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Audio Passthrough issues with Sonos Arc and Samsung TV

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Anybody have experience connecting a Samsung TV to the Sonos Arc via ARC port from the TV to the soundbar.

On the amsung TV there is meant to be a setting in the HDMI audio out to set it to passthrough to allow the audio source (Sky box) to be routed through the TV without processing straight to the soundbar.

This setting is just not there.

Ive rebooted everything to initiate the handshake from the TV to the soundbar but no luck.

Anyone else seen this ?

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Contributor I

Nope. If I want DD+ (from Netflix say). I have to manually set it up every time from the TV menu as when you then revert to something not DD+ the TV reverts back to PCM audio (not even just plain old DD). So then yu have to fiddle about with the menus to get it back to DD.

Samsung say ‘pasthrough’ is supported where you dont need to worry about this. The audio signal in what ever format is just routed to the sonos Soundbar for decoding.

buzz

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Does powering everything down, disconnecting Arc and external input, powering up the TV, wait a minute, connect and power up the Arc, then the same for the external device help?

I recommend waiting at least two minutes before restoring power and an additional minute before connecting the TV to ARC. Allow some additional time for ARC and TV to exchange details before connecting SKY.

While not likely, I can imagine an ancient HDMI cable, dragged out of a junk box, will not pass required communications. Make sure that the cables are fully seated in their socket. There have been a few reports of beefy HDMI plugs not fully seating.

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