Best way to get good sound

Heisenberg

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Hi, looking for some advice for my current setup. I bought a Samsung q80r about 5 months ago that came with a free Samsung r650 soundbar. I have the soundbar connected via hdmi arc. When I enable Dolby digital sound via sky Q or ps4, I get audio lag which can't be corrected via lip sync adjust. Apparently from reading, this is an issue with arc but the same thing happens if I go optical cable from TV to soundbar.

I have read that this is quite a common issue and that EARC should resolve it, though my TV currently doesn't support it, and unsure if soundbar does. Connecting straight from soundbar to sky Q box works perfect but this is only for one input. I have thought about an optical switch but think it would be a faff switching between inputs. Is there a better way that I'm not thinking off?? Thanks and sorry for the long winded question.
 
Heisenberg said:
Hi, looking for some advice for my current setup. I bought a Samsung q80r about 5 months ago that came with a free Samsung r650 soundbar. I have the soundbar connected via hdmi arc. When I enable Dolby digital sound via sky Q or ps4, I get audio lag which can't be corrected via lip sync adjust. Apparently from reading, this is an issue with arc but the same thing happens if I go optical cable from TV to soundbar.

I have read that this is quite a common issue and that EARC should resolve it, though my TV currently doesn't support it, and unsure if soundbar does. Connecting straight from soundbar to sky Q box works perfect but this is only for one input. I have thought about an optical switch but think it would be a faff switching between inputs. Is there a better way that I'm not thinking off?? Thanks and sorry for the long winded question.
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why aren't you plugging the devices into the soundbar rather than the tv?
 
Psycho Sonny said:
Sounds like a cheap and therefore crap soundbar. I'd sell it and put the money towards a better one.
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It was £299 which I wouldn't say is exactly cheap. Bit of an ignorant post tbh. Not everyone can splash out £1200 on a top of the range soundbar. Even at that, the highest end soundbars have this same issue from what I've read, and most have only 2 hdmi inputs for passthrough. I have 3 devices so that still wouldn't sort the issue.
 
OP did ask about "best sound"

Optical only supports lossy formats with compressed audio. HDMI should give you True HD/DTS HD formats (assuming soundbar supports it)

But I don't know how to get around your lag issue.
 
Bug One said:
I had the same issue with ARC. I use the optical out from the TV to the soundbar instead, which has no lag.
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I tried from TV to soundbar via optical and still had the same lag with Dolby sound. TV must have issues with the higher quality sound which is poor for a fairly expensive TV. Optical from device to soundbar cures it but would mean switching ports or using a switcher. Neither are ideal but seems the best option. I'm not after the best sound tbh, just annoying that I can't take full advantage of the best sound the bar can produce, without lip sync issues.
 
Bug One said:
Have you looked at audio delay settings on both TV and soundbar?
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Yeah, it seems to be negative delay if that even makes sense. I can only adjust positive. So essentially when I increase it makes it worse. Apparently EARC should sort it but Samsung are dragging their heels with that too.
 
Did you look into a hdmi switch with audio splitting?

Should do the job for cheap, just google soundbar lip sync issues with hdmi switch and will see it's fixed most people's issues.
 
Simmz said:
Did you look into a hdmi switch with audio splitting?

Should do the job for cheap, just google soundbar lip sync issues with hdmi switch and will see it's fixed most people's issues.
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Yeah looked into it but wasn't sure best way to connect it. Wouldn't soundbar to switch require the switch to support Arc? Might be over thinking it though
 
Soundbar into the arc port on the TV.

Plug HDMI cable from another HDMI port on the TV to the HDMI out port on the switch.

Then just plug devices into the ports on the switch. They do a 3 port one as well if don't need 5.
 
Simmz said:
Soundbar into the arc port on the TV.

Plug HDMI cable from another HDMI port on the TV to the HDMI out port on the switch.

Then just plug devices into the ports on the switch. They do a 3 port one as well if don't need 5.
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I would have thought using the arc port would still be the same audio lag. I will definitely try it though if you reckon it will work. Cheers
 
I had the same issue Heisenberg when I had an older LG it had lip sync issues and the switch resolved the issue. I've read issues with people having the same problem on the Sonos playbar, but I've never had any issues with that but it's still using the hdmi switch. Same with my new arc seems to have no problems either.

Like I said don't know how haha, but it worked for me. If it doesn't just send it back to Amazon anyway.
 
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