Sonos Question

As long as they’re firing down it should be fine.

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Do you think it's possible to mount these in the ceiling with a grill that could be painted? Would I lose a lot of sound quality in the attic?

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Definitely possible and the Play:1's fire from the front even though they appear to have the grill all around. It might be easier to just buy some premade wall mounts and just wall mount them as rears maybe 10feet up firing down at the sofa or wherever someone will be watching the TV.

Guess it all depends on where you have power outlets though. Both options require some drywall "updates".

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As an alternative, I could use a connect amp and ceiling speakers. The website told me I need two connect amps. One for the left and one for the right. That's $1,000 for just the two amps and no speakers.

Any suggestions?

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Yes!!! Now you're exactly as my setup. Good news, you don't need 2 Connect:AMPs, just 1. I have 1 connect AMP connected to my 4 in ceiling speakers. You just have to twist the 2 blacks together and then twist the 2 reds together and stick them into the connect amps black and red, respectively.

Then you'll have to follow directions to make those 4 in ceiling speakers your surround right and left but it isn't too bad of a setup. From what I recall it's a intranet site you go to within your home wifi and then you just do like 2 setup steps and boom, simulated surround sound. It sounds good too.

In short, your front right and left will be mimicking the same sound as your back right and left but it sounds good in my environment.

Sorry, I forgot to mention that I have the Playbar for my Front R/C/L as well. So my setup is:
1 Playbar
1 connect:amp which is connected to 4 in ceiling speakers

You could also simply do 1 connect:amp and just wire in 2 Rear speakers, however, the audio for music with the full on 4 in ceiling speakers is... awesome. My living room rocks the hell outta some frozen soundtracks and my girls go crazy when it's the playbar + 4 in ceiling speakers jamming "LET IT GO, LET IT GOOOOOOOO!".

If you have 2 rear speakers connected to the same outputs on 1 amp, you can’t be getting true surround unless I am misinterpreting something.

I’m not all that familiar with sonos

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Double down

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You are doing it wrong....totally.

While that improper setup may work for you, please don’t steer the OP into doing it wrong (having 4 surround channels running in stereo).

Also, the connect amp doesn’t “double down” (an audio amplifier term meaning doubling its power as impedance halves—which you will be doing driving multiple speakers off a single tap). The connect amp is not designed to drive a 4 ohm load—you will burn it up.


I know a thing or four about this.

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Double Down has four rear surround speakers. Two in front and two in the rear.

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I do. I literally said that just in a different sentence structure.

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Bama gonna Bama brah.

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I know, when Bama wins (so every weekend) it sounds good in my Sonos setup.
Thanks!

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The amplifier doesn’t have to be Sonos to drive a Sonos speaker.

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How do you connect it to the Sonos environment?

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you can drive four 8 ohm speakers on a connect amp. It can run at 4 ohm.

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You defintely can, I've confirmed with Sonos. They gave me the obligitory "it may shorten the life of the amp" but it's been kicking for 2 years with this setup.

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I agree DD’s set up is not right

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I feel like I remember us having this argument but why do you say my setup isn't right? Just because I have 2 ceiling speakers that are front R/L that pump out back L/R sound?

Yea, I agree but my alternative is to take out those but then I lose them for music.

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How do you connect it to the Sonos environment?

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You don't. Look, I'm not gonna shite on them like they tried to shite on me but I can tell you that my setup works. However, I already had 4 in ceiling speakers done when I bought my house.

If you're building yours and want to spend that kind of cash and are open to the traditional AV receiver and wired speakers, I'd probably go that route. Don't do 4 in ceiling speakers. I'd probably just do a traditional F/C/R and then 2 rears and a sub all wired to an AV receiver.
If your walls are already opened up, that might be a good route. Sonos is expensive with the playbar + sub + connect:AMP + 2 rear play:1s.

Sonos does a "simulated 5.1" experience. It's not true 5.1 but it sounds good enough for me and my family and it's simple. Much simpler than a receiver with multiple inputs for my wife and 2 really small kids. If that's not a concern for you, definitely keep an open mind about an av receiver and traditional 5.1 setup.