Two rear speaker pairs or zones

Do you mean as a second pair of surround speakers connected to a Sonos soundbar? Or just as another stereo pair of speakers for music?

You can't add more surrounds - you could add a speaker or speakers by the other couch as a separate stereo zone you can group in and play as needed.

I guess you could actually - get a Sonos Amp. Run 2 left surround speakers off the left output and 2 right surrounds off the right output. Therefore you actually would have 2 sets of surround speakers. Key hear is you would have to run wired speakers from a Sonos Amp located between your 2 couches.

I have a sonos amp and yes I could group in 2 other speakers but that won't give me the rear sounds. It will give me front speaker sound. It would be nice if they could create a way to add extra rear speaker. The 2 suggestions you gave would give me front sounds not rear sound.

DenverOps,

No, Chis is correct, the Connect:Amp can only operate as rear surrounds in a 5.0/5.1 setup? As explained here...

Setting up CONNECT:AMP as surround speakers

Of course I was correct.

I think people may not realise that the front left/right surrounds are incorporated in the PlayBar, Beam, PlayBase, alongside the center channel.

nevermind, Ken beat me to it.

The new Sonos amp will be much more useful for surrounds since it won’t require an Ethernet connection to router or playbar.

It's a sloppy option but I guess it could work. I will give it a try since my sonos amp is used for my outdoor speaker and since it's winter I won't be listening outside much.

It would still be cool if they built this into the app. 🙂