Skip to main content
Answered

Sonos Beam and Connect

  • May 13, 2022
  • 6 replies
  • 67 views

So i have a Beam connected tot he TV that uses ARC, works really well, love it. I also have a projector that we use to watch movies but it doesn’t support ARC, I wanted to use the Beam with it. If I were to buy a connect would this allow be to run a line-in from the projector to the connect and then link the connect to the beam in the app. In theory I believe this would work but would there be latency issues???

Best answer by jgatie

The line-in on any Sonos device will always have a 75ms latency to the source.  

This topic has been closed for further comments. You can use the search bar to find a similar topic, or create a new one by clicking Create Topic at the top of the page.

6 replies

jgatie
  • Answer
  • May 13, 2022

The line-in on any Sonos device will always have a 75ms latency to the source.  


Airgetlam
  • May 13, 2022

In addition, the CONNECT is a stereo device, and will not pass a 5.1 signal of any type to the Sonos soundbar.


  • Author
  • Contributor I
  • May 13, 2022

Ok think I've found a device that could work, it's an arc audio extractor, 1hdmi in and then an audio and video HDMI out I'll give that a go


  • Author
  • Contributor I
  • May 19, 2022

Just another query as I’m about to try something, I have a low latency Bluetooth transmitter that I have paired with my sonos roam. In theory, if i connect the transmitter to the projector and put the roam beside it, I could then join the audio from the roam to the Beam, now the ram latency is negligible when I did this before and I know it would only be 2.1 but it could work…...right….

I will experiment with this and let anyone that cares know whether or not this worked.

 


ratty
  • May 19, 2022

The Roam doesn’t support aptX of any flavour, and certainly not aptX Low Latency. A Bluetooth transmitter would therefore fall back to using SBC to talk to the Roam. SBC has a latency of somewhere around 200-250ms, quite sufficient to ruin lip-sync.


  • Author
  • Contributor I
  • May 19, 2022

😪 You’re right, I did a quick test and it was not pretty. I think I’ll just buya  cheap soundbar for the proj that has aux, I’m over complicating things