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Sonos Arc: Lack of DTS a problem?

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As I wait for my Sonos Arc to arrive, I’m thinking about all of this way too much. I think I’ve been cooped up at home too long and putting together my first Sonos system is giving me a new project to obsess over. ;-)

Question: For those Sonos veterans who have put together 5.1 systems for their Beam / Playbar, has the lack of DTS support been an issue for you? And, if so, how have you gotten around it? Have you ever run into a situation where you simply weren’t able to get any audio because of lack of DTS support?

Thanks in advance for any input!

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McMurdeRAnswer

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Due you play a lot of blu ray disks? If so, the answer unfortunately is yes, as a lot of them, and even a small number of DVDs are have audio encoded in DTS format.

One key thing that almost everone ignores is that Sonos relies on the TV to pass the track over to the speaker. Precious few TVs can pass-through DTS, and if yours doesn't then its a moot point - you'll end up with stereo regardless of what the soundbar supports.

There are workarounds. Some blue ray players and consoles can transcode the tracks to Dolby on the fly - that's the easiest solution, athough I've found that the PS4 can only do it when using optical output.

I personally rip every disk I buy and transcode the DTS tracks to dolby. I've put the files on a plex server and the disks go in the attic - hard copy formats are slowly on the way out, like it or not. I never leave the couch as a bonus.

If you don't watch many blu rays its a non issue.

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Lekaa

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As I understand it at this moment there's no support for LPCM. At least for the Arc they seem to be working on it: https://en.community.sonos.com/home-theater-228993/lpcm-eta-for-arc-6842558

Thank you again, I'm aware of the non support for LPCM, wasn't sure if the Beam had support or not.

Have you used real debrid on the shield and got kodi to transcode dts?

106rallye

Not completely sure what you mean by your last sentence. I’m using Kodi to play my ripped blu rays on the Shield from a connected hard disc. With these settings Kodi transcodes DTS to DD 5.1.

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Lekaa

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B_the_installer

Contributor I

Sonos is playing a longer game. They're assuming the TVs will all have eARC and will send signal to Arc. It can pass through audio from many devices. Not Xbox... i ran into same issue. Streaming good, but blu-ray is better video quality. But improved wifi, and as time goes on... this arc will be paired with streaming TVs.. its a great system. Check out review.

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John B

TVzion is an app, you can use it to stream torrent files without downloading, check it out on YouTube 😊

You can view 80gb movies with out downloading them. You need good Internet though.

And also a relaxed attitude towards copyright infringement?

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