Mr X
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You should have one marked Arc. Use that Into the beam.Sorry, which output from the TV??
You should have one marked Arc. Use that Into the beam.Sorry, which output from the TV??
I until recently had two full Beam setups with rears and subwoofers (Upgraded the living room Beam to the Arc). I loved them, they sounded great for music, movies and TV shows. I have the rears and subwoofer in smart plugs so for normal TV I would just use the soundbar, for movies I could ask Alexa to turn on the rears/sub and enjoy 5.1 surround sound. Works brilliantly for me, hence why I I've stuck with Sonos and bought an Arc.So QQ on this. I currently have a Q Media 4 sound bar. Thinking changing for a Sonos Beam. Is this a good call? It's a smallish room and I find the media is either TOO Loud or TOO quiet.
Any thoughts?
I until recently had two full Beam setups with rears and subwoofers (Upgraded the living room Beam to the Arc). I loved them, they sounded great for music, movies and TV shows. I have the rears and subwoofer in smart plugs so for normal TV I would just use the soundbar, for movies I could ask Alexa to turn on the rears/sub and enjoy 5.1 surround sound. Works brilliantly for me, hence why I I've stuck with Sonos and bought an Arc.
Sonos has speech enhancement and a night mode should you need them.
The Beam is great, but due to its size the front soundstage LCR is narrow, the Arc is twice the width so sounds massive in comparison. Add in Atmos and the magic happens, watched Bohemian Rhapsody on the Arc and felt like I was watching Live Aid live. The Arc produced a wall of sound towards me.How much of an upgrade is the Arc from the Beam, very noticeable? I guess as you have a sub and rears it might be a bit less noticeable.
Out of interest, any particular reason you do this?I have the rears and subwoofer in smart plugs so for normal TV I would just use the soundbar, for movies I could ask Alexa to turn on the rears/sub and enjoy 5.1 surround sound.
Just to save having them on all the time, the smart plugs will use less in electricity and I'm at work during the day so no need to have 2 sets of rears and subs on and if I'm just watching normal TV no need for the rears and sub anyway as most tv is in stereo. I leave the Beams on for the use of Alexa though.Out of interest, any particular reason you do this?
I have just replaced my Media 4 with a Sonos Beam and am very happy with it.So QQ on this. I currently have a Q Media 4 sound bar. Thinking changing for a Sonos Beam. Is this a good call? It's a smallish room and I find the media is either TOO Loud or TOO quiet.
Any thoughts?
The Playbar supports AAC at 2.0 not 5.1 so I suspect the Beam would be the same, it's a horrible compressed sound too, hideous, I mix it up to AC3 5.1 on avidemux if I need too but not much about with that codec, I tried using Plex to transcode DTS to AC3 but the throughput @ 30mb/s for sound over my network doesn't work so well, I use a NAS drive connected to an Android box but still stick to AC3.Before I buy a Beam, does anyone know if it supports AAC 5.1 audio? I think I remember reading it doesn't and will down mix it to stereo but wanted to double check.
Reason I ask is I use Plex sometimes for playing movies from my NAS, if I uncheck DTS audio Plex will transcode films with DTS to AAC, however I can't seem to find an option to force it to transcode to AC3 (Dolby). My Plex client is on my LG C8 TV, which I believe can output audio as Dolby Digital (is an option over ARC). However it seems a waste and inefficient to have audio trabscoded twice.
Does anyone have a similar setup and can advise? Understand it's probably better for me to post on the Plex forums as it is a fairly specific question.
The Playbar supports AAC at 2.0 not 5.1 so I suspect the Beam would be the same, it's a horrible compressed sound too, hideous, I mix it up to AC3 5.1 on avidemux if I need too but not much about with that codec, I tried using Plex to transcode DTS to AC3 but the throughput @ 30mb/s for sound over my network doesn't work so well, I use a NAS drive connected to an Android box but still stick to AC3.
Now you just need the surroundsArrived and set up super happy i may lack a bit of base on the Q4 but not much and overall the sound is far more nuanced.
See my answer above, internal apps are fine, I’ll try my PS4 tomorrow, but the Apple TV just flags stereo, no lip sync issues at all though.anyone with lg B9/C9 having beam? nay issues with lipsync? i will use only internal apps (atv app, netflix, hbo) and ps4/ps5 - as it does not have earc, there may be potential problem... anyone can share your experiance?
You need to go into audio settings of Apple TV and change audio format to Dolby Digital 5.1. The Apple TV uses LPCM as standard which Sonos can't handle so you get stereo.See my answer above, internal apps are fine, I’ll try my PS4 tomorrow, but the Apple TV just flags stereo, no lip sync issues at all though.
So what do I set my tv hdmi arc to then mate auto/pcm or pass through?You need to go into audio settings of Apple TV and change audio format to Dolby Digital 5.1. The Apple TV uses LPCM as standard which Sonos can't handle so you get stereo.
Please let us now tomorrow how it works with ps4. Thx.See my answer above, internal apps are fine, I’ll try my PS4 tomorrow, but the Apple TV just flags stereo, no lip sync issues at all though.