Retired Sonos Staff

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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CarsonPlower

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Question: My Sony TV currently has one HDMI “arc” input. And into that input I am connecting my cable box. Meanwhile, my playbar is connected to the TV via optical. In this current set up I’ve been able to successfully pass through Dolby 5.1 with no problem. Now if I get a new Sonos arc, I would have to use this one “arc” HDMI input on my TV. Thus needing to reroute my cable box HDMI to a non-arc HDMI input on the TV. Is that going to lead to possible dolby pass-through problems? Basically is it critical that my cable box be connected to my TV via an arc HDMI input or will any HDMI input suffice? I’m trying to figure out if I’m one arc input short on my TV.

Ryan SAuthor

Retired Sonos Staff

You should be able to move that cable box to your HDMI connection without issue. The ARC stands for Audio Return Channel, which is used to send audio to a device like a soundbar. The biggest thing you could miss is that HDMI doesn’t have CEC, which is what’s used to send commands to the TV. The cable box isn’t likely using CEC for much. But the Sonos Arc will use CEC with voice control to issue commands to the TV.

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Airgetlam

The ARC designation on that port means that it is the only one that the TV sends a signal back out to a speaker on. All of the ports will accept a regular HDMI signal, but the TV uses just that one port to reflect back out the HDMI-ARC. So even devices connected on other ports can still send a signal to your Sonos as long as the Sonos is connected to port 1.

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CarsonPlower

Trending Lyricist I

You should be able to move that cable box to your HDMI connection without issue. The ARC stands for Audio Return Channel, which is used to send audio to a device like a soundbar. The biggest thing you could miss is that HDMI doesn’t have CEC, which is what’s used to send commands to the TV. The cable box isn’t likely using CEC for much. But the Sonos Arc will use CEC with voice control to issue commands to the TV.

Thank you Ryan!

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CarsonPlower

Trending Lyricist I

The ARC designation on that port means that it is the only one that the TV sends a signal back out to a speaker on. All of the ports will accept a regular HDMI signal, but the TV uses just that one port to reflect back out the HDMI-ARC. So even devices connected on other ports can still send a signal to your Sonos as long as the Sonos is connected to port 1.

Appreciate the input! (No pun intended)

lucasSWE

Avid Contributor I

Most likely you’ll get Dolby Digital Plus with that setup, which is capable of passing compressed Dolby Atmos content, if that is available. The big question is if your Apple TV will be sending Atmos content. From what others have posted, and what’s shared on their page here: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204069, the Apple TV’s Atmos content will only be playable when using HDMI-eARC from your TV to your soundbar, because they only use the high quality formats of Dolby Atmos. This would be a good question to ask Apple or perhaps your TV manufacturer. The Sonos Arc will play Atmos from Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby TrueHD, and Dolby MAT, you just have to get that audio to us.

I’ve checked with some people who have tested the Sonos Arc with Apple TV and some of them have gotten Atmos content even without eARC connections, so ultimately I think it depends on your TV and if it can send the Dolby Atmos signal over ARC.

Thanks for your great answer! This means I’ll try before buying a new TV. Because I seems like the Arc itself is a big upgrade from the Playbar, Atmos or not.

Airgetlam

Pun gleefully accepted :)

Bruce

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seannr87

Lyricist II

By mounting the bar on the wall above the tv (Still over a metre and a half to the ceiling) would it create significant degradation in the sound quality? I really want this but it won’t fit on the tv stand as it’s a little too wide so mounting it above the tv would be the only option for the next 6-12 months.

in general it’s not a large space anyway. Probably 2.5m from tv to sofa (the top of the tv is just above head heightwhen sitting)

Ryan SAuthor

Retired Sonos Staff

It’s not an ideal setup, most likely it’s just not going to be great for Atmos content, but it should still sound pretty good. It’s in the category of not recommended but you could give it a try.

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seannr87

Lyricist II

It’s not an ideal setup, most likely it’s just not going to be great for Atmos content, but it should still sound pretty good. It’s in the category of not recommended but you could give it a try.

kind of what I was expecting; not the end of the world as I’ve got limited access to atmos content at the moment but that will change over time

thanks Ryan

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