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Arc Ultra and Era 100’s 

 

Anyone else have this setup and noticing that the Era 100’s as rears are doing less work with the Arc Ultra when compared to the standard Arc? I’m barely noticing any audio coming from the rears even with the surround volume turned up to maximum.  I swapped my original Arc back with the Era 100 surrounds and tested the same Atmos movies on the Arc and the Arc Ultra, and there is a significant difference/reduction in the signals being sent to the Era 100’s in the rear channels with the Arc Ultra.  Increasing the “TV Level” setting for Surround Audio in the Sonos app increases the front surround volume coming from the Arc Ultra but the signals coming out of the ERA 100 rears are almost non existent. 
 

Is this behavior the result of how the Arc Ultra processes surround channels, and should be considered normal operation?

that is really an interesting interpretation by Sonos.

Over performance………. might as well say MONO is a feature cause playing through all speakers is a “feature” compared to Stereo...

THERE IS MORE SOUND DETAILS COMING FROM ALL THE SPEAKERS. 
 

I can´t believe that Sonos again has a problem regarding the correct channel distribution to the rears.

Those of us who are here for a little bit longer might remember that there was also such a problem with the (old) Arc after that was released. 

It took very long for Sonos to finally address that problem.

It almost looks like they don´t test their new soundbars with connected rears before they release them…

Literally just bought the Arc Ultra and have just bought 2 Era 100's to go with it before finding this thread.

Is the conclusion that Sonos aren't going to rectify this as this is how it's meant to be? According to one persons conversation with them on chat (if I can recall correctly from this thread)? 

Would Era 300's also have this same issue would anyone know? 

Sorry just read that people are having same issues with 300's

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