Our first Dolby Atmos experience with Sonos Arc

<blockquote><em><a href="#615900">In reply to BeckoningEagle:</a></em></blockquote><ol><li>No, we still have the Pioneer (VSX-LX52, the non-connected generation) complete with 5 speakers and a sub from Dali in our apartment in town. Since October we have been "corona-refugees" spending our time out on our homestead watching content on a tiny iPad. Missing good sound and picture we treated ourselves to a late (or early) Christmas present. </li><li>The Arc supports Dolby Digital Plus and Dolby True HD (https://support.sonos.com/s/article/4945?language=en_US) We have watched movies from BD, DVD and streaming services with full surround sound. We specifically bought a TV with eARC to get the the best support for the Arc. We have so far only found one format that isn't supported (but we think it's the Samsung that doesn't pass it through) – DTS. According to Sonos, it should play as 2.1 but the TV doesn't list it as supported. We tried playing "The Thomas Crown Affair" BD but no sound at all. We have a couple of BDs with both Dolby Digital and DTS and switching to Dolby Digital makes them play fine in 5.1</li></ol><p><br></p><p>Before getting the wall mount we had the TV on the supplied feet on the TV counter – it was a scary week with a 40" tall and incredibly skinny piece of equipment mounted on top of two pieces of plastic. Just passing it you could see the wind rocking it gently, preparing for a nose-dive! </p><p>We got a Vogel flush mount so the TV only extrudes 2,7" from the wall which is pretty cool and looks really good. We hung it 25" above the floor (top of the TV is at 65"). This doesn't leave room for the suggested 4" between the top of the Arc and the TV, we only have 2,5".</p><p>My comment about hanging too high comes from the Sonos website where the TV seems to be hanging at least 6ft high. Visiting our friends in the US in the good-old-pre-Corona-days we noticed that watching movies on TVs hung high is tiresome on the neck. We have always aimed for a "natural" height so you can look straight when you sit in the sofa.</p><p><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In reference to Paul's vinyl stories – we brought the old PS3 and the collection of BDs and DVDs that we have. Flipping through all the 100+ DB and 200+ DVD is fun and we have now Friday and Saturday movie nights. The PS3 is connected to the Samsung on HDMI1 and the Sonos Arc on the eARC compatible HDMI2 port. All other content (Netflix, Viaplay (sort of a Nordic HBO streaming service), Met Opera and Swedish public TV) is streamed using the built-in apps and shows from the Stockholm Opera casted through Chrome from the iPad.</span></p>

<blockquote><em><a href="#615902">In reply to jchampeau:</a></em></blockquote><p>Do you prefer PayPal or cash so I can keep the Sub :-)</p><p>Jokes aside – the Sub sounds awesome and sure rocks the sofa and the rest of the house. The added bass is powerful and dynamic. We are mainly into dramas with some occasional action movies and the $945 (Swedish price is 7999 SEK, you Americans live La Dolce Vita!) may come in handy for other projects.</p>