I just don’t personally like the idea of the rear TV channels being in the center of the room in this type of setup. Use the new Sonos Amp and two 3rd-party ‘passive’ speakers for the front channels and the Connect:Amp/ceiling speakers as the rear channels….That’s okay, note the One SL’s cannot be used as fronts, only as rears - I guess that I may have confused you a little by mentioning those (sorry). Currently only 1cm space b/w TV and cabinet. Thats definitely an option, might not work out due to cabinets and space so will probably have to settle for 2x One SL for front and then the ceiling speakers L/R as rear. ![]() Given the choice, I would just choose to use those ceiling speakers for music audio. I think it might sound strange to have TV dialog coming from the ceiling in the centre of the room… but I guess we all hear things differently. I hope you can follow that - personally speaking, I would not use ‘centred’ ceiling speakers for either type of HT setup, but it’s a matter for yourself. (b) Connect your two ceiling speakers to a Sonos HT product (using a yet to be purchased Arc/Beam/PlayBase/Amp etc.) and then use your ceiling speakers as the left/right rear surrounds? If so the new Amp will drive two front speaker channels only with a phantom center… and you can use your existing Connect:Amp to drive rear left/right channels, but the Sonos products need to be wired back to the router as explained in the Sonos Support document linked in my previous post. The Connect:Amp cannot do this and there is no adapter for it. (a) Connect your two ceiling speakers to the TV as the front left and right channels - if so, you will need a new Sonos Amp to do this. I need to know what you’re trying to achieve - is it: If you connect all 4 of your ceiling speakers to the new Sonos Amp (which in turn is connected to your TV via its Optical or HDMI-ARC port) you will get 3.0 audio (that’s the front left/right channels only to your ceiling speakers and ‘muxed’ in with that, will be a ‘phantom’ center channel - I’m not sure that would sound ideal.ĭepending perhaps on the position of your ceiling speakers in relation to your seated position in the room, you might find you are much better off just wiring two front ceiling speakers to the new Amp and put the two ‘rear’ channel ceiling speakers on your old Connect:Amp instead - but those devices need wiring back to your LAN/Router (ideally via the newer Amp)… as explained in more detail in this link: With the new amp would 4 speakers is still do-able is that correct? Looking at getting the new amp and then running that through the new TV as it should eleviate the problems. So the issues here are that things depend on what HT channels you plan to use the ceiling speakers for … if it’s front surrounds your Connect:Amp will not do those channels… if it’s rear surrounds, then you first need a main Sonos HT product to connect to your TV and you will need to cable things if you wish to use your Connect:Amp for your Sonos HT (rear channel) ceiling speakers.Įssentially though a new AMP with HDMI-Arc should work fine if I am not wrong? New to the HT world and only ever used sonos for music prior to this. although the newer Sonos products (Arc/Beam/Amp) connect also over HDMI-ARC (not HDMI) (recommended). See below:Ĭeiling speakers are most often used as the ‘rear’ surrounds with a Sonos HT setup and the older Connect:Amp in that situation needs to be cabled to either the main HT (front) device.įor the front left/right and center HT channels, you need to use such devices as a Sonos Arc, Beam, PlayBase, Playbar or the newer Sonos Amp, all of which connect to the TV optical port. However there are some options to use your older Connect:Amp and ceiling speakers for use as Sonos HT rear surrounds. One of the first things to mention here is, if you plan to use your ceiling speakers for HT front surrounds (and phantom center) you cannot do that with the older Sonos Connect:Amp, but it can be done with the newer Sonos Amp - which will connect to your TV over HDMI-ARC (not HDMI) or Optical port (with an adapter - supplied separately).
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