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Stanley_4
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Sonos Era 300 placement for surround

I’d say place the 300s for optimum TV sound and add a stereo pair positioned to work for sitting at the table, or a Five if you can’t find p...
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BJOutdoors
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Two independent systems

I have two SONOS systems. I would like to set them up to operate independently of each other. How do I do that?
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Arc Placement

Updated 9/14/23 to include Era 300’s as surrounds (which have upward firing drivers) that replaced Sonos One’s. All other information and gu...
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DiverdanTrending Lyricist I
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home cinema set up

I have two Sonos play1 and Sonos boost ,is it possible to use them as part of a home cinema set up with a sound bar ,need one with e-ARC Thanks for any help 

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Ken_Griffiths
2 months ago
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Hudson JimmyContributor I
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sub Gen 3 vs sub Gen 1

My current Sonos theater set up is - ArcEra 300 surroundsSub Gen 1 My question is this- is there any real need/reason to upgrade to Sub Gen 3?   

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ravicContributor I
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Maximum amount of speakers supported in a surround sound setup for Home Theater

How many speakers can a Sonos Arc setup support? I currently own the Sonos Premium Immersive Set with Arc. This comes with the Arc, two era 100s, and the subwoofer. However, I plan on upgrading the rear era 100 satellites to era 300s eventually. I also may want to add another subwoofer.How many speakers does the Sonos system support? Do I have to "replace" the era 100 satellites? Will they work along side the Era 300s, a Sonos Arc, and 2 sub woofers?

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buzz
3 months ago
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venksvContributor II
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HDFury Arcana, HDMI splitters and Arc compatibility.

Hi - I’m currently renovating and am looking to setup a HT with the following config:Inputs: Cable box, Xbox, FireTV stick. Maybe a AppleTV4K.Video Outputs: Optoma projector (no eARC, inky HDMI), Sony TV (with eARC).Audio: Sonos Arc, gen3 sub and 2 era 300 acting as surrounds.  Have gone through a few posts and most seem to recommend HDFury Arcana to split out the eARC. Had a few questions/clarifications I’m hoping someone could clarify: I assume I’ll need a 4:1 (4 input, 1 output) hdmi splitter to handle the various inputs and output of this switch feeds into Arcana.  Arcana eARC connects to Sonos Arc.  Arcana only has 1 HDMI out. Will I need a  1:2 (1 input, 2 output) hdmi switch and connect the HDMI out from Arcana to the input on this switch and then connect the output to the TV and projector? Sonos is a bit finicky with networking etc. and there are multiple hops here (hdmi switch for input, Arcana, hdmi switch at output etc). Does it handle all this cleanly without lags etc?If an

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JagielakTrending Lyricist I
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Era 300 wall mount - Advice

Hello everyone. I need advice on the positioning of the era 300 , as they are mounted now they are an eye sore and don't like the angle of those.How would you mount them in this space , it's very limiting to mount them and only place I believe is above the windows on both sides. This way it could be mounted almost straight to the TV (slight angle as the wall arc a little bit.Can the power cable be extended or just any longer white cable would do to power them ?I am attaching photos here (don't mind the mess :D ) 

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AjTrek1
5 months ago
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mca79Contributor I
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Amp & Atmos

Does Sonos Amp support Dolby Atmos? 

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MistermaxcContributor I
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sonos volume announcement

Why do I have to listen to Sonos telling me that I have just put the volume up or down when the system is connected via my arc hdmi port on my tv.  It blocks out sound and if I adjust sound vis controller three times I feel like throwing the system out of the window as all I hear is Sonos volume up hdmi repeated for each time I hit the volume up button.  I then loose the sound track I was attempting to listen too.  why ??? Can I turn this annoying sound/ function off?

