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  1. jaysun834
    jaysun834 Guest

    Best audio settings for Series X with Sonos Arc and Samsung TU8000 playing DTS and other...


    I recently upgraded my Soundbar to a Sonos Arc. I've got everything up and running, but unsure about how to get the best sound on certain blu-ray discs . My setup is as follows:

    Xbox into HDMI 1 on the Samsung TV

    Sonos Arc into HDMI2 (eArc) on th Samsung TV

    TV settings:

    eArc mode > Auto

    Digital Output > Pass-through

    Dolby Atmos compatability: On

    Xbox Settings:

    Speaker Audio > Dolby Atmos for home theater

    Allow Passthrough > On

    Blu-ray > Let receiver decode audio (sometimes on, sometimes not)

    So the snag with my set-up is my TV can't pass through lots of different audio. It's fine with Atmos and regular Dolby Digital. But it can't pass DTS and some other discs I've tried. It will throw that error saying the receiver can't handle it and to try turning off "Let receiver decode audio".

    So if I do that I can play all the other blu-rays, but I'm unsure what exactly the Xbox is doing in the conversion process and what is going to get me the best sound out of my set-up.

    Whatever the Speaker Audio on the Xbox is set to is what will show up in the Sonos App for the type of Audio it receives. So obviously the Xbox is taking the audio track and converting it to whatever is currently selected. Like I can have a MONO disc and it will show Atmos if that is the setting.

    So what should I do for the various other formats that show up on blu-rays? Mainly DTS 5.1 and DTS 2.0.

    My 3 options the Xbox allows are STEREO UNCOMPRESSED, DOLBY DIGITAL and DOLBY ATMOS which is based on what my system can apparently handle down stream.

    Is it better to just keep it set to Atmos all the time, or will the Xbox do stuff to 5.1 tracks that make them further from the actual mix if I do this?

    And if I keep the blu-ray "let my receiver decode" set to off, but am playing a disc with an ATMOS track is it the same as when it just passes through, or is the Xbox doing anything to the track before it hits the TV>Soundbar?

    I'm fine with toggling a few things every once and a while based on what I'm watching, but I just don't know what is best. I just want it to be as close how it was mixed based on whatever audio track the disc comes with.

    Thanks,

    Jason

    :)
     
    jaysun834, Jul 14, 2022
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  2. JosefLBohorquez Win User

    Best audio settings for Series X with Sonos Arc and Samsung TU8000 playing DTS and other non Atmos blu-rays

    If the blu ray only has DTS 5.1 your Xbox is not going to convert it or something similar to Atmos, it's going to use DTS 5.1 automatically

    Basically, if the content is not available on Atmos (change Atmos for another thing, applies the same. DTS, Dolby Digital, etc) your Xbox is going to use the default or the most compatible audio settings available.
  3. jaysun834 Win User

    Best audio settings for Series X with Sonos Arc and Samsung TU8000 playing DTS and other non Atmos blu-rays

    I should have mentioned my Sound System is the Soundbar, 2 Surround speakers and 1 sub. So I'm not just getting sound from the soundbar.

    I guess to re-iterate I want to know what is happening when:

    Xbox is set to Dolby Atmos (no blu-ray pass through) and it receives a DTS 5.1 audio track?

    compared to

    Xbox is set to Dolby Digital, but the rest is the same.

    I know that in the first case it is sending an Atmos track and in the Second a DD 5.1 track, my Sonos app will verify this based on which setting is chosen on the XBOX. But since the source for them is both DTS 5.1 are they any different at all functionally?
  4. JosefLBohorquez Win User

    Best audio settings for Series X with Sonos Arc and Samsung TU8000 playing DTS and other non Atmos blu-rays

    Hi and thanks for reaching Microsoft Xbox gamer's community. My name is Josef.
    I'm an Independent Advisor and a Microsoft Xbox user like you

    Hope you're doing great today Jaysun834

    If you ask me, I would leave the Atmos sound as the preferred.
    This is due to beetwen 7.1 and Atmos there are few differences.
    So the experience will be the very similar if you compare each one using only the soundboard

    The way to notice a real difference if your hardware setup is if you have the 7 speakers across the room and 1 subwoofer

    But other than that, if I was you I would stick with Atmos all the time.

    About the "let my receiver decode", let it always on, this config allows your Xbox to handle the audio depending on what you have selected in your Xbox audio settings

    Hope you can find this helpful, if you maybe have another question or questions, feel free to ask buddy
  5. chezza16 Win User

    Xbox One Sound Lag

    I've got the same problem. Xbox one x to LG OLED C9 to Samsung soundbar over ARC. I'm getting video before audio. I've tried all settings on TV and xbox. Looking into this, people on LG forums and Sonos are saying its Xbox at fault anything over Hdmi is
    behind. I don't know if its true but I don't get any audio lag over optical. Just Hdmi.
  6. H3llzone Win User

    Xbox Series X November Update broken sound.

    Series X. Straight into a 2020 LG CX. Then onto a AVR via arc.

    Sorry, no DTS but bitstream DD5.1 works.

    DTS only works if I bypass the TV and go straight into the AVR, LG'S won't pass through DTS.

    Matt
    I wanted to reply since I just came across this issue with my series x and I figured out the issue and it worked for me. I have a LG c9 and I’m using an av receiver and what I did was I went to all settings on my tv> sound> additional settings and then I changed HDMI input audio format to bitstream. I don’t know why it was changed to pcm but it may have been part of an update but since then everything is green now with audio. Hope this helps you guys
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