Home theater

I just realized that my new Beam (ser #7828CA58F8F2F) has two ethernet ports instead of one ethernet and one HDMI-Arc port (which I'm told is the preferred connection to my TV), plus fiber. My new LG TV has an Arc-HDMI port but I had to connect Beam via fiber audio as the new Beam does not have HMDI. Hmmmm... Is this an older model Beam that Best Buy sold me last month? Is Arc-HDMI still the preferred connection to a high-end TV? Why does my new Beam not have an HDMI port then when Sonos docs tell me to connect via ARC-HMDI if my TV supports it (which it does)? Help please... I want to optimal connection from my LG TV to Sonos Beam.

How can I configure LG Magic remote with Sonos playbar. TV Model LG 55" 4K UHD OLED Smart-TV OLED55B7V

Hi, Myself and many other users have commented on how low and poor sounding dialogue is when watching movies (especially at lower volumes) in dolby 5.1 from any source. The speaker centre channel is not balanced in terms of volume. I and many others are constantly turning up trying to hear speech and then down when predicting something loud is about to occur. There's many topics on here about it, just do a quick search to see. I really hope something can be done about it. Have the option to annoy hell out of neighbours or simply not hear dialogue that well. Maybe something can be done to increase the volume of centre channel when using 5.1 or improve the speech enhancement that doesn't make that much difference. Either way this issue was with soundbars and cheap 5.1 systems back in early 2000s. Thought Sonos would be ahead of the times here and have options to improve it. You have night mode which makes things sound worse due to removal of bass etc, maybe have some dynamic rang

I understand that HDMI can transmit the newer Hi-res audio formats, but is there any advantage to using optical over HDMI for audio? The PLAYBAR only has an optical connection so I was thinking this must be because optical transmits a cleaner signal, but I wasn’t sure.

Got a Sonos Beam a couple months ago, set it up, everything worked perfectly for a while. I added two play:1s the other day, and since then the audio output has been weirdly inconsistent from the TV. Even when you manually switch the Sonos to TV audio, no sound comes out, and the 'About my Sonos System' reads 'Audio in: silent'. One thing I've found that fixes this is going to the Hisense settings and cycling the Digital Audio Out setting through RAW/Dolby/Off until it 'unsticks' and starts outputting audio again. Any ideas? I would've thought this was a TV bug, but it seems odd that it just started recently. I guess the only thing that's changed is I'm now using RAW output, as it does 5.1, whereas Dolby does 2.0.

Beam is connected via the HDMI Arc to a brand new LG TV. Since setting up the audio will only work through the Beam. The TV will switch to the internal speaker through the menu and immediately switch back to Arc. Would like to hear TV sound late at night and not have the beam going. Not sure why it won't allow the different sound output. Help!

I hooked up my Playbar to my Samsung 4K tv. Previously the tv volume would display volume number when i changed the volume. With the Playbar there’s no volume display on the tv when I change volume. How do I get the Playbar to show volume number on tv like it did previously with tv volume? My wife sometimes complains Playbar volume too high since I can’t see a volume number. Thx.

So here is the set up: I have a basement that has a ceiling mounted projector (Optoma DH1009). The HDMI cable goes through the ceiling to the wall. I had a Vizio soundbar and an old Apple TV (HDMI direct from wall to Apple TV, and an optical cable from the Vizio soundbar to the old Apple TV. I wanted to upgrade so I got a Sonos Beam (with Sub and 2 One's) and the new Apple TV 4k. But .... I cannot get it to work. I thought I could if I got an HDMI splitter feeding out of the Apple TV and one each into the projector and Beam. But the Beam does not recognize it as ARC and so asks me to connect via optical cable. But, the Apple TV does not do Optical, so I can't fo that. Any suggestions (other than going back to the old Apple TV but keeping the Beam (which I have done)?

