r/SonoSequencr

Update on my test. Arc ultra, 2 Gen 3 subs, Era300’s as Rear

Tried my set up with play 3’s as fronts. Can’t say I loved it, especially for “regular” television, and sports and even most movies. Felt the plays were pulling out audio too far to the sides from the Arc.

Did NOT re-do TP a bunch of times or experiment with placing the fronts closer to the Arc Ultra because I am pretty much stuck with a width of about 6 ft for each Play 3 from the center of the Arc.

Too far? Could maybe get it 4.5 ft but furniture look would not be very good. May also try next with Era 100’s as fronts.

Thoughts?

PVP is 10 feet from Arc and about 10 ft from each Play3. Television is 77inch

Been at this a few hours, with every combo grouping, ungrouping and reloading I can think of.

Here's where it's up to:

https://preview.redd.it/avw7t43zxt1h1.png?width=369&format=png&auto=webp&s=18de54ec10159011d7f115b155ebe7861ffbf5c1

The app will remove and restore the subs. It will not add fronts:

https://preview.redd.it/mhydalr5yt1h1.png?width=369&format=png&auto=webp&s=8f34bfcbc1eea4a133c700614a51ee4dfe3ce0c7

Until the surrounds are removed. Unfortunately, it will only replace the surrounds with the prospective fronts (unpaired One SL's) and visa versa. Selecting remove surrounds on the app leads to this screen:

https://preview.redd.it/eyzstxso0u1h1.png?width=369&format=png&auto=webp&s=defc2cd9a1d468c113ff462114c833a14f87f296

The One SL's are also visible on the add front screen.

https://preview.redd.it/0ui2v6vmyt1h1.png?width=369&format=png&auto=webp&s=9f12322d67cedf1c44d6ca847d6b93373f6b539c

Anyone able to help me out of this loop?

I have a Sonos Arc Ultra with Sonos Five fronts through SonoSequencr, Sonos Era 300 rear surrounds, and dual Sonos Sub 4 in a large open 33x20 room.

The way I usually configure everything is:

Add the Fives as fronts in SonoSequencr

Add the Era 300s as surrounds in SonoSequencr

Add the dual Subs afterward in the Sonos app

All channels test correctly, but sometimes I feel like the bass is not as strong or deep as I remember from previous setups. It still sounds good, just not as powerful or effortless in the low end.

I’m wondering if the order I configure everything affects bass management or crossover behavior internally, especially since the front-channel setup is unofficial through SonoSequencr.

Has anyone else noticed differences in bass performance depending on setup order? Would adding the Subs before configuring fronts/surrounds produce better bass integration?

Current setup: Arc Ultra, Sub4 + Sub Gen 3, Era 300's (rears), Era 100's (fronts).

I know the conventional thinking is to Pair the 100's as stereo pair and TruePlay, Pair all other speakers and TruePlay. Then unpair everything and connect all speakers via SonoSequencr.

But, what would (might) happen if 100's were stereo paired and TruePlayed, 300's were stereo paired and TruePlayed, Arc Ultra and subs paired and TruePlayed - Then unpair everything and connect all speakers via SonoSequencr and enable TruePlay.

Any ideas what would happen if doing this? Would all the proper signals be passed to the correct speakers? Would the 300's still not use all of their drivers?

I would like to know if anyone had tried this and what happened - if it would even work - thanks...

I’ve got a Playbar setup with two Play1 speakers as the left and the right, thanks to this excellent app.

I have noticed that the left and right channel content correctly only shows up in the left and right speaker. None of it comes out of the Playbar.

But the opposite is not true. some of the dialog, which is just in the center channel, not only comes out of the Playbar but is ALSO spread to the left and right speaker.

Is this what other people are hearing as well? If so, then fine. It’s not ideal for the center channel content to also be heard in the left and right speakers. But if that’s how it has to work, then I’ll live with it.

But if this is user error on my part, I’d like to know about that, so I can work on fixing it.

(if it matters I should note that I am running on s1 still.)

I have a Beam Gen 2, Sub Mini & Symfonisk Bookshelf Speakers as rears. I’d like to add some fronts to the setup with the ERA 100’s being the likely choice.

It’s a fairly tight space either side of the TV due to a doorway but I could install ERA 100’s as left and right front channels at a total distance apart from each other of 3.7m (12ft). This would be approximately 1.5m (5ft) to either side of the Beam. This distance apart would also roughly match the gap between the rears. Would this be worth doing? Is it actually a noticeable difference?

Is that stereo sound is actually stereo sound. For example, when I used to watch something that was in 2 ch PCM Sonos would pump fake audio into the surrounds. I love that only sound comes out of the FR and FL channels now and not from the center or rears like it didi before I added fronts. I used to have to turn off the rears in the app just so the 2 ch stereo pcm would only come out of my playbar.

I have a playbar, sub mini, pair play 3 for fronts and pair of Sonos ikea frame speakers for rears. The main system was tuned with true play before I setup my speakers in the app but when I added the play 3 pair as front R and L I didn’t true play them in a stereo pair beforehand. Do you think I’d notice a meaningful difference? I’m asking before I try it just in case I can save the hassle of having to dismantle all the speakers in the app and then make a stereo pair with the play 3 and run true play then unpair again and add everything back.

Wondering on peoples opinion on connecting 4 era 100s and a sub as my workout rooms setup. I have no idea what I’m going to do for music. Today I just thought about using sequencer and connecting 4 100s with a sub. Do you think this would be “better” than a pair of 500s. Money isn’t an issue. How would you build a workout room setup