I understand sonos does not support DTS:X or DTS-HD Master. What I am trying to wrap my head around is: if the DTS:X or DTS-HD Master signal is “passed through” my tv or device, does sonos 1. play it as full dtsx/dts-hd, or 2 convert it to pcm and discard height info, or 3. not play it at all…???
Also, if I route it through an apple tv and it converts it to pcm, does sonos then play that (without the height data?
Sorry for being a noob...
Best answer by Airgetlam
No need to apologize, if you don’t ask, you’ll never know.
You can’t send that type of signal to either a Sonos One, or a Sonos PLAY:1. There is no Sonos 1.
If you sent that type of signal to a Sonos Home Theater soundbar (The Arc, Arc-Ultra, Beam and the others no longer made), it wouldn’t be able to parse the data ‘passed through’ to it. It would have to be changed to a format that Sonos can accept before it reaches the Sonos.
Sonos (depending on which speaker is in use) will play any format it recognizes / is capable of. It won’t ‘convert’ formats.
Sorry for the confusion… when I said sonos 1 my grammar was confusing… I said sonos… then my question was “1.” So I would be passing the signal through to a sonos arc with era 300s. So for instance, if apple tv had “pass through” which it doesn’t currently, or an avr passed the dtsx signal through to sonos arc… it sounds like the arc would not play ant sound, correct?
Sonos, any version, can’t process a DTS-X signal. It would have to be changed to a format that Sonos can read.
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