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DTS on LG series C for Sonos Arc

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December 27, 2021
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Hello guys

I’ve been so happy for weeks since the last upgrade in the Sonos ecosystem that provides support fort DTS, even though it does not accept DTS HD or DTS-X, still it’s very good news for us who love physical media.

My current setup is as follows:

LG OLED 65 of 2017 ( it does support DTS )

Sonos Arc connected to LG through eARC ( Arc+2 Subwofers + 2 Sonos One )

Panasonic 4k Blu-Ray player DP-UB9004EG1 connected by HDMI to the TV.

Before the Sonos upgrade, I was reproducing my blurays and 4k blurays which don’t have Atmos or Dolby audio using the Xbox and the Dolby application. It does the job, although the sound and picture are not the same as I get using my 4k player. Now everything works fine with the Sonos upgrade, so I can reproduce any movie using my BD 4k Player. I’ve seen again Gladiator and Interstellar and the sound was amazing.

The issue I have now is the following. I was thinking in buying a new LG OLED 77 inches series C of 2021, but I read that they don’t support anymore DTS. As I have no way to connect the 4k Bluray player to my Sonos Arc, is there any way to solve this problem ? I mean, I won’t be able to play anymore any content in DTS because the eARC will not transfer the audio to the sonos arc, right ?

Is there any other OLED branch as good as LG that support DTS ?

Or is there any other solution that will work the same way as it does now ?

Thank you all for your help

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Best answer by AjTrek1

Hi @Rhz1971

Maybe you missed my other comment that the Audio on my LG is set to “pass-through”. With that setting the TV audio electronics are not involved. The audio “passes through” unabated. In short it doesn’t matter if the TV supports DTS sound or any codec for that matter via it’s internal speakers. Also as you see in the picture the DTS audio is processed by my Panasonic DP-UB9000.

Question: Do you know how to set the audio “pass-through” option on your LG? BTW my 2020 and 2021 LG’s have that setting.

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GuitarSuperstar

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The new LG models do not support DTS pass through. But If you upgrade to a TV with HDMI eARC, you can set your Blu-ray player to convert DTS to PCM which would result in the Arc playing lossless multichannel PCM audio which sounds just as good as DTS-HD Master Audio. A TV with eARC will also allow you to play lossless Dolby TrueHD and Dolby Atmos from supported Blu-ray discs too.

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AjTrek1

Hi

I have a Panasonic DP-UB9000 connected to HDMI 3 on my LG OLED 65 Inch 2019 model with Audio set to “pass-through”. To listen to DTS over the Arc (connected to HDMI eARC) I change the Digital Audio Output on the Panasonic to “On” for BD-Video Secondary Audio as shown in the picture. I set it to “Off” when not viewing a DTS encoded disc. Hope this helps.

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Rhz1971Author

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Hello

Thank you all for your answers.

Regarding the LG 2019, it works because LG does not support DTS since 2020.

Regarding convert the DTS to PCM, well I tried that when Sonos was not compatible with DTS, and the sound that I got was PCM Stereo 2.0, so kind of sucks. I was using eARC in my TV. That is why I played those blurays using the Xbox Series X with the Dolby Application which converts the sound to Dolby Digital. It is not great, but it is much better than PCM Stereo 2.0

Is there any other TV branch in OLED which support DTS ? Panasonic or Sony ? Or every single TV maker is unsupporting DTS. I spent 3000 Euros in my Sonos Home Cinema, 1000 in my Bluray 4k Player, and if I buy a new TV which is something between 3 and 4 thousand euros, well I would like to have the best picture/sound you can buy with that money. Not a nightmare just to play my 4k Blurays which don’t have Atmos, or my normal blurays. My Panasonic Bluray makes an amazing job up-scaling and now I can enjoy the best sound and picture with my current LG 2017.

So, what might be your suggestion ? Buy an LG of 2019, if that is even possible ? Or perhaps Sony or Panasonic OLED still support DTS ?

Thank you again

AjTrek1Answer

Hi @Rhz1971

Maybe you missed my other comment that the Audio on my LG is set to “pass-through”. With that setting the TV audio electronics are not involved. The audio “passes through” unabated. In short it doesn’t matter if the TV supports DTS sound or any codec for that matter via it’s internal speakers. Also as you see in the picture the DTS audio is processed by my Panasonic DP-UB9000.

Question: Do you know how to set the audio “pass-through” option on your LG? BTW my 2020 and 2021 LG’s have that setting.

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Rhz1971Author

Avid Contributor I

Hi @AjTrek1

So, if I buy one LG C1 of 2021 77 inches the only thing I have to do is to configure as “pass through”. I understood something completely different in a post I read.

If the TV does not support DTS , I thought that it was unable to pass it through the soundbar ( Arc ) when the sound comes from the bluray, as it comes by HDMI and then goes to eARC for the audio return to the soundbar.

So in your case everything works and the only thing is that when you play something with DTS, you change BD-Video Secondary Audio to ON ? When is dolby then you put it as OFF ?

Thank you again

AjTrek1

Yes to your questions.

Your connections/settings should be:

TV internal speakers set to off and select external speakers

HDMI Audio set to pass-through

Panasonic or external source to an available HDMI port

Arc or Beam 2 to HDMI eARC

You can configure your current LG in this manner as a proof to yourself. Also, my LG doesn’t have a specific setting for DTS…it does for Dolby Atmos. Where in the audio menu do you see a DTS setting.

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skullc

Prodigy III

Unfortunately newer lg TVs will not pass through dts it is not supported by lg no matter what settings you change

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AjTrek1

Unfortunately newer lg TVs will not pass through dts it is not supported by lg no matter what settings you change

OK I may be mistaken regarding the newer LG models. I’ll have to test that on my newer models. If that’s the case then getting a HD Fury Arcana should resolve the issue. Thanks!

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skullc

Prodigy III

Yes that would work

I have an lgb8 which does pass the dts signal but as I have moved on from physical media and stream my movie collection I have no need to upgrade my screen

All streamed media uses dd+ so until that changes my tv is good for now 😊

Spending money to upgrade to earc and 2.1 makes no sense as does hdfury

One day when they upgrade streaming this may change

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Rhz1971Author

Avid Contributor I

Hi @skullc

Is there any other OLED TV at 120HZ which support DTS ? Sony or Panasonic ?

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