Sonos system. I am considering either the Victrola stream Carbon or one of the two Pro-Ject turntables sold by Sonos (the T-1 or the Debut Carbon). I realize that I will have to buy another Sonos device to use one of the Pro-Jett turntable, and that is alright with me. I would appreciate any responses from people who have one of these turntables or who know something about how they compare. I have a collection of records (mostly. cassical music) from years ago that I would love to listen to.

We have a very large open plan kitchen/living area (800 square feet, probably), set up like a + with a small sitting area and small dining area (side arms of +) coming off a large vaulted living room (top of +) connected to the kitchen (bottom of the +), with a sliding glass door to a patio at the top right angle of the +. There are pairs of in-wall speakers in the small sitting and dining areas, and flanking the sliding glass door.  we currently have a Play:3 on a kitchen counter, in a corner with a cabinet above it. Although the wall speakers can be grouped for parties we often just listen to the kitchen alone.  Should I replace the play:3 with1. an era 300, (or will the “in a corner, underneath a cabinet” placement screw up the acoustics)2. an era 100.2 era 100s, with the second going on top of a cabinet or the fridge or something (or will having them at different heights again mess things up?)

Hi, I have a Sonos one on one side of a large kitchen would like to buy other units to put on the other side of the room which will just be mirrored/controlled by the existing Sonos unit.or maybe control the old one with a new one. Which one should I buy? Tony

Guys,i plan to replace a single One gen 2. It is used for radio and music and as a very good timer when I bake bread :-) As a single speaker it is a bit too weak so I want to upgrade it to something more powerfull. My first choice is the Move (gen 1 or 2), not only it is bigger and more powerfull but I am liking the fact I can put it in other areas of my home easily. I doubt I will use it outside, but who knows. My other idea is one Sonos era 100 to put in place of my One Gen 2 and a single Roam to try and see if I will ever use my speaker outside. Oh and the discounted price of Move Gen 1 is very tempting…What do you think?Neven

I am stepping towards incorporating Sonos into my existing system and I need help on what I would need to accomplish this. At this point. I have 2 complete home 5.1 theater systems both consisting of wired in wall Polk and definitive technology speakers including powered subs running off of Onkyo receivers. The problem is that I can’t control them as zones or a complete system. I am also wanting to incorporate other small speakers throughout house to eliminate having to turn volume up high to hear in each room. I would hate to have to ditch all the money already spent to remove and replace this quality equipment if I don’t have to. If there is a way to add whatever is needed into existing systems and make them all cominicate and work properly as a whole house system that would be amazing. Please let me know your thoughts. 

Hi, I would like to come up with an idea that I hope can be solved in an update.I have bought a lot of Sonos for my house and it works great but in the living room I have 4 Sonos One, an Arc and a Sub (Gen3) I have found out when we watch TV you can only use the 2 One that sits in the back so only Arc, Sub and 2 One are playingI find this really annoying and wanted to know if it would be possible to get everything to work together when watching TV?With kind regards

I currently have two Sonos Ones setup in a stereo pair in my kitchen/dining/living space (approx 16 m2). The speakers are mainly used for listening to music/radio in one half of that room. What does everyone think will be a better upgrade - adding a Sub Mini to my existing setup, or replacing the Ones with Era 100s?Initially just looking for thoughts on what people think will immediately sound better rather than concerns with future-proofing, etc. which I’ll consider separately.Will adding a sub mini create a bigger overall sound in the room as you would get from bigger speakers, or just add thumping base? 

I do not have room to put a sound bar under my TV I do have bookshelves on both sides of the TV. Are there any Sonos options that I could use bookshelves without a center sound bar?  What system would you suggest for this room??   

hi all. my 10 year old receiver just went belly up and it was suggested to me that Sonos product could double to serve as my “receiver”— just set up a new system using new Sonos product(s) but keeping my existing Fiber optics “cable” tv set box, Apple TV 4K, and Airply Apple Music (from max or iPhone) and my approximately 10 year old wall mounted tv.  My internet fiber optic provider is the same as my fiber “cable TV” provider.   I also want to get a turntable (not Sonos branded) soon. Later I might add small speakers in other rooms. I HDMI connect the receiver to Apple TV, to the flat screen tv on wall, to the router, and connect to the router as well. So recover is a wired hub. Bonus would be to be able to continue to use my 10 year old bookshelf plain old wired speakers with any now system—they connect with wires to my receiver.     I’m not an audiophile so think average homeowner and not cheapest buy not the highest either.  I want as much wireless connection as I can but my TV and

I'm currently using an arc and sub gen 3 with 2 Play 3 surrounds.  I was considering replacing the Play 3s with Era 300s.  Would I notice a significant improvement worthy of the cost?  Is there more to Atmos than just hearing jets fly overhead? 

