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jpw23nh
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November 8, 2025
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Sonos Amp + Sonos Beam or Just the Amp?

I have a big elongated room with 6 speakers (high school youth group room). There's an 85in TV on one side of the room. We are running the 6 50w speakers off the sono amps (3per channel). Does it make sense to add a Sonos Beam under the TV to use exclusively for TV sound and let the Sonos Amp power the 6 overhead for music/etc?

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Airgetlam
AirgetlamAnswer
November 8, 2025

It really depends on your needs, rather than our suggestions. If you’re happy with the Sound from the TV’s speakers, leave it be.

In general, I’ve found Sonos sound to be far superior to TV speakers. With a TV that size, while a Beam should be OK, I’d really consider something bigger, like an Arc Ultra, which is significantly wider. 

I’m assuming you don’t want to add the Amps as surrounds, but leave them as they are, essentially music only devices. If you were to ‘group’ them with any Sonos soundbar running the TV input, you wouldn’t get surround sound, and the ‘front’ channels that you would get would be delayed slightly. However, grouping while streaming music, all would be synchronized.

Bruce
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Airgetlam
AirgetlamAnswer
November 8, 2025

It really depends on your needs, rather than our suggestions. If you’re happy with the Sound from the TV’s speakers, leave it be.

In general, I’ve found Sonos sound to be far superior to TV speakers. With a TV that size, while a Beam should be OK, I’d really consider something bigger, like an Arc Ultra, which is significantly wider. 

I’m assuming you don’t want to add the Amps as surrounds, but leave them as they are, essentially music only devices. If you were to ‘group’ them with any Sonos soundbar running the TV input, you wouldn’t get surround sound, and the ‘front’ channels that you would get would be delayed slightly. However, grouping while streaming music, all would be synchronized.

Bruce
Stanley_4
Stanley_4
Grand Maestro
November 8, 2025

Room sounds like it is big enough to use an Arc.

A Sonos Amp is likely only going to power four speakers, it will do six if they are the Sonos/Sonance ones. A Sonos Port would allow you to bring Sonos streaming music to your current amp and speakers.

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