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jeminijoseph
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September 19, 2022

New to Sonos - bass issue

I just got Sonos arc after reading lots of reviews. I want a soundbar now without woofer and surround speakers and may add these stuff later. 

However very disappointed with sound quality. Almost no surround effect (Atmos etc). But that’s ok. May be my expectation was too high. Biggest issue is the bass. This thing has no bass!. My $200 bose TV speaker has much better bass (that’s all I need). I don’t see many reviews mentioning this despite some early threads. Is this normal? Is there any solution?

I use Android device. So certain features are not available in app. 

My TV has ARC output, but don’t see it’s eARC. Does it matter for bass?

Here’s an example. The short movie ‘Olaf's Frozen Adventure’ in Disney+ has deep bass at 19 minute and 27-28 seconds. It’s great with my tiny bose speaker. But almost none with ARC. All comments are appreciated.

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    Mr. T
    Mr. T
    September 22, 2022

    There’s known CEC issues with FW 0.84 and higher with Sony TVs. Need to downgrade the FW on the Arcana.

     

     

    jeminijosephAuthor
    Trending Lyricist I
    September 22, 2022

    There’s known CEC issues with FW 0.84 and higher with Sony TVs. Need to downgrade the FW on the Arcana.

     

     

    Thank you Sir

    BTW, I don’t use TV with the setup. I’ll try that soonn. My TV is NVIDIA Shield TV Pro (2019). Output from Shield goes to the input of Arcana. eARC goes to Sonos and HDMI out goes to Projector. App is complaining there’s no audio output when try to connect 

    jeminijosephAuthor
    Trending Lyricist I
    September 23, 2022

    I got everything working fine with Arcana

    I got both Bose and Sonos with me now. Bose clearly has an advantage on Bass. No doubt. I have to listen to more music and tv scenes before deciding bass alone is enough for me to choose Base. If I keep Bose I won’t worry about adding bass module any time soon. This bass enough for my personal taste. Bose’s ADAPTiQ is a hardware module that has no association to android or iOS. Trueplay is only available in iOS. It was a pain to setup Sonos with Arcana. But Bose was almost a plug and play. I still want to love Sonos. Will decide this weekend

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