Ive considered unpairing the surrounds when watching concerts, its just a lengthier process. And whether or not its “designed” to do that is irrelevant, it plays that way in Full mode when i stream from spotify, seems like all it is is an toggle option to put TV in full mode. I just want to be able to switch from watching a movie to watching a concert in a matter of seconds. I like the sonos beam, sub, and surround for watching movies. I appreciate the feedback, but its just a convenience thing. The advantage of this over proper AV amp is the better physical size, lack of wires to the rear, and better control. You could easily add rears without having to have wires for movies and such where surround sound matters. So if I was watching youtube concerts 75% of the time, then I’d probably want to use a Sonos Amp upfront to give me the proper stereo separation, and really not care about surround sound or audio from the rear at all. After switching to a playbar, I feel like I want it on full stereo as getting audio from the rear adds something. Back in the days when I used a traditional AV, I had good stereo separation up front and never felt the need to hear music tracks from the rear. I would say that it’s not so much an issue of proper AV amp as it is of not having a proper sound stage, not a soundbar, at least from my experience. As an aside, I’m not sure why people want this as it’s the antithesis of what home theatre and discrete surround sound is about, but each to their own. If 75% of your watching is from concerts on youtube, then a Sonos system is not the right thing here and you need a “proper” AV amplifier that is able to upmix a standard 2.0 signal to either a fake/virtual surround sound, or will have the ability to just blast the same signal to all speakers. or a dropdown to change the audio source between movie, music, live concert, musical, live sports or whatever, could probably create an endless amount of presets. So +1 for the feature request to have a toggle in the app to switch to full surrounds when playing via the tv. only works when actually streaming music via the sonos app. Still doesn't change the fact that when you stream music via the tv (smart tv, fire-tv stick, whatever) the playbar/beam recognizes the source as tv and the "full surrounds" setting for streaming music won't have any effect. You can also on that page adjust the volume for each 'mode'. My recommendation is that you chose Full, which makes them act as regular stereo speakers in addition to the sound from the soundbar. Then you're presented with the choice to make them be either Ambient or Full when playing / streaming music. If I recall correctly, it's under Room Settings>Advanced>Surrounds. So, there are settings, buried deep in the "room settings", which define how the surrounds are used, both when you're streaming music via the Sonos app, and sending data via the TV input. I am considering adding additional speakers with a 3rd party amp and existing Connect, but would opt for a 2nd Sonos amp if I could do so without lag. I currently am using a single amp with a TV outside, primarily for music. If two amps could be bonded together they would be able to cover twice the space (upto 5 Sonance speakers) with TV audio without any lag (which will happen when grouping the amps together). Surround sound setups are usually not practically, and often, the space is too big for a single amp to cover adequately. Large spaces - With outdoor TVs becoming more and more common place, it makes good sense to pair the TV with a Sonos amp. Perhaps an acceptable compromise would be to have the logical front and rear speakers both playing stereo, so the speaker in the rear can be the logical front speakers and the speakers in the physical front can be the logical front speakers. Projector setup - The biggest issue with using a projector and Sonos speakers is getting sound coming from the front without any wired connection. In addition to the scenarios above, here are a few more.
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