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lostone98
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November 9, 2018

SONOS 5.1 Home Theatre System Bundle setup

The image is my living room, I have a small rented flat and I was wondering with this layout if there is any point to have a 5.1 setup (consisting of 2 of SONOS PLAY:1, 1 of SONOS PLAYBAR , 1 of SONOS SUB and set of floor stands)

I know it’s odd but I mainly use my beanbag (I really don’t care for a sofa lol). I don’t have much room but I was wondering if it can be connect wirelessly (speakers, sub and sound bar) i really don’t want to bother with wires unless it’s for the power.

Would I need anything else like a sono bridge? My wi fi is in the kitchen (stupid place I know) and i have a sonos up stares to play my radio stations on my hi fi in my bedroom.

I will be getting an Xbox one (which model I’m not sure??) to play 4k too.

Kind regards
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    Airgetlam
    Airgetlam
    November 13, 2018
    I'm the one with the SUB under my couch (perhaps amongst others). And another one under my bed. Both are lying on their sides so that they fit, and fire upwards. Most impressive, but I live in a house, and on concrete slab floors, so I don't have any experience / opinion about sound transmission to floors below.

    As Stanley suggests, placement of a SUB is less important that most other speakers, as bass is rather non-directional. And the nice thing about the Sonos SUB is that it is wireless, so as long as it's not too far away (20 feet? 50 feet?) from the soundbar, which uses a 5Ghz signal to communicate with it (when bonded with regular Sonos speakers, it uses 2.4Ghz), it can be placed pretty much anywhere in the room. And then moved, to try any of the multitude of places it might fit, so that you can hear the difference. If you can, you should TruePlay your system each time, which requires an iOS device, but "tunes" the system so that it's optimal based on a sound engineer's best guess of a baseline. That would give you a roughly equal testing point when trying it in different locations.
    Bruce
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