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I have the Ace Headphones, and I like them. The battery life is amazing.

I want to try out the Dolby Atmos encoding for the headphones and as I understand it, I need the Beam Gen 2. 

I have an 11.1 Atmos setup using a receiver and wired speakers. It works fine but none of it is Sonos product. 

I am trying to figure out if I could possibly replace my passive center channel speaker with the Beam Gen 2. 

Some questions:

Does the Beam Gen 2 only create Atmos via the HDMI ARC or eARC connection? 

Using the Optical Adapter does or does not pass Atmos to the Beam Gen 2?

Can the Beam Gen 2 be set up to work as a single speaker without the spatial decoding for multi-channel output?

If this won’t work at all, is there another way I can get Atmos content to play in the Ace headphones?

Thanks.

I would mix’n’match Sonos devices with non-Sonos devices. Apart from that Sonos doe sneed HDMI-ARC for Atmos. Optical only carries DD 5.1.

To your main question (as I see it) you can’t use the Beam2 or any Sonos soundbar as a center only channel. 

Does the Beam Gen 2 only create Atmos via the HDMI ARC or eARC connection? 

  • Must use eARC 

Using the Optical Adapter does or does not pass Atmos to the Beam Gen 2?

  • Does not pass Atmos

Can the Beam Gen 2 be set up to work as a single speaker without the spatial decoding for multi-channel output?

  • Yes

If this won’t work at all, is there another way I can get Atmos content to play in the Ace headphones?

  • No. Ace headphones are specific to Sonos for Atmos via a video source.
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