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Do you not use a sub or surrounds with your Arc? Disabling WiFi is going to stop those working as they use the 5GHz radio on the Arc to connect. Even if you have the Arc wired.
 
Broken Hope said:
Do you not use a sub or surrounds with your Arc? Disabling WiFi is going to stop those working as they use the 5GHz radio on the Arc to connect. Even if you have the Arc wired.
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I do and they’re connected fine. From what Sonos support told me some time ago, if the Arc is hard wired and Wi-Fi is disabled, the sub and surround form their own network with the Arc, and the rest of the system will use the regular home Wi-Fi.

Edit, I’ve just checked and the sub and rears are connected to my home Wi-Fi, all devices are showing WM:1 apart from the Arc which is WM:0.
 
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Are you actually getting sound from the Sub and rears though?

Everything I've read, including on the Sonos forum says that if you disable WiFi on the Arc then you lose sub and rears.

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Hi,I've just plugged my ethernet cable into the Arc and disabled the WiFi on the Arc. It has now bumped my Sub and 2 One Sl's from the grouping. It is having problems reconnecting. My question is - is it not possible to run the Arc on Ethernet whilst the rest of the grouping runs on WiFi?Thanks...
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Just tested it. With Wi-Fi disabled on the Arc, surrounds work fine but the sub doesn’t.

I’ve enabled the Arc wireless again, will have see how it goes and if I get weird network issues again.
 
Chris’ post above prompted me to check, and I’ve noticed something strange.

My Sonos stuff, while wired into a switch, shows as being connected over WiFi, and the app tells me that if I wish to disable WiFi on a product, I must connect it via Ethernet
 
MrRockliffe said:
Chris’ post above prompted me to check, and I’ve noticed something strange.

My Sonos stuff, while wired into a switch, shows as being connected over WiFi, and the app tells me that if I wish to disable WiFi on a product, I must connect it via Ethernet
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Check the connection status in settings.
I'm pretty sure SONOS also call their MESH system WIFI too
 
How often does Sonos have sales? I'm in no rush.

Though I am being offered the Premium Immersive set - beam 2, sub gen 3, x2 SL ones for £1300 of some bloke who won it off a competition.

Now this is much more than I initially planned. I've got a smallish man cave, don't want the sub sending me to space but because of the shape I can actually put it under my sofa vs the mini which will consume some space.
 
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Sonos sales are actually quite rare, I was surprised at the recent deals for ~20% off, I would say it doesnt happen very often. I picked up a beam gen2 in the recent sale (£350 down from £450) even without the surrounds and the sub, I have to say I'm really impressed.
 
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Moving into a new flat next month and tempted to add another Sonos 1(to make two) to my Beam, to enhance the surround sound.

Firstly is it worth it? Does it create a decent surround effect?

Secondly, I'm unsure where to mount the two Sonos 1's should I proceed. I was thinking either side on the wall at either end of the sofa or at ceiling height in the two corners on the back wall furthest from the TV.
Crude room layout below. approx 4.5m x 3.5m
Beam is located with TV


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As above, for content that supports it surrounds add a lot, other times not so much. Could you put the tv so it's parallel with the sofa you are sat in normally? then put the surrounds behind that sofa. And just turn the TV unit when you have guests?

Had a very similar layout, and I did this, prioritised our sofa and I wall mounted the TV and can rotate it so that our guests can see when we have them.
 
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As above, for content that supports it surrounds add a lot, other times not so much. Could you put the tv so it's parallel with the sofa you are sat in normally? then put the surrounds behind that sofa. And just turn the TV unit when you have guests?

Had a very similar layout, and I did this, prioritised our sofa and I wall mounted the TV and can rotate it so that our guests can see when we have them.
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Unfortunately not. I've patio doors on the wall opposite the large sofa
 
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Odd decision to only make the 300's compatible as rears. Should enhance the sound but they are quite bulky.
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What do you mean only make the 300's compatible as rears? The 100's will be usable as rears also, I think the thing about the 300's is they will actually have atomos capable rears now.
 
Broken Hope said:
What do you mean only make the 300's compatible as rears? The 100's will be usable as rears also, I think the thing about the 300's is they will actually have atomos capable rears now.
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Meant to say multi directional Atmos rears. Two of the 300's will cost more than the arc alone and they are massive. Based on responses on other forums, seems people wanted the play:1 size but with Atmos capabilities.
 
Seems like the era 300 might be intended for music as there are songs with Atmos support and Sony 360 support. It's looks too large to be used as rear channels, doesn't mean they won't market it as such.

I wonder if the era 300 are still 5.1 or if it becomes 7.1 cause the description makes it sound like it has drives angled on the sides so if it's still 5.1 it might sound weird having Rear audio hitting your sides, it might even be 9.1s cause the description says the era 300 pushes sound forward, left, right and up so in theory the era 300 could be used for rear channel, left side and right side audio and of course upfiring channel


And the arc also pushes sound left and right and each side is a channel so it would make sense if a single era 300 is a 3.1.1 Or 3.0.1 speaker so having two era 300's the arc and a sub would give you 9.1.2 but Sonos usually disappoints so quite possibly it will still just be 5.1.2 and the rear channels will sound weird with rear audio coming up your sides
 
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Here's a really odd one for you all:

I have a Beam in the bedroom, which I use as an alarm. It being half term this week, so we don't need to be up as early, I turned off the alarms I have set for each day ... and it was still turning on and playing music each morning.
So yesterday I went to the extent of deleting the alarms altogether ... and it still turned on and played music this morning!

Any ideas?
 
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