Home theater

With Netflix announcing support for Dolby Digital encoding at up to 640 kbps (ignoring Dolby Atmos for now), will those of us with PlayBars or PlayBases be able to take advantage of the higher encoding bit rates, or are we stuck at 192 kbps? What is the highest bit rate that our products support via optical audio connection?

I have just bought the excellent Sonos Beam and will shortly add 2 x Play:1 for surround sound. However, the Sonos sub is beyond my budget. I have a perfectly good Cambridge Audio sub from my old set up (and an old Onkyo amp). I know it's not straightforward but is there any way I could link the Beam to the C.A. sub? I did see this post on a U.S. site. I wondered if anyone on here had tried anything similar?...................... Since the Beam uses HDMI for its audio your TV likely has a free optical out port. Using the optical out port connect a 5.1 Audio Sound Decoder Converter to 5.1CH Analog Audio (6RCA Output). I used this one here: https://amzn.to/2rSx5T6 All you need to do is connect your RCA cable to subwoofer connection on the box and you have bass for under $50!

So I have not purchased anything yet but this is what I want to do. I am building a smart home with alexa. I want to connect the Sonos Beam with a 4k projector (Optomo UHD60) which does not have a HDMI Arc. The projector needs to be connected with a PS4 Pro and a set top box, both use HDMI. How can I achieve this? Hard wiring is not an issue.

Hi all, new in this community. I own playbase and 2x play 1`s to sound TV and Spotify music for about 1 year. Great experience indeed. Recently I experienced issue with the surround play 1 (both) they got disconnected and cannot be hooked back on after reboot. I though it could be my wifi router since this was about 4 years old. So I purchased dual one and kept 2,4 Ghz on for Sonos. However it did not solved my problem so I reset all speakers and install them as a new sound system. Got playbase wired with TV cable (cox?) and ethernet directly to the wifi router. Satellites are properly paired and added to the group. So far so good, now the tricky part. The play 1`s do not play sound (tv, iphone library ....) but I can operate the buttons as before and control sound on playbase as this is the only speaker from the group what works just fine. Any idea how to troubleshoot? In setting I do not see any ? marks next to the room name. thanks a lot for any help.

After a lot od thought I decided to puchase the adjustable Sanus speaker stands fie my Sonos One's. Now that I finally have stands, need a little bot of advice for placement. Been on this forum for almost a month and have learned a lot for instance, my couch is against the rear wall is not a desirable listening but really have no choice there. I've placed the stands at the corner ends of the couch, but not really sure if i should point the speakers inward towards the listening position or firing forward. Your thoughts? Open to other possibilities also. Thanks in advance.

In order to control the volume of a sound system through my Sony TV/remote is to connect to the tv with a HDMI cable. The Sonos sound bar connects with a optical audio cable so I cannot use the remote to control the volume of the Sonos. Can anything be done.

We just got our beam hooked up to our tv. When I try to set up the remote it only gives me the option to set it up with a playbar. Will it work the beam?

Man, I was so ready to go full in on Sonos. Just bought a new house that I'm moving into shortly and was ready to outfit it with Sonos 5.1 in the living room and Play 5's and Play 1's in other rooms. Then I find out poor support for new Dolby formats....tough pill to swallow, but fine. Then I find out no outdoor speakers....grrr...annoying but fine. But then I find out there's no HDMI. Gahh...What? Then I hear about the Beam and think they've addressed the issue. But now reviews are coming out and it seems it's an entry level product and not a Playbar equivalent. Why are they being so stubborn? When they announced the Beam they should have also announced new versions of the Playbar/Playbase/Connect with HDMI support as well. Sonos, take my money please!!! But you can't have this kind of dough when the product seems destined to become outdated due to it's lack of support of modern standards (arguably it's already there). Sorry for the vent. Just was really hoping to f

Hi Guys, I've had the playbar for about 5 years. It works fine when listening to music but when it come to movies, the speech is not always audible. For this reason I stopped using the player and consider changing to another brand. Before I do so, I would appreciate any recommendations to address this issue. For the record the playbar is connected to my projector and I usually watch movies off of a mini pc. Thanks in advance, Daniel

Hey there, so I have 4 speakers mounted in my ceiling, a sub on the ground, and I bought a Sonos Beam as well. I'm trying to get this 5.1 to work, so I bought the newer model Sonos Amp. How do I get the 5.1 sound to work with this method? Do I need another Sonos Amp? Do I need to use the Connect:Amp instead? It seems to have the same number of inputs.

