playing music on arc and watching tv at the same time

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December 1, 2020
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Hi. I have just bought an Arc which is grouped with my Sub and 2 Ones. All connected to my Sony AG9. I use the Sonos system for movies and music most of the time. While watching tv (news, etc) I sometimes have music playing and would like to be able to get sound from my tv speakers. However, the sonos audio set up always overides the tv choice and I am unable to do either thing: I can’t have music playing on sonos and watch tv with sound and I can’t simply use my tv speakers. Is this normal? The Ag9 sound is more than enough to watch the news and I would like to be able to have music playing at the same time. The automatic overide makes no sense....

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Best answer by Airgetlam

That is the way ARC works, it’s not a choice made by Sonos.

If you’d prefer, you could connect your Arc with the optical cable, rather than the ARC connection, and you could do what you want without issue. You would, of course, need to use that optical to HDMI ARC adapter.

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106rallye

With optical you’d lose the ability to play Atmos and DD+. If you mean the HDFury Arcana, that would still rely on HDMI-ARC/CEC, so I do not think that is an option.

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GuitarSuperstar

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i have the same issue, if one usese the optical, what sound quality/funcionaltiy would i lose exaclty. would one of them HDFury boxes solve the issue with no loss of funcations.

With an optical connection, you would not be able to play Dolby Atmos or multichannel PCM audio through the Arc and you would also lose voice control functionality.

The HDFury Arcana is an eARC device that allows external media devices to bypass your TV and send audio directly to the Arc. This is beneficial to users who have older TVs with audio passthrough limitations because their TV is only equipped with HDMI ARC.

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i have the same issue, if one usese the optical, what sound quality/funcionaltiy would i lose exaclty. would one of them HDFury boxes solve the issue with no loss of funcations.

With an optical connection, you would not be able to play Dolby Atmos or multichannel PCM audio through the Arc and you would also lose voice control functionality.

The HDFury Arcana is an eARC device that allows external media devices to bypass your TV and send audio directly to the Arc. This is beneficial to users who have older TVs with audio passthrough limitations because their TV is only equipped with HDMI ARC.

but,, will i still have atmos etc capability, and have the benefit of using the tv speakers instaed of the arc, which at the moment always defaults to the arc, even after selecting tv speakers.

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