I was playing on my Xbox when the arc suddenly made an extremely loud pop sound and then lost audio completely. The app wouldn’t let me adjust the volume and Alexa wake up didn’t emit its usual tone. I had to remove the power from the arc and reapply which resumed the audio. I’m concerned that one of the speakers in the arc may have been damaged when this happened. Has anyone had this issue?
We have had no issues with the arc since purchasing it earlier this year.
Best I can recommend, after disabling CEC on Xbox, is to power cycle (unplug/replug) everything including Arc and TV.
That worked for me. But there are others with the pop who don’t even have an Xbox. So it definitely doesn’t solve the problem for everyone.
Until Sonos makes an official statement, we just don’t know. We’re just users sharing information.
Very interesting thing just happened to me over the weekend. I encountered a pop on the Xbox for the first time in a couple of months that seems limited to a single game only. Both times that I played this game once returning to the Home Screen I got a pop, however it wasn’t the arc resetting type of pop, the system continued to function immediately after
Different type of exception perhaps? Older games causing issues with CEC or perhaps forced Dolby Vision?
Game was “Contrast” for anybody brave enough to try to replicate
Sigh!
No, I have the Xbox running at 4K60 VRR. That being said, the Apple TV was making reproducible pops too on an HDMI 2.0 port.
The first thing that immediately jumps out there is that the Xbox uses a completely different signaling technology for HDMI 2.1 bandwidth settings. When you are using 4K/120 the Xbox signals using FRL (Fixed rate link). When back on 4k60 VRR you are still within the HDMI 2.0 bandwidth standard so it uses the old technology of TMDS (I believe). Could be something there about using hdmi 2.1 features
Same issue, watching The last of us on Apple TV, then loud pop and nothing for a moment, then it will play fine for a bit then pop again, same situation, I shut off Dolby Atmos and still happening. Now watching Mandalorian on Disney + on Apple TV and same thing.
my diagnostic code is 1085889228
I haven’t experienced it since that one time months ago but it just happened twice within 5 minutes of the initial pop while playing the Resident Evil 4 Remake demo on Xbox Series X. I have had CEC disabled on the Xbox side for months which I thought fixed the issue but it didn’t.
I am not disabling Atmos on a Soundbar I bought specifically because it has Atmos. This should have been fixed by now.
Sorry to hear that. I’ve been pop free since Xbox CEC off. But of course there’s some background anxiety every time I watch Atmos now.
I think that discomfort won’t really go away until we have an official statement from Sonos or a software fix.
It’s a bit strange because I had only experienced it once before while playing Forza Horizon 5. Since that time I have played quite a bit of Halo Infinite, Forza Horizon 5 and other games without a single issue. I downloaded the Resident Evil 4 demo today and about 10 minutes into it the pop happened. I got my audio back and a few minutes later it happened again. I turned off the game and completed a race in Forza Horizon 5 without a single pop. I swapped over to Halo Infinite and played a match that lasted about 15 minutes without a single issue.
While it has happened once in Forza the fact that it hasn’t happened since and I was in the clear until playing RE4 has me wondering if it’s, for the most part, game specific. I did see another poster here mention they experienced it during the Last of Us on HBO Max but with my Apple TV 4K it hasn’t happened once yet.
I just don’t even know.
It’s a bit strange because I had only experienced it once before while playing Forza Horizon 5. Since that time I have played quite a bit of Halo Infinite, Forza Horizon 5 and other games without a single issue. I downloaded the Resident Evil 4 demo today and about 10 minutes into it the pop happened. I got my audio back and a few minutes later it happened again. I turned off the game and completed a race in Forza Horizon 5 without a single pop. I swapped over to Halo Infinite and played a match that lasted about 15 minutes without a single issue.
While it has happened once in Forza the fact that it hasn’t happened since and I was in the clear until playing RE4 has me wondering if it’s, for the most part, game specific. I did see another poster here mention they experienced it during the Last of Us on HBO Max but with my Apple TV 4K it hasn’t happened once yet.
I just don’t even know.
I think it is game specific. I was pop free for the longest time, only to play “contrast” and had pops both times I played it
Is anyone else using an HDMI Switch to allow their Xbox and PS5 to plug into the same port? Sony TV only supports HDMI 2.1 on ports 3 and 4 but port 3 is ARC so the consoles can only use port 4
I doubt this is the reason but something to consider.
No switch here. Apple TV on HDMI 2, XBOX on 4.
Have the same issue with apple tv & Sony x91j, it’s insane that an atmos capable device is just another sound bar now. Not worth >$2k if this is the support customers get.
Another Victim here 
(from Mexico)
The first time I experienced the (super loud/explosive) pop was when I was navigating the menu of my XBox Series S. (It was soo scary BTW, I almost had a heart attack).
The first thing that crossed my mind was that my 2 days brand new Sonos Arc was dead because that pop literally sounded like something exploded inside, causing physicall damage of the speakers.
I inmediatly googled the issue and found several post here and on Reddit of people having the same issue.
I also had the problem with my Apple TV 2022 hearing weird noises/mini-pops and cuts in Apple Music when listening songs in Dolby Atmos.
