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Nice, in our setup (Arc, Sub, two Play:1 rears) we do struggle at night when the boy is asleep. Turning on speech enhancement and night mode completely kills the sound. Having more options available depending on the type of content you're watching would be great. With that said, I'm not buying an Arc Ultra because of it.
 
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Simmz said:
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Sonos first-ever AI sound mode is a free upgrade to the Arc Ultra soundbar, and it makes speech clearer than ever

A free upgrade for the Sonos Arc Ultra, available May 13th 2025
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Very nice feature for old people with poor hearing, as I understand it people with bad hearing struggle to hear speech when there is background noise, which is basically any movie. I mean people could just wear hearing aids if they struggle to hear speech in movies but this is nice as well as long as it doesn't annoy the other viewers in your house
 
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My Sonos system is mostly behaving itself these days which is nice.

However, I've got a new problem with my Beam. From when I bought it (2020, I think) it was setup as an Alexa device and was working fine. Last week it wasn't working and checking in the Alexa app it showed as offline. If I went into the Sonos app and told it to add a voice assistant to it then it'd tell me how to control the Beam with Alexa rather than make the Beam an Alexa device. Strange. If I try the same thing on my Move then I can set that up as an Alexa device.

Rather than mess about too much I factory reset the Beam and it then let me set it up as an Alexa device again. Great! Yesterday though it did the same thing as last week - Beam shows as offline in the Alexa app and the only voice assistant option I have is to control the Beam with Alexa.

Has anyone else had this happen?

For now I'll move an Echo something-or-other into the Lounge, I can't really be bothered to mess about with it too much.
 
Still happy enough with my Arc and Sub(3) but thinking it's time I add some rear surrounds. The tech side of me wants to get the bigger Era300's but I think it's probably overkill for my room and more importantly, too big for me to swing past the partner!

Also, we have a regular rectangle room but the way it's set up is the tv and sofa are to the left of the door with a bit more space to the right of it. Though we always sit on the sofa directly in front of the screen. Would you put surround speakers behind the sofa or in either corner of the room?
 
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Also, we have a regular rectangle room but the way it's set up is the tv and sofa are to the left of the door with a bit more space to the right of it. Though we always sit on the sofa directly in front of the screen. Would you put surround speakers behind the sofa or in either corner of the room?
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We experimented and found that having the rears behind the sofa sounded best. There's probably a "right" answer here, but whatever sounds best would be my suggestion.
 
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We experimented and found that having the rears behind the sofa sounded best. There's probably a "right" answer here, but whatever sounds best would be my suggestion.
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That would have been my thought too. As I guess anyone sat on the otherside of the room wont have the best view of the TV anyway so shouldn't need to optimise the sound.

My black friday list is getting longer by the day :mad:
 
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