Home theater

I currently have a single Play 5 in my living room but am thinking of buying either a Beam or Playbar (and probably adding a couple of surround Play 1s in the future). Quality of music playback e.g. music Blurays, etc. is more important to me than the quality of movie soundtracks. How does the quality of music playback from either of the bars compare to a Play 5? Would I need to add a sub to get the same level of bass as a Play 5? Any feedback would be appreciated.

I’m looking to create a 5.1 system with what I already have “playbsae and two play 1” by adding two play 3 as the rears. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

I just recently purchased four play 5's and one Playbar. I have a couple of questions... 1. Can I set it up as surround sound from my television with the Playbar as the center channel and two of the play 5's for left and right front and the other two play 5's for left and right rear? 2. ‎ If I can do the set up as described in the first setup is it Easy for me to switch from playing music on the play 5's from a different source and just leave the (Playbar) center channel for the television? Thank you in advance, Matt

What's the Beam setup for a TV/Receiver setup that already uses ARC and CEC? I have my TV connected via an HDMI cable to the HDMI ARC of my receiver. This set up works great because turning on the TV also turns on the receiver and everything just works. Can the new Sonos Beam work in this setup? I see that my receiver has another HDMI out called "Monitor2". Would the Beam connect there? Assuming it could be hooked up, how would it be turned on and used? My current setup is one-click to turn on both the TV and the receiver. I would like to avoid a multi-step process involving remotes, phone apps, and config menus.

I'll keep it simple, I'm assuming there is no way to increase the volume of just the center channel? I'd like to make it a feature request if that is correct. I find that in several films that the music and sound effects are much louder than the dialog. That's fair, but as a preference I would like the dialog to be louder. In the past, with my old typical 5.1 system, I would just increase the volume on the center channel and it worked great. I know there is dialog enhance, but I don't find it helps enough and sometimes it just sounds odd.

Is there a way to make the screen show a volume number/amount? not just "Home cinema +/-" when you're changing the volume?

I m thinking of buying a Beam, I have a hard drive connected to my tv with films on it, using just the Tv it plays them all no problem. I had a old Denon sound base which played them all, but it recently packed in. Tried a Q. Acoustics M2 soundbase, it won’t play the sound on AVI format files, plus it was a bit to boomy for me. I connected it to tv with hdmi arc and also tried tosh digital in case that was an issue, I’ve been told its the soundbase that can’t decode certain file types. I have listened to a beam, thought it was ok, but can’t find out if I would have same problem with this, can’t find a file format list at all,salesman couldn’t help at all. So all I need to know is will it play sound on films from my tv/ hard drive, the films are in MKV, MP4 and AVI format. If so I’ll buy one,

I have a Beam connected to a TCL 55p607 through ARC. It blocks my TV's IR receiver, so I have CEC turned on and it works perfectly when I use the Beam as a soundbar for the TV. The issue is, if I use the Beam to play Spotify or don't use the TV for a day, it seems to lose the CEC connection. When I try to turn the TV on later, Beam won't send the IR signal, so I have to walk over and point the remote past the Beam. Once my TV is on, it seems to reconnect to the Beam and the CEC works great again. Is there something I can do to prevent having to manually turn on my television every time I use my Sonos for something besides TV watching or go for a day or so without using it?

Add to your FAQ how to program the new Xfinity XR2 remote to control Sonos. The Xfinity manual for the new remote (comes with the new X1 box and service) does not include a remote code for any Sonos products. Sonos tech instructed me to program the remote with the code for any other audio device, then go through the Sonos remote programming steps. It worked!

Why can't TV input be renamed and a selectable source like line-in options? I used to have a Play:5 and recently did what I thought was an upgrade and moved to a Playbase. I'm finding the optical input more annoying to use. I'd like to have it come up as a source in the main list like the line-in used to be. It also seems like I can't rename it and it just keeps being called 'TV' even though it's not a TV optical out.

Why won’t the sonos beam play TV sound when you turn the TV on? Is there a setting someplace? I shouldn’t need to f around with my phone to watch TV. The beam is connected to my Samsung TV via HDMI on an Audio channel. Sound plays once I select TV from my phone, but it’s crazy to need to log into an app on your phone to listen to your TV. Also, what’s up with one hour+ wait times with Sonos customer support?

Hi all After much deliberation, today I bought a Beam to go with my pair of Play 1s. I have to say that I am very impressed and it is a big improvement on my old sound bar. But... there is an issue that is bugging me. Audio is much quieter on channels that provide a stereo signal compared to those that provide 5.1. I have read that other people have experienced this, mainly with Samsung TVs I think but I have not found a post giving a solution. I am using a Sony Bravia and have tried different audio settings on that but there aren’t that many options. The source of content is from a TiVo box. Can anyone shed any light on a solution to this? Ideally I do not want to go optical. Thanks.

If u have a 2018 LG TV with lipsync issues...using an Xbox One as the TV Tuner(optical out from Xbox to Playbar) will fix it. I tried dumping the Xbox as the tuner and just use the TV and that was a mistake.

