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Meet Arc, Brilliant sound for your TV

Extraordinary sound meets elegant design

Eleven high-performance drivers, including custom elliptical woofers and precisely angled side tweeters, produce vivid detail and impressive bass for home cinema and music streaming. Arc's upward-firing drivers create a multi-dimensional soundstage that moves around you, rendering every whisper and explosion with dramatic clarity, detail, and depth.

With its elongated shape, soft profile, and seamless façade, Arc discreetly mounts to the wall or sits beneath the TV without pulling focus. When mounted, a magnetic sensor detects the orientation and smartly adjusts the EQ to temper bass resonance.

Arc’s sound was specially tuned with the help of Oscar-winning sound engineers to emphasize the human voice so you can always follow the story. The advanced processing creates five phased-array channels that masterfully deliver sound to your ears from all directions at the exact right moment. Use enhanced Trueplay tuning technology to optimize the sound for the unique acoustics of your room, even calibrating the height channels for precise localization.

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You can also make a surround sound setup with a pair of our surround capable Sonos speakers, such as a pair of Sonos Ones, or amplify it all with a Sub for an extraordinary surround experience.

Some more details on Sonos Arc:

Simple to set-up. Plug Arc into power and then connect it to your TV using the HDMI-ARC cord. Bring your phone up to Arc to automatically pair and securely transfer WiFi credentials using near-field communication (NFC).
HDMI eARC. Increased bandwidth supports high-quality audio and has lip-sync compensation built in.
Dolby Atmos. Play Atmos and Atmos-encoded audio to play from your collection and favorite services through your TV’s HDMI ARC or eARC connection.
Ambient light sensor. Arc detects how bright the room is and automatically adjusts the brightness of the LEDs to be visible but not distracting.
Automatic remote sync. Arc connects to your TV's HDMI eARC port with a single cable and automatically syncs with your remote.
Control your way. Control Sonos Arc with your voice, the Sonos app, your existing TV remote, your favorite music service’s app, or AirPlay 2. Capacitive touch controls for play, pause, skip tracks, adjust the volume, and group rooms just by tapping or swiping the top of the soundbar. LED indicates status, mute status and voice feedback.
Smart voice recognition. A four far-field microphone array used for advanced beamforming and multichannel echo cancellation makes sure you’re heard, even when the music is blasting, even when playing in immersive surround sound. For privacy, turn the microphone off with a tap. The LED light is hardwired and will always indicate if the microphones are enabled or if your voice assistant of choice isn't listening.
Optimized for your listening. From within the Sonos App, tap Speech Enhancement so you never miss a word, or Night Sound to amplify quiet noises and reduce loud ones so you can enjoy late night TV without waking the entire house.
Tune with Trueplay. Trueplay puts the speaker-tuning capability of the pros in the palm of your hands, adapting and optimising the sound of the speaker to the unique acoustics of the room. iOS device required.
Low profile and compact size. The dimensions are 3.4 x 45 x 4.5 inches (87 x 1141.7 x 115.7 mm) H x W x D and Arc weighs 13.78 lbs (6.25 kg).

Pre-order today on Sonos.com in stunning black with matte finish or white with matte finish for $799 US (€899 EUR, €799).

We’ve announced details for the Sonos Five and new Sonos Sub. You can also check out our blog for some great stories.

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Kimpalarsson

Contributor I

I got a LG Oled C7 with ARC but no eARC. I stream all my media off an Apple TV 4K. Will I be able to get Dolby Atmos?

From the asterisk section of Apple’s Dolby Atmos support page

“Apple TV 4K uses a high bandwidth form of Dolby Atmos that doesn’t work over ARC connections.”

No, unfortunately you will not. I’m in the same boat with a Samsung QLED from 2018 (the 2019+ versions are eARC capable). With Apple TV you need to plug directly into the sound bar and use the bar as an HDMI switch (which the Arc is not capable of), or have eARC on your TV. From what I can tell, there are no other options, unless there is some type of external HDMI switch that could work.

Thats actually really bad! Then its a no for me.

melvimbe

I’ve heard both. I don't want to knock Sonos, but I think if you really cared about listening to TrueHD lossless audio, you’d be looking at a far more expensive Atmos plan that involved separately placed very expensive wired speakers in your ceiling.

From what I’ve read, the choice of in-ceiling speakers vs up-firing speakers for what works best is also dependent on the rooms architecture. If the sound won’t bounce well off the ceiling, than it’s not good for up-firing speakers. If you have a low ceiling, then ceiling speakers wouldn’t be as good up-firing speakers...the listener will be able to tell audio is coming from the distinct speaker rather than the general location.

