yet another inital setup question: 4x play 5 or 6x play one with the sub

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Hi,

I am considering to make the move over to a wireless sound eco system. To start of: a HEOS is also still in the race, altough I lean towards Sonos for esthetic point of view: so pretty!

Our house is not to big, but i would like to get as close as possible to an "immersive sound experience" wich means (for me): more or less the same sound experience all across the room.

Sound quality is more important than maximum volume (but I would like to have some punch in the setup when having a small party/get together). Detail and well balanced sound is most important.
I'm not really interested in the smart features with voice control etc.

For TV sound there would probably also be a beam involved.

See drawings below for the setup... Now the questio, what is the best way to go, and why? Or are there even better setups (without adding to the budget)

In the upper half, across from the beam, is the couch. In the middel area on the left is kitchen, and the lower half is the dining area. Also, there are french doors wich lead to outside, were the music should also be good to hear and enjoy (not all the way, directly outside is the outside dining table)

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Keithmac

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The Beam has "Ungroup on Autoplay" setting so will not effect the main group when you turn TV on.

The Sonos One is a very good speaker and the Sub is excellent, I'd go for them.

We have Dining room Kitchen and Landing grouped together and don't have a problem with ungrouping.

The Sub is bonded to our Playbar and Play:1 5.1 setup in the Living room but I listen to as much music with that as the TV to be fair!.

You could set a 5.1 up with the beam and Sub and two Ones, but you'd have to group that to your other "rooms" when using it in full house music mode. Grouping is a 10 second job with the Phone app.

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Tyzz_aAuthor

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The Beam has "Ungroup on Autoplay" setting so will not effect the main group when you turn TV on.

The Sonos One is a very good speaker and the Sub is excellent, I'd go for them.

We have Dining room Kitchen and Landing grouped together and don't have a problem with ungrouping.

The Sub is bonded to our Playbar and Play:1 5.1 setup in the Living room but I listen to as much music with that as the TV to be fair!.

You could set a 5.1 up with the beam and Sub and two Ones, but you'd have to group that to your other "rooms" when using it in full house music mode. Grouping is a 10 second job with the Phone app.

The auto ungroup function seems neat at least.
Do you have to regroup it afterwards again, or does automatically restore to the group after the tv is of again?

Another question, say I have 6 or so 1's, those can only be 3 (or 6 if not paired) rooms. I would like the to always be grouped at least, is that possible or do I have to regroup them everytime?

Airgetlam

Groups survive session to session, unless broken by an implicit command (start playing room 1 and 2, ignore 3, autoplay), power interruptions, or software updates.

I've got my bedroom and bathroom grouped, and play there every morning, I don't have to touch the grouping commands except when there's a software update, or when there's a power outage at my house.

Bruce

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Tyzz_aAuthor

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Groups survive session to session, unless broken by an implicit command (start playing room 1 and 2, ignore 3, autoplay), power interruptions, or software updates.

I've got my bedroom and bathroom grouped, and play there every morning, I don't have to touch the grouping commands except when there's a software update, or when there's a power outage at my house.

So with the setup with the 1's it would be like this:
Room 1: beam
Room 2: pair of 1's
Room 3: pair of 1's with Sub
Room 4: pair of 1's

When I group all the rooms together, they will stay that way until I play a single room, a power outage, a software update or autoplay on the beam.

Leaving a power outage, software update or playing single room out (won't happen that often), playing TV sound would break up the group because of autoplay. Does that mean the whole group breaks up, or just the beam is moved out of the group?

Yesterday I read that I cannot assign speakers to more than one group (which personally I think is ridiculous and might even still be a deal-breaker, haven't decided yet) so effectively I either be grouping everytime I have been playing TV sound, or create a group without the beam (in which case I might even forgo the beam altogether and just get a cheap soundbar for TV sound, it's not that important for me)

106rallye

I don’t understand your last remark. A group consists of two or more rooms, playing music/sound from the same source. As you can’t play two things at the same time, groups are made he (easily) as you want them at the time you make them. What would the result be if a speaker would be put in two groups at the same time?

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Tyzz_aAuthor

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I don’t understand your last remark. A group consists of two or more rooms, playing music/sound from the same source. As you can’t play two things at the same time, groups are made he (easily) as you want them at the time you make them. What would the result be if a speaker would be put in two groups at the same time?

Could be the second group is just greyed out as long as the other group is playing, or the speaker that is in both groups just keeps playing the first group while the rest of the second group plays other content (probably more difficult to realise and would not be my first choice)

For me being able to setup presets with different layouts with rooms and speakers would be much more user friendly than constantly creating the groups over and over, even it's only a few actions...

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