Home theater

I have a Sonos surround set up in my living room (Beam, Sub (Gen 3) 2x One SL’s) Panasonic Viera TV.  Recently replaced a Bose Lifestyle system that had given up after 15 years of exceptional service.  The Sonos offers good surround sound but I can’t work out how to switch back to the TV’s own speakers?  Having cinema quality surround sound is great when you’re watching a Hollywood blockbuster but frankly, I don’t want cinema surround sound all the time.  If i’m watching breakfast TV, the news, a soap or cooking show the surround sound is actually quite distracting and frankly overkill,  I’d like to switch between the Sonos beam and the TV’s own inbuilt speakers for everyday ‘regular’ viewing.   Without having to unplug anything or switch off at the mains how do I toggle between the Sonos and the TV’s own speakers for everyday viewing?

Or does it only affect speaking voices? If so, I don't suppose there are downsides to leaving it on all the time? 

What are the best settings for a sonos arc and sub combination.  We are finding that the voices are faint and the music/action noises are overwhelming.  I have tried the speach enhancement but that makes the whole thing sound a bit 'tinnie'  Before this we had a pretty basic panasonic soundbase and to be honest that worked better.I must be missing something.  This was an expensive outlay for me and my wife just wants to send it all back.

1st post so apologies if this has been answered. I have a Samsung TV that had no Arc on the rear. I have bought a cable to give me optical out to HDMI. The Amp is out of site of the TV and any IR signal from the remote. Music working perfect but not TV sound control.  My Tv does not allow me to turn sound up if I put the TV speakers to external as per App instructions. Is there a way around this or is the TV just not up to it? The only option I can think is turn TV volume down and use the app for control. Thanks in advance 

Hi, I connected my LG 60ln570t model via hdmi arc to my sonos beam. However I keep getting simplink not connected error when I try to set my TV up.Tried restarting and changing my cable but doesn't work. Any help on this. 

I have a Sonos beam , Sonos 1SL and a Sonos 1 set of speakers. I am finding it impossible to create a surround or 3.1 system via the Sonos app. My beam is connected to my TV via optical out and works fine. My 2 Sonos speakers work fine as a stereo pair. How can I do this, or do I have incompatible speakers?

Hello Sonos community, I recently added a second sub to my living room home theater system. This consist of the following.…play base, two play 3’s as rears and two subs one on the right and one on the left.I haven’t really watched a movie to really notice the difference, what I have noticed is that the bass is more noticeable.Any ideas on movies to watch to give the two subs a workout? 

Hi,I have a Sonos Arc 5.1.2 and everything was working fine, but since couple of days when I use it with my PS4 it cuts out the sound after around 10 minutes. The setup is PS4->LG tv->Sonos with hdmi arc.When I use Netflix on the TV directly it’s fine, but after I run anything on PS4 it cuts out the sound completely after those 10 min. It comes back only when I switch to TV (like Netflix again), then when I go back to PS4 it works for another 10 min and the same happens.Any ideas?

I’m a new customer to Sonos and was so looking forward to setting up my ARC. For music its outsanding but the lip sync is terirble (even when adjusting using the app and the TV funciton). It will be fine then creep out and requires continual adustment. Its also drops the sound on both the HDMI connection and when I tired the optical adapter. I really want to love this system and not leverage my 100 days return clause. Somebody please help.TV - LG 49UB850V (dolby digital +, not Atmos or eARC)

New to Sonos.  I have the ARC home system with the 2 -One speakers and the Sub.  My Xfinity cable is connected to TV HDMI 1.  The ARC is connected to TV ARC HDMI4 I have two other non Sonos speakers in my room.  I bought a Sonos amp - thinking I could connect the non Sonos speakers to the amp and use them as additional rear surround speakers.  However, I can’t figure out how to do this. I can play Apple Music out of all the speakers on one time - but can not get the non-Sonos speakers to work with the tv. thoughts help?  

Following  up on the several threads here reporting issues between Samsung TV and Sony Beam - I have owned a 55" Samsung TV, Sonos Beam for around a year. I recently discovered (family generally uses this TV not me) that the sound doesn't come through the Beam most of the time.Here's what I have found, I will report in a few days whether it is actually fixed or not.The Sonos software works fine setting up the Beam to HDMI ARC on the TV. No issues at all with set up. The TV reports the Beam as “receiver HDMI".Unplugging and plugging the Beam HDMI cable with the TV and Beam turned on gets the sound back through the Beam immediately.Turning the TV on and adjusting the sound as it boots shows the sound to the Beam to be working. But when the TV is fully booted the sound reverts to the TV speakers.Turning Samsung Anynet/CEC on/off toggles the sound between the TV speakers and the Beam.I have a satellite box connected to HDMI1, CEC is switched off on the satellite box and always has been.I h

I have the Sonos Arc, sub and 2 Sonos One’s for rear surrounds.The rear speakers keep cutting in and out when watching TV/movies.I have the Arc and the Sub plugged in to Ethernet connection, but the rear surrounds are wi-fi.The room/house is small so I can’t imagine there’s a connectivity issue.Any ideas?

Hi everyone.  I have a Sony 850E hooked up to my Sonos Arc via HDMI on HDMI 3 (arc).  AppleTV will let me do Dolby Digital 5.1 if I force it in audio settings. AndroidTV will do Dolby Digital Plus. Just wondering what I am doing wrong?

