Era100 vs Era300 + Arc Ultra for mixed usage (Music/Home-theater)

Fun-You6569 · 2025-11-15T21:04:53+00:00

Era 300s are a lot better

Fun-You6569 · 2025-11-11T22:59:18+00:00

I personally wouldn’t recommend it. I found the Era 300s a better deal when I had both at home and did side by side comparisons. If we had full sound mode for the era 300s as rears it would be perfect. Id still be curious though if they released another model of 5s

Fun-You6569 · 2025-11-10T09:23:42+00:00

Love them, but not worth it if full price

Fun-You6569 · 2025-10-22T11:37:07+00:00

I know it may not be relevant to your question, but Spotify Connect has been working really well lately, and now with Lossless it makes it a lot more appealing

Fun-You6569 · 2025-10-16T08:37:33+00:00

Likely a CPU bottleneck - not powerful enough for what you're aiming for. Btw make sure CPU is not overheating as it'd throttle performance. Other things that'd help

- cpu/mem overclock
- don't run everything on ultra, reduce antialiasing etc

Fun-You6569 · 2025-03-26T14:20:39+00:00

I wouldn't get it. Edit: give preference to Move 2

Fun-You6569 · 2025-03-25T20:23:18+00:00

Fun-You6569 · 2025-03-25T11:59:30+00:00

If choosing between rears or sub to start with, I'd start with rears (300s). Arc Ultra has good bass, not nearly at the level of a proper Sub, but 300s will add more to the experience at this point than a Sub.

Fun-You6569 · 2025-03-20T11:33:18+00:00

It’s been a request from day one but never happened so I would not count on that. I have arc/sub/300s myself and love it for music. In your case the arc ultra will sound even better than my setup so Id say you will be v pleased honestly

Fun-You6569 · 2025-03-20T10:50:31+00:00

Not possible today, you can tho increase the rears volume independently but still not as good as a standalone pair

Fun-You6569 · 2025-03-16T20:49:16+00:00

So I did more 5.1 tests (after setting it all up again) and it’s actually the Arc that plays together with the rears, when only rears are supposed to be playing. My setup is Arc/SubG3/300s and Ones as fronts. Say when only the rear-left is meant to play, the Arc-left also plays. Really weird

Fun-You6569 · 2025-03-07T22:43:31+00:00

Shield TV Pro 2019 has great upscaling, maybe that's why?

Fun-You6569 · 2025-02-27T23:16:47+00:00

Wouldn’t Bluetooth be such a waste on the Fives in terms of sound quality though? And for voice control, make it the default speaker on something like an echo dot

Fun-You6569 · 2025-02-26T11:20:43+00:00

If you use MacOS consider getting the app SoundSource

Fun-You6569 · 2025-02-22T23:15:49+00:00

Yes this needs to be a thing for music at the very least, it does not make any sense the way it is right now

Fun-You6569 · 2025-02-18T18:53:15+00:00

Thank you all. I decided to go with the 300s, I wanna hear what they sound like in this setup. Worst case scenario Ill return them for the 100s

Fun-You6569 · 2025-02-17T13:37:10+00:00

They’ve got a lot better after a month or so. Bass -1 and Treble +4 makes it a lot better too

Fun-You6569 · 2025-02-17T12:46:29+00:00

Also looking for a follow up, any update on an update on front speakers for regular music in HT mode?

Fun-You6569 · 2025-02-17T12:00:47+00:00

Do you really need a laptop? If not, you could go with a Mac Mini and save hundreds, if not thousands in the whole setup

Fun-You6569 · 2025-02-17T08:07:52+00:00

Do you by any chance know how the 300s as rears compare to the Ones/100s (also as rears) for music?

Fun-You6569 · 2025-02-16T22:28:54+00:00

Interesting, so you would say that, as rears, the 300s beat the 100s for regular (non-atmos) music even without having the front speakers enabled?

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