Home theater

New Playbase sounds horrid. I purchased this as an Xmas present for my parents and cannot believe something has been made and sold that sounds so bad. Usually I audition anything like this before purchase, but in this case needed to go with reviews and peoples opinion, as have been out of the country lately. Biggest problem is the centre channel sounds as if it is completely recessed back in the box, muffled, far to quiet and there is also some weird phasing going on that is very unpleasant. Not to mention the sibilant treble. Very Very disappointed in something that costs £550! I also got the Play:1's for surround but I have not bothered to unbox them yet. Have tried various sources - both TV, DVD and Tidal, with TruePlay enabled and disabled. They all exhibit the same issues.

Playbase +LS+RS (Play:1) There is only a quiet hissing-sound from back speakers when the source is stereo, works fine when source is 5.1. Every other reputable surround system will provide some sounds to the back speakers (same stereo as front) when this happens, but Sonos will not (unless playing music). Is there a way to fix this in settings? Kinda sucks not to have any sound in back channels when only providing stereo, a copy of front stereo with a volume setting would do a lot.

I recently got a playbar and added two of my play:1 speakers as rear speakers (no sub). I am playing DD5.1 audio (each channel plays separately so that they can be easily distinguished). However, the audio from the rear speakers always seems to come out of both and there's no differentiation between them. Does anyone have any ideas as to why this might be? I checked what signal the PLAYBAR is receiving at the time of playback by going to Settings > About my Sonos System. Tried playing test track and check the About and it's receiving Dolby Digital 5.1 signal. However, the audio from the rear speakers always seems to come out of both and there's no differentiation between them.

I cannot seem to get my tv to push sound out of my beam! This is frustiating me so bad. I have all the cables set up... in the arc, it’s added and I have the app. The TV sound is off one I plug it in but it’s not producing sound out of the beam! Help.

I enjoy listing to music and usually use my Apple in ALAC to listen to something. My main stress is that I have always been a huge fan of films and have a large Blu-Ray and starting 4k collection. Something like 600+ BRD's and 4k's just started being released so that number is low. I have been using the Sonos playbar+sub, with the connect amp and two ceiling speakers for my 5.1 in my main room. The biggest problem I have had is when I would like to enjoy a film, I am pretty much screwed for audio since Sonos refuses to man up and decode DTS-HD or anything other than Dolby Digital for 5.1. Yes I can 'dumb it down' to PCM but that is not what I bought the disk for or my top notch Blu-Ray disc player for. I feel that Sonos has looked at film viewing like it was way back when everything was just a silent black & white film with some type of live musical accompaniment happening. Well look where that went! The playbar is primarily used for flat-panel, wide screen, HDTV's that have always

Come on SONOS 7.1 and 7.2 Surround Sound is already years old, 9.1 & 9.2 seen as its update, A SONOS 7.1 system would be very much in demand, loads of questions on here already about producing it, Id buy today if it was available, 7.1 channels with that SUB, awesome, come on SONOS make us even happier,...

Hi All, I want to ask and share my experience with trying a HDMI switcher for Beam for my setup. TL;DR - It didn't work - not unless I want to lose CEC. My Panasonic OLED (FZ950) doesn't passthrough unfettered audio signal from an external source (Panas have never had this capability unfortunately). Bl**dy beautiful picture though but that's not what I'm here for.. I bought a 3-way, powered, auto-sensing HDMI v2.0 capable switcher to try an overcome this issue and can get full fat DD 5.1 from TV and BD Player. The switch has a clearly marked 'Input' and 'Output' which suggest it is in a way directional / one-way. Setup as follows: TV HDMI ARC --> (In) HDMI Switcher (Out) --> Sonos Beam. With above setup, there's no sound coming out of the Beam (and not from TV either). Strangely, CEC works perfectly and the TV clearly detects that it's connected to an external speaker - as indicated by 'Home Cinema Volume' on screen when I increase/decrease volume. Alexa commands to t

I'm having problems with sound cutting out when playing blu rays on ps4 .I have a sony tv and connected using hdmi arc

I've been given a Beam for Christmas... Plugged it in to my LG TV and its not working. I've read all the other comments on here..... I am using HDMI ARC etc and have tried everything I can think of or that has been suggested by other forum members. The TV is a 42LA6230-TB which I bought in 2013. Can anyone help? Not the best Christmas morning so far.

Hi, I have a Sharp LC-60LE550U TV. I bought a Sonos Playbar, but the TV does not send audio signal to the soundbar. Did some research and all comments claimed this is Sharp's issue. Yes, I set the audio output to variable. NO MORE SHARP TV FOR LIFE! I am planning to buy a new TV and move the Sharp TV to the game room for my son to play his xbox. Where can I find a list of "supported" TV manufacturer on sonos website? Also, how can I tell if the TV is supporting DD 5.1? Thanks

Hi, I'm brand new to Sonos and honestly a little overwhelmed with the choice of setup I can have, so I'm hoping someone may be able to help! I have a BEAM for my TV and am looking to have surround speakers in a 10 meter long room. However I also have a turntable/3rd party amp I'd like to integrate into the system. TV and turntable/amp are in opposite corners (greatest distance apart). One possible setup I have is to have: a BEAM (optical connected to TV) with wired speakers at the TV end of the room through a connect for surround sound. The idea is these speakers could then also be used purely with the turntable by disabling the surround sound function as and when. I would also like to have a second set of speakers up at the turntable end of the room. I'm thinking these could be plugged in directly to the 3rd party amp. By having this setup,(effectively 2 X wired pairs of speakers, one connected to the 3rd party amp, the other to the connect), would there be : i) a sound d

I have a Playbar and Sub with 2 Play:1s in my livingroom. My kitchen dinning room has a Play:3 but nothing for the TV so I was considering getting a Beam. If I do, would it be better to move the Playbar through the kitchen and connect the Beam to the Sub and Play:1s, or would it be better to leave that setup and have the Beam on its own in the kitchen dinning room?