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TrevbrownContributor I
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AMP and Beam 2 connection

cst6321We have a Sonos Amp in our home, with pairs of indoor and outdoor speakers (not Sonos Brand), hard wired to the Sonos Amp, and we have no major issues playing music through these speakers, via streaming services and the Sonos App on our phones.For the context of this post, leave the outdoor speakers out of the conversation. This pertains to the in-ceiling speakers we have in our family room and wanting to set them up as surround speakers for our TV.We also have a Sonos Beam Gen 2 connected to our living room TV. We want to connect the Beam2 to the Amp which has the hard wired speakers, to get surround sound. We can connect both separately and even play music from our phones through both the ceiling speakers and Beam at the same time. But TV sound only comes through the beam2, not at all through the ceiling speakers. How do we connect the Beam2 to the Amp for surround sound?

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billiejoe87Chromatic Producer I
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LG OLED Lip Sync In 2024

Hey all,I had a bad experience back in the days of the LG C7 with lip sync issues with the Sonos Playbar & Arc. I’m looking to buy an LG G4 & was wondering with eARC these days if people with LG TV’s are still having lip sync issues or other problems with LG TV’s?Would really appreciate some help from those particularly with newer LG’s like the C3, G3, C4 & G4 etc.

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charlesbell74Avid Contributor I
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Sonos Truplay Issue with Arc

Hi everyone.  I am stumped! We have successfully used TruePlay multiple times for all of the rooms in our house and recently I wanted to redo it for our home theatre (Arc, Era 300s and 2 subs).  When I tried on my iPhone 13 miini I received an error message that there was too much noise in the room.  I tried running it again with everything off and got the same message.  I then tried on an iPhone 14 and received the same message.  Both phones had their cases off, do not have lint in them, and tests were performed in a nearly silent room.  I also turned off Bluetooth. I am not sure what else to try.  Any suggestions? As I mentioned above, the phones are able to use TruePlay in every other room and also successfully performed TruePlay in our theatre in the past.

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GuitarSuperstarMaestro
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Upward-Firing Drivers Silent

The last couple of months, the upward-firing drivers on my Arc and Era 300s (as surrounds) randomly become silent and don’t play any height channel audio from a Dolby Atmos source. This happens with all connected devices (Apple TV 4K, Panasonic UB820 Blu-ray player, Roku Ultra) connected to my TV (LG C3 OLED). I have had to unplug the Arc from power about five separate times to get the drivers to work again. I imagine this is happening to more users, but they probably haven’t noticed because it is just the height channel effects missing from the audio. But it is pretty noticeable when playing music in Dolby Atmos as there are pieces of the song completely missing.If I had to guess, the problem started happening after the 16.0 S2 update. But it could possibly be an LG issue too since I purchased the C3 at the end of January.I have seen one other user on Reddit report the same problem. If any other users are experiencing this, please report it here.@Corry P, please look into this issue.T

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Matt781Contributor I
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Any known issues wih Samsung s90c + Sonos Arc?

Hi - I’m about to purchase a Samsung s90c, but before I do I wanted to check if anyone has had any compatibility issues with the Sonos Arc. I originally had a Samsung q90T that I’m getting rid of - it has an issue with my Sonos Arc where the sound will cut out for a second every 15-20 minutes when Atmos is turned on via my PS5. When I had my playbar connected to it, it had awful sync issues. Needless to say, the Q90t has to go. But if anyone here has experienced issues with the Samsung s90c please let me know. I’m also considering the LG c3 but I don’t like the picture quality as much.

