Home theater

Hello everyone, excuse me in advance for any mistakes I am French !I just purchased two Era 100 in addition to my Beam Gen 2 and I have some surround issues with my PS5.. Indeed, surround sound only works in linear PCM on Youtube or any other streaming application but in gaming the surround’s very limited.For example, in Dead By Daylight, I only hear a few very light sounds from the back and no interesting and important sounds (player movements behind my back for example).Do you have some tips to give me to benefit from real surround sound in game (with good spatialization) ?Thank you to those who take the time to respond to me

In my living room, which is much longer than it is wide, I have an existing audio-only setup consisting of a pair of Fives and a Sub.  It sounds fantastic - the Fives are wall mounted on one of the short walls so they project sound across the full length of the room.Now I want to add a TV with an Arc  to this room.  The only location that works for my living room is to put the TB+arc on one of the long walls, so the fives will be on the wall to the left of the viewer.I will of course want to have my Sub as part of the home theater setup.  Based on extensive discussions in other threads,I have already understood the fact that I can’t share the Sub with two different “rooms” - one home theatre room and one audio-only stereo room, which would be the obvious solution but it is what it is.  I’m certainly not going to buy another sub, so I need to come up with another approach.If I configure the Arc as the center channel with the Fives as the rear surround chan

I’m looking to buy a rather budget sound bar for my beamer setup with the Emotn N1 I bought of Amazon. At the moment the Sonos Ray seems perfect as it fits into my budget and connects to the rest of my sonos ecosystem. The only problem is the connection between beamer and soundbar; the beamer can only connect via hdmi or bluetooth, the Ray has neither, it has an Optical Audio connector though. I found this adapter from Sonos itself (https://www.sonos.com/en/shop/optical-audio-adapter) but it doesn’t mention wether it works the other way around. This might be a stupid question but I just want to be sure that everything will work before I buy the setup. Do you guys think this will work or do you see any other options? Thanks

I went from Sonos One as surround sound to Era100 as surround sound, with an Arc and sub. The Era will not play when setup as surround sound.  I’m playing the same content that worked on the Sonos ones. ( Dolby Digital 5.1). Tried to remove surround sound  and setup multiple times with no luck. I have been using Sonos for years and very familiar with app.  Is anyone having the same issue?  Thanks. 

Hello, I have a Samsung UN55F6300AFXZA tv that I’m using with the Arc. I’ve got the Arc connected to the ARC HDMI port of the TV and a PS5 and Firestick connected to other HDMI ports. I can’t seem to get the settings right to get a 5.1 signal passed thru to the Arc. When I check the settings on my TV, the only digital audio out option is PCM. Dolby digital, DTS, and DTS neo2:5 are all grayed out and won’t let me select. Is there a known fix for this? thanks Mike

I have an Arc with the 3rd gen sub and Amp. I am moving into a new build and have the option to add Sonnance Wall & Ceiling speakers, which is my wife's preference due to aesthetics. However, with the introduction of the Era 300s I'm aware they would probably produce a bit theatre experience for movie watching.  My questions are: 1 - Can you use both wall and celling speakers with the Arc or does it have to be ceiling only due to their current sideways firing speakers? 2 - If you can use both wall and ceiling speakers with the Arc, is there that much of a difference and does it warrant the inevitable resistance and 'discussions' from my wife? Thanks for any help

My Beam stopped working. I am presently trying to restore it without success. I get the four dots in a wave pattern along with this message, “ Getting your Beam ready” but it is hung up on this. I can’t close the window or restart the reinstall. Suggestions please.

Hi. We wanted to create a surround sound so we’re advised to buy the beam and 2 SL 1 speakers but we aren’t getting the sound we had before. We were told Sonos is the best so are disappointed. Anyone able to give some advice please? We don’t have a very big room and at the moment we have one speaker to the back left of the room, the beam in front of the sofa under the TV and the other speaker in the right corner of the room. Thanks!