Hello, can anyone that have tested both, tell me if playbar is better or not compared to the playbase, in terms of sound quality? Except for the obvious installation difference, I have more or less a 50m2 living room, with a sofa in the center, and a TV with a central stand. Playbase seems to be the most reasonable choice, but I'm still not 100% convinced since I've read several opinions related to sound quality difference. Is this difference so huge, or can be left apart taking the installation as the only choice parameter? Thanks

I haven't been able to complete tuning (too many people in my summer place!) but vocals and system chimes and beeps are distorting on my new Beam. Is this normal before tuning or might I have a bad speaker inside the unit?

I have noticed that my Beam has sound distortion sometimes when people are speaking, it only happens when the pitch is high and only lasts for a fraction of a second. This seems independent of the volume setting, although the volume is normally set at 50%. Anyone else noticed this?

My Beam is connected through ARC and works fine with the TV. However, if I switch to playing music via Amazon of apple my tv remote no longer controls the beam’s volume and I have to use the app or voice controls. Is this by design or is there a way to change this?

Please help! Sanus' SMF218-B1 sonos beam mount screw holes do not line up with screw holes on the back of the TCL 43S403. FYI the 4 mounting holes on the back of the tv are 2” from center. The smallest option on the sanus bracket are 4” from center. Neither Sanus or TCL have a solution. Anyone know of a 3rd party adaptor to make these fit?

Unable to pair bluetooth headphones with Samsung TV when the Sonos Beam is being used/connected. The Beam is connected via HDMI ARC. Is there a solution that allows me to easily switch from listening with the Sonos system (Beam & 2 qty Sonos Player1's) to listening with headphones? Bonus would be if I'm able to listen with Headphones and Sonos system speakers, both of these options are available if Sonos isn't part of the equation.

Hi, I have been thinking about buying a playbar for a while, but something has been holding me back. Here's my current setup in my living room: - 2 x Play:3 stereo pair + SUB Now I would like to add a playbar for my TV and of course use the SUB with it. I could do this like this: - Add the Play:3s to a Playbar + SUB setup. In the surround settings I could then turn down the TV level to have only the Playbar play sound during TV playback. Also, I could set music playback to "full" to have the Play:3s play full spectrum during music playback. Now here's my question: Can I turn off the playbar during music playback? During music playback I want to have only my stereo Play:3 pair + SUB playing music, not the playbar. In the manual, I could not find such an option. TV and music playback level adjustments seems to be only possible for the surround speakers, not the playbar. Can anyone confirm that this is indeed the case? If so, that's a complete deal breaker for me si

Thinking of trying optical to help with the lip sync issues I have with my Sky Q STB and LG C8 TV. Will I notice any difference in sound quality?

Recent purchase of a LG 55 OLED. Connected a SONOS Beam via HDMI ARC. Works fine except for some lip syncing but that is another story. I then connected a SONY X700 via another HDMI Out 1 port (Video/Audio) . When I play the DVD, the initial preview and other preliminary features work fine and the sound comes out of the SONOS Beam. When I play the movie, there is no sound output coming from the SONOS Beam. I would think it would just work, but obviously not. I must be missing something in the settings. I would hope someone can give me an idea of how this should be setup so I can hear the sound when playing the DVD.

Hi I have a 5.1 setup (Playbar, sub and two PLAY:1) and a Philips 55POS9002/12 TV. All of a sudden, TV-sound starts stuttering when TV sound is set to Multichannel or Multichannel (Bypass). When in Stereo, sound works. I have had this setup for months without any issues, but I believe the problem was introduced with the latest SONOS update 😞. Does anyone else have this problem? Thanks in advance. /Michael

I’ve cut the cord and added a Roku Ultra to my Samsung smart TV and Playbar/sub. The Roku remote easily took control of Playbar volume, however the TV now displays the annoying “Audio out” dialogue every time I change the volume with said remote. The following article has fixes for a variety of remotes, but not Roku: https://support.sonos.com/s/article/2072?language=en_US Is there a way to eliminate this annoying message when using volume control on the Roku remote?

I recently purchased a LG OLED65C8 and it there is no sound when connecting to a Playbase using optical out. My prior Sony TV connected fine to the Play Base using Dolby Digital content from both my Apple TV and Tivo. I have tried both Auto and PCM settings under Settings | Sound | Sound Out | Optical | Digital Sound Out, but with no luck. Sound is working only from the internal speakers. I checked the optical cable and I see a red light at the Playbase end, so it appears to be outputting a signal. Can anyone advise which settings are needed to make this TV connect to the Playbase? I would like to exhaust all settings before pulling the TV off the wall and replacing the optical cable.

Message " One of your speakers could be unplugged" is coming up for Play base speaker" even though it is connected. But the Playbase is working fine with TV . I noticed this issue from the time i upgrade to the latest software(AirPlay Version). Looks like the Playbase is not connected to Network and that could be causing the issue. Any help is appreciated.