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).

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Tejs Dyrvig Ernst

No news to share today about bringing support for Dolby Atmos to Beam or Amp, but I’ll share your interest with the team. Atmos itself does require upward firing speakers, or ceiling mounted ones, which as Airgetlam and jgatie suggest, aren’t available today for Beam or the Amp.

Thank you for the honest reply @Ryan S. Being such new products as both the Beam and the Amp are (the Amp in particular), it is a shame to see them already being held back by inferior hardware such as HDMI Arc vs eArc. Disappointing to now have the whole lineup updated and already seeing essential hardware gaps in the lineup.

If I am understanding things right, this also means that the Arc is the only product which support Dolby Digital Plus which has been a significant issue with the previous speakers. This is a big difference and surely a disappointment to all owners of the Beam and Amp.

On topic, the Arc seems like a cool achievement though. If I was not moving to a build-in system, it would definitely be on my buy-list.

lucasSWE

Avid Contributor I

Today I use two Play:3 as surround to my Playbar. Would the Arc have comparable sound as this setup, or is my setup today better? Sadly the Play:3 are not compatible with the Arc for surround use..

Ryan SAuthor

Retired Sonos Staff

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.

EDIT

The above is incorrect. The Playbar wall mount is not compatible with the Arc. You can use the same drill holes when exchanging the mounts, but Arc has a smaller footprint than Playbar. My apologies for getting this wrong. Arc is only compatible with the Arc wall mount available at: https://www.sonos.com/shop/wall-mount-for-arc.html

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Tejs Dyrvig Ernst

@Ryan S Can you confirm my understanding on Dolby DD Plus - that this is also exclusively supported by the Arc and not by the other recent products?

Ryan SAuthor

Retired Sonos Staff

Today I use two Play:3 as surround to my Playbar. Would the Arc have comparable sound as this setup, or is my setup today better? Sadly the Play:3 are not compatible with the Arc for surround use..

The Play:3s are compatible as surrounds for the Arc. And it will be a pretty big improvement from the Playbar to the Arc.

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Airgetlam

@Codefish, those are the only ones sold currently by Sonos. As there isn’t a disclaimer in the announcement, I’d take the assumption that it will work with existing PLAY:1s.

Bruce

Ryan SAuthor

Retired Sonos Staff

@Ryan S Can you confirm my understanding on Dolby DD Plus - that this is also exclusively supported by the Arc and not by the other recent products?

We haven’t shared any details on adding new formats to Beam or other home theater products. Just the Arc coming with new support. I’ll make sure the team knows you’re interested, but don’t have any news to share today.

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lucasSWE

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@Ryan S Thanks! Then I’ll pre-order one, especially if the Play:3 are compatible. They weren’t mentioned on the product page. But as mentioned above, it’s probably just because they aren’t sold as of right now.

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sjw

Local Superstar

DTS :joy:

Chris

Lead Maestro

With Ryan confirming the Play:3 will work as surrounds … .you could then conclude the Play:1s (released after the Play:3s) will work fine as well for surrounds.

Interesting note that Ryan mentions how the surrounds become much more part of the sound with the Arc (I assume that has to do with Dolby Atmos).

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