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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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jinjin19

Lyricist III

You are mostly correct, @valynox. On its own, Arc is 5.0.2 due to the upward and side firing speakers inside of it. Due to the changes in audio processing when adding rear surround speakers it continues be a 5.0.2 even with rear surrounds. Adding a Sub makes it 5.1.2.

7.1.4 isn’t possible at this time. But I’ll let the team know you’re asking for it.

@Ryan S This is what I wanted to understand given that there are extra speakers on the side why is it that when you add the rear surrounds the audio processing will turn off the side speakers? Wouldn’t that be a waste of extra sound separation? Most of the current home theater setups now that handle Atmos are usually 7 main speakers at the minimum.

Now given that this is not available now but the hardware capability (2 side speakers) is already in the arc, would you say that it would still be probable to achieve a 7.1.2 setup through a future firmware update?

Thank you.

JJ

Ryan SAuthor

Retired Sonos Staff

That’s a great question. The side speakers don’t get turned off when it’s with rear surrounds, they reconfigure to help the left and right channel performance but it doesn’t quite convert into a 7 dedicated channel configuration. That said, the “missing” channels get included in the audio from the surrounds. The 6th and 7th channel audio isn’t “dropped”.

I’ll check in with the team and if it’s possible for the future add it as a request. No promises, but I’ll get it on the list if it could happen.

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melvimbe

That’s a great question. The side speakers don’t get turned off when it’s with rear surrounds, but it doesn’t quite convert into a 7 dedicated channel approach. I’ll check in with the team and if it’s possible for the future add it as a request. No promises, but I’ll get it on the list if it could happen.

Personally, I wouldn’t want the side firing speakers to act as side surround channels. The reason being that the audio needs to bounce off the walls to reach the main listening area, right? Well one side of my room is windows and the other is essentially open space. Not ideal. I would rather side audio be played over the rear or ceiling channels where appropriate, rather than side.

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jinjin19

Lyricist III

That’s a great question. The side speakers don’t get turned off when it’s with rear surrounds, they reconfigure to help the left and right channel performance but it doesn’t quite convert into a 7 dedicated channel configuration. That said, the “missing” channels get included in the audio from the surrounds. The 6th and 7th channel audio isn’t “dropped”.

I’ll check in with the team and if it’s possible for the future add it as a request. No promises, but I’ll get it on the list if it could happen.

@Ryan S Ok I’m getting mixed messages. I watched a YouTube video of Digital Ramble wherein Cullen Harwood explained how the ARC still performs at 5.0.2 with the surrounds but he specifically mentioned that the side speakers turns off and sends that discreet channel to the rears. Could you confirm that your interpretation is the correct one and that the sides will become part of the front LR’s?

I understand that when you add rears of course the side speakers will not be acting as surrounds anymore but rather I would want to accomplish a much more wider sound stage. If the sides are turned on and firing audio then of course that would help with the separation. Ultimately my preference would still be a dedicated 6th and 7th channel in the future rather than just an assisted front LR.

JJ

Ryan SAuthor

Retired Sonos Staff

I’ll check in with the team and Cullen to make sure then circle back with you!

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jinjin19

Lyricist III

I’ll check in with the team and Cullen and circle back with you!

Thanks Ryan!!

JJ

Ryan SAuthor

Retired Sonos Staff

Ok, I just had a chat with Cullen about this @jinjin19. When using surround speakers with an Arc, the side speakers aren’t disabled but they stop producing the dedicated surround channels and shift to support the left and right sounds. The surround function on those channels is turned off which is what he meant in that video, but the speakers themselves don’t go silent.

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jinjin19

Lyricist III

Ok, I just had a chat with Cullen about this @jinjin19. When using surround speakers with an Arc, the side speakers aren’t disabled but they stop producing the dedicated surround channels and shift to support the left and right sounds. The surround function on those channels is turned off which is what he meant in that video, but the speakers themselves don’t go silent.

Ok gotcha, Thanks for clarifying Ryan!

JJ

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Valynox

Trending Lyricist I

Thks Ryan for this clarification!

i would love to be able to throw a second pair of Ones to build a 7.1.2 or even better a pair of ceiling with Amp to build a 7.1.4 :)

i don’t know if the WiFi bandwidth/SonosNet would be strong enough to support it :)

Ryan SAuthor

Retired Sonos Staff

I’ll pass along the requests for you.

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