HiOur Kitchen TV is a 32” JVC and the Ray is on offer for £218 on Amazon vs the Beam Gen 2 for almost twice that, plus the Beam is bigger so the Ray would fit better under the TV/Anyway, my TV has no Optical out natively but it does have a Coaxial port called Digital Audio Output (Coaxial).Could I use this? If I am forced to spend another £200 on a beam, I will probably stick with the Ray option and just upgrade the TV to a newer model as its not Smart anyway.Thanks

I have a Sony A80L connected to Sonos Arc.All works well, except, when I try to switch to TV Speakers, it switches back to ARC after a few seconds.How can I keep TV speakers in use rather than using ARC for occasions that I want to switch ?Any advice is greatly appreciated.Regards,Sam

Help please! My one sl’s aren’t working as surrounds when tv mode. The beam work but one sl’s don’t. That stopped working a week ago. The precious 3 tetras they’ve worked together perfectly. the one sls do work when playing music which confuses me even more. anybody else experienced this issue. Thankyou. 

Hey all, I'm trying to connect my old Sonos Playbar (it's quite an old one, possibly 2013) to a Kogan 55" Smart TV (Series 8 LU8010). I've setup the Playbar and it's working while streaming Spotify from my phone through the app, but when I try to do 'TV setup' I get a 'no signal detected' error'. I've tried doing the old, unplug and plug it back in with each connection and also tried a few different settings on the TV itself. TV settings are pretty basic, but I've stripped it back to standard audio, balance 0, auto volume level off, surround sound off, S/PDIF Mode PCM (which I believe is the correct output for the Playbar. Anyone have any ideas? I've thought about getting a new optical cable but wanted to try here before I do that.

Hi folks, I’ve been trying to troubleshoot this but have had no luck so any advice would be appreciated.I’ve recently bought a Playbar through an auction. I did the factory reset on it, and connected it to the Sonos app on my phone.When trying to set it up with my TV (model: Toshiba 55U6863DB) using the optical cable I hit a problem with the app, it gives the following message:No signal detected. Make sure the optical cable is securely plugged into your TV and your Playbar.I have tried the classic turn it off and on again with both the TV and the Playbar, I’ve tried reconnecting the cables, swapping cables, I’ve changed the audio settings on the TV, tried connecting it with an optical-to-AUX adapter plugged into the headphones jack on the TV, and none of it seems to work.I can stream music from the Spotify app directly to the Playbar with no issues and can confirm the Playbar works from that, and I can also connect my computer to the Pla

Hi.I haven't played a blu ray disc for ages however when I did so a few days ago I was curious as to why when I rewound the film (to go back to a specific scene), I lost all sound from the Sonos Arc.The only way I could get the sound back was to stop playback and restart the player again.Any idea why this has happened?I think my sound bar setup is ok as the sound format within the Sonos app is Dolby Atmos.I also have another problem relating to the picture, namely, every few seconds I get a screen judder which only lasts a fraction of a second but repeats itself every few seconds.

How do I turn on all of my speakers at the same time?When I turn on my tv, my soundbar & sub woofer (gen3) power on, I have to go to my Sonos app to turn on my (2) era 300 speakers.

Hello,  Hoping someone could point me in the right direction, it may be more an arcana problem rather than sonos.I had a samsung TV with arc, sub & play 1’s and had atmos through the arcana. Sky TV used TV HDMI1 , hdmi arc went to the arcana, and my HDMI in was a 4K player. All worked fantastically. Until I swopped the TV for an AWOL 3000 UST projector. I used the same cabling, just swopped the projector for the TV. But, now I can’t get any sound through the arc from the projector (sky, netflix or USB) but I can get atmos from the 4K player.I cabled directly from the projector HDMI arc to Sonos eARc , removing arcana from the setup, and I have sound, getting atmos, from Sky (pcm) , Netflix from firestick, and USB. But with this setup I don’t have a connection for my 4K player.  So I believe my issue is with the arcana. When I try configure room setup using the sonos app, it errors on either CEC not enabled or point to the HDMI cables. CEC is en

