Home theater

I have a number of Sonos speakers in three rooms. Recently purchased a Beam and set up surround sound with 2 Play 1s and Samsung Smart TV. When I play music, all speakers are selected in the group. However, if I turn on TV and play music later, the room which has the Beam and Play 1s has to be reselected. Not a big deal, but irritating!

Hi all, What if you were the artist in Spotify and on the Sonos speakers, now this could be your moment; Karaoke on Sonos. Imagine the fun you have with Sonos and when you could sing into the speakers on your own phone, not alone you but with all your friends togheter. Am thinking about this: The idea is to implant an new function in the Sonos controller app and with using your microphone on your phone to sing with all the songs. Please reply and share! Thankyou. Matej Mijatovic

Can I still use Beam with a TV that have neither an HDMI ARC connector, nor an optical output?

Let me start by being clear, i'm not here to dis sonos or their products as I'm a great fanboy of what they do and make and I've just ordered a pair of One's to go with my existing x6 Play 1's. I wouldn't argue that the Sub is capable of delivering deep bass to your sonos setup, but I would like to challenge sonos on how the Sub looks aesthetically as a product. If we look at the Play 1's, the PlayBar an even the current Play 3's they are good to look at and can be placed anywhere in a room, but there is one thing and only this thing that has ever stopped me buying this whopping £699 Sub. (Well apart from her indoors) Frankly it's an Ugly lump of plastic that's sits in the corner of a room hoping that one day instead of being heard someone will take time to admire it. Come on sonos you're making some great new and updated products that are eye candy to me but you fail to turn your Sub from a lump of plastic to something of beauty - you even bowed to screams for a white sub from t

Hello, I have a LG Oled C8 and I want to pair the remote with my playbase so I can control the volume with the magic remote. I have read articles like this one, but I'm already stuck in the first part, because when I set up a sound bar with optical output, I never get the option to choose my manufacturer. The remote for the 2018 model is slightly different than the one is the article btw. I choose optical and then I can only choose "Done" as you see here: Can anyone help me please. It seems impossible that I can't properly use my sonos with a new TV. It's a 700€ product... Thank you.

Hi. I have 3 devices that I normally use with my playbar (satbox, dvd, AppleTV). All used to work fine but now they’ve all stopped working. I reset the playbar and reinstalled it without any issues (normally meaning the playbar actually hears the ‘tv’ signal) I also brought a new 50m optical cable (not cheap and possibly not needed) but this has not fixed the issue. I think the problem might originate from the lastest update, as all was good before. I can still stream music no problem and use inline via connect without a problem. So, ideas please... Cheers, Luke

As we mostly all know by now, some TV’s (especially LG) have lip sync issues with the Beam. Most people report that switching from Dolby to PCM helps the problem. So before I buy a Beam, can anyone tell me what the real world difference is in sound quality and UX (when not using the Beam with any other speakers). Is it really noticeable? If I’m really going to be missing out, should I look at other options?

I am wondering if there is any plans to allow a stereo pair to play along with beam rather than rear surrounds,most people don’t have the space to have rear speakers so a front set to widen sound option would be more useful,also if ambients are in stereo in tv playback then why does it switch to mono during music playback

After ordering my Beam I had read a number of posts surrounding lip sync issues between the Beam and LG OLED TV's. I received my Beam yesterday and hooked it all up (Full 5.1 setup)......... and there were no issues whatsoever with lip Sync. I used the HDMI ARC input and everything was totally fine. I was extremely weary after reading all the negative posts.........but for me it worked like a dream. I have a LG B6 Model that I purchased in November 2016 and I used my own HDMI Cable versus the one provided to me in the box (it was too short to go through my wall). I did nothing special with the controls...... I basically just followed the instructions on the App. I just think everyone needs to try for themselves as the blanket statements regarding LG OLED TV'S is quite misleading. Cheers, Craig P.S. the Beam sounds pretty darn amazing with the full 5.1 setup........ but certainly holds it's own all by itself.

Hi every one!! I run a playbase 5.1 sonos system with an Apple TV gen 4 on my Toshiba 46XV645U and I can’t have the surround sound... the toslink setup can’t be select as something esle than pcm ... can some one help me with that?

I just got a new TV and cannot connect the remote control. I went to room settings, chose TV room, remote, remote control setup, and when I pressed the volume + button the soundbar did not detect any signal. I tried doing with IR switched on and off and it didn't work. It's a new LG OLED TV.

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.