Home theater

I'm looking to create a 5.1 setup with a soundbar, sub, and the largest speakers possible for the side/rears. My supplier hasn't come back with any info, and all of the sonos systems I work with are unfortunately not set up for 5.1 systems for me to test. Do the new Play:5s now offer the option to make a 5.1 system, or am I stuck with getting the Play:3/1s? If a Play:5 5.1 setup is not an option, when will it be?

... Wow! They sound amazing. I happened to have Lord of the Rings on, and as soon as the surrounds were installed, the difference was immediate and awesome. Much better than I expected. I already have a high end surround system in another room, so I thought my wife was crazy for buying me these Play:1s for Christmas. Actually thought about returning them. But now - no way! The Playbar with the Play:1 surrounds already sounds better than my other system. Just lacking the bass of the sub, but honestly, not a big issue, as the bass is still very good. Great job Sonos! Now just have a 50% off sale on the Sub, and I will be in home theater heaven.

Hey Folks! I'm a happy owner of five Sonos speakers throughout my current home, three play 3s and two play 1s, older models. We love the functionality. Our original home is fairly small. But not anymore. We have just added a 22'x22' great room to the house. It has a 14' cathedral ceiling with 8' high walls and will feature hardwood floors with area rugs and traditional skim-coated plaster walls. There are a few large windows. I'm considering a 70-80" television just due to the size of the space. The framing is completed and rough electrical will be installed in the next three weeks, so my time to select home theater for wiring, etc, is getting tight, and I'd like to stick to Sonos, but had a couple of questions for this community: 1) Does anyone who currently has the Sub/Playbar/Play 1 configuration have it in a room about this size or larger (480-500 square feet) and if so, is the system sufficient for this size of a space? (It feels like it might be small, especially with

When the TV connected to the Playbar is turned on, The volume is loud, almost defaulted back to either where the music was previously or at a high set level. How do we set a lower default setting so that when the TV is turned off, then back on, The default level is low and not blowing out the neighbors Thanks!

I have a Beam connected to my 65" Panasonic TV using an HMDI cable. When I turn on the TV the Beam does not connect. I have to unplug and replug the HMDI to the Beam for it to work and it usually works at that point. The volume control on my TV or cable box sometime works. Any suggestions

Hi All, I have a 2018 58” Samsung UHD 7 Series TV which I would like to configure in the Home Theater Mode. Here is my current configuration: 58” Samsung UHD 7 Series TV with Optical PCM Audio Out (stereo only) = No Dolby or Dolby+ SONOS Playbar SONOS Sub I am thinking of adding an[ iArkPower HDMI audio extractor and two (2) SONOS Play:1 rear speakers to produce 5 speaker surround sound. I am wondering if an = iArkPower HDMI audio extractor can be used to produce Dolby 5.1 for my Playbar, Sub and (2) Play:1 Rear Speakers in surround = Home Theater mode. Many Thanks for any advice that you provide for me. Kind Regards, Dick Leo, Rochester NY

When viewing TV with the BEAM + 2 X PLAY:1 the volume fluctuate massively. Generally very loud during adverts and quiet during the program, especially when just dialogue on the TV. I have used the Speech Enhancement and Night mode but neither worked.

Hello all, Ok, so need some advice on the most ideal setup for the following, 1. Playing TV through the Xbox one 2. Playing the visuals through a projector (with only two standard HDMI inputs) 3. Playing the audio through the Sonos Beam and Play 1’s The obvious restriction here is there is no HDMI ARC input for the projector. Therefore, transferring the audio to the beam from the Xbox is causing me issues. The video from Xbox to projector is via HDMI - but how do I go about connecting the Sonos beam for the audio? Please advise on any adapters I require? Adam

I'm sure this has come up before, but I did not find the topic in a quick search and i wanted to add my feedback. With Beam/Sub and play:3 rears the resulting 5.1 sound is good. But I can only imagine what adding play:5 to the front left and right would do. In particular to keep up with the sub that overpowers the whole system (because it's so great and powerful). It would not require any hardware changes, and what would be needed is the programming/tuning to set the left/right speakers up. What can we do to convince Sonos to add this functionality? They will 100% benefit from increased sales and customers will benefit from even better sound. Thanks

I could make use of a Sonos adapter dongle that would take whatever audio source device its connected to and stream that audio to your Sonos Speakers. Think of something like a Chromecast Audio, but for Sonos. You could have one dongle for different connections (interchangeable plugs) or attached connections with different versions of the adapter My thinking behind that is to take something without sonos support for example a computer, I would plug in a sonos adapter into the 3.5mm headphone jack and have my computer audio stream to a stereo pair of Play ONE. I could have that stereo pair sitting on my desk and act as my now computer speakers. Also, now that Im typing this, I thought, You could also have a dongle for HDMI ARC. It could benefit in several ways. A cleaner set up without the hdmi cord running up to the tv from your sound bar, for those of us who dont have our wires running behind walls. Maybe a rare situation i want my tv audio to play on a certain speaker wit

My tv has an coaxial S/PDIF outlet. Does anyone knows what kind of connection cable I need to connect it to the HDMI input of the Sonos AMP? The cable that Sonos provides has an optical input and HDMI output. I search for a connector with an coaxial input and HDMI output. Does this even exist?

