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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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Guinans

Trending Lyricist I

Just one more HDMI socket on the Arc is all I would’ve needed to make this an easy buy.

In the interests of simplicity they’ve nice again crippled their product and made it 100x more complicated than it should be.

My use case;

LG C6 TV with ARC only (not changing this anytime soon as still want 3D)
Oppo UltraHD disc player itching to let loose with some full bandwidth Atmos via seperate audio only HDMI
Apple TV 4K (arggggh!)
Xbox One Pro ready to output Atmos
If I use ARC out from TV will only get downscaled DD+ and will run out of HDMI inputs

I’m already looking for extra HDMI eARC splitters/switchers and I can’t see a way to get the full benefit of the upgrade from my Playbase. I did not intend becoming an expert on ARC and eARC this week but now thinking of buying an Sonos Arc I have to factor this into my decision.

How much simpler it would have been to have another input on the Arc! I hope this wasn’t just about saving a couple of dollars in manufacture…..

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Onkeldave

Lyricist II

For the ones using Apple TV with an LG with ARC port, this article is an interesting read and confirms what Ryan mentions about the betatesters getting Atmos via ARC from ATVs: https://hdguru.com/understanding-dolby-atmos-from-an-supporting-lg-tv/

Here the interesting paragraph:

So, while you can get an LG TV’s decoded Atmos signal to work carried in a DD+ soundtrack over ARC, you will have to decide if the clarity of sound from that compressed format is good enough for you. If it’s not, you are better off listening to the Ultra HD Blu-ray version with the Dolby Atmos or DTS:X content connected directly into a supporting AV receiver, which is then connected to the television via and HDMI output carrying the video information.

Looks like LG TVs decode uncompressed Atmos signals into a compressed DD+ stream that will be passed via ARC. That is good in theory.
Practically however I read in av/hifi forums of users facing lots of delay and lip syncing issues using this setup, to an extent that couldn‘t even be fixed with adjustments in the TV or AVR settings. Guess there is no way to find out for sure other than testing your individual setup.

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Compo84

Lyricist II

Personally I’m gutted. I’ve had a Playbar since 2013. Still think it provides and excellent experience today especially with the Sub. However the lack of HDMI pass through means I can’t upgrade to Arc. I upgraded to an LG C9 55” OLED last year and held out for Sonos to release an atmos compatible bar, but I need all 4 of my HDMI ports. As an experienced technology product manger I have to ask who did the customer research and persona profiling? Honestly Sonos this is super frustrating, who on earth decided one HDMI port was enough? Late to market with an atmos compatible product which is forgivable if you give your product all the right bells and whistles.

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Kamenrider

Avid Contributor 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.

Could you point me to where you found this please?

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Gabilin

Trending Lyricist I

Questions:
1) Considering the fact there was no update on the speaker setup schema (assume 5.1 is what we still have with ARC) and the fact my LG TV doesn’t support eARC (so compressed Atmos, DD+) what benefits I will get with upgrading to Sonos ARC? Now I have Playbar, 2 Play1s and Sub. Practically, the new bandwidth will enable 1mbps (ARC) compared to 384 kbps TOSLINK, but will I be able to hear it?

I do not have BlueRay. I store all my movies on NAS which is connected to TV with 1GB network.
TV is getting all the content and pushes the audio directly to Playbar with TOSLINK

2) What is the difference between Sub and SUb (gen2) from an audio quality perspective?
3) Are there new setup schemas available? 7.1?

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Kamenrider

Avid Contributor I

My TV is a 2019 Samsung Q70 series and doesn’t have eARC. Does that mean Atmos won’t work as I don’t have the bandwidth from eARC?

lucasSWE

Avid Contributor I

@Kamenrider It's confirmed that the Play:1 will work with the Arc. Earlier only the speakers that Sonos sells right now were listed on the product page. Although, both in the thread and on the product page earlier speakers are listed as well.

melvimbe

Just one more HDMI socket on the Arc is all I would’ve needed to make this an easy buy.

In the interests of simplicity they’ve nice again crippled their product and made it 100x more complicated than it should be.

My use case;

LG C6 TV with ARC only (not changing this anytime soon as still want 3D)
Oppo UltraHD disc player itching to let loose with some full bandwidth Atmos via seperate audio only HDMI
Apple TV 4K (arggggh!)
Xbox One Pro ready to output Atmos
If I use ARC out from TV will only get downscaled DD+ and will run out of HDMI inputs

I’m already looking for extra HDMI eARC splitters/switchers and I can’t see a way to get the full benefit of the upgrade from my Playbase. I did not intend becoming an expert on ARC and eARC this week but now thinking of buying an Sonos Arc I have to factor this into my decision.

How much simpler it would have been to have another input on the Arc! I hope this wasn’t just about saving a couple of dollars in manufacture…..

The xbox one should have a HDMI input pass through that might be useful for you. I also noticed that there’s some duplication of function in your inputs. In fact, the xbox can do streaming and play blurays, although it does not have all the functionality of your disk player and ATV. And of course, an HDMI switch may not be as inconvenient as it looks, particularly if one of those inputs is used much less that others. I understand why this might not work for you give you all the functionality you’re looking for...just offering suggestions.

Danny

melvimbe

My TV is a 2019 Samsung Q70 series and doesn’t have eARC. Does that mean Atmos won’t work as I don’t have the bandwidth from eARC?

Atmos will also work over DD+, which ARC capable TVs can send over to the Arc soundbar. I have a similar Samsung model to yours, and not expecting any issues.

Danny

melvimbe

Questions:
1) Considering the fact there was no update on the speaker setup schema (assume 5.1 is what we still have with ARC) and the fact my LG TV doesn’t support eARC (so compressed Atmos, DD+) what benefits I will get with upgrading to Sonos ARC? Now I have Playbar, 2 Play1s and Sub. Practically, the new bandwidth will enable 1mbps (ARC) compared to 384 kbps TOSLINK, but will I be able to hear it?

I do not have BlueRay. I store all my movies on NAS which is connected to TV with 1GB network

Without knowing what codec the movies on your NAS are in, not sure how that can be answered. If they are in DD+ with Atmos, then yes. If not, I suspect you’re going a hear a difference when compared to the playbar, but not nearly as much.

TV is getting all the content and pushes the audio directly to Playbar with TOSLINK

2) What is the difference between Sub and SUb (gen2) from an audio quality perspective?

The audio is the same, improvements are in hardware capabilities. If you aren’t have issues with wireless performance, there isn’t a strong reason to upgrade right now.

3) Are there new setup schemas available? 7.1?

5.1.2

Danny

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