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Running a Sonos Arc Ultra with dual subs, era 300 surrounds and fives as fronts. TrueHD Atmos is much better via my ShieldTV, streaming Atmos sounds dull in comparison. If you have the speakers that can take advantage of TrueHD it is worth it.

Thanks ,so nice to get a response that’s friendly ,especially on this site ,ive just found the ultra is amazing and to take channels away from it kinda ruins the use of it , for my use of the system, i love the fives and I’ll put them back to use downstairs,i really think Sonos will add this set up

I think what you’re hearing makes sense.I used Era 100s as fronts myself for a while, and they were okay, but to me they were never the best front solution. I later ran Era 300 as fronts with Era 100 as surrounds, and that sounded very good. After that I bought Sonos Fives and now use Fives as front

You will hear marked improvement no matter what speakers you use. I have a lot of Sonos gear and have tested era 100s (great), era 300s (poor), Fives (Epic), Ones Gen 2 (great) Play 3s (almost as good as Fives) Fronts are biggest soundstage improvement I’ve made to my gear. Better than era 100 to 30

This is a great post as others have mentioned. Another vote for the 5s up-front. Before I discovered Sonosquencr, I had two fives in the front of my living room for music only and had arc, sub mini, and connect:amp running rears. But my preferred music listening mode was to group the 5s with the HT

He could stick in Sonos-world and still have a pretty damn great setup. An Arc Ultra + 2 Fives is still a beast of a setup, regardless of how it compares technically with a top of the line home theatre setup. If you're at all space or wife constrained a full sonos setup is going to deliver plenty

I was delighted to read your post! I know exactly what you’re talking about and I like it too. A lot!! In fact, I’ve noticed that songs i listen to in Dolby Atmos on Apple Music sound much better through Tidal premium. I know less than nothing about the technical aspects. Even though Tidal offers DA

2 sonos fives sound pretty dang good in stereo.

I have a lot of Sonos gear and one of my favorite rigs is in our 400sf loft: It’s a Beam 2/ era 100 surrounds/Sub Mini, with Fives as fronts. I used era 100s as fronts before the Fives. Both are fabulous! I’d suggest that you get the era 100s and try them and your Play 1s up front and pick the combi

I highly recommend adding fronts. I’ve experimented with Fives, Play 3s, era 100s, and One G2s. They all sound awesome but the order I listed them is how I rank them in terms of overall sound quality. I bought the Play 3s just do the test. $140 for the pair which seems to be the going rate. I was sh