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In France, it’s 1300€ for 2 Sonos Fives. For this price I can buy a couple of focal chora 826 + Marantz NR1200 + cables. Much better in every way.

For a smart speaker brand, it's great, and I definitely can't argue with the bass output. But bass frequency alone doesn't make a good speaker. The Apple Homepod can do 20Hz at 10dB higher than the Sonos Five, that doesn't make it a good speaker. For accuracy and overall sound quality it's still eas

Interesting. I’ve seen at least one other person with a very similar setup say they don’t have this issue, so I wonder if something in the DSP / tuning chain is hanging on from an earlier configuration. First thing I’d try is the simplest one: 1. Unplug power from everything — TV, Arc, Fives, Subs,

A home theater would typically be a minimum of base level five speakers, a subwoofer and an AVR. Soundbars, if that’s what you meant by a speaker bar, are a horrible scam product that more often than not will be arguably worse than the factory speakers in a current generation OLED TV. Friends do not

Really looking forward to the continuous audio feature solving so many of the issues between Sonos and Apple TV (I’m not on the beta so still waiting for it to release). My only remaining gripe is the inability to isolate EQ settings on the center channel within Sequencr. If I could do that, I’d be

Thank you for your post. That was exactly the position I found myself in. I wanted Hi-Fi stereo music but with 5.1 for movies. Stereo music used to bleed into the centre channel (Beam) and surrounds and I didn’t enjoy it. I had Fives as fronts by btw. I swapped for a Sonos Amp and KEF LS50 Meta’s an

Unsure what the fascination is with having Fives up front when your Center channel (the most important in a film sound track) is already proportionally diminished when using any fronts in SonoSequencr. I really hope Sonos get around to their own implementation if only to address specifically this pr

So if the Fives as fronts in a theater system w/sub aren't playing as much bass as they would in a separate stereo pair, what are they bringing to the table over the Era 100s? Is it the better dispersion? Have you tried both horizontal and vertical orientations? It does seem that the era 100s would

EXACTLY. I have an eight speaker Sonos sound system and I can’t listen to one song without four or five of the speakers dropping only one staying on an intermittently some other one’s coming on. It’s a big stupid waste of time and energy to use the service. You don’t get high-quality audio if you do

That’s one choice I suppose. You may want to price out Sonos surround sound. Basic five speakers plus a subwoofer. I suppose if you’re selling the place, taking it with you may make sense. But Sonos is almost never the cheap option. Nor the best sounding option. It is just ‘an’ option.