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Grim5 · 25 Jun 2019 at 21:54

You are right I’m used to it and like it so it’s noticeable to me. However I do believe I’ve read in reviews that the playbase has more bass than the playbar

Kol · 25 Jun 2019 at 21:58

Yea good point actually, the playbar does have less bass versus the base... valid point!

starmanwarz · 26 Jun 2019 at 13:25

Beam arrived today, hopefully I'll find some time to set it up!

bfar · 26 Jun 2019 at 18:04

Grim5 said:
The beam is actually not that small once you see it in front of you - but like all Sonos home theater products - without the sub, they have little bass.

I'm a bit of a bass whorer I must admit - so when I turn off the sonos sub and just have the playbar and ones playing - they sound flat like a pancake, the bass levels without the sub don't sound much different to just using my TV's inbuilt speaker

I've the full 5.1 setup with the Beam. There's still plenty of bass without the sub imo. I found the sub provides good sounding base while allowing the rest of the speakers to open up the mid/high range. It adds somewhat moarrr bass, but much more than that it adds refinement. One of the fun things about Sonos - each additional unit adds to the overall quality. If I had a smaller living room I'd probably live without the sub personally.

Grim5 · 26 Jun 2019 at 22:31

Fair enough.

The Sonos system is incredibly powerful.

I've got my Sonos volume settings around 5 to 7 out of 100 at all times.

If I turn the volume up to 50 and play music, the house's windows starts rattling and I feel nausea. And this is with the Sub on 60% power, and System volume 50/100. I've never gone any higher

Anyone who is prepared to max out the volume and sub levels on their Sonos system has some seriously balls

Beansprout · 26 Jun 2019 at 22:37

Grim5 said:
Anyone who is prepared to max out the volume and sub levels on their Sonos system has some seriously balls

Last party I had someone did this in a room I call the 'bass room', it's a medium-size room with a Play 3 and a Sub. They whacked up the volume and put on Pendulum. You could feel it across the house. Epic.

I don't think they got to max volume but they got very close.

starmanwarz · 27 Jun 2019 at 19:03

So I just finished setting up my Beam but I have a small problem. I use "cast to device" on Windows 10 to stream movies to my Sony TV and the movies which are DTS won't output any audio. I knew that before buying the Beam but I thought that it was converted to stereo. Everything else sounds fine.

Is there like a setting I need to change on my PC/TV in order to get audio from DTS movies?

ChrisD. · 27 Jun 2019 at 19:18

AFAIK they will need to be transcoded somehow, using something like Plex. That's why I've never pursued Sonos as an AV solution outside of the bedroom.

starmanwarz · 27 Jun 2019 at 19:26

ChrisD. said:
AFAIK they will need to be transcoded somehow, using something like Plex. That's why I've never pursued Sonos as an AV solution outside of the bedroom.

I thought this was done on the PC, since I'm streaming movies from it? What if i get a USB stick/external HDD, will that solve it?

ChrisD. · 27 Jun 2019 at 19:32

I don't know, I've only tried Plex with Sonos. If you use a device which can bitstream DTS it won't play unless you change it in the settings. But if you use a Plex app on the TV or something which can't bitsteam DTS, the Plex server will transcode the audio to AC3 or DD I think. Plus the USB stick into what?

starmanwarz · 27 Jun 2019 at 19:43

Into the TV so I can use the TV's built in player? That way the TV is doing the transcoding? Or am I missing something?

ChrisD. · 27 Jun 2019 at 19:45

Never tried it but give it a go.

starmanwarz · 30 Jun 2019 at 11:05

Not sure what Plex is, but I think I'll give it a try. If the free version enough for what I'm trying to achieve?

ChrisD. · 30 Jun 2019 at 11:35

Yeah, just install it on your PC and then install the client on the TV, there should be an app for it.

bazzabear · 30 Jun 2019 at 11:54

What TV is it? I found a problem with my Samsung that it will send DD to the Beam - but only if the audio originates from the TV itself. Any signal from another device it refuses to pass through. I ended up having to get a HDMI switch and connect all devices to the Beam directly to get the best sound.

bazzabear · 30 Jun 2019 at 11:59

Here's an odd question, and I can't be very specific about it because I've not spotted the pattern myself yet...

I almost exclusively use the SONOS stuff to play from my music library on my PC, and often use my iPhone as a remote basically.

Almost always this involves going into the SONOS app to control. But very occasionally the phone will tie itself in to the SONOS stuff better, and the control centre on the phone will display what the SONOS is playing and allow you to control the volume directly.

It's hardly a big deal opening the app, I've just been trying to understand why this is happening.

starmanwarz · 30 Jun 2019 at 12:11

bazzabear said:
What TV is it? I found a problem with my Samsung that it will send DD to the Beam - but only if the audio originates from the TV itself. Any signal from another device it refuses to pass through. I ended up having to get a HDMI switch and connect all devices to the Beam directly to get the best sound.

It's a Sony XF9005.

bazzabear · 30 Jun 2019 at 16:08

Might be worth a quick google with that model number and 'passthrough audio' or something similar.

Furton · 5 Jul 2019 at 11:02

Google Assistant for Sonos is now available in the UK

https://www.sonos.com/en-ie/google-assistant

Set up on my Sonos One was straightforward and seems to work well. Only annoying aspect now is that both my phone and speaker pick up the command requests, anyway to stop this?

a1ex2001 · 6 Jul 2019 at 00:04

Furton said:
Google Assistant for Sonos is now available in the UK

https://www.sonos.com/en-ie/google-assistant

Set up on my Sonos One was straightforward and seems to work well. Only annoying aspect now is that both my phone and speaker pick up the command requests, anyway to stop this?

I had this problem with Alexa so I turned it off on my fire tab

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