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I work in a small office with around 8 people sitting in the same room. The space is an old shopfront, so fairly narrow and deep in plan.

 

We are looking to upgrade our speaker system in the office for the volume of music we play to be more equally distributed than if one person is playing from their desk.

 

The Sonos Era 100 seems like a good solution, with two sources of sound instead of one.

 

I know the set of 2 you can buy are meant to be in two separate rooms, but what are peoples experiences using this system, or the Symfonisk for that matter, for similar purposes?

 

Would there be an issue with latency from the speaker further away? If they are used as a stereo pair, does the separating of the channels sound strange when you’re sat closer to one of the speakers?

 

Thankful for any thoughts on this.

 

Thanks.

A pair of Era 100s is not necessarily for different rooms. Using them in one room as a stereo pair is perfectly acceptable. Note however that the Era 100 plays stereo already without pairing, so you don’t need to stereo pair them - you could simply group them so they play music at the same time, in sync, so anyone listening from anywhere in the room would hear both channels rather than just a L or R channel. They won’t be far enough apart to cause any delay or latency. 

A pair of Era 100s is not necessarily for different rooms. Using them in one room as a stereo pair is perfectly acceptable. Note however that the Era 100 plays stereo already without pairing, so you don’t need to stereo pair them - you could simply group them so they play music at the same time, in sync, so anyone listening from anywhere in the room would hear both channels rather than just a L or R channel. They won’t be far enough apart to cause any delay or latency. 

Thank you for your response.

 

Would this work with, say, three or four speakers as well?

To provide room filling music, which is what I would do in the scenario you describe, multiple individual speakers grouped together would be the way I’d do it.

This allows you to keep a consistent and lower volume across all the speakers in the room and not have to worry about having correct positioning to maintain stereo across the room.

With a pair of speakers regardless of whether they are halfway along the length of the room or at one end, they will need to be louder to be heard the further away from them people are, so those closest may not be as comfortable with the volume when people further away want it increased.

I have an open dining room and kitchen area. In the dining area I have a 2.1 setup, which plays stereo when seated there. In the kitchen I have a single speaker, due to layout and socket locations. When just wanting background music to fill the whole space I group both sets together to provide room filling music which is a lower overall volume and consistent across the space than if I just tried to use one set to fill the space.

I agree that multiple speakers would work well, if the space allows. You just group them all in the app to play together.

Just to add to what @sigh  has said: when grouped, every speaker can be easily adjusted in volume using either the app or even easier via the capacitive buttons/slider on the top, so anyone can turn down the one closest to them at any time if they need to without affecting the other speakers. 

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