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Various Sonos tips and tricks for power-users.
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Surround sound audio feels fake/simulated despite sounding better before #4

Open Jakerfv opened 6 months ago

Jakerfv commented 6 months ago

A couple years ago I used this guide to get my Samsung TV with ARC, Sonos Beam, and 2 side speakers working on a Windows machine. In fact, it's this same one I'm using now. Some time has passed and I've wiped the OS (windows 10) for a fresh one and I have a need for this machine and TV again. Unfortunately, when I do the demonstration playback, the left and right surround are not as distinct as front left and right, and the left and right speakers still play audio at the same time as the rears, in fact, both rears play at the same time.

Settings: FX Configurator and Recorder Tab: "Listen to this device" regarding the LG TV is on via "internal record" in the recording tab. I set up the appropriate dolby digital plus home theater (HDMI/SPIDIF) in FX configurator with internal playback as the default/selected device. APO x64 was installed with the Dolby Digital option and FX configurator, nothing else

Internal Playback: speakers are/have been configured with front left/center/right + rear right and rear left as per instructions (5.1). I have included and de-selected the .1 bass as I don't have one and neither have given me anything different. All options are left to default after clicking "next". Internal Playback is set to the primary device.

Samsung TV is also enabled and not the default device. It has a dolby tab which shows its "ON" and the Advanced tab is set to "Dolby Digital". Samsung TV is enabled but not the primary device.

This is a 1080 GPU running on an 11th-gen Intel processor. Windows 10 64-bit. LoopBeaudio version 1.2. HDMI is carrying the audio signal. Tested a 35 foot HDMI copper cable and a 10 footer as well Latest Nvidia drivers (recently cleaned via DDU and installed on a stable version), rebooted PC, etc.

2.10.6 (2022) version of APO installed via Mediafire link.

Oddities observed: After selecting speakers in the playback tab of Internal Playback (loopbeaudio) I cannot select any other speaker configuration as there is a blank space, the next button works fine.