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Home Theater Speaker Layouts

You can only add two surround speakers to a Sonos home theater setup. I would use the Era 300s as surrounds with the Arc and use the One SLs...
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Maximum amount of speakers supported in a surround sound setup for Home...

You can add up to two Subs (one must be a Gen 3) and two surround speakers to a Sonos home theater setup. So if you want to use the Era 300s...
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AndyHutchContributor II
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PS5 best settings for Sonos beam gen 2, sub and 2 one’s setup

Hi guys I’ve just upgraded from a Sonos play bar to a Beam gen 2 and finding it a bit confusing which settings to set up on the PS5.I also have a sonos sub and 2 sonos 1’s as surroundsI can only get 7.1 output on pcm but there is also Dolby and Dolby dts setting but they show 5.1could someone advise best settings on ps5 please to get best out of my setup ? Thanks in anticipation 

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Henryv99Contributor I
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Connect a RCA analog to digital converter to Ray

I am connecting an Audio Technica Turntable to my Sonos system using a Sonos Ray, using an analogue to digital converter and connecting this to the Ray bar. The Ray will not detect the optical signal from the converter. I have tested it by connecting it to the optical input on my Denon Amp and it works perfectly but the Ray will not detect it? If I connect an optical cable from the DVD player to the Ray it works but it will not work with the signal from the optical signal from analog to digital converter?

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ratty
2 years ago
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Blesson92Contributor I
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sonos is not shuffling apple music library

My sonos app is no longer shuffling my apple music library. This needs to be fixed asap. I have around 1000 songs in my library. I have had sonos for over 5 years and I have used sonos for music everyday. I use it with my Samsung galaxy s10+. Not being able to shuffle music is a deal breaker so if this doesn't get fixed, I will be looking into other sound systems. 

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controlav
2 years ago
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marc007Contributor I
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Firestick and Arc

I have a Sumsung tv and firestick pluged into on of the HDMI ports. I just bought an Arc and set it up and plugged it into the HDMI ARC port and the firestick is not working now at all, no on/off, no sound no anything. It was working fine witha samsung sound bar and optical. I can use the samung apps built into TV and the sound works fine though the ARC sound bar just nothing with the firestick. Help haha

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jgatie
2 years ago
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sjimbobContributor II
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Sonos Beam (gen 2) surround with One's does not show Dolby Atmos

Hi there,Recentely I bought the Sonos Beam gen 2 soundbar for my LG C1 tv. I connected it with a HDMI ARC cable and I made it surround with my two SonoS one's. The moment I wanted to experience the Dolby Atmos, I figured Netflix is only showing me Dolby Vision and no Dolby Atmos. The moment I unplug the soundbar Netflix is showing Dolby Atmos (since my tv supports this). I wonder if I am doing something wrong, but I thought Netflix would show me Atmos with this setup. Can somebody help me with this or explain why this isn't working?   If you need any more information, let me know!Thank you in advance!

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Corry P
2 years ago
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sjimbobContributor II
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SonoS Beam gen 2 with two rear speakers (SonoS one) displays no Dolby Atmos on Netflix

Hi there,Recentely I bought the Sonos Beam gen 2 soundbar for my LG C1 tv. I connected it with a HDMI ARC cable and I made it surround with my two SonoS one's. The moment I wanted to experience the Dolby Atmos, I figured Netflix is only showing me Dolby Vision and no Dolby Atmos. The moment I unplug the soundbar Netflix is showing Dolby Atmos (since my tv supports this). I wonder if I am doing something wrong, but I thought Netflix would show me Atmos with this setup. Can somebody help me with this or explain why this isn't working? If you need any more information, let me know!Thank you in advance!

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rony2005Contributor I
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A Sonos speaker is added to arc just for voice enhancement.

I have speech enhancement turned on with the arc, but I'm still trying to find out how to hear dialogue better. Is it possible to have a Sonos one SL or another less expensive speaker configured to exclusively play voices?Has anyone else ever experienced the arc with only one back speaker? In that case, how did that sound?

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BigDubRobContributor I
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beam not connecting to Sonos App

Hi There I bought a new Sonos Beam. It connected initially to the Sonos app on iOS. It then just disappeared and now it won’t reconnect and cannot be found. I have unplugged the Ethernet, HDMI and tried resetting the system but nothing. It works with TV via the HDMI but isn’t registering on the Sonos app. Help! 

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Corry P
2 years ago
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KAL71Contributor I
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Sonos Beam no longer connects to Sony Bravia TV - New Post

Hi, I made the original post below about 4mo ago. I was given the below solution in blue. I tried the solution & it didn’t work. I’ve been looking for the original Sonos HDMI cable, which I can’t find. I came back to this & tried again. I even did a Android software update to see if that would fix this. Nothing seems to work I followed the instructions exactly & the TV recognized the Sonos. My Sonos app, when I did TV Setup, said I was all set & connected to the TV. The Sonos device made a sound, but there simply is not TV audio coming through my Sonos. When i increase volume, the Sonos lights up but teh TV does not show any volume increase. This is so bizarre, because when I purchsed the Sonos & connected to TV 1st time everything worked perfectly & Sonos gave TV sound for about a year. Then just stopped. Nothing I do solves this. Sonos works fine for music on the Sonos speaker network. Can someone PLEASE help. Is this a Sonos problem or Sony problem??Original

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2 years ago
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huntaaarAvid Contributor I
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latest arc update broke my setup

Everything was working fine with my arc and Panasonic tv.But after the last Sonos update:The tv sound is not in sync.The (sky) remote no longer controls the arc volume/mute but now controls the tv instead.The tv sound plays at different sync to arc at the same time. Not sure what’s got out of whack. Any help welcome.thanks 

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Airgetlam
2 years ago
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bhagon1979Contributor I
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TV issues

I am hoping someone can help. We have Sonos, a Beam (with TV plugged in via ARC), an amp (with turntable), an old Play 3 and a Roam.I am having real problems connecting the TV to the system. I can get it to play through the Beam, but not the other speakers, which was my hack for a surround sound type TV watching experience.This is a recent problem, and I've done the basics (all updates, unplug from power, unplug ARC, etc.) and still doesn't work.Sometimes the other speakers show up in my controller (sometimes they do not), and even if I crank the volume on the amp and the play 3, no sound comes out.I do find this constant connection issues frustrating with Sonos.Side note: primarily my wife uses the Beam voice controlled with Alexa, not sure if that is related or not.Any advice warmly appreciated.

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Airgetlam
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Lio69Contributor I
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craquelures sur sonos Beam

Bonjour ma sonos Beam a des craquelures sur le dessus au niveau de la jonction tissus et plastiques est ce normal ?cdt 

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