Sound drops briefly (millisecs) & randomly on Beam when playing catch-up streams via Amazon FireTV . ARC on Samsung M series TV. Diagnostic number: 660464983

Having a few issues getting my new Beam to play nice with Apple TV 4k... Initially I had a long lip-sync / delayed audio issue when my Apple TV audio output was set to 'Apple TV', by default. I switched audio output to my Beam (exclusively), which resolved the audio delay issue, but now I'm getting very odd spikes in volume in-between episodes on Netflix (via Apple TV), where the audio output seems to be resetting / reverting back to default 'Apple TV', instead of to the Beam. This is an issue because I'm back to my initial lip-sync issue, but most annoyingly the volume spikes up really load - which my wife & sleeping baby are not finding amusing! My Setup: Mi Tv 4C 50" 4K HDR Apple TV 4K (plugged into regular HDMI 2) Sonos Beam (Plugged into ARC HDMI) Any advice on how to resolve this, would be much appreciated!

Yesterday my son was in the middle of playing a game on his Xbox One when suddenly the speaker just stopped producing sound it suddenly cut off and 30 min later was making weird cracking noises or something. After that it hasn’t worked what’s so ever. The light shows that its on the buttons are working the app is too. Just no sound on Netflix, Tv, Xbox, Music from Spotify, iTunes Music. Nothing. We tried unplugging it. Nothing. We even rebooted the whole system. Nothing. It’s all set up. And yes the digital Optical cable is in and has the red light. My tv is a Samsung Smart Tv I alao purchased this like a month ago. So I doubt it’s the tv. Yes the tv speaker settings is set on “Audio Out/Optical” I’m disappointed. $700 and this is what I get I’ve only had this product for a couple of weeks! It was working fine. It might be because of the update. After I updated it 2 days later this happens. Here is the diagnosis code. 673702203

I have a Playbar and 2 Play 1's. When I am trying to set up surround, I am getting the following message:- Surround Setup Error - There was a problem adding the surround speaker. Please make sure the surround speaker and PLAYBAR are connected to power. The Play 1's have a constant white light. I have changed the wireless channels and tried 1-6-11 and am getting the same messages. I ran a diagnostics and code is 6976901. Any help would be much appreciated

Hey hey! I'm having problem adding the #beam to Apple Home. I've followed the instructions from the website. I've even entered the code, but the speaker is not showing up in Apple Home when I select Add Accessory. I've restarted the Beam and still no luck. Any idea?

Sonos Beam - How do you connect multiple devices. Can i connect multiple devices and switch seamlessly. So for instance i have an LG TV (with ARC), BT Box, Apple TV and Xbox One S. How do i connect all to use the beam? Will it automatcally pick up the sound if i connect the beam my TV via the ARC port? Or would i need to hook each up to the beam using HDMI/Optical? Thoughts please?

I have a Samsung frame tv and my sonos playbar is connected via an optical cable, the only option. I have set the the TV to external speakers to use the sonos devices. The only problem is I can only adjust volume using my iphone and the sonos app. Samsung tell me the only way I could use their remote to vontrol volume is if the playbar was connected to an hdmi port

When Alexa is asked to "Turn on TV" the beam turns my Toshiba TV on to the Sonos Beam screen saver HDMI-1 (ARC) and not onto the actual TV channels. I then have to use the TV remote to switch it to TV...Making using Alexa a pointless issue.. 2nd problem is if any other device is plugged into the remainder HDMI ports (Like android box) and tv speakers are off to use the beam as soon as the android box is turned off the beam disconnects and TV speakers come back on and can not be changed again unless the android box is unplugged from the HDMI port.. The only way I could get this to work with some normality was to use the optical adapter, so I could have the tv speakers off and the beam worked on both TV and android box. The only trouble is now there is no volume control via the remote due to TV speakers being off and no ARC to control the beam..So its "Alexa turn the volume down" or "Alexa turn the volume up" Oh sure I can do this via the app but I would have been better off just buying

The optical cable supplied with the playbar fits nicely into the TV. However, it seems to be a bit loose in the Playbar. You can remove it almost by blowing. It works, but does not feel very solid, not tight. Is this normal?

I have a Sony X930E attached to the beam via HDMI Arc, Two sonos ones as rear surrounds, and an Apple TV connected to the TV via HDMI. ATV is my only source of content. I can't get 5.1. When I look at about my sonos it shows only stereo. The ATV is set for DD 5.1. If I play Netflix 5.1 from the TV's built in app I get dolby digital 5.1 in about my sonos . But I don't want to use the built in TV app, only ATV. Thoughts?

Hi All, After receiving a Sonos Beam I figured that I needed a new TV and have just pulled the trigger on a new 4K HDR TV, along with a Apple TV 4K. I'm a little in doubt about what the best settings are for getting the sound from the Apple TV into the Beam, and therefore hope you can help me by sharing your settings on the AT? I will have the sound going from the AT going into the TV via HDMI then passthrough via ARC HDMI into the Beam. BTW, do I need special HDMI cables for ARC support or will normal HDMI cables work? Best regards René

Connected my Beam using Digital Audio port on LG 55GA6400-G3 but not getting any audio. (LG does not have ARC Port). Thoughts???