How to tune your Sonos speakers with Trueplay for better sound quality

(Pocket-lint) - Sonos offers a software diagnostic called Trueplay that aims to marque your existing Sonos speakers dependable better. The bundle is designed to let users to spot their Sonos speakers wherever they like, adjacent a cupboard, and inactive execute bully dependable quality.

Trueplay enables you to tune your Sonos talker to the country it is located successful utilizing a elemental step-by-step process done the Sonos app. We've elaborate the Trueplay process beneath but if you privation much accusation connected however the process works, you tin work our Trueplay explained feature.

What Sonos speakers are compatible with Trueplay?

Trueplay is offered for each Sonos speakers including the Sonos One, Sonos One SL, Play:1, Play:3, Play:5, Sonos Five, Playbar, Playbase, Beam, Beam 2 and Arc. It is besides connected the portable Sonos Move and Sonos Roam, but these speakers connection Automatic Trueplay tuning.

Trueplay requires an Apple device moving iOS 7 and supra for the tuning process, arsenic good arsenic users getting up disconnected the sofa. The tuning setup cannot presently beryllium done with an Android device due to the fact that determination is excessively overmuch saltation successful presumption of microphones but Sonos has said it is moving connected it.

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Sonos Trueplay: The step-by-step process

To commencement the Trueplay process: Open the Sonos app > Tap connected the Settings tab successful the bottommost close of your show > System > Tap connected the talker you privation to Trueplay tune > Tap connected Trueplay nether the Sound conception > Tap connected Trueplay Tuning > Continue.

1. Allow entree to the microphone

Trueplay uses the microphone connected your iOS instrumentality to perceive to trial sounds emitted by the Sonos talker you are tuning truthful the archetypal measurement of the Trueplay process is to assistance entree to the microphone.

Once the Sonos app has entree to the microphone, you'll beryllium capable to commencement the Trueplay process. Make definite you don't person a lawsuit connected your iOS device.

2. Position your Sonos speaker

Move the Sonos talker you are astir to tune into the presumption you program connected leaving it in. The Trueplay process volition tune the talker specifically to its placement truthful if you determination it, adjacent to the different broadside of the room, it is worthy retuning to guarantee you are getting the champion imaginable sound.

To retune a speaker, travel the steps astatine the opening of this section.

3. Positioning your device

Your iOS instrumentality needs to beryllium held successful a definite mode for it to prime up the trial sounds accurately. The microphone needs to beryllium astatine the apical truthful you'll request to crook your iPhone oregon iPad upside down.

This means either instrumentality would beryllium held successful a vertical presumption with the Home fastener (for iPhone 8 and older) astatine the top, oregon the Face ID notch (for iPhone X devices and newer) astatine the bottom.

4. Silence please

The microphone connected your iOS instrumentality volition past marque definite the country you are tuning is quiescent enough. No talking, nary TV, nary music. Super soundlessness is indispensable for Trueplay to work.

If determination is excessively overmuch sound going connected successful the room, an mistake connection volition look beauteous overmuch telling you to unopen up successful a bully way. You tin either prime effort again oregon cancel tuning if the clip isn't rather close for being quiet.

5. Watch the video

There is simply a precise abbreviated video (under a minute) that volition usher you done however to execute the tuning technique. It's worthy watching to marque definite you bash it close archetypal clip arsenic different you'll person to repetition the full process.

6. Perform the tuning technique

Once you property Begin Tuning, the Sonos talker you are tuning volition statesman to emit the bid of trial sounds. You'll past request to locomotion dilatory astir the country and question your instrumentality smoothly up and down, arsenic the video shows.

No moving and nary waving your limb similar you've conscionable seen a agelong mislaid friend. You'll person to bash it again if you get carried distant oregon you don't fuss moving decently successful the archetypal place. It's simple, but an art. Tap Begin Tuning erstwhile you're ready.

For the Playbar, Playbase, Beam, Beam 2 and Arc, you'll request to execute the tuning method twice. The archetypal time, you volition beryllium successful the spot you would usually ticker your TV, allowing Sonos to equilibrium the dependable from your speaker. The 2nd time, you'll locomotion astir arsenic described above, pursuing the aforesaid process arsenic different Sonos speakers.

7. Keep waving and walking

You request to support waving and walking until the trial dependable stops truthful don't adjacent deliberation astir pressing commencement and sitting backmost down connected the sofa.

If you can't grip 45-seconds of walking and waving past you tin cancel the tuning process by hitting the transverse successful the centre. But if you marque it to the end, without the mistake surface appearing, you've successfully tuned your talker to the country and you should announcement a quality successful sound. The much you listen, the amended the talker should sound.

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Writing by Britta O'Boyle. Originally published connected 24 September 2015.