Home theater

I am building an master bedroom suite with a small home theater area.  Ideally I would like to use 2 sets of in wall speakers with 2 Sonos Amps and an in wall sub with it’s own amp.  However there would not be any Sonos voice control or audio swapping to the Ace headphones with this setup.I talked to a Sonos salesperson and she was not overly helpful.  She suggested using an Arc Ultra in the front.  Obviously it won’t be as nice aesthetically, but I also don’t think the sound quality would be as good.  It just seems that having the front speakers further apart is going to give better surround sound than a soundbar.Any ideas or suggestions?  

I have bought the Latest Sonos Ultra Arc Soundbar and looking for any advise someone has bought for a Televisions, size and make that also is of the same high Spec and shows off the quality's of the sound Bar 

Hi..i have apple tv connected to tv and then to arc ultra everytime i want to play lossless audio from apple music i get stereo pcm sound only and  if i stream with airplay 2 i get lossless.what is the problem why can’t i get it from apple tv..?i’m using sonos app.  

Does anyone else have this issue and do you have a solution? I have a 1st Generation Arc soundbar. Something I notice too often is that I will be listening to music on the Arc (with 2x Era surrounds) when the Arc suddenly stops playing music. For a while i thought this was down to bad wifi connection but then I started to notice the Sonos App has switched itself to "TV Audio" even though the TV is turned off.I wonder if the TV (or the connected Game Console) is "pinging" my Arc and causing this?I suppose I could turn off the power supply to the TV and Game Console and see if that stops it but that would be an inconvenient solution.I have noticed this occurring more frequently since last year's major update to the App. I rarely get through an album without it happening at least once.  

Can I connect my Bluetooth headphones to a Ray? My AirPods 

Hi.Can i use a sub gen 3 with sonos beam gen 1 and two play one gen 1?

Good afternooon,i have purchased a new (Samsung) TV which has no optical output and i wanted to connect the play bar via HDMI/SPDIF converter.TV’s audio ouput is the HDMI connected to the converter.The optical cable that goes into the playbar has a signal (red beam is on).In the Sonos App, the playbar shows SPDIF selectedUnfortunately the playbar stays quit.Does the optical input need some ‘special’ configuration ? Regards,Gaston 

Sonos not connecting to my 9 years old samsung TV, It has arc hdmi port as well. I have latest sonos app installed in the iphone. I have changed HDMI cables but no change. Is it possible my 9 years old TV is not compitable? 

Directv over internet LG smart tv Genie receiver and remote Alexa and Echo Playbar and one OneSLThese were all installed separately over a period of years.  All software current…no observable or reported hardware problemsLast piece of kit was the Genie remote. After install, it worked just fine...I could adjust the volume of the speakers in the app or by using the volume button on the remote. Then...it just stopped.  Could not adjust the volume with either the remote or the app.  Have had to go back to the tv internal speakers, and that ain’t no fun when you’re watching Apocalypse Now. I have tried everything I can think of...uninstall and reinstall everything and unplug and plug back.  No Love. Any thoughts...anyone? Paul

I always upgrade to the newest app the day it comes out but I already had the current one at that time which was the one before 80.17.09 and 80.17.07, and it did a system update to my new Arc Ultra.  The rear speaker balance sounded fine after I ran a full TruePlay on my system with two Era 300 rears and two Sub (Gen 3)s.(But why with the Arc Ultra is the option not allowed, greyed out, to adjust distance between surrounds which I never had different before anyway but previously I had it on 2ft to 10ft, and now it is greyed out on more than 10ft, or not allowed to change the phase of my subs, which should be independent by the way — as should volume, balance, bass, treble, and height controls be SEPARATE for Arc Ultra/Subs and SEPARATE for the Era 300 surrounds?)But once I did the system update to my hardware in 80.17.07 came the problem of the left era 300 being 10x louder than the right era 300 surround speaker!!!!  This is worse with TV Video than with music, as with music the left

I have a Sonos Arc hooked up to my TV, when I'm playing music and turn the TV on it keeps playing music. The company who installed it used an optical to connect the two and the HDMI for a distributed video system. Is there a way to fix this without having to switch from Optical to HDMI?Thanks for the help.

What are your experiences with trueplay on 2x era 300, arc and sub mini? Is trueplay really better? Or should I use my own settings? 

