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Cool. Thank you very much. Been a great help. Can't wait to start buying my Sonos system and watching some movies.

Cool. Thank you very much. Been a great help. Can't wait to start buying my Sonos system and watching some movies.

I'm with Kumar, if you're that serious about home cinema, get a full avr setup, for jagd, the compromises are, no dts, no HD audio codec support, no Dolby Atmos support going forward, no hdmi switching, no additional channels beyond 5.1, requirement for the TV to provide 5.1 from external inputs, etc.

Anybody who's been here a while will know how big a fan I am of Sonos but it'll never replace my home cinema.

Well this is why i'm still doing research about a really good system. I was going to get Klipsch speakers to make a nice surround sound system, but I was hearing Klipsch was kind of not top of the line anymore and other bramds were coming in. But a guy at best buy pointed me in the direction of Sonos because it's supposed to be a really nice system and you can keep adding to it all you want. I know Sonos is mostly geared toward music, but I mostly want a nice system for an in home theater experience. But i'll just keep looking around and doing research.

I am not trying to push you in either direction. But be sure to consider:

1) What content you will play (i.e. - Netflix? Broadcast TV? Blurays?). If you are not using BR, then DTS is likely irrelevant (unless you have personal media with DTS encoding only).

2) The current equipment you have and your desired connections (do you have many sources such as multiple steaming players, cable box, blurary, etc.)?

3) What model TV do you have (could play a role in whether the Playbar is a good choice to begin with)?

4a) AVR: Can you easily run wires to surround speakers? And, do you want to run wires to surround speakers?
4b) Sonos: Do you have electrical outlets accessible from where your surround speakers will be placed?

5) Do you need to consider "WAF" or other users (it is unavoidable, but AVRs are more complex by nature, and you WILL have cases where "nothing works" because someone simple changed an input)?

6) Do you plan to expand Sonos to other parts of your home? If so, having a Playbar, Sub, and a couple if Play:1s to "seed" your home is a nice start.

Anyhow, you likely will be thrilled with any of your choices, because moving from base TV sound to 5.1 is really an amazing jump. And I know I can't go back!

You can keep adding room after room after room to Sonos, that's the joy of it but as far as the Playbar is concerned 5.1 is the limit. The advantage is no speaker wires trailing around the room but of course you still need power cables.

I can't comment on Klipsch, my advice would be to find a dealer and listen to various systems. That's the only way you can really choose.

You can keep adding room after room after room to Sonos, that's the joy of it but as far as the Playbar is concerned 5.1 is the limit. The advantage is no speaker wires trailing around the room but of course you still need power cables.

I can't comment on Klipsch, May advice would be to find a dealer and listen to various systems. That's the only way you can really choose.

LHC - We were writing at the same time...I agree that you really have to listen to various systems.

In fact, with Sonos in particular, I think it is important to listen in your home environment if at all possible. Most retailers, and Sonos itself, have very generous return policies. I found that positioning of Sonos speakers makes a huge difference (albeit, when it comes to 5.1 you don't have much positioning choice other than the Sub).

As mentioned above, I have both a Sonos 5.1 system (family room) as well as a traditional AVR setup (basement HT). Does the basement theater sound better? Yup, no question at all. But it is also a confined space, not open to the kitchen, 100" screen, etc., so it is a better experience all around than my family room ever could be. But the ease of use and ability to have that Sonos zone in my family room for music is huge to me.

Anyhow, again, can't go wrong!

My main use for a surround system is for movies. I don't use spotify or any other music streaming thing. Just music off my phone that I put on with itunes. But I keep hearing all this stuff about the sonos being a pain because it doesn't work well or at all with tv's or movies that have dts or dolby digital sound. I really want it to sound like a movie theater when I watch movies. So maybe I can go the klipsch route with a receiver is best.

I really want it to sound like a movie theater when I watch movies. So maybe I can go the klipsch route with a receiver is best.
Couple of things - even given the above, you still need to decide which movie theatre/technology is your benchmark because that is still a moving target. And Klipsch may be the speakers to get you there, or there may be many others. Almost every HiFi speaker maker has a HT package these days, many of which are excellent.

I said this before, so pardon the repetition: In audio, one can go the Sonos route and obtain all its conveniences without making any compromise on sound quality. If any psychological needs are to be met, there is the route using the digital output of the Connect. The only such need Sonos cannot meet is the hi res one and that for the purists that aren't willing to downsample hi res files.

But with video, obtaining the Sonos conveniences involves making compromises on the quality of the experience in ways that are not just subjective. It therefore isn't as easy to recommend Sonos for TV as it is on the music side.

Thank you very much for all the input. Good to talk and hear from people who actually have some of the products so I can hear first had about things.

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