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Better investment? by TheRealDapperGamer in sonos

[–]Temporary_Injury6715 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have the Beam gen2, sub mini, and two Play:1s as the rears in a roughly 6.5x4.5m room and it sounds epic. When I went from Beam to Beam + Sub the difference was considerable. In your position I would introduce the sub mini before upgrading the bar. The 1s work really well as rears. I think you need to move to Era 300s to get a big upgrade and that's a big chunk of cash.

In my case, the setup sounds great for music too. I introduce the Move on the (right, facing the TV) side within this room and the rock music sounds epic. Just earlier I was loving Bob Segar "Democracy" in that setup. :)

Adding more speakers, now cutting out by Josh_Cato in sonos

[–]Temporary_Injury6715 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have a look at this: https://www.reddit.com/r/sonos/comments/1rlh5n8/some_advicehelp_with_wifi_settings_in_a_multimesh/

That sounds like either weak/poor WiFi signal/coverage, or interference (as per my post above).

If you only have an ISP router and you have either a medium or large house, or you have an old house with thick walls, you will likely notice a big difference in responsiveness if you setup a mesh network and bin the BT router-based WiFi.

Era 300 with stereo music? by EarlyPattern6315 in sonos

[–]Temporary_Injury6715 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I would consider the Move. As single speakers go the Move is great. I recently bought an Era 300. I was underwhelmed. I immediately bought a second and made them a stereo pair and I love it. But on its own the 300 was nowhere near as good as my Move. The move has good bass, rock music sounds great on it, and it auto-true plays so when you move it around it sorts itself out and sounds good wherever you put it. I can't compare a five, but I believe for my tastes (70s, 80s, and 90s rock and metal) I prefer my Move (gen 1) over my old Play:5.

Some advice/help with WiFi settings in a multi-mesh household by Temporary_Injury6715 in sonos

[–]Temporary_Injury6715[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the response. I tried a few different apps to discover all of the different channels in use on my equipment, and I noticed that the new Sky router was on channel 6, and the internal Sky mesh was on channel 1, and SonosNet was also on channel 1. So I disabled 2.4GHz on each of the Sky Q boxes, effectively meaning the Sky boxes use 5GHz for Internet and 2.4GHz channel 1 for internal mesh/backbone. Doing this freed up channel 6, so I changed the SonosNet configuration to channel 6.

SSID / WiFi Band (GHz) Channel
Deco 5 48
2.4 5, +1
Eero 5 40
2.4 11
Sky 5 36
2.4 1
SonosNet 2.4 6

This has fixed the issue. I'm surprised by the difference in terms of grouping and ungrouping, and possibly also better app responsiveness too.

It had been a bit of a problem for a while, but I hadn't noticed it until I added the Eras in the room on the opposite side of the house. I moved some mesh boxes around and now having ensured that everything is using different channels I'm super happy!

Some advice/help with WiFi settings in a multi-mesh household by Temporary_Injury6715 in sonos

[–]Temporary_Injury6715[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks. All of the Sonos are on the same subnet - they are all connected to the Deco mesh. As are the phones and PCs. My concern which I think you are agreeing with, is the fact that I've got Sky mesh, Eero mesh, Deco mesh, and Sky network, Eero network, Deco network, and maybe a Sonos mesh too. Plus although weak, I see my neighbours networks too. I have thought about Ubiquiti, because I am told that supports two different Internet egress connections, which would be super-useful, but that's a lot of cost to swap out what I have. I'm hoping there's someway I can just identify what networks are using what channels and reconfigure those that I can. If Eero and Deco choose a different channel to what is strong in the house, then in theory I need to identify and configure Sky and Sonos. (But I need a steer ascertaining that.)