Single Play:1 and single Sonos One as surrounds?

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Hey everybody. Really excited about the new voice enabled Sonos One! I would love to put one in my living room where I currently have the complete 5.1 setup. Can I move one of the surrounds to a different room and link the new One with an old Play:1? Will the voice activation work when the Sonos One is in the surround configuration?

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Ryan SAnswer

Retired Sonos Staff

Great question J-Kon72. The Sonos One is only set to pair with another Sonos One, you won't be able to bond a One with a PLAY:1 for either stereo or as part of a surround setup with a PLAY:1.

I'll make sure to pass on to the team that you're interested in seeing this at some point in the future, but there aren't any plans to share that this might happen.

And a big "Yes" to your last question. The voice activation will work when it's a surround speaker, or when stereo paired.

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Robert L

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I bought two Sonos Ones, one to use in my bathroom, the other as one of the surrounds in my living room. Now I find I am coerced into buying a third Sonos One for the second surround in the LR. Sorry, I do not plan to enrich Sonos to that extent. The second Sonos One will become a standalone center speaker in the living room, until Sonos fixes this oversight.

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Robert L

Lyricist I

I went ahead and installed the Sonos One, designated as in a separate room, but actually located in the center directly above the TV with the Playbar centered underneath the TV, and the two PLAY:1s located toward the rear of the room on the side walls added to the Playbar as surrounds. I then manually adjusted the volume of the Sonos One to achieve a sound I liked. This configuration seems to have resulted in a noticeable improvement in the overall sound in the room, both in spaciousness and in quality, compared what I had previously. Not sure why, but I'm very happy with the result sound-wise. As of now I have only been able to get Alexa to adjust the volume of the Sonos One, but the play, stop, and pause commands work for all speakers.

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chrisjones73uk

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I didnt look into it before adding a play one. I agree its obvious that people will want to add ine play one for alexa and reuse a play 1 elsewhere which is what i have done. Then i find you cant bond a play one and a 1 as surround to a playbar! I used sono sequencer to achieve this for now and it worked. However no alexa (which was working well until the surround bond). PLEASE alliw us to choose what speakers to use as a pair. Accepting it may not give the perfectly balanced sound identical speakers would give. Love sonos in gereal and the playbar is incredible. But please stop adding silly limitations. Thanks

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