Thankfully, the beam comes with an HDMI ARC to S/PDIF (AKA - TOSLINK or Digital audio cable) adaptor, which you can plug into a cheap PC DAC (or your motherboard if it has an optical out port). I’m ganna share what I’ve found out so others don’t end up wasting a huge amount of time trying to configure the speakers.įirst of all, your PC will likely have HDMI ports for outputting videos and audio, but those ports are unlikely to be HDMI ARC ports - which you need to plug the Beam into for it to receive audio (you can get some hardware that adds ARC ports I think, but the ones I found online seem to only output stereo audio). It’s been 2 months since I bought my Sonos Beam and I’ve spend many hours diving into the audiophile and surround sound rabbit hole, learning about the technicalities of sound and scouring audiophile forums to figure out how to make the speakers work at their optimal on a PC. They definitely work on PCs, but to use them to their full potential, you need to make some extra configurations and invest a little bit more money and time. As many of you may have realised, sound bars like the sonos beam aren’t really tailored for use on PCs - they’re made to be used on TVs or Media players that have HDMI ARC connectors.

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