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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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ratty

A couple of such ARC embedders have been referred to. The problem is that they only appear to encode an S/PDIF or 3.5mm onto the ARC/eARC. By definition this would be limited to DD, or mere stereo.

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lukey_13

Lyricist II

Jeff, how does your hookup work? I’ve found this eARC embedder https://www.gomax-electronics.com.tw/products/view/108 and was wondering how I would hook this up to the arc if I wanted a TrueHD signal going from Nvidia Shield to the Arc, if this product worked in theory. Would this product simply be the in between, between the Arc and TV, and TrueHD would just pass through my TV? I have a 2016 LG B6.

Looking at the description of the product, I don’t think this will work. It looks like it would take the audio signal out of HDMI, include ARC and eARC signals, and pass them on throuh toslink/optical. It does not look as though it can generate an ARC or eARC signal where one didn’t exist already.

I see what you are talking about. I wasn’t getting my hopes up but had some hope haha. I’ve been in contact with HDFury and they have said that they’re thinking of developing such a product for Sonos. If theoretically such a device was capable, how would the hook up look like between a streaming device, Arc and TV? Would the device need 2 HDMI outs for example, one to the TV and another to the Arc?

ratty

Jeff, how does your hookup work? I’ve found this eARC embedder https://www.gomax-electronics.com.tw/products/view/108 and was wondering how I would hook this up to the arc if I wanted a TrueHD signal going from Nvidia Shield to the Arc, if this product worked in theory. Would this product simply be the in between, between the Arc and TV, and TrueHD would just pass through my TV? I have a 2016 LG B6.

Looking at the description of the product, I don’t think this will work. It looks like it would take the audio signal out of HDMI, include ARC and eARC signals, and pass them on throuh toslink/optical. It does not look as though it can generate an ARC or eARC signal where one didn’t exist already.

I see what you are talking about. I wasn’t getting my hopes up but had some hope haha. I’ve been in contact with HDFury and they have said that they’re thinking of developing such a product for Sonos. If theoretically such a device was capable, how would the hook up look like between a streaming device, Arc and TV? Would the device need 2 HDMI outs for example, one to the TV and another to the Arc?

That would be interesting, if such as device was able to pull say Atmos/DD+ off a streaming stick and pipe it out as ARC or eARC.

Technically it would have two inputs and one output. One input would accept the streaming device, and the other would be ARC/eARC as on a TV, delivering the audio as the return channel. The output would connect on to the TV’s regular HDMI input.

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Gdidy

Contributor III

Just had email confirmation from LG that my TV (LG60UH650V) doesn’t support Atmos despite supporting Dolby Digital Plus and having a HDMI ARC, I thought that DD+ and Atmos went hand in hand, am I wrong?

So assuming my TV doesn’t do Atmos, is there any configuration of HDMI cabling that would work that negates the need for me to go out and buy a new TV, my main source is an Amazon Fire TV.

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Compo84

Lyricist II

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!!

Hey Britishwonderings, like you I have to run all big purchases past my partner. I’m lucky my LG C9 supports eARC and I do 90% of my viewing on Apple TV which supports atmos content on the LG pass through I just need SONOS to add a HDMI pass through to their Arc sound bar then I’d order it tomorrow.

the poll you mentioned if they did on the community forum would say one thing to that of a general consumer. We’re all hardened SONOS fans and users of course we’d want pass through. I do wonder how many of their non technical consumers would want it, know what it is or even feel the need for it.

That said if they’re not in the SONOS crowd with minimal knowledge they’d probably by a cheap LG or Sony soundbar and woofer.

melvimbe

Just had email confirmation from LG that my TV (LG60UH650V) doesn’t support Atmos despite supporting Dolby Digital Plus and having a HDMI ARC, I thought that DD+ and Atmos went hand in hand, am I wrong?

Not 100% sure, but I don’t know that I would completely trust LG on this. It may be that their TV can pass through the atmos format, but doesn’t have it on it’s smart apps, or vice versa. You might want to just test it out before you get a new TV.

So assuming my TV doesn’t do Atmos, is there any configuration of HDMI cabling that would work that negates the need for me to go out and buy a new TV, my main source is an Amazon Fire TV.

There has been one device suggested earlier on this thread, but I don’t think it was 100% confirmed yet.

Danny

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Pawl

Lyricist III

Well, I’ve enjoyed my Sonos 5.1 system for quite awhile, and I used to have the Samsung n950 Dolby Atmos wireless system. The Samsung bar was nice, but the surrounds and subwoofer were horrible (the sound was very weak)..not even close to sounding as good as the Sonos. I’m glad that Sonos is finally going higher resolution, it was quite inevitable. I’m doing a “wait and see” if the ARC will work smoothly with my Apple TV 4K streamer. I’m just curious how my beam will sound after the update, because I’m on the fence of pre-ordering the new ARC right away. I really like the way the ARC looks, it looks more streamlined, but very curious on how it sounds.

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scottcar

Contributor I

I’m curious with the Arc, is there any benefit to having Fives as your surround speakers rather than Ones. Everything I read prior to the Arc was that it was a waste of money to have anything other than the Ones. Can anyone provide an opinion or thought on this? Does the Arc make better use of more substantial rear speakers than the previous Home Theater speakers from Sonos did? Thank you!

Airgetlam

I’d suggest there’s no advantage to having the Sonos Five as surrounds versus the Sonos Ones.

Bruce

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frenzy382

Trending Lyricist I

Well, I’ve enjoyed my Sonos 5.1 system for quite awhile, and I used to have the Samsung n950 Dolby Atmos wireless system. The Samsung bar was nice, but the surrounds and subwoofer were horrible (the sound was very weak)..not even close to sounding as good as the Sonos. I’m glad that Sonos is finally going higher resolution, it was quite inevitable. I’m doing a “wait and see” if the ARC will work smoothly with my Apple TV 4K streamer. I’m just curious how my beam will sound after the update, because I’m on the fence of pre-ordering the new ARC right away. I really like the way the ARC looks, it looks more streamlined, but very curious on how it sounds.

I'm exactly the same.. Had the 950, wasn't over impressed with the surrounds/rears. Decided to go 'simple' and had the beam plus a couple of play1's. Although it's nothing fancy, I swear the sound is better...never looked back.

Im also thinking of waiting to see how this pans out..and although my Sammy Q9fn is causing a few limitations in regards to earc, there are potential workarounds as discussed on here.

I sold my aTV 4k and went down the nvidia shield route..hopefully that might prove beneficial in this instance...not that I've got any problems with it otherwise.

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