However, I think it's because of the sound sinnfrei use the Playbar alone. Here already has the SUB to and better still equal to 2x Play: 3 for the back, so you have a full 5.1 system.
Being fully satisfying such a thing is. Fully satisfying would mean Stereo, Mono, Dolby Digital and DTS. But the finished furnished 5.1 Set only mastered Dolby Digital. No mono, no stereo and no DTS (is not submitted according to the official opinion of Sonos). Of course, one which listens in mono and stereo, as the Sonos system gefaktes 5.1 builds together, but what is possibly influenced the sound of old films with positive music nonsensical. Here you do not look so on TV, but moves freely in space. From the back Play: 3 you will but then nothing / not hear much. DTS but then comes the meltdown. Because DTS is not supported. Stupid, that DTS has prevailed in BluRays (DVDs and satellite is rather Dolby Digital). One must hope that Sonos nachbessert here. Update: In the meantime, you can in the room settings the surround speakers for music playback to provide "full", so that you can now listen to stereo from all speakers. However, this only applies to music that is played on Sonos. So if you do not hear on the radio, for example, satellite receiver or a music channel like MTV sees on the TV.
Finally, the sound remains modest because Sonos has bet on the wrong technology. Here you have to know that the Playbar is connected to Toslink. Ie receivers, BluRay Player, etc. comes via HDMI to the TV and the TV it goes via Toslink to Playbar. First sounds comfortable and making other sound bars even so, however, has the serious disadvantage that Toslink dominated no automatic synchronization plus the quality is underground because Toslink only supports the compressed audio channels of Dolby Digital (including DTS, but this is, as stated eh).
Had Sonos is set to HDMI and made to the Audio Return Channel to use, then the sound would be uncompressed and thanks to the appropriate standards the devices would automatically synchronize the lip sync.
But Toslink brings another disadvantage. Which TV already supports Dolby Digital pass-through? Expensive Samsung TVs have it, Philips sporadically ... there is research carefully, because if Dolby Digital now runs only found out where one in Sonos Controller -> Settings -> About My Sonos System -> Playbar you
And now back to DTS. Even if Sonos DTS should support later, although they have already denied that TV has looped through the standard? I think none. When you have to then connect the player directly to the BluRay Playbar. And now? Where you close now to the TV? Well gone stupid. Only a Toslink input. One would have to buy a smooth Toslink Switcher. And now looking for a can automatically switch .. a lot of fun. I have only one found in the United States and that was a pretty ugly box with its own power supply. The Import I skip to the first is really relevant with DTS.
In the US, meanwhile swear a lot on the Oppo BluRay Player. He should be able to output the compressed DTS signal as PCM signal. Anyone who wants can indeed test it by myself.
Then we have the lip sync. This is between unnoticed and absolutely cruel. Here I can only hope that your TV is able to set negative values delay for you. This means that the sound must first get by Toslink before the corresponding image is output. So a video delay and no audio delay. That is unlikely to dominate a TV. But even if you have then found a perfect setting. By the time you swap between two different resolutions (SD and full HD), then you will find that synchronicity is gone again. This is because the TV Although the video to say offset by 100 ms, yet ignores the fact that the HD signal to be calculated much longer than the SD signal. But perhaps you will not find the perfect TV for the Sonos Playbar, which also covers that.
Finally, it should be mentioned that the 5.1 system can not be put together wild also. So you can not go and 4x for the corners Play: Get 5 or 2xPlay: 5 forward and 2xPlay: 3 behind or even with the Connect: Amp own integrated speakers in the system. There really is only 2x Play: 3 behind, SUB Sonos and Playbar front and left and right. That is, according to Sonos in mind that only the SUB and the Play: 3 with two WLAN standards dominate (2.4 and 5 GHz) and the bandwidth is necessary for this to work at all, but does not explain the why the front channels not Play: can realize 3. UPDATE 12/2013: In the meantime, you can back Play: 3 and Play: 1 Connect. In addition, the CONNECT is: AMP including speakers from other manufacturers. But Sub and front it even more inflexible.
I for one remain despite this poor implementation into the system. I put the whole household on Sonos, because it just works. But the Playbar's really no feat. It has been clearly put on the wrong audio interface.
