Home theater

I have a Beam, and the video is way in front of the audio. Settings on the Beam can only increase the audio delay further (Audio Delay is set to Min). When my video source is cable, it is tolerable, but with my other devices (e.g. Blu-Ray player) it is not tolerable. The only setting in the player is to again delay the audio further. I see no such settings on the TV. Ideas?

Hi, Bought a samsung nu8000 65" tv and for sound got the sonos playbar and sub. absolutely love this combo better then going to the theater!!! But my concern is no volume level meter showing me the volume level on screen can anyone please help me?

I currently have a SONOS Playbar hooked up to my tv and have two built in ceiling speakers that are connected to my SONOS Connect:Amp which is hardwired into my router. I recently noticed that the two ceiling speakers stop playing sounds or music when ever a movie was playing or I had music playing on the Playbar. I tried doing a retune and it always said speakers were missing. I just updated all speakers and app to try and fix the problem. Nothing worked, so I decided to factory reset my Connect:Amp and reset it up as it's own device. Once I did that, I could play music through the speakers so I knew they were still working. I then went to the website: http://######:1400/wiredsat.htm and replaced the # with my Playbars IP code to set up the surround sound. I then selected the Conncet:Amp to set up as my Left and Right surround sound speakers and set their distance away from the tv. Hit complete and was notified that I was all set up. I then went back to the app and retuned the speaker

Hi! I have tried to find a solution to connect all my speakers: BEAM and two Play 1 speakers with my Apple TV 4th generation. At the moment when I stream and use my Apple TV the sound comes from the BEAM and not the other speakers. Anyone know a solution for this? Would like to use the whole surround sound system. Thanks in advance!!

can someone please just tell me which blu-ray play to buy that will output DD5.1 to my playbar. My only goal is to watch 4K Blu-ray movies in 5.1. i know this issue has been addressed ad nauseam but it seems the more i read the more confused i become. i've also purchased a litany of switches or converters. but according to the app none of them seem to output 5.1. please help. i currently have a playstation 3. does it have the capability? thanks in advance.

How do we prevent Sonos Playbar from playing randomly in middle of night? There are no sonos alarms and no other speech devices connected to system. Only devices connected are TIVO, Samsung TV. I ran diagnostic and get #109374711.

Hi, Last year I bought myself a playbase and the subwoofer. Did everything very well but then suddenly after a phew months I started to get a cracking sound. Tried some settings with the tv which I found her on the forum. That didnt work... So I just restarted it a phew times. And suddenly it work fine again. But now a week ago it started again. Exactly the same problem... Do you have any help for this? My setup: Nvidia Shield Tv Surround: alway on Stereo upmix (upmix stereo streams to 5.1 pcm): on ->connected with hdmi to my tv Samung tv Model: UE48J6200AW Type No: UE48J6200 HDMI audio format: PCM Audio format: PCM Dolby digital Comp: RF ->connected with optical to playbase What I have tried: #Streamed directly to my tv (cutting off nvidia shield), still the same problem. #Played songs with spotify directly to the playbase with the sonos app. Normally that works but now it started cracking too. Which is very strange because I coul

I’ve heard the latest update takes away the ability for the Playbar to act as a stand-alone speaker. I have it connected directly to my tv for sound via optical cable. Will the update kill my setup?

I know there's a lot of these types of questions, but here goes... I have 2 Play:1s and a Beam in my house currently. I bought the Beam primarily to get Projector or laptop hooked up. I realize that the laptop setup would have challenges as there is no output to carry audio like ARC. The projector I am looking at, however, does have an HDMI ARC output. It's the XGIMI H1. Three questions...if I wire the HDMI out from the projector to the Beam, will I get sound without some sort of converter/TOS unit? Second, will that sound possibly be Dolby/Atmos/other hifi sound? Third, does the act of connecting the HDMI to the Beam then mean that the other speakers in my Sonos network can play the projector audio? thanks, John

I need some help with my brand new Sonos setup. I have a Beam and 2 Ones for surround sound. I have a LG E7P and I'm not getting surround sound from my Oppo UDP-203, only stereo. Everything is hooked up through HDMI and my Apple TV works just fine giving me 5.1 surround sound. I imagine the Oppo 203 must be popular, so I hope somebody can help me get surround sound. Any ideas?