Hello everyone! I got me a single Era 300 and would like to know how you would compare it to Arc with music listening? Better, worse, same? I would like to update my passive stereo setup (2.1) to Arc to improve the sound when watching TV in my living room but the same stereo is being used for the music currently. I would prefer not to keep the stereo system for music only and would like to hear your opinions if Arc would be a good enough replacement for music also? I did try the Era 300 in front of the TV and listened to Dolby Atmos music. It didn’t sound that much of a surround but more like wide stereo with some sounds coming from above the speaker. Is the Arc better in creating a surround sound? Would you think that this experiment would give me any hint if the room is going to work for surround sound coming from single speaker? The room is not ideal but not the worst either. And by the way, the Era 300 is not going to be in the living room. It was just an expirement.I know I can tr

Hi Sonos community,I’m setting up a home audio system from scratch. I want it to support the following audio sources:online streaming audio (naturally) TV turntable CD playerI don’t have a receiver so i was looking at the Sonos Amp. This seems to be perfect for online streaming and TV but sadly has just one input (pair of RCAs) so I can connect a turntable or a CD player but not both.It looks like my options are:Buy a receiver and a Sonos Port and connect all the sources, including the Port, to the receiver. I’m a little cold on this as I’ve read some bad review about sound quality from the Port (e.g here and here). Buy a Sonos Amp and find a way to use the single input for both the CD player and the turntable, perhaps with a RCA switch (clumsy) or daisy-chaining the sources (is this even possible?).Any advice would be greatly appreciated. it seems like I’m not trying to do anything too strange here.Kind Regards,Matt  

Looking to purchase first Sonos speakers this Spring. It’ll be strictly for music 20% in the living room, 20% dining room and 60% active in kitchen while cooking. There is power in every corner of the room. Will mostly be listening to things on low/medium volume and don’t want to be an obnoxious neighbor. Budget is ~$1,500. Renting house, so not willing to add something in the ceiling.  (won’t attach pictures so you can ignore)

I have a 65 by 60 foot airplane hangar with a domed ceiling, the dome starts at 15 feet high.  I want the best sound possible inside and am wondering if a pair of 5’s with a subwoofer would be adequate to fill a room this big up with sound.  The area is used as a workshop for mechanic work and woodworking so there is generally some kind of background noise to play over from a CNC, Laser or other machine running.  I was also wondering about putting in 4 5’s and two subwoofers but don’t know how I would set that up for good sound.  Any advice is much appreciated!!

hi. I need advice. I have a sonos arc + sub (gen3) and I would like a full-fledged dolby atmos sound. Can anyone advise me on what speakers I should buy?

Hi, I have honed in on the Sonos Arc 7.1.4 Home Theater Bundle and adding two separate Era 300’s for our new home build. The Bundle would be in the family room and the added Era 300’s in the kitchen. I am trying to be as wire free as possible in our open concept family room/kitchen room. My goal is to have the ability to play the family room setup along with the two added Era 300’s in the kitchen at the same time or have the ability to watch a movie with the surround sound setup in the family room while playing streaming music in the kitchen.  Any advice is appreciated as this is a big expense and I want to make the right decision.

I’m looking for advice to setup my master bedroom.Bedroom has two ceiling speakers close to the wall mounted TV. I have a Sonos AMP connected to the speakers I have a Sonos Mini Sub in the room. My viewing area is on the bed, which is opposite wall to the TV.What is the ideal surround setup? If the ceiling speakers are close to the rear, I’d just use them as a surround and problem solved.I was thinking of either a Beam or Arc along with Era 300. But not sure if the fact that the ceiling speakers are in the front would affect the decision.

Hi community, I’m looking for a sonos setup for my living room. The room is rather large (15x20 feet) with 10 feet high ceilings. I would mainly stream Spotify and watch Netflix/Apple tv, most of the usage will probably be music. I’m not looking for immersive surround that will come from rear speakers, rather an esthetic setup for daily use that will support watching movies as well.I was thinking about:2x Era 100  1x Sub Mini or 1x Sub (Gen3) My concerns are:Will this setup fill the room? How will the connection to the TV work? Is it via Bluetooth? Will I have lips sync issues between the TV and the speakers of this setup? Should I consider replacing the 2x Era 100 with a soundbar? which one? Thanks! 

I have an audio-technical AT-LP120-USB Direct-Drive Professional USB and Analog Turntable System. I’d like to find the correct Sonos component that will connect the turntable to my Sonos system. I have Sonos Immersive Set with Arc (Arc, sub and 2 Ones) for TV and streaming music audio in the living room; and Sonos Fives in our bedroom and den. The turntable (haven’t yet used) is on a shelf in the den, near power but not near the Sonos Five. I’m looking for a component that will allow the turntable to connect (and be an audio source) to the Sonos system via my WiFi network. The turntable has a cable with RCA-type L&R connectors and a female USB Type B socket. What is the best, and hopefully most economical, Sonos component that can connect the turntable output to my Sonos system via WiFi?