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refriscoContributor I
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Proven Solution of AVR to INPUTS of Sonos Connect

PROVED Solution:  Connecting Denon AVR outs to Sonos Inputs:.I have an X1800H which has pre-outs.Other builds of this exact model do not have them. No mattter. Try Crutchfield or if your AVR has a pre-out -read on. Like many of you I wanted to share the main zone/ room’s audio to my sonos system so I could use the turntable to hear in the gaage, patio, dining room etc. OR stream from the computer desktop (via hdmi to the AVR) a concert live or recorded to those places. Denon wants you to use Heos speakers a system so similar to sonos that Sonos sued and won. (GO SONOS)After a month of research and experimentation, including calling Sonos and Denon Tech support and studying the uselss manual-- I called my AV guru. I  told him my Denon pre-outs were weak garbage (I was pretty mad at this point). The line out booster I purchased wasnt enough either. For us older audiophiles, gone are yesteryears  “line-outs” on every receiver that were at a constant usable level for almost anything includ

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jeroen3000Contributor I
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Metallic, tinny, resonant and distorted sound from the Sonos Beam gen 2 in voices / talking

I bought a Beam 2 seven month ago, and the last couple of months the Beam is developing a tinny metalic sound in talking/voice sounds (playing music is still fine, but I think other frequencies are used there,  I am sure there is technical / scientific explanation for it). Here is a sound sample example of it:Sonos- donderdag om 19-33.m4aThis is a clip/fragment from youtube: Sonos Era 300 + Arc & Sub: Ultimate Home Audio Experience? - YouTubeSo I found my self more or less forced to buy another new soundbar from Sonos (Why not another brand?; it was black Friday and I already invested in two subs and 2 Sonos surround boxes which are 1500 euro worth, and I hope it is a rare defect) which does not has that problem (and I did not also perceive that distorted effect at other cheap desktop speakers and other (Sonos) speakers, that I possess ).The distortion was less when I placed the sound bar on soft fabric tissues, but unfortunately that did not solve it enough. Anyone an idea what ki

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Moni19Avid Contributor I
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Sound Intermittently keep cutting out on Samsung TV.

Hi since I’ve had my new tv set up I’m experiencing issues.The sound intermittently keeps cutting out which is so annoying I went on the Facebook group forum and everyone said to change the hdmi cable which I’ve done but the issue remains. Can you pls assist ?  TV model is Samsung  QE75Q60BAUXXU My set up is Sonos ArcSonos SubAnd 2 x Sonos Ones The HDMI cable I have changed to is this one  IBRA 2.1 HDMI Cable 8K, 1.5m... https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07WJBMR8N?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share   Pls can you assist as it’s really annoying  Thanks in advance  

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AudiosymbolAvid Contributor I
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Conflict between Arc and bluetooth headphones

I have an arc connected to a Samsung ( two year old model) TV via the eARC port . Everything works fine except when I want to use a pair of headphones via blutooth … I need to do this for late viewing to avoid disturbing sleepers ..The headphones gets paired with the TV without problems . Once connected , it just works fir a few seconds before the Arc reconnects itself . I have spoken to Sonos support a year or so ago but there was no resolution but apparently was flagged up .  Have spoken to Samsung support who says it’s an issue with the Arc . They say there isn’t a problem with their own soundbars and suggested I change over !!  Yeah right …A cumbersome work around is to connect an Amazon firestick and works with the headphone once paired .. Is this something that can be resolved without needing  the firestick ?  

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Byrnes1985Contributor I
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compressed dolby atmos over Arc from ATV4K

I have a 2020 Samsung qled with arc and I can only get Dolby 5.1 over arc and the Sonos website says I should be able to at least get compressed Atmos over arc. I’ve tried it all I feel and I’m stumped

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GC3Prominent Collaborator II
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16.1.1 update not good ...

Woke up to sub not being connected. Hardware update available 16.1.1, typical installation issues occurred. Two total shutdowns and restarts later, all hardware again online showing 16.1.1 but am still being prompted for update available.  

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Airgetlam
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roostyContributor I
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DTS support

Would it be possible to support the DTS formats especially DTS:X? I recently replaced my Onkyo amp that had support for all DTS with Sonos equipment and am disappointed to find whilst watching a movie it won’t work with DTS. Seems to downmix to stereo pcm which sounds ok but think it could be sounding much better if in correct format.

