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Sonos Beam, Sub and ONLY one Sonos One via ARC

  • February 2, 2021
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Hallo,

I want to ask if there is any possibility to use sonos beam with sub and only one Sonos One as sound system for TV.

I bought Sonos Beam, subwoofer and sonos one and I set it for my kitchen which is in L shape, there is a TV and sonos beam is connected via hdmi arc. Speakers are connected to mutual wifi and set up correctly using app. There is an option in Settings - System - Beam (Products) and I can add surround speakers but I need RIGHT and LEFT channel but I have only one Sonos One speaker so I have paired only beam with sub and Sonos one was set separately.

When I turn on TV only Beam and sub are working because of ARC and subwoofer paired via App. This way I can't hear audio in my entire kitchen and I have to open sonos app and group beam with sonos One. I find this solution not very practical for long term using. Therefore I am asking, if there is an option to get work with ARC sonos beam, sub and ONLY one Sonos One.

Thank you for reponse.

Best answer by Ken_Griffiths

You cannot ‘bond’ a single speaker as a rear surround to a Sonos main Home Theatre device and sub, but you could ‘group’ them as ‘two rooms’, which works well for music audio playback, but may cause an echo for TV audio playback.

There are tools in the main HT Room settings to sometimes help deal with the ‘echo’ mentioned called TV dialog Sync but you may find this will only work with stereo TV Audio. It is unlikely to work with TV Dolby Surround Sound. 

You would be far better off (I think) buying a further matching/compatible speaker and ‘bonding’ the pair to the main HT device, as that way all (TV/Music) audio will play in sync and of course sound much better too.

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Ken_Griffiths

You cannot ‘bond’ a single speaker as a rear surround to a Sonos main Home Theatre device and sub, but you could ‘group’ them as ‘two rooms’, which works well for music audio playback, but may cause an echo for TV audio playback.

There are tools in the main HT Room settings to sometimes help deal with the ‘echo’ mentioned called TV dialog Sync but you may find this will only work with stereo TV Audio. It is unlikely to work with TV Dolby Surround Sound. 

You would be far better off (I think) buying a further matching/compatible speaker and ‘bonding’ the pair to the main HT device, as that way all (TV/Music) audio will play in sync and of course sound much better too.

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  • February 2, 2021

You cannot ‘bond’ a single speaker as a rear surround to a Sonos main Home Theatre device and sub, but you could ‘group’ them as ‘two rooms’, which works well for music audio playback, but may cause an echo for TV audio playback.

There are tools in the main HT Room settings to sometimes help deal with the ‘echo’ mentioned called TV dialog Sync but you may find this will only work with stereo TV Audio. It is unlikely to work with TV Dolby Surround Sound. 

You would be far better off (I think) buying a further matching/compatible speaker and ‘bonding’ the pair to the main HT device, as that way all (TV/Music) audio will play in sync and of course sound much better too.

Thank you for your advice. It is only small TV hanging on the wall in the kitchen and it had poor sound quality and in addition my kitchen is “L” shaped so behind corner I couldn't hear a thing so I decided to add Sonos beam under the TV to make it actually hearable and behind corner put sonos one to cover whole space, I made two rooms and when I turn the TV on, beam turns on with sub because of ARC but as you are speaking, I am grouping sonos one to them. As soon as I turn the TV off the group will break up and I have to repeat grouping process again when I turn TV on. If I would buy another compatible speaker and bond everything together (meaning in sonos app add to room with sonos beam and sonos sub also surround speakers) it would result in having main soundbar under TV and left and right surround speakers behind corner and as surround speakers it would not act as additional speakers. In terms of HT system when you are sitting on couch and watching TV in front of you and having surround speakers beside or behind you there would be no question but buying compatible speaker. I am just wondering if there is some way to group the beam and one for good and have both of them automatically turn on when I turn the TV on. I want something like with JBL where you can connect up to 100 speakers together and play music on every one of them in the same time but to be turn on with ARC. I think there is no such option but I also want to hear smarter people to prove me wrong.

Ken_Griffiths

To fix your ungrouping issue, switch off ‘Ungroup on Autoplay’ in the HT room settings - but you will still likely encounter a TV audio delay, without ‘bonding’, as mentioned. Music audio will be fine however.

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  • jaguarik
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  • February 2, 2021

To fix your ungrouping issue, switch off ‘Ungroup on Autoplay’ in the HT room settings - but you will still likely encounter a TV audio delay, without ‘bonding’, as mentioned. Music audio will be fine however.

 

Well, seem like you nailed it. So far so good, gonna observe it for while but, TV audio delay is not noticeable and I am going to sleep very well tonight thank you very much. 

Ken_Griffiths

That’s okay, glad that setting-change has helped to resolve your grouping.

Note too if you do use a voice assistant, particularly Amazon Alexa, that too may also auto-group/ungroup speaker rooms if the Alexa App has devices added to its Alexa ‘enabled’ Groups in the Amazon App.. if that is the case, then just remove the devices from the groups, if you use that voice assistant and don’t want it to auto-ungroup your Sonos Rooms.

Also just to briefly add, you would perhaps be more likely see the TV audio delay/echo issue with ‘grouped’ rooms when playing a Dolby surround sound, such as a movie from Netflix/Amazon Prime for example, but TV PCM stereo might be fine in some instances, so maybe that’s why you are not encountering the TV audio delay. 

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