I just set up a new Sonos system (Beam gen 2 + Era 100 surrounds) connected to a new LG C3 TV (65”), and while things are mostly great, my Nintendo Switch seems to cut out for a second every few minutes. Some searching around here and reddit shows some posts from years back with similar issues, but seem to be blaming it on some software update that seems irrelevant today. my setup:65” LG C3 TVApple TV on HDMI 1 (and has thus far been fine, generally playing Atmos content)Beam gen 2 on eARC HDMI 2Nintendo Switch on HDMI 3Xbox Series X on HDMI 4Era 100 speakers as rear surrounds (though this problem existed before I set those up)TV set to "pass through” audio, to use eARC, and the audio output is set to “bitstream"Nintendo Sw

Bought a Sonos ARC and Sub system.  My Samsung 2019 TV is connected to the ARC and Sub.  Sounds pretty good.  It was connected to an older sound system so the sound output was already set to use the Optical output while the TV speakers were off.  Switch over was easy using the HDMI cable to its ARC output.  But now wondering if I am getting the best throughput.  Looking at the Samsung setting for Digital Output Audio - it is set to PCM.  It lists Dolby Digital and Dolby Digital Plus as options but these are grayed out.  Can’t understand why; their documentation (eManual) is very limited.  Maybe it is stuck there because I was using the Optical output??? Any ideas???

I have a Sonos Beam Soundbar conected to a TV via HTMI eARC, in a room with (4) in-ceiling speakers connected to a single Sonos AMP. When I group the two zones, the TV audio will mirror onto the ceiling speakers, like I want…  However, the when I push volume buttons on my AppleTV remote (fed to the Sonos Beam via HDMI-CEC), it only changes the soundbar volume, not the group volume and grouped zones volume.Is there any way to the soundbar volume to have control over grouped zones, so these speakers can be just an “extension of the TV”?

sonos beam gen2を使用中。ルータをfs040wに交換後、sonosアプリの設定変更、再接続を試みるも、接続に問題が発生しましたと何回も表示。sonos自体の初期化も実行済み。ルータは2.4GHz、8011.b/g/nに設定済み。ルータのパスワード接続画面まではいく。ただ、テレビとsonos自体の接続はできており、音声もsonosから出力されている。アプリの設定だけどうしてもできないので、どなたか教えてください。 Moderator edit:Google Translate-Currently using sonos beam gen2.After replacing the router with the FS040W, I tried changing the settings of the Sonos app and reconnecting, but it kept saying "There was a connection problem."Sonos itself has also been initialized.The router is set to 2.4GHz, 8011.b/g/n.You will get to the password connection screen for the router.However, the connection between the TV and Sonos itself is established, and audio is also output from Sonos.I just can't set up the app, so please let me know.

Can you build a home theater system with four sonos era 300 speakers (two in the front and two in the rear?)

I cannot get my Sonos sub 3rd gen to connect to Sonos soundbar arc via wireless network.  

Hello All, I’m facing quite anoing issue with my Sonos ARC.While watching TV I cannot play sound via TV speaker. Always Sonos is forsing TV to play everything via Sonos Arc.Connected by HDMI Arc.All settings responsible for this adjustment in TV are  set no to act automatically in this scope.even if switched manually to play all sound via TVs speakers, after 1-2 seconds TV is sweatvhing into Sonos.with my previous soundbar from Sony, it was always possible to be decided.  

I have recently set up my surround sound using 2 ERA 300’s,  1 Arc and 1 Sub.During the set up it asked if I wanted to group the above speakers all with the same room name which I did.Question 1.  If I had not grouped as 1 room name, would I still had been able to set up as a complete surround sound set up?Question 2.   In this set up, Am I able to play music and just select the two ERA 300’s or do I have to play music through all of surround sound speakers?Question 3.  Now that I have added the ERA 300’s as surround speakers, can they be switched to a stereo pair if I was to change the set up so that they had their own room name.Question 4.  If they had their own room name, would I be able to switch back to the complete Surround sound set up when I watch TV?Thank you in advance.

Hi been through the forum and haven’t been able to duplicate others’ success with this.Though I’ve been successful with other surround music formats (BluRay, DVD-A), I’ve been stymied in my attempts to get SACD Surround material to my Sonos.   I see the menus and the material is playing, but the signal isn’t making it to the Arc (I am successful in hearing it on the TV’s internal speakers, but that’s not what I want).Equipment is in the subject line, and I have tried with multiple menu settings (including eARC off), but no joy yet.Can anyone help?Thanks!