Just a moment ago I was watching The Last Of Us (first episode) in HBO Max and having a lot of mini-pops (annoying but tolerable) but in the minute 22 (when we see the infected old lady) again an extremely LOUD and horrible pop happened (I swear my soul leaved my body). Even my dogs went crazy or scared or both.
I ended watching the episode in the native TV App and had no pops but the Sonos App showed only Dolby Digital 5.1 and no Atmos. BTW my TV is a Hisense U8G 65) .
As described in this post, the pop only happens whith dolby Atmos content (or in the Dobly Atmos Mode in the case of X Box Series S).
After disable Atmos in both devices the pop is gone, but of course what is the point of spending this ridicously ammount of money for a product if you can’t use it for what was designed and marketed. Truly shocking that the recommendation of the Sonos support was turning off Dolby Atmos (a key feature) 🫠
I am honestly very dissapointed of Sonos and now I regret of buying this thing because it’s celar that the company is aware of the problem and after all this time not even a formal statement or answer has been released (and not to mention a fix for the issue). For what I see the users are the ones who are making an effort to try to solve this or at least know the cause of the problem.
I will surely going to end returning tIhe Arc to Amazon before it Kills me of a scare.
UPDATE ONE MONTH LATER:
The Pop just happened again, even with Atmos Off 
I was watching YouTube in the Apple TV 4K 2022, Atmos disabled, the video was not even in 5.1 and the F*cking LOUD POP scared me again.
It’s a shame that now I won’t be able to watch any content in my Arc without the fear of the popping. I’ve been lucky this only has happened when I’m watching alone.
Sonos team: if you are reading this I hope you feel Bad, because your work is Bad and you should feel Bad.
I’m sorry to hear that Odnam. Are you sure Atmos is off in Apple TV settings? I’d get the pop even during the screensaver, no sound playing, but only if Atmos was on in the settings.
And then for our thread reference, is your setup still Hisense U8G, Xbox Series S, and Apple TV?
I’m sorry to hear that Odnam. Are you sure Atmos is off in Apple TV settings? I’d get the pop even during the screensaver, no sound playing, but only if Atmos was on in the settings.
And then for our thread reference, is your setup still Hisense U8G, Xbox Series S, and Apple TV?
Yes, the setup is the same.
and yes, I’m sure Atmos was disabled.
You can see the audio settings in the picture (In spanish, sorry)
Bummer. If it helps, having ”change format” set to “no” but Atmos off separately was my setup.
So I disabled the CEC on my Xbox Series X and Samsung TV. I have an older TV so using a HDFury Arcana to give me eArc and Dolby Atmos to my Sonos Arc. So far, it is looking very positive. It used to be that I could start a game, press the X button to switch to Xbox menu and I would get the bang every single time. Now no bang at all. I also played Thor 4K and confirmed Dolby Atmos feed in my Sonos app. Hitting X button, again no bang. It is obviously early days but I will repost back after more testing... Thanks so much to all of you guys for the valuable information.
So been running with above setup and disabled CEC for a month now. I can confirm that it has only popped once in all this time. I have watched a variety of movie sound formats inc 4k movies with Dolby Atmos - all good.
Unfortunately not good news for me. Ever since I had a pop with the game “contrast” on the series X. I now have recurring pops on games I never used to have them on. CEC is disabled and I have done power cycle but no longer having the same luck as I did before. Seems like getting back to the state I had before isnt as easy as just resetting my configuration to the options I previously had. Crazy frustrating!!
Cory. Sure would be nice to get an official Sonos update on this. The longer that Sonos keeps to the story that the technical teams are looking at this and nothing more concrete, the more I start to wonder if a fix is actually coming. The optics sure don’t look good for Sonos, seeing that this has been a problem for 2 years and only under investigation for a few months, I will remember to take my time as well when Sonos wants me to spend more money to upgrade my ones to Era 300s
I’m sorry if I missed this but a few thoughts.
Are those experiencing issues using a wired connection or Boost?
Has anyone not using TruePlay experienced this?
Come on Sonos !!!! This problem existed for years since ARC came out . Fix the damn thing already . I want to enjoy my Resident evil 4 remake with 4k120hz VRR ATMOS without worrying when the loud pop going to occur!
Come on Sonos !!!! This problem existed for years since ARC came out . Fix the damn thing already . I want to enjoy my Resident evil 4 remake with 4k120hz VRR ATMOS without worrying when the loud pop going to occur!
I haven’t even picked up Resident Evil 4 yet. I do have a set of SteelSeries headphones that likely work better for a game such as Resident Evil though. Either way, I ordered a pair of ERA 300s as I wanted some sort of surrounds but this issue needs to be fixed. It shouldn’t take this long to do so.
I turned off all CEC across both TV and Apple TV, power cycled but didn't turn CEC back on.
I’ve had over 2 weeks of seamless Atmos playback until last week when I got a pop in the first quiet moment of an episode of The Mandalorian.
Was *just* starting to relax and enjoy the Arc.
Come on Sonos, this is nowhere near good enough and an update is very much overdue!
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I don’t understand how difficult this can be for a team of engineers. There has already been instructions to replicate this so they should be doing it and prioritizing a fix immediately.
I always praise Sonos products to my clients over other brands including Bose. Unfortunately, it’s become common that I’ve had to let them know of this issue so it doesn’t freak them out. Please stop making me do this…
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