Sonos Arc Height Channels

With the help of GuitarSuperstar on another thread, I ‘found’ the night slider I didn’t know existed and had a play today. In the absence of any proper test files to hand I picked a source I know to be ATMOS (confirmed in the app) and went about a rather clumsy but ultimately fruitful way of setting up the upward sections (eventually). 
 

Because you don’t actually completely know when the speakers are active, by playing demo media from the LG Dolby app on my CX55 whilst sliding the adjustment left to right repeatedly and fairly quickly you soon find sections with height in them. You can hear it relating to your finger movement quite distinctly when they occur and there is LMP difference when the signals aren’t present. By then nudging the media back (remember DVD loop functions? I miss them!) and repeating the section you can hear has it, you can get a feel for what it’s doing. By doing the same with various sources, I found that for a subtle effect rather than an overly dominant one, about +3 worked for me and I then tested with things I know more. Obviously, nobody’s settings will be the same as mine but the process works. I’ll probably repeat the slider approach again a few times this week and ensure I’m happy where I am with it. You look a bit daft sliding the feature back and forth, especially on an iPad, but it worked for me after pondering how I might be sure I was listening to actual upward intended media sections. 
 

I’ll also try some of the test tone links shared too instead of my rather rudimentary approach above. Thanks for these. 

How did you get atmos music to the Arc? Phone app wouldn’t work since Airplay doesn’t support Atmos at present. Did you use a TV app or something?

Yes I agree - Gals you don’t , ( it clearly states it is in HD 5.1, so logic to answer that to say it works ) 

( one (me) had checked all these these titles  and hence mentioned tiles that don’t work, so need to reply to that if one can , and not to side track and waste everyone’s time shutting back and forth with pointless unrelated 

Please kindly do not reply with unnecessarily 

It won’t be replied or read 

Kind Regards 

Yes we all know that 

We expect some intelligent feedback and discussion on the forum unlike “guitarsuperstar” 

I don’t know why you’re  mentioning Monty Payton , never said any this about it, in fact Netflix has enhance its sound to HD 1.5 ( if had bothered to check this info if you looked careful on the top right of of the Netflix steen ) 

GuitatSuperstar please do don’t advice me / reply to any to me from now on with useless and unprofessional answers . I will not be reading any more of your post , you will  be waiting your tome or any others who give any such 

That’s precisely the point 

That is why a system the can make it sound like surround is called Virtual surround function by a device and by DTS/ DTS-X 

I know The senhiser atmos unit can do this and also by LG and Samsung’s Dolby Atmos Soundbar where it plays non 5.1 including Mono transmission into virtual surround by thier units . So please understand I not asking fir the impossible 

I cam see you have not taken the effort or to read and understand my thread history (on this post history here. Please take that effort and do some research too before answering 

Please kindly only reply if you have professional and technical understanding and answers to the solution or recommendation for Sonos team.

Thank you 

None of those listed were recorded in Dolby Atmos, or frankly any 5.1 signal, just stereo, at best, and possibly mono. It’s possible that they’re sending that mono/stereo signal encoded in a Dolby Atmos signal, but you’d still be receiving stereo channels, and nothing at all would be in the height or surround speakers. 

Please give us a specific movie title from Netflix so we can test it ourselves to compare.

I wrote to in my last and many many time : source : movies from Netflix . 
 

As had stated in my post : 

once again here it is as a summery 

TV : LG Dolby Atmos Vision and Dolby Atoms sound 

Source : Netflix Dolby Atmos content movies 

To your Q - YES the surround speakers are completely silent when playing movies that are in stereo ( 80’s) movies and playing 60’s mono movies 

Hope this has answered your Q 
 

I have provided this info, answered all of the above Q’s, please read in my thread history on the same above  

Tried and test as mentioned, it's not there at all, the rear two surrounds are totally silent as mentioned 

Sonos’s arc - (Theatre sound system set up). 

I am still in the processes in the investigation of the up-firing Heigh Volume adjustment concern as had stated and will revert back.

Sonos Arc theatre system is a great product. See some of my personal comments as below.

For: (These are My Personal View only with my experience in use)

. Sonos Arc with the theatre sound set up (Refer here as T- kit) is the best kit there is to date (2021), compared with many other top-end quality Dobly  Atmos soundbars products out there. (But however, they had all had the additional DTS/DTS-X features )

. Sono’s Arc produced best sound reproduction and best quality and voices sounded accurate and natural, every spoken word very legible-vocal/voice /speeches etc.. and with the extra offerings, functions to enhance the voice sound to a bonus if we needed.

. A piece of artwork i.e. beautifully designed with excellent materials and looks elastically good too which beautifully fits into any room very well and also enhance the esthetics of the room at the same time. 

. Best easy user experience friendly Sonos S2 App, offerings great functionality and features and enhanced functionalities on version updates. Excellent room sound correction functions, Seamless and user-friendly menus and functionalities. No other offers as much and more. Well done Sonos 

*Well done to Sonos so far, Competition is healthy however don't relax and let others overtake you. Keep it up*

With my experienced in hearing the Sonos Arc T-kit and another No.1 rated Dobly Atmos soundbar (my previous kit). The Sonos Arc theatre kit cost: £1856 GBP (Date 2021)(1xARC + 2 x Sonos one (GEN2) + 1 Sub (GEN3) comparing to the other cost £ 344 GBP more (Date 2021) and when comparing both in my same TV room, I found the latter to be Bulky (HxWxLxD) and the design and materials not esthetics pleasing and the voice sound clarity not as perfect or good as Sono’s arc. (however, it had all had DTS/DTS-X features)

Against (Need improvements) : (These are My Personal View only with my experience in use)

. No rear speaker sound or activity with non-Dolby, Non-HD contents, for the S2 App requires new functionality to allow virtual Pseudo sound. Hence unable to Play Mono good Movies titles and Movies in Stereo ( movies we had till the 80’ +) unable to play on the rear speaker and no function on the Sonos S2 app to allow this, is we like to see an extra button on the Sonos 2 App under the “Sound” heading under “Surround” heading another to see “ Pseudo Sound adjustment for the rear Sonos one speakers) and still able to control the SUB, Rear, ARC TV Volumes. Hope to see this in the near future on the Firmware update. Thanking you in advance Sonos Development Team. ( Notes these this feature are provided on the other renowned Dolby Atmos Soundbars manufacturers) 

.Need to match whether your TV and streaming box will support Atmos on Arc, i.e need eArc HDMI to receive full uncompressed Dolby Atmos sound, or HDMI ARC to allow Pass-through compressed Dobly Atomos/ HD signals, this technical reference info confirmed from the TV manufacturers and from Sonos Tech team. 

. Only one HDMI 

. No DTS?DTS-X support  (I hope to see this feature introduced with a firmware update soon)

. No Bluetooth (would have helped with the flexibility of use, but not a critical issue) 

Appreciate professional feedback and advice - Thank you. 

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Note: I still want to stay focused on the present Forum subject - regarding the up-firing Heigh Volume adjustment and will revert back and would appreciate professional advice on how and for it to works - Thank you.

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