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Discuss Ray, Beam, Arc. Playbar, Playbase, and the entire Sonos home theater experience. Should you get a Sub Mini or a Sub? Maybe two Subs? Which Sonos work with your TV? Talk about your Sonos Home Theater experience here.

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Southern Olaf bearContributor I
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i cannot discern any difference with speech enhancement on or off on my beam

I have a new gen 2 beam and cannot discern any difference when the speech enhancement is on or off.

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Airgetlam
9 months ago
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Markie999Contributor I
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adding a one

 I Have sonos one (x2) and a beam gen 1. can I add another one and will it improve the sound???

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jgatie
16 days ago
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Toby123Contributor I
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Using the sub

Hi  I am about to add 2 sonos 1s as a stereo pair to my living room. In my conservatory I have an existing system of 2 sonos 1s and a sonos sub. How can I configure the living room pair to use the sonos sub in the conservatory, but ensure the sub still works with the conservatory pair? Thanks for any pointers.

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jgatie
9 months ago
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AlegroveContributor I
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Balance control.

I have recently lost the ability to control the balance of my rears, when used as rear surrounds.  Sonos have told me that the only way to restore the balance control is to separate them from the room as surrounds.  When set up in trueplay mode or not they, the rears, are out of balance which makes listening to music terrible.  This can’t be correct.  Can it? 

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6 months ago
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DottytooContributor I
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compatibility?

Hey there,I have two Sonos S1 gen2 and want to know if the little Ray tv soundbar is compatible with my 2 speakers?If u you oh can help me Thankyou.😎 

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4 months ago
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OKFLGAContributor I
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Playbar TV sound goes off

Playbar TV sound goes off from time to time when changing channels? Fast forward or return will usually turn it back on. Sound goes off not power. This occurs with both sat tv box and smart tv wifi feed.Thanks 

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Airgetlam
2 years ago
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Post78Contributor I
posted in Home theater

Feature request: Adjust Night Mode strength

I’m not sure how to contact Sonos regarding feature requests so I’ll just add it here and hope for the best: I would like to be able to adjust the amount of the “night mode” effect used. I live in an apartment and there’s only maybe a 2-3 hour window in each day where I can fully enjoy my surround system. Unfortunately that’s during the day when it’s bright in my living room.Because of this I have to use “night mode” almost exclusively when watching content. While it sounds great, it’s a bit too extreme for normal daytime use. If I could bring the effect down 50% it would be perfect. I think that a lot of users would appreciate this function and a lot of purists might be less disgusted to hear it was being used. 😁

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7 months ago
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YupTrending Lyricist I
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Offtopic: Anyone know where I can find a Sansui s-x1200?

We had a Sansui s-x1200 driving a set of Cerwin Vega D9s growing up. I still have the Cerwin Vegas but I would like to find the Sansui for sentimental value. Anyone know where to find one in the USA? After buying my Sonos gear (Arc, Sub & Ones), it has really brought me back into a love of music. Refoaming the D9s and picked up an Amp to drive them. If I can find the Sansui, I think I’ll be forced to get a Port too lol. 

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1 year ago
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Henry JohnContributor I
posted in Home theater

Speakers

Within the app there is no way that you can adjust volume from beam to rear speakers is there an easy way. Or should Sonos have a look at the app and include it. The current app is pretty basic. It doesn’t have much control Without have to change all your settings.

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Ken_Griffiths
1 year ago
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Joe21Contributor I
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Sonos Playbar has started emitting a horrible high pitched sound

Hi, my before now, perfectly working Sonos sound bar has started emitting a horrible high pitched whine all the time. I contacted support who asked me to try a few things, then send a recording of the sound, which I did, but have now heard nothing back. any ideas how I can resolve?  

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James L.
2 years ago
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fandanzaContributor I
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How do I synchronize my Sonos Home Theater Playbase & Surround Sound ?

How do I synchronize my Sonos Home Theater Playbase & Surround Sound with the lips from my LG OLED TV ?

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buzz
6 months ago
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mikeshickContributor II
posted in Home theater

Beam mount for Pioneer Plasma PDP 6010FD

anyone know of a mount for the beam to Pioneer Plasma PDP 6010FD, which has mount holes about 34” apart?  I’m having trouble :(

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Corry P
2 years ago
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giossenContributor I
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Playbase with in-celling speakers

Hi, can i use my Playbase for making an home theater system with 2 in-celling speakers and a sub, all from Sonos?

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AjTrek1
1 year ago
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JulienC92Contributor I
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how to add 2 play 1 for Surround to a home cinema set up made of 2 other play 1 + 1 sub ?