Dear all,thanks to the valuable help of this community, I have focused on my desired setup.I need one last piece of advice on how to connect everything.Here’s a description:on the wall/screen side, I have my internet box and will have an Arc Ultra (can’t wait) on the other side of the room, I have a projector, which has 1HDMI + 1HDMI eARC.  TV signal is provided by a decoder (UHD 4K/atmos) which can either be on the wall side (connected in ethernet to the internet box) or on the projector side (connected in wifi to the box). The decoder has one HDMI plug.One option I guess would be to have the decoder on the projector side, connected in wifi to the internet box, and to the projector through HDMI, and use the eARC port of the projector to connect to the Arc Ultra. But maybe the connection of the decoder through Wifi (6) will be a bit limitative.I was wondering if you guys saw another setup. I’d rather not use the optical in if possible as I need it for another source. I am also intere

How do I adjust the output balance between my main Arc soundbar and my 2 surround sound speakers? The predominant sound is emitting from the sound bar and I want to increase the bias to the back of my room.

Hi,I tried troubleshooting this with Sonos Customer Support to no avail. I’m trying to trueplay tune my home theatre setup which consists of a Beam Gen 2, sub mini and 2 play 1s for surround. It fails every time midway through the test and asks for me to try again. Help! 

Despite many attempts I have been unsuccessful in trying to play the sound from my Soundbar to other speakers in other rooms.I have gone into the Groups option, set up a group name then in my speaker list select Playbar and other speaker in other rooms. I have saved this setting hoping I would now be able to hear Playbar sound in the other speakers, but nothing!What can I be doing wrong?Thanks.

Arc speaker connected to the TV has just gone crazy. Middleton of a program it just starting sounding like some sort of nuclear alert siren. Unbelievably loud single tone siren. Had to disconnect the speaker, only way to stop the sound. any advise appreciated. Hope the speaker isn’t bricked. Wouldn’t be the first. 

I understand that the Play 1 is not supported with the Arc Ultra, however some have said they do work. Has anyone found that they actually do NOT work? Sounds like Sonos want to remove the support stream. I appreciate there could be a future issue with upgrades etc but my question is has anyone found they were unable to bond the Play 1s with the Arc Uktra?

Hello I have Beam 2nd Gen paired with two Ikea Symfonisk as surrounds. Those work properly by themselves, even as stereo pair, also I'm able to set them in a separate room and play music in both living room and symfonisks' room at the same time.  But, when I set them as surrounds, even if the process is done fine, all the steps of the app properly done and they appear as set as surrounds... They don't sound, not in 5.1 films, nor in surround music. I have spatial music activated, surround music activated…volume is high enough.  The buttons of the symfonisks work, so I can control volume of the beam up and down from the Symfonisk. I have reset all the speakers to factory reset and tried a fresh connection. Same results.  I tried to connect one of the speakers through RJ45 but still no sound and also, it's weird that I buy wireless speakers and I have to use them connected to the router with a cable.  I have not been able to find solutions on internet What could be the solution?  Thanks

Hello we have just purchase 2 arc ultras with subs for two separate rooms.  Each are set up with a TV.  I have successfully paired one Arc and sub in one room however setting up the second arc I cannot locate the flashinglight due to how the tv and arc have been connected physically.  Below is the notification from the app and the photo of how mine looks.  

Volume is very low with my surround speakers One SL speakers left & right, I can barely hear it. Majority of the sound is coming from the beam & im no longer getting the surround effect. 

Hello, I am looking into buying the arc with a sub mini and 2 era 100s.I had a few questions please: I would like to configure the era 100s as a surround speaker with the arc and the sub.For listening to music I would like to switch the era 100s to stereo mode, I think I understood that there was an option for this in the application ("full" mode).If I understand correctly the sub mini and the arc will also play with the era 100s, will there be latency if I play music from the TV with the era 100s in "full" mode, do I absolutely have to go through the app to stream the music and avoid latency? Sorry for my english

We had a very well working setup with a playbar, Sub Gen 3, and two Play:1 as rear speakers.When I tried to update the network setting to use the WIFI, the rear surrounds (Play:1) went silent. The interesting part is that the true play setup works and they makes sound during the setup but then silence when playing content that they previously worked really well for. This is really annoying. When looking at about section, the rears are visible and the system show no signs of problems. The app says it output sounds in 5.1 as usual but the rears are silent.All speakers are set up to use wireless network and the playbar is connected with a wired connection. Anybody experienced a similar problem?

Hi, I have a Sonos beam Gen 2 with the HDMI into the TV’s ARC port and the PC HDMI into the TV. But when I try using Dolby Atmos through the Dolby Access on Windows 11 it’s all out of sync. Can anyone help me solve this? Thanks.

I have just purchased a playbar from marketplace.plugged into my TV via optic, sound works through TV however, volume is stuck on one volume and can only adjust via the app.  The tv remote is compatible with the the playbar however, it just won’t connect. Do I need to use a hdmi-optic converter to go from optic to hdmi in the tv for it to work? This is what I have gathered online however, seems counterintuitive to have to buy an adaptor in order for tv remote to work on tv to playbar?