Opinion noted! Ill give sonos a call. ThanksHey I mentioned it. Sounds iffy to me, mine feels like Rick Waller walking across my lounge.
Opinion noted! Ill give sonos a call. ThanksHey I mentioned it. Sounds iffy to me, mine feels like Rick Waller walking across my lounge.
Opinion noted! Ill give sonos a call. Thanks
Yep, this is how it is for me.Same as you sent first one back for same underwhelming reason. Second is the same but have found a better location against a wall and on +5. It has to be driven relatively hard to shake the room. Most of the time I just watch tv at normal household volumes and find while it doesn’t do much work bass wise it makes the ARC and or Beam sound cleaner.
Thanks, Ive seen the crawl! and think Peter Pees vids are great. It might just be most people dont have 5’s which are great as surrounds and dont let anyone tell you they are overkillIf you have the options in your room for different sub placement positions.
Might be worth trying the Sub crawl. Google it lol.
Basically place the sub at your Main listening position. Play something bass heavy. Poss a test tone. Then walk crawl round the room. Places where you feel it most is supposedly the optimum placement position.
check out the Peter Pee vids as well on YouTube. Does one regarding sub orientation to show measured results when sub is vertical, horizontal, open faced etc
But I’d deffo get it replaced as others have suggested, if only to rule it out.
Good luck Bud. Room layout is so subjective.
I’ve tweaked my settings too many times to mention now. Even just based on source material.
It could be that the addition of sub to Arc and Fives is of little benefit. The Fives go nearly as low. So if Sonos have factored that into the previous crossover points your benefit of the Sub could be marginal. If you cannot get the satisfaction of a real thump spend the money elsewhere.Thanks, Ive seen the crawl! and think Peter Pees vids are great. It might just be most people dont have 5’s which are great as surrounds and dont let anyone tell you they are overkill
Have tried putting my hand between the twin woofers, cant feel any air disturbance as such but can feel the cones moving. I know my sub is working as it rattles the windows with some content. The reason you probably can’t feel air moving between the woofers is probably this (taken from the Sonos site)Same as you sent first one back for same underwhelming reason. Second is the same but have found a better location against a wall and on +5. It has to be driven relatively hard to shake the room. Most of the time I just watch tv at normal household volumes and find while it doesn’t do much work bass wise it makes the ARC and or Beam sound cleaner.
Same as you sent first one back for same underwhelming reason. Second is the same but have found a better location against a wall and on +5. It has to be driven relatively hard to shake the room. Most of the time I just watch tv at normal household volumes and find while it doesn’t do much work bass wise it makes the ARC and or Beam sound cleaner.
Certainly in my system with the one SL as surrounds the sub makes a hell of a difference. Most of ordinary tv is just plain 2.0 stereo so the sub isn’t doing a lot. Feed it a good 5.1 source and it’s contribution is quite noticeable. I’ve turned the sub off and I really noticed the lack of bass. Then again my room is only 12’ x 12’ so perhaps that makes a difference.Same here, the sub is a nice addition, but some hyped it up on here I feel. To me it's not worth the price considering the ARC itself is only a little more in value.
I am pleased I got it still though.
On the flip side, mines on -4 level and bass -2 and it does rumble a hell of a lot if the content dictates. So make of that what you will, I wouldn't want mine on 0. So my room must be acoustically enhancing the low frequency.
Whereas mudshark says at plus 5 it sounds like an earthquake...which makes me think mine just aint right. Mines at plus 5 barely hear it.
I’ve had the Arc since release day, am more than happy but have only just started viewing this thread Rather than read through all 199 pages of this thread, as I’m sure the question my question will have been asked before, how can I get full lossless Atmos sound to play on the Arc if my TV (LG65C7) only has an ARC output and not EARC ? I had considered replacing the C7 with the CX as this would then also give me Apple TV but is there another solution I should be looking at rather than going to such expense ? Thank you
Thank you very much for the information flashf I did see the HD Fury mentioned somewhere earlier in this thread but wasn’t sure if it was available in the UK yet so will take a proper look. I was optimistically hoping that a set-top box was available that would give me both access to Apple TV and an EARC output solving both my problems in one but it seems not. Anyhow, thanks againyou can only get “full fat” lossless from a Blu-ray Disc, everything else is lossy. You need either a tv with eArc or else the HD Fury Arcana.
Thank you very much for the information flashf I did see the HD Fury mentioned somewhere earlier in this thread but wasn’t sure if it was available in the UK yet so will take a proper look. I was optimistically hoping that a set-top box was available that would give me both access to Apple TV and an EARC output solving both my problems in one but it seems not. Anyhow, thanks again
Just ordered from the EU site for delivery sometime in October but they’re now 175 Euros !Yes there is an EU section when ordering, if that still applies to the UK ! I'm in Ireland, ordered a few weeks ago for €155 - early reactions on reddit are very positive.
Don’t forget this will only give you eArc functionality on ONE device, ie. your Apple TV, so if you have a blu-ray player, you would need a hdmi switcher if you wanted Dolby true HD or Atmos on your blu-rays.Just ordered from the EU site for delivery sometime in October but they’re now 175 Euros !
Very interested how this turns out for people as I would be in, if it does what it's supposed to do. Interested how a HDMI switch works to get all my devices with some Atmos action? Do these things auto switch or do I have to make sure my firestick is off to play xbox etc?
Cheers
Thanks again flashf1, I’m aware of that However, there is one thing that I’m confused about with regard to the HD Fury Arcana ! If I’ve read things correctly, the Arcana takes the ARC audio feed from whichever device is connected to it and then fools the Sonos Arc into recognising the audio to be from an EARC connection and thus allowing full Atmos lossless ?! My understanding is that an ARC connection doesn’t have sufficient bandwidth to send full Atmos lossless audio in the first place and so where is the HD Fury getting the lossless audio from to send to the Arc ?Don’t forget this will only give you eArc functionality on ONE device, ie. your Apple TV, so if you have a blu-ray player, you would need a hdmi switcher if you wanted Dolby true HD or Atmos on your blu-rays.
Not sure how the switchers work, check out the hd fury website, they sell themVery interested how this turns out for people as I would be in, if it does what it's supposed to do. Interested how a HDMI switch works to get all my devices with some Atmos action? Do these things auto switch or do I have to make sure my firestick is off to play xbox etc?
Cheers
I think you are confusing the bandwidth capability of an HDMI connection with HDMI ARC. When HDMI is used as ARC it needs to be eARC.Thanks again flashf1, I’m aware of that However, there is one thing that I’m confused about with regard to the HD Fury Arcana ! If I’ve read things correctly, the Arcana takes the ARC audio feed from whichever device is connected to it and then fools the Sonos Arc into recognising the audio to be from an EARC connection and thus allowing full Atmos lossless ?! My understanding is that an ARC connection doesn’t have sufficient bandwidth to send full Atmos lossless audio in the first place and so where is the HD Fury getting the lossless audio from to send to the Arc ?
At my peril I shall butt in. The point of the device is surely to avoid passing the signal through the tv as the tv may not have eARC. So the composite signal is generated by the blu-ray player and passed to Arcana which which splits off the audio to the Arc as if by eARC and send the video to the tv. I say at my peril as I have only casually been following this as it is not applicable to me.Confusing when we’re talking about ARC, eARC, Arcana, and Sonos Arc!! Your full fat lossless Atmos via Dolby Digital True HD is ONLY coming from a blu-ray disc/player (or rip), passing through your tv, then through the Arcana, and into the Sonos Arc, where it will be conveyed in all
It’s lossless glory.
Not 100% sure I’m answering what you’re asking?!