Sonos finally adds DTS audio support to its home theater lineup

 

 

 Sonos' most recent update contains enormous news for encompass sound fans: the expansion of DTS audio support for its home theater speakers. These incorporate not simply more up to date speakers like the second-age Beam and Arc, yet in addition more seasoned gadgets like the primary gen Beam, the Playbase, and surprisingly the Playbar that initially dispatched in 2013. Indeed, even the Sonos Amp is getting in on the DTS activity.

For those new to the specialized bad dream that is home film audio, DTS is an adversary encompass sound organization to Dolby Digital. So DTS support implies that Sonos clients can profit from encompass sound across more sources, as Blu-beam circles that utilization the DTS design. The arrival of the update comes seven days after Disney reported that DTS audio support will be going to its Disney Plus real time feature later on.

Clients on Reddit who've evaluated the usefulness report that Sonos just appears to support standard DTS Digital Surround, so you will not have the option to capitalize on sources that utilization the higher specced DTS-HD and DTS:X designs. In the event that you attempt and play DTS-HD, it supposedly comes through as standard DTS. The Sonos application shows a little "DTS Surround 5.1" identification when a speaker framework is playing the configuration.

Other niggles you may have to keep an eye out for are whether your TV supports DTS audio. LG's well known CX and C1 OLED TVs, for instance, don't support DTS, which means you'll run into issues assuming you're going DTS audio through them through HDMI. However, sending audio straightforwardly from an outside source to your Sonos hardware should work.

Other new highlights presented as a component of the 13.4 update incorporate another Battery Saver mode for convenient Sonos items like the Roam which, when initiated, will automatically wind down the speaker following 30 minutes to preserve battery life. Of course it as of now goes into a low-power rest mode. The Now Playing screen in the Sonos application on iOS incorporates another alternate route to get to EQ settings and another HD identification that will seem when "better audio" is being played.