Era 100 and Arc connection

NBC in San Diego has invested in putting effects into their sound track. Not sure why they did it, but when they go to weather for example, there is a swoosh sound on the surround speakers. It is the only station that does this. The Tivo is set to Dolby ATMOS instead of PCM which doesn’t send the effect through to the surround sound speakers. No other station in San Diego has this effect in their sound. I have the SONOS using the eARC. I did increase the default surround sound level to TV+8 to get more surround effect. I don’t think this is a phantom surround effect as it is very consistent on just that NBC station and only with local news. According to NBC San Diego’s website it is using ATMOS. My guess is that only the transition effects are done with surround sound and not the dialog as I never hear the surrounds when the anchors are speaking. 

One additional item, NBC San Diego shows up on the SONOS app as Dolby Digital 5.1 and every other local station shows up as Dolby Digital 2.0.

I happen to watch the NBC San Diego news, and have noticed this as well…it’s somewhat distracting, and makes me think their sound engineers don’t understand what they’re doing. 

On the other hand, if I remember properly, the CBS station in Austin Texas would use a Dolby Digital signal all the time. But when they played preseason football games, the signal was only stereo, being carried on a Dolby Digital carrier, so the center and surround speakers were fed a zero content data stream, and the commentary always seemed muffled on the left and right speakers. I tried communicating with them about it, but they claimed that the signal they received from the Dallas station was in stereo, but they had a mandate to broadcast in Dolby Digital. I couldn’t make them understand why people paying attention would recognize it as an issue, like I had.  

The simple fact is there is no guaranty that the signal encased in the carrier matches. 

Having trouble getting my two era 100's to set up as surround. They are all on my network wirelessly. They all show in my system but when I click the playbar and then click add surrounds it shows the message attached in the pictures.. Any help would be great. 

When I look at the FAQ on the sales page, it says:

What soundbars will pair with Era 100 for surround sound?

You can connect two Era 100 speakers with Arc, Beam (any generation), or Ray for surround sound. Era 100 is not compatible with Playbar or Playbase.

Thank you

I had this exact same issue after setup - no sound from ERA 100’s at all, despite all appearing to be connected fine.  I removed the surrounds, then rebooted the ARC and the ERA 100’s, then added as surrounds again.

This solved the problem, hope it does for anyone else puzzled by the same issue.

I have the same issue with my era 100 It was connected as a surround with my arc and sub, but when I use Netfix and you tube the sound from the arc is louder than the era speakers .I would like to adjust the volume of the era to make louder but I dont know how?

First of all, 95% of YouTube content is stereo only, regardless of what it is listed as.  So don’t judge from YouTube content.  Second, you can adjust the surrounds level by going to Settings > System > (Room Name) > Sound > Surrounds Audio and adjusting the TV Level slider. 

Thanks for the reply, at first, I dont know how I did but when I played you tube or Netflix on my tv I got the sounds that I really liked it is loud and when I played Netflix it feels like you really watching in the cinema, then when I changed our internet then it changed. The sounds mostly come out from the arc the era speakers are like back up speakers you can hear it but very minimal sounds, I’m not sure if it is from the tv set up or from the sonos app.