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rocky bronze Aug 4, 2021, 12:26 PM

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I have had no issues with my beam, amp, and one.

small agate Aug 4, 2021, 12:48 PM

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rocky bronze I have had no issues with my beam, amp, and one.

Thanks. Are you using it as surround sound? Do you like it? Any tips?

rocky bronze Aug 4, 2021, 1:08 PM

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The beam and amp are setup in surround. No tips really just followed the wizard. The One is in a different room stand alone. It all just works for me

small agate Aug 4, 2021, 1:11 PM

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Any HA intergration?

rocky bronze Aug 4, 2021, 1:35 PM

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Not really, I did use it as an audible announcement for things but my spouse didn't really like that so I turned them off.

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For the beam and one I have alexa hooked up to HA but it's not really sonos specific.

narrow cloak Aug 4, 2021, 5:16 PM

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drops can be caused by a poor wifi/network environment. if you have the ability to wire any speakers to ethernet it can avoid some of those issues

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i don't have any issues with that myself

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and you mention the Beam being a "center". if i remember correctly, there's no concept of adding separate L/R speakers in their home theater setups. it relies on the Beam/Playbar/Playbase/Arc to act as L/C/R

small agate Aug 4, 2021, 6:06 PM

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narrow cloak and you mention the Beam being a "center". if i remember correctly, there's no c...

I was worried about that when I read somewhere that the Arc was the only surround sound. But I was told at the electronics store that the Beam with the "amp" would work. The amp drives the LF/RF/LR/RR, then I would have to get a woofer speaker or Sonos Sub. If I wanted to skip the already installed speakers, instead of the amp could go with a pair of One SL. This kit was with the One SL and not the amp, but it is what makes me think it should work. https://www.sonos.com/en-us/shop/5-1-surround-set-beam-sub-one-sl.html Just a lot of money on a "think it should" 🙂

narrow cloak Aug 4, 2021, 6:10 PM

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an Amp can only drive two channels (L/R), although you can run run a pair of speakers per channel. they'd just get identical output

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i'm not familiar with an Amp being used to drive the front speakers in a home theater setup

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ah, looks like you can (i think)

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from the manual:

Use an HDMI cable to connect Amp to your TV. When connected, Amp creates two front audio channels and plays your TV sound through your favorite non-Sonos speakers.```

rocky bronze Aug 4, 2021, 6:15 PM

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Yeah but they won't let you also do a centre channel with the Beam.

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So it's either Beam front & AMP rear L/R or AMP front L/R

narrow cloak Aug 4, 2021, 6:15 PM

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but either way, i don't know of a way to use one of the "standard" Sonos home theater speakers with separate L/R

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what he said ☝️ 😆

rocky bronze Aug 4, 2021, 6:16 PM

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It's a bit of an annoyance that you can't have a L/R and centre. but 🤷‍♂️

narrow cloak Aug 4, 2021, 6:16 PM

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the convenience of sonos has its limits

rocky bronze Aug 4, 2021, 6:21 PM

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I have an entire 5.1 setup I have mothballed into the basement and went to an Beam due to little fingers of my 20mo twins. Less towers to knock down and buttons to push.

small agate Aug 4, 2021, 7:28 PM

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I went to Sonos chat. I now understand my confusion. First, the room had 4 speakers. I just assumed they had a surround sound and took the center speakers and woofer. Now that I understand, saying it a different way if I use the Beam, Amp, Sub. I would only hook up the back speakers. That would be the 5.1. What was confusing me between the Beam and Arc with Dolby Atoms. The TV I was looking at would not have included Atoms.
Besides using the wrong terminology and misinterpreting specs, I was close. "-)

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