That's not correct. There isn't any particular speaker layout that counts as the "official" Atmos layout. Dolby Atmos was designed to be flexible. That's why you have everything from Apple's Atmos enabled earbuds and iPhones to 24.2.10 cinema Atmos arrays. If it wasn't so then Dolby wouldn't license these Sonos speakers or a whole range of soundbars or Apple to use the Atmos logo. You can say Atmos works _better_ with discrete ceiling speakers but they're not necessary to make a system Atmos enabled. The Era 300 has a height speaker which directs sound to the ceiling where it's reflected back to emulate the ceiling speaker so it does process the ceiling channels separately. A pair of them gives you L+R height speakers. The system is effectively a 4.0.2 Atmos setup.
@@duprie37 nope your wrong 100% wrong, ear buds and iPhones don’t play dolby atmos height channels, plus the height channels in the Sonos soundbar yer its got them but none work like mine on my Sony soundbar plus can adjust the height on mine on screen with the volume, look it up, height channels never work on soundbars even if you change the db on it like I can, for dolby atmos the only way to hear is ceiling speakers,
@@duprie37 am not bothered what the 300s sopose to do but thay don’t reflect from the ceiling to make dolby atmos, dolby atmos is in the pic there is a video on yt look it up, the sound change from 1 speaker to a other like a fly buzzing out 1 side and rain out the other, all these speakers so called atmos comes out same time that’s not dolby atmos even thou it says it
@@duprie37 crank my volume up to that Sonos soundbar would blow that out the water, sony ht-st5000 yes with dolby atmos earc hdmi connection and with height channels thay never work just a gimmik
@@robertbuckley3480 What you think about soundbars and adapted speakers like the Sonos 300 is irrelevant. My point is that Dolby laboratories would _not_ licence these manufacturers to use the Dolby Atmos logo if they weren't compliant with the Atmos standard. You don't need ceiling speakers for a speaker to be Atmos compliant. Whether you agree or not just isn't relevant lol.
There's no such thing as "true" Dolby Atmos. Atmos is a codec not a speaker configuration. These have separate front, surround and height channels, that's perfect here because these are _not_ for watching movies, these are for listening to music. You don't even want distracting rear and ceiling speakers for Atmos music.
You can definitely hear the difference. Getting a pair of these myself in September.
They're awesome. I'm loving them more every day that goes by.
Can i use era 300 pair for watching Netflix and tv without soundbar
@@ramonholland1165probably not
@@amitp5216 i connected to my tv with bluetooth and it works great.First i had 1 era 300 and now i have a second and paired it together
@@ramonholland1165 It's possible by running a lead from the TV headphones out jack to the Sonos AUX in jack via adapter.
I just read some 1 else comment aswell dolby atmos only works with ceiling speakers, even if on wall thay dont work, lots people dont understand
That's not correct. There isn't any particular speaker layout that counts as the "official" Atmos layout. Dolby Atmos was designed to be flexible. That's why you have everything from Apple's Atmos enabled earbuds and iPhones to 24.2.10 cinema Atmos arrays. If it wasn't so then Dolby wouldn't license these Sonos speakers or a whole range of soundbars or Apple to use the Atmos logo. You can say Atmos works _better_ with discrete ceiling speakers but they're not necessary to make a system Atmos enabled. The Era 300 has a height speaker which directs sound to the ceiling where it's reflected back to emulate the ceiling speaker so it does process the ceiling channels separately. A pair of them gives you L+R height speakers. The system is effectively a 4.0.2 Atmos setup.
@@duprie37 nope your wrong 100% wrong, ear buds and iPhones don’t play dolby atmos height channels, plus the height channels in the Sonos soundbar yer its got them but none work like mine on my Sony soundbar plus can adjust the height on mine on screen with the volume, look it up, height channels never work on soundbars even if you change the db on it like I can, for dolby atmos the only way to hear is ceiling speakers,
@@duprie37 am not bothered what the 300s sopose to do but thay don’t reflect from the ceiling to make dolby atmos, dolby atmos is in the pic there is a video on yt look it up, the sound change from 1 speaker to a other like a fly buzzing out 1 side and rain out the other, all these speakers so called atmos comes out same time that’s not dolby atmos even thou it says it
@@duprie37 crank my volume up to that Sonos soundbar would blow that out the water, sony ht-st5000 yes with dolby atmos earc hdmi connection and with height channels thay never work just a gimmik
@@robertbuckley3480 What you think about soundbars and adapted speakers like the Sonos 300 is irrelevant. My point is that Dolby laboratories would _not_ licence these manufacturers to use the Dolby Atmos logo if they weren't compliant with the Atmos standard. You don't need ceiling speakers for a speaker to be Atmos compliant. Whether you agree or not just isn't relevant lol.
Dont sound any difference either way, only near the end in dolby sounded tinny like you highered the volume up
True atmos doesn’t work unless the speakers is on the ceiling.
There's no such thing as "true" Dolby Atmos. Atmos is a codec not a speaker configuration. These have separate front, surround and height channels, that's perfect here because these are _not_ for watching movies, these are for listening to music. You don't even want distracting rear and ceiling speakers for Atmos music.