*** Official SONOS Thread ***

[Simmz]

I don't really understand the need for these streaming boxes given that anybody who would have an expensive Sonos device will surely have a TV that has all the bells and whistles.

The only reason most will buy it is it will allow you to add front left and front right speakers into the mix, so you'll be able to have 4 era 300's running. Pretty expensive setup but people have been wanting it for ages without wanting to go down the wired route.

I assume there's hardware limitations currently or they don't want to risk dropouts etc and this will help eliminate it all, especially as all speakers can communicate wirelessly with the box as well.

 

[Uriel]

I like the idea of a streaming box that would allow different Sonos speaker configurations for surround sound, instead of a soundbar.

I have a Beam Gen2 and symfonisks now - so very unlikely to go down that route as an existing customer.

What I'd actually quite like would be a Sonos receiver, that would let me plug in all sorts of input gubbins - and I suppose the streaming box is vaguely along those lines. That single HDMI eArc on the Beam Gen2 is actually quite restrictive and I ended up getting a HDFury Arcana to allow a little more flexibility.