{"id":1203835,"date":"2023-11-16T17:00:53","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T22:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1203835"},"modified":"2023-11-16T17:00:53","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T22:00:53","slug":"sonos-has-finally-fixed-the-dolby-atmos-pop-of-death-in-its-arc-soundbars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1203835","title":{"rendered":"Sonos has finally fixed the Dolby Atmos \u201cpop of death\u201d in its Arc soundbars"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"intro-image intro-left\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/sonos_arc_snapshot-800x533-1.jpg\" alt=\"Sonos Arc with Dolby Atmos illustrated in bouncing circular waves, in grayscale\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\" style=\"font-size:0.8em\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/sonos_arc_snapshot.jpg\" class=\"enlarge-link\" data-height=\"720\" data-width=\"1080\">Enlarge<\/a> <span class=\"sep\">\/<\/span> Sonos notes that its Arc soundbar pairs &#8220;Dolby Atmos and the upward-firing drivers,&#8221; which some users have not enjoyed during cacophonous pops. (credit: Sonos)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A bang, a gunshot, a &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2023\/08\/sonos-has-been-unable-to-fix-arc-soundbars-pop-of-death-for-over-2-years\/\">pop of death<\/a>&#8220;: Some owners of Sonos&#8217; Arc and second-gen Beam soundbars have been dealing with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2023\/8\/10\/23824258\/sonos-arc-dolby-atmos-problems-loud-audio-pop\">a striking audio disruption<\/a> with their audio systems since at least December 2020.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.community.sonos.com\/home-theater-229129\/sonos-arc-loud-pop-then-audio-loss-6852340?postid=16687574#post16687574\">The issue now has a fix<\/a>, and it should already be available to users. Updating a Sonos mobile or desktop app and then checking for system updates should push the changes to Sonos speakers.<\/p>\n<p>A Sonos staff member writes that the Arc and Beam soundbars &#8220;in certain home theater configurations process Dolby MAT,&#8221; which delivers Atmos audio over HDMI connections. Sonos products could receive corrupted audio from that connection but were failing to filter out those bits, playing them instead. The corrupted audio &#8220;can manifest as a popping sound.&#8221; The Sonos devices&#8217; improved Dolby decoder should no longer force listeners to hear what it sounds like when digital audio transmissions go awry.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1984522#p3\">Read 5 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1984522&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1984522\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sonos has finally fixed the Dolby Atmos \u201cpop of death\u201d in its Arc soundbars<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlarge \/ Sonos notes that its Arc soundbar pairs &#8220;Dolby Atmos and the upward-firing drivers,&#8221; which some users have not enjoyed during cacophonous pops. (credit: Sonos) A bang, a gunshot, a &#8220;pop of death&#8220;: Some owners of Sonos&#8217; Arc and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1203835\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1203836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,110],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-1203835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-ars-technica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1203835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1203836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1203835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1203835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1203835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}