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carnageasada
Contributor I
March 12, 2021

Sony XBR-65X900F (w/ eARC firmware update) + Sonos ARC?

Hello,

I’m researching getting an ARC and have come across a similar question, but one that went cold and was from an Apple TV user, which I am not.

 

The 900F has received a firmware update since it’s release that allows its HDMI 2.0b h/w to allow for eARC throughput and therefore should allow bandwidth for the likes of Dolby ATMOS.

 

EDIT: Argh, looks as though I misread the update notes path for this 900F model, perhaps there’s no hope of eARC for this model… Well, last 2 questions stand, perhaps it’s a worthy soundbar sans ATMOS (i.e. optical)…?

 

Has anyone with this combination tested it thoroughly and have results they can share here?

Further, anyone with this combo passing another HDMI in on this TV through to the ARC with success…?

Thanks in advance,

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Corry P
Corry P
Sonos Staff
March 17, 2021

I think the best call here is to try it and see - 4m is a big gap, so you may well be right, and it doesn’t sound like it’s going to change how much you end up spending. I was hoping someone on the community who actually has a similar setup would chime in at some point, but it seems not.

I can’t comment on the requested feature specifically, but some suggested features that sound like a good idea may be left behind if we determine that it may cause more issues/confusion than it fixes. But for what it’s worth, I agree - the feature would be a Good Thing.

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carnageasadaAuthor
Contributor I
March 17, 2021

I agree, given that this is audio and subjective, the best tools for this job are my ears…

Between this community and other sources, the split seems to be half where folks either say the Fives would “seem” to be overkill or go for it and see why they’re happy with their purchase, there are rare utterings of those that decided to downgrade to Ones after trying the combination suggested here. I’ll say it again, the few minutes (if that) spent on linking things up from one situation to another in the app really isn’t a big deal to me, so there’s that.

 

Yeah, people might expect too much of the suggested feature, but perhaps something aimed at an advanced user of sorts. Even though the switch could just prompt the same warning that the surround grouping shows when you decide to stream audio instead of watch TV as in the S1 app. It would be that when you switch to TV for surround, opt to have it automatically switch the rears back to the surround config (or however you switched the config to otherwise) or just throw a notification that part of your surround zone is part of another group and let the user decide. All contingent of nothing being moved physically of course.

You should give that APO driver another shot though, seriously slick to bring everything together like that!

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