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Era 300 or a pair of Era 100


Which one of these options should I go for? A single Era 300 or a pair of Era 100 and connect them as stereo pair?

I have a small room. I will connect these speakers with my iPhone, MacBook and Sony Bravia 3 TV. My primary aim of having these speakers is listening to music, watching movies live streaming channel and play games using latest PS game controller.

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106rallye
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  • April 9, 2025

How would you connect these speakers to your TV? Bluetooth seems to lead to drop outs if I read comments on this community. For TV Sonos has the Amp or the soundbars.


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  • Contributor I
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  • April 9, 2025

I will try Bluetooth. If it has hassles, then I will buy that Adapter for wired connection.


Pools-3015
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There will be a 75ms delay with the line in adapter, so unless your Sony TV has a lip sync setting, the delay would be terrible for tv viewing.

A soundbar or the Amp would be better for TV. Have a look at the Arc, that is now discounted, or the Beam for your TV.


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  • Contributor I
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  • April 9, 2025
Pools-3015 wrote:

There will be a 75ms delay with the line in adapter, so unless your Sony TV has a lip sync setting, the delay would be terrible for tv viewing.

A soundbar or the Amp would be better for TV. Have a look at the Arc, that is now discounted, or the Beam for your TV.

 

Thank you. What does the Sound bar uses that has 0 MS delay?


jgatie
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  • April 9, 2025
maverick786us wrote:

 

Thank you. What does the Sound bar uses that has 0 MS delay?

 

The soundbars use physical HDMI-ARC or optical cable connections.  And the delay isn’t 0 ms, it’s around 30ms, but under the threshold of being able to distinguish lip sync problems.   The reason for the 75 ms delay on the analog Line-In is the Line-In needs to be transmitted to other rooms, so it needs a larger buffer.  TV signals travel over a private, low latency, direct connect 5 GHz connection between the soundbar and the surrounds/Sub within the same room, so the buffer can be lower.  When grouped with other rooms, the TV connection is delayed by 75 ms also.


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  • Contributor I
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  • April 9, 2025

And if I connect the speakers using Bluetooth, will there be a delay?


jgatie
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  • April 9, 2025
maverick786us wrote:

And if I connect the speakers using Bluetooth, will there be a delay?

 

I don’t know.  I’ve never connect to a TV via Bluetooth.  Perhaps someone else has. 


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  • Prodigy II
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  • April 10, 2025

@maverick786us 

You said in the other thread that I replied to that you already ordered the Era 100s. I advised you could Airplay to them from your MacBook (which was one of your questions), and that you could connect your Sony Bravia 3 to the Era 100s by Bluetooth.

To save on pre-emptive hypotheticals, why don’t you just wait for the Era 100s to arrive, try the Bluetooth from the TV and see how you get on?


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