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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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kyronius

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Well the other question is coming up is will the Sonos Arc really receive the HDMI direct like those soundbars …. there seems to be inconsistent answers. It would take someone plugging and HDMI direct into a Beam to see if really will or not.

But assuming then it doesn’t work - a lot of switches already will extract HDMI ARC so just a matter of time before you can get a switch to do the eARC to the Sonos Arc (mouthful there).

The example Switch had 4 inputs and 2 ouputs (of which one currently can be ARC …. just need updated version that will also do eARC)…. at about $50 a lot cheaper then replacing TV.

A lot of hypotheticals right now - I’m sure a lot of creative solutions coming to get eARC ability for people on many things not just Sonos. So a TV not having eARC shouldn’t be the biggest concern.

I spent a lot of time looking a few months ago and could not find any HDMI switches that would *generate* ARC output (use-case is a projector that doesn’t support ARC). Many HDMI switches will *accept* ARC input from one off their output ports (since ARC goes backward compared to normal input/output designations) and send that audio as the audio channel of normal HDMI and/or send the ARC channel back to active inputs (say a receiver). But none of the normal ones I found would create ARC from a normal HDMI audio input which is what the Beam requires when you don’t have a TV that will generate the ARC signal. The Beam won’t play audio from a normal HDMI signal - as others have noted it acts as a source device that outputs video and consumes audio over ARC only from what I tested.

I did find exactly one device that would generate an ARC signal either from a normal HDMI signal or from an optical input: https://www.sct.com.tw/ARC01.html The key is the embed functionality (as extract is common). There is no US distributor so I had to order direct from the manufacturer. The device works as advertised with my Beam. My original goal was to get HDMI-CEC working; I have not succeeded at that yet - but it may have to do with other issues in the HDMI switches I have connected. I haven’t diagnosed those yet to see if HDMI-CEC + ARC is viable for the beam with a non-ARC projector.

The ARC01 doesn’t support eHDMI; but I assume a similar device with eARC support would be required to use the Sonos Arc with a non-ARC TV/projector. It also doesn’t look like this functionality is common or widely-sought after given the lack of support in normal HDMI switches. It is too bad Sonos is sticking with a pure-eARC/ARC strategy unless they are willing to also produce useful converters. Love the speakers but dancing around limitations like ARC, lack of DTS support, etc is unfortunate when comparing to other options at this price point.

Hi JeffDs - you rock! Did the ARC01 from sc&t give a better audio performance vs the sonos optical/hdmi adapter? U give me hope that one day I'll be able to use the Sonos Arc with atmos.

I already pre-ordered the arc before I found a solution to all this. I reckon I can live with DDL5.1 (I have an Asus d2x that does dolby digital via optical from my pc) till someone out there figures out atmos from pc hdmi to the Sonos Arc.

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Gabilin

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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.

Thanks. I have done more investigation and come to the following article:https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnarcher/2017/10/16/new-lg-oled-tv-update-introduces-two-major-new-features/amp/

It looks like my TV is able to push TrueHD over HDMI (2.0 ARC). Now I am confused. Will Sonos ARC accept TrueHD from TV?

jgatie

Thanks. I have done more investigation and come to the following article:https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnarcher/2017/10/16/new-lg-oled-tv-update-introduces-two-major-new-features/amp/

It looks like my TV is able to push TrueHD over HDMI (2.0 ARC). Now I am confused. Will Sonos ARC accept TrueHD from TV?

Yes.

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Gryphaea

Avid Contributor I

I’m wondering what the new Sonos support available in June will mean to me. I’m a 5.1 Playbase+Sub+ 2xPlay 1s. If I remain with the Playbase with my Sony KD-43XE7073 connected via Optical, what Additional audio formats are likely to be available ?

jgatie

I’m wondering what the new Sonos support available in June will mean to me. I’m a 5.1 Playbase+Sub+ 2xPlay 1s. If I remain with the Playbase with my Sony KD-43XE7073 connected via Optical, what Additional audio formats are likely to be available ?

Nobody knows. We have to wait till the release.

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Gabilin

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I’m wondering what the new Sonos support available in June will mean to me. I’m a 5.1 Playbase+Sub+ 2xPlay 1s. If I remain with the Playbase with my Sony KD-43XE7073 connected via Optical, what Additional audio formats are likely to be available ?

None. Optical is hard limited. 380kbps bandwidth max. You physically can’t push something higher than DD 5.1 compressed (AC3)

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Gabilin

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What would be the best satellites for Sonos ARC surround set?

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djtaz44

Lyricist I

Hi all. Great discussion on the Arc capabilites. Does anyone know if the Arc would work if I output video leveraging one HDMI output and the audio on another using eARC on a receiver like the Sony STR-DN1080, which sports two outputs? I like many have a 2018 TV that does not support eARC, but I’d love to find a way to have ATMOS sound in its uncropressed format. Thanks!

Airgetlam

@Gabilin, most people find the Sonos One series to be an outstanding, and beneficially inexpensive solution for surrounds. I would recommend the Sonos One SL in particular, since the Arc will already have the microphones for hooking up to a voice assistant.

Bruce

melvimbe

Hi all. Great discussion on the Arc capabilites. Does anyone know if the Arc would work if I output video leveraging one HDMI output and the audio on another using eARC on a receiver like the Sony STR-DN1080, which sports two outputs? I like many have a 2018 TV that does not support eARC, but I’d love to find a way to have ATMOS sound in its uncropressed format. Thanks!

That doesn’t sound like it’s going to work . The eARC connection on the receiver and the eARC are both essentially HDMI outputs, both looking to receive audio through the eARC channels.

Danny

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