Hi forum, Currently got a big issue that is driving me nuts! I recently moved to a new apartment, but in my old apartment i brought the Playbase and two Play 1 for surround sound, it did just work out of the box, "Click - Click - Click" and it worked without any problems :) As said i moved to a new apartment, then i sat up the Sonos again, but configured the Play 1 to be their own speaker, becuase i wanted to mount them on the wall.. But then they could be used until i figured out which wallmount etc .. :) Now when i got the wallmount and got them mounted on the wall, i can't get add them to my Playbase as surround speaker :/ It keeps gives me an error "Surround setup error".. So i have tried alot! Factory resetting both the Play 1's not working, Factory resetting the Playbase not working, Tried to connect the speakers to my Sonos via ethernet and then unplug them not working, Tried to turn off power to the two Play 3 i got, so it was only the Play 1 and Pla

Hi I know that this is very new, but does any one in here have experience with a setup using a receiver with "works with sonos"

I’ve done some research to establish that my current Blu Ray player isn’t compatible with the Beam. I can adjust the player audio settings but that plays just flat stereo and doesn’t take advantage of the rear One’s, surround sound. So my question is... what is the best player to get (ideally one that upscales to 4K) which is audio compatible without having to adjust the settings. Many thanks.

I have my TV in a large, echoing room. For sound I use a Sonos Amp connected to four in ceiling speakers and a Sonos Sub. The sound is decent when turned up, but dialog is tough to understand unless very loud. I have a table behind my couch. I bought some Play:1’s to use with the Amp so I could hear dialog. Unfortunately, when in surround mode they do not produce dialog. Is there a way to use these as a center channel to hear mainly dialog? I tried using them in a group with the Amp and it was difficult to control volume appropriately. Is it possible to use any Sonos speaker as a center channel besides the sound bars? Any other suggestions? Thank you.

Hi. I've spoken with both Sales and Technical Support at Sonos and have read several posts on *similar* subjects on this forum, but my basic questions remain unanswered, so I'm posting them here in the hope that someone can clear things up for me. Thanks in advance. First, my current home theater system: Denon AVR-1912 receiver Oppo BDP-93 blu-ray player Samsung HPT 5054X TV Apple TV 4th gen Audio-Technica preamp-equipped turntable Also: A Sonos dock with a Play:5, Play:3 and Play:1 connected, through which I play digitized music from a hard drive and music from Spotify. Background: I need to replace my hard-wired 5.1 speakers. I decided to abandon surround sound and go with a simple stereo pair of speakers. Then it occurred to me that, since I'm very happy with the sound quality of my Sonos speakers, I could buy a CONNECT and a couple of Play:1s and use them as my (wireless) "home theater" speakers. Here is what I want to do: Goal Number One: I want to be abl

I'm trying to set up a playable with a LG OLED & a magic remote. In the app when asked to press TV then Remote Set Up there is no 'Remote Set Up' button

Hi, I have a Sonos Beam, Sky Q & a Panasonic FX700B 2018 TV and I am having trouble with Lip sync. I am connecting to the HDMI Arc port but in "Normal" sound on the Sky Q box it is slightly delayed, BUT when selecting Dolby 5.1 output on the sky Q box the lip sync is terrible. No selectable delays either on the Sonos app or sky Q work because the video is first i.e the audio is already delayed. Panasonic have said the delay is caused by Sonos not processing the sound quicker enough and Sky say contact Sonos and/or Panasonic. I have tried it via optical cable and the lip sync still occurs so it is not going via the TV at all. Is there anyway to increase the processing of the sound. I don't want to loose arc functionality and I don't want to set anything to PCM because I got the Sonos beam for the sound quality and was going to set it up with my Sonos ones to try and obtain 5.0. Any help will be appreciated as it is driving me mad and my investment seems like it is a waste. I love So

Hi, I’ve got a Beam and two Ones as rear speakers and would like a sub but can’t justify both the spend and the space required for the only Sonos sub offering. Is a smaller Sub out of the question? Thanks.

