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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dippan77

Lyricist I

Hi,

How does the pre-order work with Sonos? If I order the whole 5.1.2 set with Arc, Sub and One SL then will they all be shipped together in June? And will I get charged now for the whole amount OR amount is charged to my card when the order ships?

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Morten69

Lyricist II

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.

I have lg oled c8 and samsung hw-q96 7.1.4 system. I have put my Appletv direct into lg oled with arc to my samsung soundbar and can confirme that Atmos is working.

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ewolkoff

Enthusiast II

Will the Arc play Amazon Music HD Atmos tracks wirelessly through the Sonos App/Alexa?

Ryan SAuthor

Retired Sonos Staff

Hi,

How does the pre-order work with Sonos? If I order the whole 5.1.2 set with Arc, Sub and One SL then will they all be shipped together in June? And will I get charged now for the whole amount OR amount is charged to my card when the order ships?

Preorders get charged when we ship the product out to you, though a temporary request to confirm that the card used is valid may show up as a charge briefly.

Will the Arc play Amazon Music HD Atmos tracks wirelessly through the Sonos App/Alexa?

Amazon Music HD is only available on Sonos in the standard HD format, not using Atmos audio. For now, no word on that changing with Arc joining the lineup.

Mark good posts by pressing the like button, and select the best answer on questions you've asked to help others find solutions.

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OnFlight1978

Contributor I

I did a little research as the TV I bought last year still didn’t have eARC.

Looks like for full uncompressed Dolby Digital TruHD Atmos you need eArc.

But with regular ARC you get Dolby Digital Plus (compressed version) Atmos. This makes it compatible with most TVs after about 2016.

I just played Disney+ on my TV and say it is coming in as DD+ as I would want (but TV transcoding to DD for the Beam).

I think this statement is generally true, unless your source is an Apple TV 4K. From my understanding, the ATV will NOT pass the Atmos stream with DD+, but rather within a MAT container which requires eARC (specifies on Apple website that you need higher bandwidth). Apple encourages a direct connection to the soundbar, which obviously requires multiple HDMI ports vs. the Arc’s one.

Sadly for me, this makes it a non-starter at the moment, as my 2018 QLED does not have eARC and my wife and kids are well entrenched in using Apple TV for nearly everything, so replacing that is really not an option (and my TV is otherwise perfectly fine).

Not trying to rain on parades, but hadn’t seen the ATV thing quoted here and since a lot of people use this, would be something you need to know up front before purchasing.

Did not know that about the Apple TV… that is a huge bummer. I see that now on ATV’s support page: “Apple TV 4K uses a high bandwidth form of Dolby Atmos that doesn’t work over ARC connections.”

Being that the “Apple TV 4K uses a high bandwidth form of Dolby Atmos that doesn’t work over ARC connections.” Is there a streaming device out there that would allow this?

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Gdidy

Contributor III

@Ryan S

Ok, so I've read every comment on this topic and thought I had it straight in my head as to how my system would work if I ordered an arc, but a call to the Sonos sales team has left me confused again.

I've got a 2016 LG TV that has 1 HDMI Arc socket. I've looked in the sound settings on the tv and it shows Digital Plus compatibility which from reading some of the posts here I understand to mean that I'd be able to get compressed Dolby Atmos, however the Sonos sales guy said that this wasn't necessarily the case and that my TV would also need to be able to decode the Atmos signal (he mentioned codecs but didn't go in to detail).......is this right?

jgatie

Being that the “Apple TV 4K uses a high bandwidth form of Dolby Atmos that doesn’t work over ARC connections.” Is there a streaming device out there that would allow this?

Roku Ultra and Fire Stick 4K both will do Atmos via DD+.

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Marc_51