Hi I have been using SONOS Playbar with my old TV for years - never had any issues. Recently, I bought a new TV (Philips POS9002). When I turn on the TV, the SONOS Playbar does not change to TV sound 😞. I haven't changed anything else and TV-Autoplay is enabled in the app. The Playbar is connected to the TV using optical toslink-cable. Does anyone have an idea how to fix this? Thanks in advance. /Michael

After working my whole summer break I treated myself to a Beam with leftover money earnt. I play it through a Samsung mu6400 tv and absolutely love it, and wanted to connect up a vinyl player, most likely the Audio-Technica LP120. However, as a student my funds don't really cover purchasing a Connect box to work alongside it as well - and if I'm honest, despite knowing that their brand model depends on ensnaring customers into only buying their products, and despite my love for all the Sonos speakers, the somewhat extortionate price of the Connect leaves me with a very bad taste in my mouth for the company. I was wondering therefore if anyone has managed to devise any workarounds for inputting just a record player into my beloved Beam that doesn't cost nearly double what the vinyl player does - whether through adaptors to the optical input or through my television first.

I recently bought the Beam and frequently sharing anything worth noting or the problems I have encountered on this forum. Another issue I have found with the Beam worth noting is the audio/video sync issues through HDMI ARC (out of all the interfaces!) Optical works fine, but there's a flaw with some TV's passing Dolby Digital through HDMI ARC causing large (300-400ms) sync issues where the audio comes after the video. You'd think ARC fixes this... but it seems to have made things worse. Essentially, some TV's struggle to decode video and pass DD5.1 through in sync. My Sony 43XE7073 has this issue, but it's common with some people who have this issue with flagship TV's too. You'll find if you run audio in PCM or just stereo the issue is heavily remedied or gone. Something to do with the chip in modern TV's? Anyway, I use my Xbox One S for media and am now (unfortunately) using the Optical out as my TV doesn't have an option to disable audio in conjunction with the Beam a

I’m turning my former home office into a den. I am currently running two wired bookshelf speakers off of a PS Audio Sprout, with a Connect into the Sprout’s digital input (the Connect will soon be repurposed for landscape speakers). I have a turntable connected to the Sprout. I’ll be adding a wall-mounted TV (with all my equipment in a media credenza below the TV) and had planned to add a Beam before Sonos announced the new Amp. Now I’m torn between two approaches: 1) Install a Beam with the TV and continue to run my turntable off of the Sprout with the wired speakers, or 2) Wait for the Amp, then connect the TV through HDMI ARC, and use the Sprout as a phono preamp/headphone amp. Appproach 2 seems much more streamlined (one amp for TV, streaming, and vinyl; existing speakers are used for music and TV; can still listen to turntable with headphones), but Approach 1 gives me built-in voice control and maybe a slightly better TV-watching experience (and saves 200 bucks). What would yo

Placement of Sonos beam above tv? Will the sound be just as ideal as the placement of the beam below the tv?

I have a stereo pair of Play:5 gen2 speakers (stunning audio!) which are used for Apple TV 4K sound output via Airplay2. Randomly, the speakers will lose audio sync with the video, and the only way I have found to correct it is to go into the Apple TV audio settings, disconnect the Sonos speakers and reconnect them. It happens randomly, not all the time. Both Netflix and Amazon video have this problem. This is with the latest tvOS 11.x update. The Apple TV is set to never sleep. tvOS 12 is due very soon so I will see if that fixes the issue. The Play:5 speakers are connected to a Sonos boost AP and have static IPs assigned, so there is lots of available bandwidth. The Apple TV is connected to the same gigabit network switch as the Boost via Ethernet cable, not WiFi. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how the problem can be fixed?

