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are you referring to my general response regarding the ability with sonos to turn a mono speaker into stereo just by dropping another speaker in the room?

No. In this thread, we established he wants three pairs of speakers. Your first response in the thread mentions them in mono- not sure where that comes from. Then you mention again that stereo Sonos is better than mono in-ceiling...in a thread about having three pairs of stereo speakers

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know many people who have 12-15 speakers throughout their house in the form of single speakers in every room of the house

That's silly. To each their own. Are they early Beatles fans? (I'm kidding)

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know those audio splitters take perfectly good stereo and output mono because thats how it works when you have more than one set of speakers using the zone2 setup without having to buy multiple AVRs to power more.

While I'm sure there are examples of things that do this, there are a ton of very cheap options that will take speaker-level/amplified sound and act as a distributor for stereo. Here's the rear of a Monoprice stereo-in, 4-stereo out version that's around $30. I've used this exact model. It definitely outputs stereo and would definitely allow for amp'd Zone 2 stereo sound in up to 4 zones/areas (all playing the same thing, of course)

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i guess i should have explicitly retracted my assumption so you won't keep harping on that one comment regarding a minor detail of the install. ?

From your second comment that I linked, it seemed like you doubled down, which was pretty confusing.

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what does that have to do with all the other stuff i stated? what other points do you disagree with?

You made a pretty pointed comment about how an installer thinks this is better only due to his profits in a thread talking about how a guy prefers the aesthetics of this. For a DIY'er, this isn't even a particularly difficult installation if you
1) don't mind cutting circles or rectangles in your ceiling and walls
2) can run cable in your attic and up/down a wall

I don't think anyone disagrees that Sonos sounds decent enough for most applications, but I don't exactly understand your insistence that it's better. Is it better than a Pyle pair of $20 speakers with 40-gauge (exaggeration) wire? Yes.
Could you do this yourself in a weekend and get as good to better sound with the guy's preferred (to the point he opens up with saying he doesn't want it) for less money than Sonos? Absolutely.

His AV receiver? Could do analog zone 2 or repeat digital Zone 1. Potential for no cost.

Monoprice speaker selector above? $31.10
Polk RC80i is $150/pair and some decent discreet speakers.
Cables Direct 500ft of 4-conductor speaker wire is $63

Adding volume control knobs at each zone would be the most difficult part (must go down and back up a wall and would probably want to stay away from existing power line runs). They'd run you $20-30 each and up the level of difficulty.

Is there any reason stereo from in-ceiling speakers is inferior to Sonos in your mind?

ETA- I don't mean to say a pro install isn't worth the money. Plenty of folks could screw it up and not place things well.

This post was edited on 8/15/18 at 5:38 pm