I successfully added a Beam to my current home setup a week ago. However, when I had to reset the router, the Sonos app could not find any speakers. I re-established connection with the other speakers by using an ethernet cable to a Play:1 - but the Beam did not show up. All other speakers showed up on the app. I ran through the "Add speaker" in the app again, tried ethernet cable, but still no Beam. The light on the Beam is steady white. When I unplug the Beam, and plug it back in, the light blinks white, then becomes solid white.

Hello All, My living-room is equipped with a Samsung 65’ QLED TV and 5 Sonos Play-1 (2 in the front, left and right to my TV, 2 in the back, left and right to where I sit watching TV, 1 just below my TV). All the Play-1, except for the 2 Play-1 in the back, are “inside” a custom-designed piece of furniture. What extra component do I need to be able to enjoy 5.0 (I don’t want the SUB) sound? If the SUB is really needed then I’d be willing to go for it to enjoy 5.1 however this is not my main request. I am not interested in the Sonos playbar because 1. I want to keep using only one remote control which in my case is the Samsung Smart One remote control (using RF and not IR) and 2. The Sonos playbar would probably not be producing quality sound from where it would be located “inside” the furniture. Unless I’m mistaken? Kind Regards, Thomas

Sonos App->Living Room-> Tv Remote setup As per the instructions i pressed Volume + button and tried to sync up. It is not working. what is the issue ? I have the below TV samsung 65 4K SUHD LED LCD TV (UN65KS800DFXZA)

Hi, Pioneer is offering this AV receiver and announces that it can be used as a Sonos device with Sonos connect and a firmware update. Has anyone here tried this receiver?

Can someone help me to figure out how to confirm my 2 Play1s are working/installed properly with my Beam? I'm sure there's a way to check on the Sonos app, but I need help. When I put my ear to the play1s, as a movie is playing, there's sound from the beam (playbar) but it doesn't seem there is sound coming from the play1s. My 2 play1s are located on each side of my tv, with the Beam in the middle below my tv. How do I check this? Thanks! PS--I have had a Play1 for sometime in another room, but only for music. Second, can anyone point me a link on how to setup my beam & 2 play1s with my Amazon Fire Stick that has Alexa?

I was at the electonics store today because I want to purchase a new TV. I was looking at the LG OLED C8 (with Dolby Atmos) model LG OLED65C8PUA. I was told by the installer that they don't sync properly. That there is a delay and the lips don't sync to the sound. Can someone confirm if this is in fact true before I go by the TV.

I got a Playbar for Christmas (already own a gen II Play5 and 2 Play3s). I LOVE the Play5. Based on all of the reviews, I thought that I would really like the Playbar, but I just don't think it sounds good for music. Movies sound good (dialog is crisp, etc), but music just sounds 'off'. The mids are muddy. The highs sound artificially bright. I convinced myself that adding a SUB would fix it. Well, I got the SUB hooked up a few days ago and it has helped, but I still don't think it sounds very good. Do you guys have any tips/tricks for improving the sound? I tried Trueplay a few times, but that made it sound worse. I've adjusted the base/treble. Really don't want to return it. Any other tricks that I'm missing?

My setup is this. Apple TV 4K connected to Sony XBR TV via HDMI. The TV is set to output sound to Digital Audio Out. I have the Playbar connected to the TV via Digital Audio Cable. This setup has been working well for the past year. Now I want to add surround to my system. I purchased two Play Ones and connected them as surround speakers to my Playbar. I get very little sound, if any through the surround speakers. I have been researching my connections and options. Of concern is a statement in my Sony manual that says “ If connecting a digital audio system that is compatible with Audio Return Channel (ARC) technology, use HDMI IN 4. If not, an additional connection with DIGITAL AUDIO OUT (OPTICAL) is necessary.” So is this telling me that my Sony is going to require a Digital Audio cable connected to my Apple TV (which, of course, does not exist)? When I check “About my Sonos system” the Playbar is only receiving a stereo signal, but I know I’m playing Dolby 5.1 on my Apple TV. Any hel

I'm trying to connect my Audio Technica AT-LP60BK to play out of my Sonos system. The system is connected to my TV via the beam ARC HDMI connection. It looks like my TV only has open USB ports, as the optical ports are both "OUT". Wondering if it is possible to connect the audio from my turntable's RCA to the USB IN on my TV? Effectively having my turntable play out of my TV and subsequently out of my Sonos... Sounds like a stretch I know but really trying to avoid having to purchase another expensive Sonos unit just to get audio out of my $100 turntable. Any help appreciated, thanks.