For instance, I heard the comparison on a system where each speaker cost more than this entire soundbar and I could barely, if at all, tell the difference. I just don’t see how a soundbar reflecting audio off your ceiling is going to really benefit from TrueHD vs. DD+. It’s an incremental benefit even with a very expensive system (think about lossless audio vs. audio with high bit rates -- it’s very hard to hear the difference unless you are a true audiophile and have the right equipment).

That makes sense...

And sure the streaming services may offer it someday, but it massively expands the size of a movie file. Everyone is going to need 2 gig internet before we are going to be seeing 66-100 gig movies streaming over the internet. Right now a Netflix 4K movie is 7GB per hour (or 14-21 GB for a 2-3 hour movie) max.

True, streaming TrueHD is probably much farther off than I was thinking/implying earlier.

Here’s an explanation:

“Dolby offers two different 7.1 surround versions. Dolby Digital Plus is the “lossy” version. Instead of using matrixing, it applies lossy compression to all of the discrete audio channels, which helps to take up less space on a Blu-ray disc. Dolby TrueHD, on the other hand, is lossless. Since no compression is involved, Dolby TrueHD is intended to be identical to the studio master.”

Anyway this is a long way of saying, I think you will really enjoy this soundbar and get 99% of its benefit from DD+/HDMI Arc, even if you don’t have eARC. I don’t think we need to be sweating that issue too much.

Danny

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rowley

Lyricist I

I was about to pre order one until I saw it won't work with the play:1s I'm currently using as rears with my beam. Quite disappointed since I only brought it as set around 9 months ago.

its very unclear whether or not it will work with Play 1’s as Play 1’s are deemed as S2 compatible - would be good of Sonos to definitively say for those of us who have the Play 1’s as rears

This link suggests they might work and sonos “confirming” that an S2 speaker will work:

https://www.reddit.com/r/sonos/comments/getqov/play_1_as_surrounds_with_arc/

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rowley

Lyricist I

Hi

will the arc be included in your trade up programme if you already own the playbar?

The arc is included in the trade up program if you have qualifying S1 products - however the playbar is S2 compatible and therefore not eligible to trade up

melvimbe

I was about to pre order one until I saw it won't work with the play:1s I'm currently using as rears with my beam. Quite disappointed since I only brought it as set around 9 months ago.

its very unclear whether or not it will work with Play 1’s as Play 1’s are deemed as S2 compatible - would be good of Sonos to definitively say for those of us who have the Play 1’s as rears

This link suggests they might work and sonos “confirming” that an S2 speaker will work:

https://www.reddit.com/r/sonos/comments/getqov/play_1_as_surrounds_with_arc/

Sonos confirmed this back on page 1.

https://en.community.sonos.com/announcements-228985/meet-arc-brilliant-sound-for-your-tv-6839863?postid=16425262#post16425262

The FAQ only included products that were currently on sale. Not sure if that’s going to be updated to include all products that work as surrounds, whether currently selling or not.

Danny

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mkatz

Lyricist I

I have a Playbar mounted on my wall and now interested in the Arc. Any insight if I unmount the Playbar will there be holes visible that the Arc won’t hide?

BMF

Prodigy III

I have a Playbar mounted on my wall and now interested in the Arc. Any insight if I unmount the Playbar will there be holes visible that the Arc won’t hide?

It was mentioned back a few pages that the Playbar all mount should work with Arc

BMF

Prodigy III

Is a separate wall mounting bracket required for wall mounting?

Yes, there is a separate wall mount bracket, or you can use the Playbar wall mount if you have one.

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dssss

Lyricist III

I have a Playbar mounted on my wall and now interested in the Arc. Any insight if I unmount the Playbar will there be holes visible that the Arc won’t hide?

It was mentioned back a few pages that the Playbar all mount should work with Arc

Yes, but “should” and “will” are key distinctions when dealing with precise measurements/mounts, etc… It would be helpful if Sonos could provide clarity around the interoperability of the two mounts.

BMF

Prodigy III

One thing I am interested in, having just ordered an Arc….

Is the move to S2 a one way move, or can the device be added back to an S1 system at a later date by downgrading to S1?

Wondering if I upgrade my whole system to S2, then sell the Playbar once the Arc is set up and working…. would the buyer have a choice of using the Playbar on S1 or S2 or is the playbar now S2 only with no option to downgrade?

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