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For our basement TV room, which is quite long but narrow (see pictures), I intend to use a Beam 2 sound bar resting in front of the TV.  The smain viewing sofa is against the wall facing the TV, about 10 feet away.

  1. I am considering whether to supplement the bar with a pair of One SL speakers, which would rest on either side of the television.  But there wouldn’t be much separation between the Beam and the SL’s -- would that be a waste of time, or would the SL’s meaningfully enhance the stereo and overall quality of sound? 
  2. One option is to bore some holes in the dividers and place the speakers on the adjacent sections of the bookcase, providing more spatial separation for the three components.  Would this make a meaningful improvement?

I don’t want to place the speakers back against the wall with the sofa -- no outlets there and too much clutter. 

Thanks for any guidance!

Albert

 

I should perhaps add that with this older television I’ll be using the optical connection, so won’t get Dolby Atmos.

Unless you can place surround speakers on either side of you when seated frankly I wouldn’t bother.

If you can get power to them there are floor stands available. 

Not sure what your ultimate intent here is, so this may or may not be applicable.

The Beam is not a center speaker. It already has right, center and left speakers / channels built in to it, and Sonos doesn’t allow you to split out right and left to send them to other speakers. The only ‘additional’ speakers that can be ‘bonded’ to the Beam are a pair of surround speakers, traditionally behind the seating position, and a Subwoofer, which could be almost anywhere in the room. 

That being said, I too have a pair of speakers flanking my TV, which I use as a separate ‘room’ to just play music. They’re not part of the home theater ‘room’, though. I prefer the wider separation for stereo playback than is normally presented by the sound bar. 

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