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sonos era 100/300 playback atmos

  • December 20, 2024
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Hi

Question for you all.  I now have in my arsenal two pairs of era 300 downstairs in my house and an older play 1 in the kitchen.  If I play an atmos track/album on the two pair fine, not a problem, if I then add in the kitchen speaker it knocks down the playback on all the speakers to ultra HD.  If I take off the kitchen speaker the playback goes back up to atmos.  

This is the question: If I upgrade the kitchen speaker to an ERA 100 will it still downgrade the playback on all the other atmos capable speakers or not? 

Thanks in advance for any help

Best answer by 106rallye

This probably happens when you group the 300’s with any non-Atmos speaker. Which would mean it also happens with the 100.

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106rallye
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  • 106rallye
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  • December 20, 2024

This probably happens when you group the 300’s with any non-Atmos speaker. Which would mean it also happens with the 100.

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  • nik9669a
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When speakers/rooms are grouped, they will all play to the “lowest supported format” of the speakers in the group. 

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  • sibles51
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  • December 20, 2024

Thanks for your responses, I thought that with the newer technology speaker the signal would be able to pass through?

jgatie
  • jgatie
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  • December 20, 2024

Thanks for your responses, I thought that with the newer technology speaker the signal would be able to pass through?

 

Pass through to what?  Since all rooms are playing the same stream, if a room in a group is incapable of playing a particular format, then the stream is downgraded to accommodate that room.

Mr. T
  • Mr. T
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  • December 20, 2024

When speakers/rooms are grouped, they will all play to the “lowest supported format” of the speakers in the group. 

Not quite, otherwise they would all play in SD.

The group will play the highest supported format of the least capable speaker, which in this case appears to be Ultra HD.

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  • nik9669a
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  • December 20, 2024

When speakers/rooms are grouped, they will all play to the “lowest supported format” of the speakers in the group. 

Not quite, otherwise they would all play in SD.

The group will play the highest supported format of the least capable speaker, which in this case appears to be Ultra HD.

Apologies - that’s what I was trying to say but my attempt came out quite wrong!

Mr. T
  • Mr. T
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  • December 20, 2024

When speakers/rooms are grouped, they will all play to the “lowest supported format” of the speakers in the group. 

Not quite, otherwise they would all play in SD.

The group will play the highest supported format of the least capable speaker, which in this case appears to be Ultra HD.

Apologies - that’s what I was trying to say but my attempt came out quite wrong!

I knew what you meant 😉

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  • nik9669a
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“Highest common denominator” is the fancy way of saying it 😜

Stanley_4
  • Stanley_4
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  • December 20, 2024

This bit may make the Era-100 Atmos question a bit less confusing as it does support Atmos when used as a surround but not alone or in a Pair.

 

https://www.sonos.com/en-us/shop/era-100-black

Can I experience Dolby Atmos with Era 100?

As a standalone speaker, the acoustic architecture of Era 100 does not support playback of spatial audio content. For those who want to enjoy content in Dolby Atmos, we recommend Era 300.

When paired with Arc or Beam (Gen 2) as rear surrounds, two Era 100 speakers will support playback of Dolby Atmos content.

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  • sibles51
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  • December 24, 2024

This bit may make the Era-100 Atmos question a bit less confusing as it does support Atmos when used as a surround but not alone or in a Pair.

 

https://www.sonos.com/en-us/shop/era-100-black

Can I experience Dolby Atmos with Era 100?

As a standalone speaker, the acoustic architecture of Era 100 does not support playback of spatial audio content. For those who want to enjoy content in Dolby Atmos, we recommend Era 300.

When paired with Arc or Beam (Gen 2) as rear surrounds, two Era 100 speakers will support playback of Dolby Atmos content.

That’s what I was thinking about! Now I know, thanks for all your responses 

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