Having problems getting this to work. Fyi, this is a TV with Roku built in. I've tried connecting standard RCA cables from the TV to the amp, did not work. Have also tried using a digital to analog converter using an optical cable from the TV to the converter, and then RCA cables from converter to amp. Still did not work. When disabling the TV speakers and then trying to access the AV icon on Roku, it says no signal found. Has anyone been able to get this to work?

I've got a playbar but don't want to have the audio wire visible. How does Sonos recommend doing this? In the sonos brochure you have a tv and wall-mounted playbar (on bright yellow wall) with no wires showing. Presumably you buried these into the wall?

I had a Sonos beam And two play ones but my TV will not Output 5.1 stereo. It is a 3 year old Panasonic - very dissapointing! Therefore I currently have the optical out from the sky going via the HDMI converter gadget through hdmi cable into the beam. The HDMI out from the sky box is going directly into the TV therefore I have visual from the HDmi sky and sound from the optical sky into the back of the beam . It’s shonky bit it works. However I also have a streamer that I want to be able to direct straight into the beam as well . What do I need to buy to plug into the back of the beam to allow me to have two separate sound feeds going in the beam , one from the skybox and one from the streamer. The visual from the streamer can also go direct to tv via hdmi but do not want anything I stream or whilst using Netflix or amazon from my Panasonic app to be only getting crappy tv sound. Any help appreciated! Rob

Hi guys, sorry if I'm repeating other people questions. I've got playbar + 2x play5 so I could enjoy 5.0 surround sound from MKV movies played from NAS, but problem I've got is that all DTS is decoded down to stereo. So I was reading up and seen that samsung ubd-k8500 can downmix DTS to DD5.1, so i went ahead and purchased one and to my surprise, it doesn't convert dts to dd5.1 but only to stereo, as this is what I can see in about my sonos system screen. I have tried plex, dlna and twonky servers on my nas and all outputs same. Even DD5.1 mkvs are outputed as a dd2.0/stereo. So now that I can see that samsung k8500 player doesn't really do what I need it to do, is there any other player/decoder/media streamer that could do it - that doesn't ruin the bank? Also, noticed that although playbar doesn't do anything with DTS, it still shows DTS in ABOUT MY SONOS SYSTEM. Strange. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

Just got a new SUB and bonded it to my Playbar and two Play 3s but it sounds pretty quiet when music is playing. Anyone have a suggestion?

Hi, I have been experiencing substantial delays in the audio emitted from the BEAM when playing video, sometimes several seconds. I have an Apple Mac Mini for streaming content which is connected to the speaker through the wifi network. My display is a projector connected directly to the computer at the back of the room so running a cable from the speaker is not really an option. Are there any tips for reducing this lag? It is pretty frustrating as is. Thank you. -A

Hello I just purchased the Beam along with a 65” Samsung NU8000. It is plugged in via hdmi ARC. The remote will control volume playing through the beam but does not indicate a numeric number to ththe volume , I also tried to link the Samsung remote control with the sonos app and that it was unsuccessful , but it does adjust volume regardless of it not being linked, is there any solution to getting volume indicator? Or does sonos need to make an update for this tv?

So I have a TCL 55E5900US and everything works - except - the remote for the TV will not control the volume on the Beam. When I try and train the remote through the Sonos app it does not even recognize i have a remote. Now having spoken at length to Sonos and TCL and read countless blogs/complaints it is clear this is a significant software issue - who's exactly i am not sure but i would like a clear answer please Sonos. And before you suggest obvious potential issues i confirm the following: Alexa works though the Beam and "she" adjusts the volume of the TV and turns TV on or off T-Link (CEC on the TCL) is on and shows the Sonos Beam in its on screen settings The only options there though are amp on or off - clearly i have amp on Sound is coming through teh Beam - Music plays through the Beam - i just cannot use the TV remote to control volume The TV remote has new batteries I have turned everything on and off again, unplugged re-plugged etc The TV says its software is up to

I have the Beam, and at some point will be getting a LG TV model 49UK7550PTA. On the specs sheet for the TV, it says the ARC HDMI port is "Designed to work with compatible LG Audio only". So, does that mean it will only work with LG sound bars? Does anyone have this TV and a Beam? Thanks for your help!