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Bulldog65Contributor I
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Adjusting the sound spectrum on my Ray.

Can I adjust the sound spectrum on my Ray to eliminate or reduce the low frequency booming sound from the speaker?

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Stanley_4
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ChezrolezContributor I
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Would I be able to use an IR repeater or some other product to control the volume on my am in a different room?

I just bought a new Samsung Frame TV and I have it connected to a Sonos Ray soundbar via an optical audio cable. I also have 2 ceiling speakers in the TV room connected to an amp in my basement tithat I am unable to run a HDMI Arc directly from since it’s on the other side of the house. I was able to connect my Samsung TV remote to the Ray soundbar and can control the volume on that. I read that I wouldn’t be able to control the volume of my ceiling speakers connected to my amp with my TV remote since it’s wireless, but I just successfully did the remote control setup in the sonos app and connected it to my amp that runs the ceiling speakers in my TV room and it does in fact control the volume of the speakers. The only issue is, since I guess it controls it with IR, it only changes the volume on the amp when the remote is pointed directly at it, and since my tv is on the other side of the house, it doesn’t control the volume from the TV room.My question is, is there some sort of produc

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MiltBContributor I
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Setting up two ERA 100s with Sonos ARC and Samsung TV.

Help!  Spent several hours today trying to set up my two new ERA 100 speakers with my existing ARC system and Sub Mini, all playing through a big Samsung TV, with Pandora music in the daytime and evening news and a few streaming or network shows in the evening.  I play Pandora music using the app on the Samsung, but the two ERA speakers would not respond with that approach--zero sound from the ERAs.  The tech support person suggested using the Sonos app to access Pandora.  That works, but that’s not how I want to access Pandora.  Pandora has worked just fine using the Samsung TV remote until I added the ERA speakers.  But it won’t work that way with the ERA speakers.  My tech support person seemed as frustrated as I was.  After nearly two hours working with her, I could see that we were getting nowhere by doing down the same paths over and over-with the same negative results.  I suggested that she get with someone who could solve the problem which she promised to try to do.  So I have

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Aslaidlaw
AslaidlawContributor I
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Home theatre beyong the reach of WiFi Arc/era300s and sub.

WiFi in my home does not reach my Era300s or sub but my Arc is hard wired to Ethernet switch. Will Arc create a network and talk to Era300s and my sub gen 3 for home theatre or do I need to hard Ethernet wire the other speakers too. Thanks in advance.  

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Aslaidlaw
4 days ago
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dv1070Contributor I
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Samsung QN90A with sonos ARC cutting out

Hi There, Please I need some ideas.  I have a Samsung 98 inch Neo QLED QN90A (QN98QN90AAFXZA) and a sonos ARC with two ERA 300 for surround and 2 Gen3 subs.  The Arc is connected to the tvs EARC port.  I get sound find and I am able to pass through Atmos, and dolby digital plus and others. I tried to stream from my nvidia shield 2019 and via plex I get sound cutting out. I have tried it via netflix same thing.  I still get the audio cutting out on Youtube and plex on the native TV.  Here are the steps I have tried to fix this: 1-Replaced all HDMI cables2-Tried different input ports for shield3-Replaced my ARC with a brand new one (up to date with latest firmware as of 4-27-2024)4-Replaced my shield with a 2nd one around the house(up to date with latest firmware as of 4-27-2024)5-Tried testing it directly from tv app vs shield same issue6-Tried messing with the settings on the tv like earc auto and off, pass-though on and auto7-Adjusted the delay to sync the earc( this seems to help but

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Pillroller81Contributor I
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Onkyo TX-RZ50 and Sonos

I have an Onkyo TX-RZ50 AV Receiver and it won’t recognize the Sonos Port.  The Portis plugged into the CD input jack. During the setup of Hardware, the receiver doesn’tallow “works with Sonos” to light up.  Has Onkyo had a computer glitch with the particularreceiver?

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