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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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britishwonderings

Enthusiast I

I too am disappointed by the lack of HDMI pass through, options etc. I have a 2019 Quantum TV with no eARC. I like my TV. We watch 90% of my content through our Apple TV. I am more than happy with my picture quality and don’t want a new TV. My wife would rightly be irritated since my ‘old’ tv was only 3 years old when I declared an upgrade necessary! I don’t need or want a new TV!

I really, really, want a bigger more powerful sound bar than my beam. And I wanted Atmos. I was excited by the Arc. And now, seriously, one HDMI port. I can’t get Atmos from my ATV. And even if I could I want the MAX quality! Even if there was a way with a splitter or such its just a layer of complication that will irritate me when it’s quirky.

I have Sonos because I like it’s relative simplicity. I don’t post much but when I do I’ve been accused of working for Sonos since I am generally very positive to Sonos. I like Sonos. I am just disappointed at the Arc and it’s lack of options. I wonder if we did a pole today how many of us have TV’s with eARC? By the time I get a new TV the Arc 2 may be out!

I am all for designing products that work for tomorrow, but make it practical today. I’ll stick with my beam, my SUB and play surrounds for now. And I will brood at my lack of Atmos as I walk around my house, and when my wife gives me the eye roll I will retort with ‘I know I know, 1st world problem, but COME ON SONOS!’. I really want more oomph and Atmos! I want to keep my house simple so I want SONOS to provide it for me!!

Beam. 2x Play:1 - 2x Play One (gen 2) - Sub - 2x Play 5 - Move

jgatie

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?

It will work with Play:1s, Play:3s and Play:5 Gen 2. The poster was mistaken.

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mike123

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?

If you connect to a TV using a optical or a ARC port the Dolby audio formats you will get are dependent on your TV model and manufacturer,

I would give them an email to see if your TV can pass the formats needed.

I’m afraid most probably won’t,

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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

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

I have had 4k movies with DD and DTS/DTS-HD/TrueHD, but since it is not supported on my current setup, I killed the DTS/DTS-HD/TrueHD track. Anyhow, I do not have Atmos movies. Basically need it for games and Netflix. Anyway, without eARC I will not be able to listen to DTS/DTS-HD/TrueHD tracks anyway
Got it, thanks
Can you provide a link where I can see that in the official documentation? 5.1.2 means that I can add another pair of Play1s, right? Front - Arc, Middle - 2 Play1s, Rear - 2 Play1s and Sub

Airgetlam

The Arc contains the front and middle speakers for when used as a TrueHD device.

Bruce

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kyronius

Contributor I

+1 if Sonos is reading this. Will buy a device that lets me output atmos via pc hdmi to such device which then let me link to the Sonos Arc's EARC.

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ewolkoff

Enthusiast II

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

I have had 4k movies with DD and DTS/DTS-HD/TrueHD, but since it is not supported on my current setup, I killed the DTS/DTS-HD/TrueHD track. Anyhow, I do not have Atmos movies. Basically need it for games and Netflix. Anyway, without eARC I will not be able to listen to DTS/DTS-HD/TrueHD tracks anyway
Got it, thanks
Can you provide a link where I can see that in the official documentation? 5.1.2 means that I can add another pair of Play1s, right? Front - Arc, Middle - 2 Play1s, Rear - 2 Play1s and Sub

You can only have the Arc, 2 rear speakers (Play1s would work) and a sub. The “middle” speakers are in the Arc. You can’t pair any additional speakers with it.

melvimbe

I have had 4k movies with DD and DTS/DTS-HD/TrueHD, but since it is not supported on my current setup, I killed the DTS/DTS-HD/TrueHD track. Anyhow, I do not have Atmos movies. Basically need it for games and Netflix. Anyway, without eARC I will not be able to listen to DTS/DTS-HD/TrueHD tracks anyway

For netflix, you would not need an eARC connection. Streaming services are likely going to be over DD+, which will work through ARC. AppleTV seems to the exception to this, as it sometimes work with ARC, sometimes not, depending on the TV used.

Danny

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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?

If you connect to a TV using a optical or a ARC port the Dolby audio formats you will get are dependent on your TV model and manufacturer,

I would give them an email to see if your TV can pass the formats needed.

I’m afraid most probably won’t,

Thanks. I searched and found this

“Just like the Q90R and the 2018 Samsung TVs, the Q70R doesn't support DTS passthrough, and doesn't support eARC. It likely does support lossy Atmos passthrough from Dolby Digital Plus sources, like the native Netflix app, because there's an Atmos option in its settings.”

from https://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/samsung/q70-q70r-qled

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Kamenrider

Avid Contributor I

I too am disappointed by the lack of HDMI pass through, options etc. I have a 2019 Quantum TV with no eARC. I like my TV. We watch 90% of my content through our Apple TV. I am more than happy with my picture quality and don’t want a new TV. My wife would rightly be irritated since my ‘old’ tv was only 3 years old when I declared an upgrade necessary! I don’t need or want a new TV!

I really, really, want a bigger more powerful sound bar than my beam. And I wanted Atmos. I was excited by the Arc. And now, seriously, one HDMI port. I can’t get Atmos from my ATV. And even if I could I want the MAX quality! Even if there was a way with a splitter or such its just a layer of complication that will irritate me when it’s quirky.

I have Sonos because I like it’s relative simplicity. I don’t post much but when I do I’ve been accused of working for Sonos since I am generally very positive to Sonos. I like Sonos. I am just disappointed at the Arc and it’s lack of options. I wonder if we did a pole today how many of us have TV’s with eARC? By the time I get a new TV the Arc 2 may be out!

I am all for designing products that work for tomorrow, but make it practical today. I’ll stick with my beam, my SUB and play surrounds for now. And I will brood at my lack of Atmos as I walk around my house, and when my wife gives me the eye roll I will retort with ‘I know I know, 1st world problem, but COME ON SONOS!’. I really want more oomph and Atmos! I want to keep my house simple so I want SONOS to provide it for me!!

Am totally in the same boat, my tv is only a year old with two months finance outstanding. Would be divorced if I wanted another tv to support an £800 speaker!!!

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