Hello, i have 2 pairs of Play 1 + 1 sub (+ 1 connect for turntable)I want to create a 4.1 home cinema set, using 1 pair of Play1 as front speakers + 1 pair of Play1 as surround speakers + 1 subI paired each pair of play 1 together + grouped sub with the front speakers pair.my problem now is that system doesn t allow me to add surrounds speakers to the 2xPlay1+Sub group … anyone knows how I could have a turnaround here ?thanks in advance.

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2 years ago
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rulli61Contributor I
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playing across the sonos system via arc

Can anyone please help.I am waiting for my Sonos arc which is back ordered, if I were to play videos via Apple Music app on smart tv through Earc(arc) would I be able to stream the same music coming through the arc across the whole of my Sonos speakers 

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2 years ago
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MiddzyContributor I
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Sonos Amp

Is it possible to connect both my Sonos Beam and two hard wired speakers to my Amp for surround sound purposes whilst at the same time using the same Amp to connect to 2 separate hard wired speakers (just to play music through them but not wanting them to play the surround sound from the tv)? Or does they require 2 Amps?

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Paul A
2 years ago
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RexMondayContributor II
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Sonos Beam and Samsung UE50RU7400U

Hey allI’ve read a lot of posts on users having trouble connecting the Beam to Samsung televisions, but can’t seem to find a definitive answer on whether my TV will experience these issues.Does anyone use the Beam with a Samsung UE50RU7400U, and if so, do you have issues with it?I’m really keen to add the Beam to my setup but don’t want to run the risk of buying it and it not workingThank you in advance for any help you have provide :-)Rex 

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Xander P
2 years ago
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RasmithnmContributor I
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Audio Drop during scene chahges

I have a SONOS Arc connected to my LG monitor. The sound bar stops working each time a scene changes during a movie, and a commercial is broadcast when watching broadcast television. The dropout lasts about 30 seconds, then begins to work again. 

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26 days ago
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Johnny.668Contributor I
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status light on OneSL’s when setup as surrounds with Beam.

Setup: beam and 2 OneSL’s as surround products. I don’t always want to use the system in surround mode, so toggle the surround setting to off - simple. However, doing so changes the status lights on the OneSL’s to flashing green - which is kinda annoying. The issue though, is that the OneSL status light still flashes even when status lights settings are toggled to off!  Any suggestions to overcome this? Am I missing something? 

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106rallye
2 years ago
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Filky13Contributor I
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Home theater extension?

Is the Home theater extension, 2 One’s and a mini sub, worth getting as an addition to my current Sub, Arc, and 2 Ones?

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buzz
7 months ago
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MikeE67Chromatic Producer I
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TV sound format query

Hi. This may sound like a daft question but do TV channels broadcast in more than one format?What I mean is before I had the Sonos Arc I had no idea what format I was playing as I had no way of knowing.Then before I had added the Sonos Sub Gen 3, the Sonos app was showing as, say, Stereo PCM and finally now that I have added 2 surround speakers it is showing as Dolby Digital 5.1So surely the same broadcast must be broadcasting audio in multi-formats at any one time? 🤔

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1 year ago
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Derrick_1Contributor I
posted in Home theater

Soundbar dropout

My soundbar drops out every few minutes for a second or so. It's very frustrating. Been doing it for a number of weeks now. Can anyone give me any ideas to fix it. Thank you. 

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2 years ago
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TriumphContributor I
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tv control

I recently installed a Beam and 2 ones as a tv surround system.I already had a Play 3.Have just added Google Assistant for voice control.All works great except I cannot turn my tv on and off with voice control.New Phillips 49 PUS with HDMI ARC port.Assume a setting somewhere but would appreciate advise.Thanks.

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1 year ago
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Noz12345Contributor I
posted in Home theater

dolby atmos

I have a Sony X950-h and a Sonos arc. I set the eArc mode on the TV to auto. Now whatever content I play through streaming services it says in the Sonos app that it is playing in Dolby Atmos, even with shows that I know for a fact are not in Atmos. Does anyone know why that is? If I turn the eArc mode off it then displays in the app the true audio however it will only then play Atmos content with Dolby digital plus. I just want to make sure that I am truly getting Atmos with Atmos compatible programs. Thank you!

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2 years ago
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Shunter6669Contributor I
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2x beam + 1x sub

So I have a Beam connected to my PC and the sub connected via app. I want to add another Beam in the same room connected to my TV and have it also use the sub. Is this possible? Will audio come out of both Beams or just the connected device?

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UKMedia
2 years ago

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