Hi I have recently experienced some popping sounds from the sub. It comes and goes and usually when the music is rather bass heavy (like The Weeknd). It's a deep popping sound that when it's really bad comes right after each other. I have a theory about it coming when the internet bandwidth is low (when others in the household is watching Netflix for example). But I really don't know.

Hi, I'm planning to get a Sonos Amp and connect it to a TV using the optical audio adapter. Will I be able to control the sound level using the infrared TV remote? Thanks, Regards

Hi just got a sonos beam. Very satisfied but one thing is very strange. Connected via hdmi arc to my Samsung tv, a ue55ju7005 from 2015. Run with Apple TV into tv to watch tv and more. But since I connected the beam, it is not possible to start tv via hdmi cec. Thus, pressing the home button on the Apple TV remote. Can start via tv remote. Once the tv is up and running it works ok. Can also turn off TV via Apple TV. Tested to connect via the adapter for optical which came with the beam and then it did work to start tv via the appleremoten? Have also been in contact with samsung support and they "zeroed" HDMI ports but that made no difference. Is the beamer lying and blocking HDMI CEC in stby? Someone who had similar problems?

Here's my setup: sonos beam via HDMI ARC to samsung UN55JS700DF tv. There is a sonos sub attached to my beam. Input is a roku ultimate via HDMI to my TV. I'm having audio sync issues between the TV and the beam when playing the roku and have gone through every possible scenario to troubleshoot it to no avail. I know there are other threads on this, but none of them seem to address the problem unless I switch the TV to PCM but I didn't pay $1200 to only listen in stereo. Here's what I've done so far all of which haven't worked: - Set roku to PCM, leave TV output to dolby via HDMI - Set roku to dolby digital, leave TV output to dolby via HDMI - Leave roku on auto, leave TV output to dolby via HDMI - Set roku to PCM, leave TV output to dolby via optical - Set roku to dolby digital, leave TV output to dolby via optical - Leave roku on auto, leave TV output to dolby via optical - Bought another roku, plugged directly into TV HDMI ARC then to TV via HDMI - Bought

I bought playbar and 2 play:1 for dolby surround 5.1 experience replacing my old onkyo receiver with 5.1 surround speaker system. I paid close to 1000$ for this system. So far so good and I removed my receiver and old speakers. Yesterday, we rented a bluray disc from redbox and found out that playbar was unable to output any sound. This used to work perfectly with my onkyo receivers. Spent some time changing settings on bluray player and audio settings in the bluray movie options for audio. Then googled it about this issue and found out that Bluray movies outputs DTS sound and playbar doesnt support this. I am very surprised. I was about to order sonos sub but if I cant play any of my existing bluray discs or bluray movies rented from redbox then what is the point of spending 1800$ on a surround system. Is this a short term issue or sonos will never support DTS. I still have few days left to return the system. Any suggestion or help is appreciated. I dont want to change the bitst

With a child's bedroom above my living room (where I have my Playbar) I want to be able to schedule my Playbar to go into night mode at 7pm every evening and allow me to override that through the controller app of my choice on the rare occasions that I do want night mode off in the evening.

Does anyone know if there is any murmurings of a bigger Beam or a upgraded PlayBar? I'm wanting to upgrade in a home theatre, but am willing to wait if there was something in the pipeline. I really want the AirPlay 2 option, so the current Playbar doesn't support it, and the PlayBase does but its too chunky for my liking. Thanks!