How to get Full Lossless Dolby Atmos for Sonos Arc & Sonos Beam Gen 2

OREI eARC 4K 60Hz Audio Extractor Converter 3x1 Soundbar 18G HDMI 2.0 ARC Support - HDCP 2.2 - Dolby Atmos Digital/DTS Passthrough CEC, HDR, Dolby Vision HDR10 Support (HDA-935)

Not the same as normal HDMI splitter. HDMI eARC and ARC carries sound through a seperate channel, not the regular channel over HDMI. So a soundbar that takes in sound via an eARC or ARC channel is only going to accept sound on those channels and not the regular HDMI sound channels.

The OREI eARC switcher is a eARC compatible switcher with 3 input ports. It took 2 years to come to this. I am sure there are other models out there. Maybe get a new TV. In 2-3 years time, when you change a new TV, it is likely to have an eARC port and have Atmos processing capabilities. But note that you will need to have Atmos too. Not just eARC.

In the meantime, does this work?
Yes. Atmos shows up.

What you need to do on your TV. Play around with the setting. Bitstream, not PCM. Pass through selected. Input vs output. PCM, Dolby Digital, Dolby Digital+.

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[jb]

I posted 1 comment before getting to the end where you talk about cable quality.... I always thought that but hearing you reiterate it is great to a short video on cables would be greatly appreciated.

[jesuponcey]

In addition your insights have been exceptionally helpful . Keep up the excellent presentations. Cheers.

[tuareg]

It's good OREI eARC, it hurts, buy together SONOS ARC the HDFury arcana offer €150 outlet (I recommend it to my friends to buy the sonos sound bar).
Thanks you, Peter

[pashok]

Hi Pete
Got the new hd 935 and it works flawlessly. This is far better than hdfury arcana. Three inputs are really great and works without any tweaks. The only issue is that the sound from 2.1, 5.1 or 7.1 we need to manually select and while selected the tv screen goes off and coming back. But having 3 inputs and sound to sonos arc works without any sync setting changes. Definitely way better than HDfury arcana. Really appreciate you made this video 👍 Now I am out of this buggy hdfury arcana

[TeamDeafmatch]

Finally a good explanation and solution ! Good work Peter

[guyo]

Finally an alternative! HD Fury arcana is like the Philips hue of EARC converters, waaaay too god damn expensive .

[nickkincanon]

Great videos, Peter! I've watched your video on the HDFury Arcana as well, and both of these videos are the best I've watched on YouTube. I'll be checking out your affiliate links for new cables. Thanks so much for the hard work!🙂

[drostbro]

Thank you so much for making this video. I have a beautiful 70" sony tv with ARC and a Sonos arc w/ones as surround and a gen 3 sub. It has been driving me crazy that I am not getting the full atmos from the arc and this should solve my issues. This is a much better solution than buying a new tv. Already ordered and I can't wait to install.

[RolandoNispiros]

Thanks for providing another option to the other $299 Arcana device. I like this price point better. Appreciate your honest review.

[jhoneterry]

@peter pee I purchased this unit after your video, Unfortunately mine did not worked well. It does what it suppose to do and I am able to get dolby Atmos out from my nvidia shield but problem is that the EARC output keep freezing. Only way to get back the voice signal is to remove the cable and plug back.
I am using Nvidia shied pro 2022 with Sonos Beam . The HDMI out is to LG TV which have no issue, Issue is with EARC port only.

[MVPlayer]

Going to order this now! I appreciate the video!

[mylescordy]

I used the cable that came with my arc with 2 sonos 1's and sounds fine to me

[weichenyang]

from what I understand, and I think this just comes from the confusing advertisement from apple, there is just no support of lossless atmos since it doesn't support TrueHD to begin with. A bit confusing if you use apple tv as an example and put lossless atmos in the title. even like infuse or plex on apple tv, it'll simply decode the trueHD track and turn it into PCM multichannel without the metadata for atmos (I've yet to test this on the newest a15 model, but judging from the lack of advertisement on this feature, I really doubt it). The only readily available box I can think of that supports TrueHD is probably the nvidia shield.

[tremelo]

I have the $40 version of this for my Sonos Beam Gen 2. (I don't believe my port states E-Arc however, just Arc). There is also a version with two hdmi out ports for about $69. Works really well. I didn't think it through when I bought my monitor and realized it only had 2 Hdmi ports so I needed this for more devices anyway. Many of these devices will claim to give you Dolby Atmos, but apparently many of them will not work with Sonos products. Orie does.

[bigbro]

nice review. One comment: it should be clear that you can not get lossless atmos from streaming services. So the device might be capable of sending lossless Atmos but only from for instance UHD players.

[mdk]

Hey! Really loved how informative your video is and how you included what you didn't like as well. May I know if there are any other alternatives to this? It's not exactly the most acessible for my country 😅

[pashok]

Thanks Pete. This looks good and a direct competition for HDfury Arcana. HDFURY Aracana works but always having problems now and then and intermittent sound drops. Need to factory reset everytime to make it work again. This new product how it is compared to HDFURY?? The way this product advertise even you dont need an ARC/EARC Port in TV you will get DOLBY Atmos. Is that even possible?? Always great to watch your content.... Keep up your good work 👍🌹🌹

[Dingo-deyu]

Hey Peter! Thanks for the really informative videos on what has been a really confusing topic for me! Let me ask - purely based on performance and ease of setup, (and irrespective of price), which product -would you go with when choosing between the Arcana or the Orei? Thank you!

[filmmakerslife]

very well explained
Question-
Will i get the output even if i don't connect to a monitor i just want to connect my atmos soundbar with laptop and my soundbar only has earc port so will i be able to get audio on my soundbar. cause recently i have bought some splitters and it says it has earc port but i believe those are only for tv and it doesn't send audio to my soundbar

[IAmZen_]

Hi Peter, nice video. Does all inputs support 4k?