Beam Gen 2

This is super annoying. Nobody but Apple AFAIK uses this weird obscure version of Atmos, and they aren’t very clear on it, nor was Sonos that Atmos would not work without HDMI eARC. I would imagine the number of HDMI 2.1 tv’s out there is insanely low compared to how many people have HDMI 2.0, even

I have recently configured a system with a Beam Gen 2 in the center, 2 x Era 100s as Front L/R and 2 x Symfonisk Bookshelves as Rear L/R.

I initially setup the entire system in Sonos Sequencer. This worked really smoothly and when I returned to the Sonos app it was detecting all 5 speakers correct

Happy to clarify 🙂 In my current setup I’m using: • Era 300 as fronts • Era 100 as surrounds • Arc Ultra as center / Atmos anchor • Sub Gen 4 So the Arc Ultra is not replacing the surrounds. The surrounds are still handled by the Era 100s, while the Arc Ultra still handles the center channel and the

Using the Sonos app you can add the era 300s as surrounds with a soundbar and you can stereo pair two era 300s. SonoSequencer enables some features that Sonos blocks in the S2 app. For example you can’t do fronts at all in the S2 app but you can with SonoSequencer. You can’t add two Sub Minis with S