Hi Guys, does anybody know if there is a Playbar 2 in the works or have intel as to roughly when the Playbar 2 will be getting released?

I have a Beam and LG smart TV ( webos) when i play a blue ray it starts off fine and then the TV jumps to input 2 ( which is the beam on the arc input) and you get the screensaver thing Then i have to press the imput to the bluray ( hdmi 1) , the picture is frozen with no sound . i press play of the remote and the tv jumps back to imput 2 ( beam with screen save) and from there you just go round and round in a circle. If you switch off the lg sync control thing ( ive forgotten what its called) then the sound out of the beam doesnt work at all. if i use the optical cable its all fine , but i dont really want to use it that way. I was hoping to use the hdmi function with all the bells and whisltes does any one have any ideas please?

Sub disabled when Setting up SONOS CONNECT:AMP as Surround Rears Why are you disabling the subwoofer out when configuring the Connect Amp to drive non-Sonos rear speakers with a Playbar? I have a my own sub that i want to connect to the Connect Amp so that it can be driven along with the rest of the system. I do not want to buy another Sonos sub. Surely this would just be a software or firmware update that is easily achievable.

Please let me know if you have Apple TV 4K playing Dolby 5.1 surround instead of stereo. My Apple TV 4K (v12.1 16J602) to HDMI3 to LG OLED C8 v04.10.15 to Sonos (playbase+sub+ls+rs) only receives stereo. However, the cable box to HDMI1 to LG OLED C8 optical to Sonos 5.1 works great.

My setup is: boost, 1x playbar, 1x Play:1's and 1x Sub. Playbar is connected via ethernet, optical audio from TV Samsung UE46F6400. A can barely hear the sound from the surround Play:1's. Only when I turn the volume quite loud then I can clearly hear the sound from the Play:1's, but then the volume from the playbar is so extremely loud that it dominates everything (and the neighbours will start to complain). Please do not advise to recalibrate or reset the surround settings for the room, I did that already (maxed out the surround sound setting) but it hardly made a difference. Questions: 1. Is it possible to set the volume for the playbar alone? If so then I could turn down the playbar-volume, so I can turn up the overall volume and hear the surround better. 2. Is is possible to maximize the volume for the surround sound further than via the room settings (preferably the two Play:1's independently)? Thanks in advance.

Like many others, it seems, I think I've set my Beam up correctly for 5.0 Surround sound, but About My Sonos System shows Audio In: Stereo. My TV is relatively old (2012/2013) but Panasonic assure me that it is capable of 5.1 passthrough over ARC as long as the connected receiver supports HDAVI Control 5.

In my living room I have a playbar, in ceiling speakers wired to connect amp which is located in another room. Am i able to link connect amp as surrounds to playbar without them being located next to each other? Speakers are all in same room but wire endpoints are in different locations. Hope this makes some sense.

After a decade of using the same TV and a two channel stereo set up, I recently bought a new TV and wanted to try a space-saving soundbar to go with it. After testing a few units, not being fully satisfied with the sound and after speaking with a sales rep that swore by the system, I thought I would give the Sonos Beam a try. So far so good, it was easy to set up and had pretty good audio quality. Right now I am in a smaller apartment and overall the sound was good, but I found that I couldn't turn it up as loud as I wanted and the low end was missing a little bit for music (not so much for movies). Wanting to see if I could get some better quality out of this new unit I picked up a Sonos Sub. Wow! What a difference, the bass is amazing and melds seamlessly with the Beam making you forget that it is actually two units. This is something that I struggled with while testing some other entry level soundbars. One thing I did notice was that it seems like I can turn the Beam up