Hello All! Just moved into a new home and trying to figure out how to place my Sonos system. I have the Playbar, Sub, and two Play 1:s. In my old house i had a pretty small living room so it was easy to mount the surround speakers (Play: 1's) on the wall at head level to the left and right of the couch. In our new home I'm told the Family Room/Kitchen Combo is now called a "Great Room". So I don't have a wall behind where my couch is. To the left of the couch (if you're sitting on it) is large windows, and to the right of the couch is a hallway that leads to the other rooms. So since I have a window on one side and nothing on the other side I'm lost to where I can place my Sonos speakers safely. Back up plan is getting a Speaker stand, but I really don't want to do that with cables and such lying around. So I'm thinking maybe I could mount them on the wall on either side. One side would have to be above the window where there is a gap between the window and ceiling

I have a Samsung 60” 4K connected to my PC (sound Realtek HD) and use it for everything (music, movies, games). I recently bought a Sonos 5.1 system without properly knowing or researching about formats... I have an optical audio output in DTS format that my sonos system will not read. Is there any software or hardware solution to Output DD directly or convert the DTS to DD? I have a sense that this question has been made numerous times, but the answers I found direct to give up on the 5.1 because PC is not the main use of the system. If I do not get a solution, I will return the Sonos and get a Bose 700 or whatever you recommend. Hopefully there is a solution. Would a sonos connect do the trick? Any cheaper solution? Thanks!!

Hi, I need advice to select the best sound card to conect my custom built PC with the Sonos 5.1 system i have. I have an optical switcher with which i connect my TV, my PS4 and my PC to Sonos. I use the PC connected to the TV to watch movies, shows, play videogames and stream music. Ideally, almost all sounds in my livingroom will come from my PC. Thanks

After smashing my head for weeks, I finally got 5.1 from my PC to my Sonos Beam and surrounds. This was very confusing because there is no direct way to troubleshoot where the problem is coming from. But, ultimately I was able to do it. SOLUTION: I bought a Dolby Digital - Sound Blaster X-FI USB device from MicroCenter and bypassed my videocard's audio. The Beam is hooked to the SB Pro (X-FI) via the optical chord it came with. It was a super old device, I don't think they make it anymore. Thank goodness the guy I spoke to was as passionate about audio as much as I was. Turns out my PC board didn't have enough ports to upgrade the soundcard internally, so I couldn't do it that way, but this guy was a godsend. No need to upgrade, usb works fine. *After you install the soundcard you still have to switch your default audio to SPDIF -Out (SB Pro), by default it won't be this. There you go, month's of research and here's the solution. Hope this helps someone.

i purchased a mars nebula projector, along with a sonos one pair (i have many other older generation sonos), plus firestick tv thinking this was the proper combination to stream tv sound directly to the sonos rather than the projector's own (bad) speakers (i swear i read this worked, somewhere). i can't seem the get the tv sound to play through any sonos though even after pairing alexa and firetv and the new sonos etc. Am i supposed to be using airplay? am i missing a component ? i now understand that i can control the projector apps directly through alexa on the sonos, and i see that the projector's interface has an option to set up with a sonos playbar, but still can't manage to switch the projector sound to play on the sonos. please let me know what i might be missing.

I have my Cable box hooked up to my Sony Bravia TV through an HDMI chord. Then from the TV to the sonos Playbar, I have a toslink optical cable. Because of this set up, the video is running faster than the audio from my sonos speakers This is causing a lip sync delay when watching TV. I already checked and my TV doesn't offer the functionality of delaying the video. I also checked and unfortunately the cable box doesn't have the option to delay the video either. And I know Sonos offers the ability to delay the audio for syncing purposes but I don't need to delay the audio, I need to speed up the audio or somehow delay the video. What can I do? How can I speed up the audio or delay the video?

I just connected our Sonos system. We have the Playbar. Sub, and 2 Sonos One's. Everything works great if I plug the Digital audio cable directly into my Dish Hopper. If I plug the digital audio cable into the TV I get nothing. I set tv to turn surround sound on, but that did not work. I can not find any other options to turn digitial sound output on, on the TV.

I am having Lip sync issues between my Sonos Beam and Samsung Q7 TV. Does anyone else have similar issues and have you been able to resolve. I have tried all the audio delay settings etc but still have issues. For some reason it is only where I select Dolby digital on the TV and Sky, it’s at this point it all goes Pete tong. Any ideas?

I have a playbar, sub, and two Sonos Ones. I updated all today as well as my ipad and iphone apps. In the settings page of the Sonos app it tells me I do not have any compatible Airplay speakers. What am I missing. The Sonos system is not showing up as available on any device.

Everytime i shut off the tv it goes back to the tv speaker

I finally got a DD 5.1 stream from Battlefield V into my Beam and I am absolutely stoked! NVidia failed 2 channel PCM, onboard motherboard failed 2 channel PCM via SPDIF. Creative soundblaster Z ( 4 year old tech) with included Dolby Digital Live Success and it is truest worth all the sweat and tears and $70 for the card. No lag on encoding and the bullets are flying past my head in multiplayer and that tiger tank just exploded behind me and to my right. Hope this helps put other music fans who are also gamers! 😉

I'm a die-hard Sonos fan and am in the market for a new bedroom TV in the 55" range. I came here based on feedback that lag problems persist with man sets (TCL, Samsung, LG). Since most of the posts are people seeking help with problems (understandably), my comfort level with the Beam is suffering. My tolerance for lip/sync lag issues is zero so I'm concerned. Any success stories out there with TVs working fine with Beam without having to switch to PCM?

Added a SUB to my PLAYBAR and don't think it really adds much improvement. The Playbar is great. It is quite enjoyable as it is. With the SUB on sale, I picked one up but I really don't see it as a MUST HAVE addition. It is set up correctly. I don't hear $600 noticeable enhancement for watching TV or listening to Music. Anybody else feel the same way???

Does anyone have any direct experience with Samsung QLED and a 5.1 SONOS setup? I just purchased a Samsung Q9 television. I'm wondering if the TV's optical port outputs a proper 5.1 signal to use in a home theater setup. The Playbar only uses Optical/TOSLINK so I need to be absolutely sure before I sink money into a SONOS system. Thanks for any help or advice!