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Setup for Stereo AND Surround using Samsung S95B

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I have a Samsung OLED S95B TV that controls all my music - it runs Plex, Apple Music and YouTube. Sound is via an old 3.1 THX sound system. The sound is not up to scratch with the TV and I want to upgrade to Sonos.

I am thinking the Ultimate Immersive Set, with an ARC, a Sub, and 2 x ERA300 for surround speakers… That should be easy to set up. Connect the Arc to the TV via HDMI, and the Arc connects to the rest.

However, I also would like to have a great setup for listening to music from my TV, and for that I thought about 2 additional ERA300s, or 2 x Fives.

If I was to buy 2 x ERA300s or 2 x Fives, how would I connect that? Would the ARC be connected to the TV and control the 2 “front” speakers, and only use these if I wanted to listen to music, vs. watching TV and using the surround setup? Or am I asking for too much?

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jgatieAnswer

OK - I think I understand that…

So I can indeed setup the Ultimate Immersive Set with my TV for surround etc. And then I can buy another set of ERA300s or Fives, and set these up as a different group, and when I want to watch TV, use the Surround group, and when I want to listen to music, use the Music group - all via the Arc connected to the TV?

Correct, except it isn’t “all via the Arc”. The music group will be separate from the Arc, but they will all be in the same “system” and available to you in the Sonos app. So you could be playing two different sources in each room (which would be funny because they are in the same physical “room”, but it is possible, and handy of you expand your system to other rooms).

As for the Sub, it will be in the Surround group only. What if I bought another Sub, could I put that in the Music group?

Yes you could have two Subs, each bonded to a different room. But honestly, the Five sounds very, very good without a Sub. It’s Sonos most complete speaker.

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Stanley_4

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Listening to both is the best bet, as said.

When listening to the 300s you might want to try them with a mini-Sub added to see if you like that better than teh Fives.

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KillerBobAuthor

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Unfortunately I cannot get it to work…

I set up the Arc, the Sub and the Surrounds (2 x ERA300) in Living-room and that setup works great. The TV delivers sound via HDMI on the Arc.

However, I set up 2 additional ERA300s (they didn’t have any Fives), and put them as a stereo-set in a Music-room. Now I can send music to them via my iPad or iPhone, but I can’t send music to the Music-room from the TV - at least I can’t figure it out.

Any pointers?

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KillerBobAuthor

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If my vision is not possible, is there another way I can connect my TV to the 2 x Sonos Five speakers? I only have HDMI, Optical, Ethernet, WiFi, and Bluetooth on the TV… No line-out or headphone jack.

Airgetlam

As previously stated, you should be able to group the two rooms, assuming you’ve set up both ‘rooms’ in the same Sonos system. There will be a slight delay between the home theater room, and the stere pair’s room. If you’ve mistanly set up two Sonos systems, I’d suggest a factory reset of just the 300s, and then use the ‘add a device’ function in the controller while it’s connected to your home theater system. It will know to put the additional speakers in another Sonos ‘room’, where you physically place them is up to you.

Bruce

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KillerBobAuthor

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I have done all of that, but still can’t play TV on the two Fives…

I will try and factory reset the entire setup…

If this doesn’t work, I reckon I can connect the Fives to the Samsung TV using a 192KHz Digital Optical to RCA L/R & 3.5mm AUX Converter Cord. This will bring the TV sound into the Fives, which seems to be the challenge with the Arc.

Airgetlam

Don’t factory reset everything, just the Fives, and then add them to the existing system of the home theater room.

Bruce

Airgetlam

At the end of the day, when you open the Sonos controller, you should see two rooms, one with the Home Theater devices, and one with the pair of Fives. Once that exists, you can group as desired.

Note that the analog line in on the Fives, that you mentioned you might use via a convoluted setup, would still incur the 75ms delay, as all Sonos analog line ins do.

Bruce

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