sonos beam gen 2 asymmetric room layout

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Hi All,

If anyone could advise please. I am very interested in improving home cinema for the lounge. Torn between beam and arc ultra.

My lounge is 8.32 meter length, 3.76 metre width. I sit width ways facing tv (so just under 3.76 meter to where sound bars will be).

As the room is long so I have large windows about 2 meter to the right of sofa and French doors about 5 meter to right of me.

I do not need major base and im cautious about blasting the neighbour with noise so I don't think I will got beyond 50-60% volume

Does anyone have experience with this layout. I am concerned the psycoacoustic and immersion will be lost due to distance French doors and the sound will not be good.

Also anyone had lip sync issues with beam or ultra? Planning to get new tv this year but I hear hicense or tcl have hand shake issues to. May go lg or sony but any feed back on lip sync would be appreciated. Thank you

Airgetlam · Answer

Not had any experience with that type of room, but almost all installs are different.

If Atmos is important, I’d suggest an Arc Ultra. While the gen 2 Beam can interpret the input, it doesn’t have the upward firing speakers. If Dolby Digital is most important (and frankly, the vast majority of signals are Dolby Digital, than a Beam is a wonderful device.

But only your ears can be the decider, not mine. I’d recommend, if you can, listening to both at a dealer’s, but you’ll need to recognize that their ‘room’ will have different acoustics than yours (often better, they’re designed for it).

Volume isn’t significant, one isn’t ‘louder’ than the other.

Given that both devices connect via ARC/eARC, there should be no issue with lipsync. If there is, there’s something wrong with the TV, not with the Sonos. And can be fixed, most often.

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