It would be nice to be able to set different EQ presets for the Sonos Arc, one setting for watching TV/movies and one setting for listening to music. It’s a little annoying to have to manually adjust the EQ every time I switch from watching TV to listening to music. 

What is required to have Apple TV 4th generation use Sonos system for sound. Sonos is not being recognized by Apple TV as an option. Apple TV Tech Support has NO CLUE. And Sonos documentation only talks about remote pairing. I want sound to come through Sonos Playbar, sub and Play 3s’.  It’s not that complicated of a question but neither seems to address it.Thanks for any HELP!

Hi all,I am new to Sonos, having just bought my first AMP and ceiling speakers.I am keen to purchase the SONOS ARC and set it up within my sitting room, in a wall - recessed with a TV above, and a recessed fire below. (similar to the pic below)Having looked in the the ARC, I have learnt that for optimal sound it appears that the ARC needs to be in-front of the TV as the speaker sound comes out sideways and upwards.Therefore, do you think my setup would work using an the extendable bracket? Where the ARC would be recessed when not used (i.e. flush to the wall, and therefore in-line with the TV - as shown in the photo below), and then when I want to use the ARC I pull it out approx 4/5 inches so that it is now sticking out in-front of it’s recess and in-front of the TV.This is the extendable wall bracket mount - sold by SONOS.https://www.sonos.com/en-gb/shop/sanus-extendable-wall-mount-arc.html  Many thanks all for your help. 

Hi, all. I just recently signed up for Amazon Music HD and have a Sonos Port connected to my Yamaha RX-A740 home theatre receiver. I understand that the Port has a DAC inside it so I am wondering if I need to select any sound settings on my home theatre receiver (like Dolby Pro or other sound stage setting). Will the receivers sound settings produce an inferior sound quality? Should I just run the Port’s signal through the receiver without any additional sound settings applied? Thanks

Is a Digital volume indicator available on the Beam with my LG tv?

I recently purchased a 5.1 surround set up with the beam, sub, and two OneSL speakers. During set up in the app, all were discovered and I chose all of the products to be in the family room, but each was somehow set up under its own family room (family room 1, 2, 3), not together. I have been able to link the beam and sub together, or the one SL speakers and sub together, but cannot connect all in one group in the same family room. Currently the beam and sub are connected, and when I try to set up surround through the app, I get a prompt that says “two compatible Sonos speakers are required to add surrounds. Make sure your products are powered on and connected to Wi-Fi.” Both OneSL speakers are stereo paired, are on and connected to Wi-Fi, but for some reason are not being discovered by the beam and sub combo. So at the moment I can listen to the Beam with the sub but have no surround. Would appreciate some advice on how to either add the beam and sub to the already paired OneSL speake

When trying to connect my play 5 generation 2 and Sonos 1 as surrounds to my Beam I just get the message 2 compatible speakers are required.  I can’t get past this and they are both connected to Wi-Fi.

When playing Atmos through Arc volume on S One SL surrounds will sometimes be very loud.  It will almost sound like it is as loud and same sound that is coming out of Arc itself, then sharply cut back to a lower level surround only type sound. Any thoughts to start troubleshooting?The source is Netflix Away. Arc, Gen 3 Sub, 2 S One SL.Thank you,Scott  

Hi AllMy Sonos arc seems to go into mute and out randomly. It’s usually only for a minute or so but very annoying. And we’ve also had the volume go into full blast without any interference.Any tips? 

I have a Samsung Q75 UHD 4K TV I bought in 2017 for about $6000 so it’s a solid TV, set up with a Sonos Play Bar, Play 1 (left), Play 1 (right) surrounds, and the surround Sub. All these are in my living room for movie playback.Throughout the apartment are numerous Sonos speakers built into the ceiling but they run on their own and are not grouped with the TV. For 3 years I have had no issue with sound playback on any device. I would often run the Sonos TV setup at medium volume, and use the TV’s built in speaker volume to increase or decrease the overall sound depending on time of day, (I don’t like to disturb the neighbors in the apartments below mine and often can’t be bothered to go into my phone to play around with the volume). Since my system updated a couple of days ago, I have noticed that the TV output and the Sonos output are not quite synced. This is most noticeable with voices. There is a very distinct echo. If I turn the volume off on either the Sonos or the TV, then the o

Hi all, I am wondering how i can obtain true dolby atmos  playback with the following setup(i have not bought these items yet, though doing my research to determine if i can achieve true dolby atmos with the following setup); TV: LG OLED65CXPTASOUNDBAR: Sonos Arc(+sub & SL1 rears)BLU-RAY PLAYER or PS5. Now, what i am unsure about is how do i connect the PS5 to my TV if the Sonos is connected to my eARC TV HDMI port. The only other port are standard HDMI’s so if the PS5 goes into a standard HDMI on the TV will it passthrough the full audio to the TV? Im pretty certain the PS5 has a bitstream option to passthrough the full audio quality to the TV but will i be able to get atmos output to the soundbar?  Any info would be appreciated. Thanks.   

Hi guys, i just mounted a Sonos Arc below my wall-mounted TV and the top of the Arc is around 2.5 inches below the bottom of my TV. Does it matter how far below it is as I read in couple of forums that it should be at least 5 inches down but Sonos own site doesn’t have any such recommendation.