For some Sonos followers, soundbars — even very succesful Dolby Atmos soundbars just like the Sonos Arc Extremely — simply don’t lower it with regards to residence theater encompass sound. They need a completely customizable expertise that solely an AV receiver (AVR)-based system can ship. If that’s your standpoint, and in the event you personal one in all Yamaha’s Aventage AVRs, now you can have your cake and eat it due to a software program replace that brings Works with Sonos compatibility to Yamaha’s RX-A8A, RX-A6A, RX-A4A, and RX-A2A.
Works with Sonos is a certification program that lets quite a lot of third-party units work together with the Sonos ecosystem. Within the case of Works with Sonos AVRs, you could first join them to a Sonos Port. As soon as configured within the AVR, triggering music playback on the Sonos Port from the Sonos app routinely powers on the AVR, flips the enter setting to the one the Port makes use of, and allows you to management quantity degree from the Sonos app as nicely.
To be clear, Works with Sonos isn’t new — I purchased a Pioneer AVR that’s Works with Sonos suitable in 2018. Nevertheless, that is the primary time a Yamaha-built AVR has been given the characteristic.
“Aventage is our premium AV receiver line,” mentioned Ikuo Tanaka, Group Supervisor, Residence Audio Group at Yamaha Company, “the best choice for customized integration professionals and passionate residence theater fans, making it very best for Works with Sonos integration. This integration exemplifies how our clients persistently acquire highly effective new options and capabilities via our firmware updates.”
To allow Works with Sonos, you could use the Yamaha MusicCast app. And simply in case you had been questioning, nothing is altering on that entrance: the Aventage AVRs will proceed to help all MusicCast streaming and management capabilities. To get going, simply be sure each your MusicCast app and your AVR firmware is updated.
As useful as Works with Sonos is for seamlessly combining a Sonos Port and an AVR like Yamaha’s Aventage lineup, it misses out on a key energy of each Sonos and Yamaha: Dolby Atmos.
With some Sonos audio system, just like the Sonos Period 300, Sonos Arc, Sonos Beam Gen 2, and Sonos Arc Extremely, you’ll be able to stream Dolby Atmos Music natively from companies like Apple Music. In principle, it is best to have the ability to get the identical audio to your Yamaha receiver, besides for 2 issues. First, the Sonos Port can’t obtain Dolby Atmos Music streams. Second, even when it might, it has no technique to pipe that audio into the Yamaha.
The Sonos port solely has analog stereo, or digital coaxial outputs. Neither of these can ship multichannel Dolby Atmos to an exterior system. To do this, the Port would want an HDMI output.
In the mean time, that leaves Yamaha-owning Dolby Atmos Music followers with solely non-Sonos choices. An Apple TV 4K working both Apple Music or Tidal would do the trick, as would an Nvidia Defend TV or Defend TV Professional. In order for you Atmos Music from Amazon Music, you’ll want one Amazon’s Atmos-capable Hearth TV streamers.
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