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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jgatie

@jgatie I hope so, but the ordering page has the following on it.

Ryan S confirmed above that the Play:3 can be used for surrounds, so the much newer Play:1 is probably good to go.

Ryan SAuthor

Retired Sonos Staff

@jgatie I hope so, but the ordering page has the following on it.

Ryan S confirmed above that the Play:3 can be used for surrounds, so the much newer Play:1 is probably good to go.

Sorry for the confusion @Codefish and @lucasSWE, they’re looking into that FAQ right now. Generally they don’t include products on the Sales FAQ that we don’t sell currently.

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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?

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.

It is too bad really.

I had been planning well for this release and the S2-update. Managed to sell my Playbar, Play 3s and Playbase before any of the announcements as everything was pointing to all of these significant upgrades. Made good resale value on all of it and was just sitting tight for the release.

However, as great as the Arc seems it is no use to me as I am doing a whole installation setup in a new house I’m building. Ihad my eyes set on the new Amp and was almost confident that any updated codec support coming with the new soundbar (the Arc) would surely also be supported by the almost completely new Amp.

I was really not expecting for Sonos to have three completely new TV products with such fragmented codec support.

Given Sonos’ history of not updating their codec support, I simply don’t dare making the big investment on multiple Amps with no clear indication of DD Plus, Atmos or the like. Seems like 3rd party receivers for me and the expected arm wrestle with getting a Port to work.

For any new Sonos buyers out there looking for TV-speakers my advice is simple: get the Arc or don’t get Sonos at all.

melvimbe

Ryan, do the upfiring speakers play a role with non-dolby atoms content? For example, when streaming music or playing dolby digitial content?

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will the arc be included in your trade up programme if you already own the playbar?

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John B

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.

I missed the bit where it said P:1s can't be used. Where is that?

melvimbe

Hi

will the arc be included in your trade up programme if you already own the playbar?

The playbar isn’t a legacy product, and not eligible for trade up. However, if you have a legacy product to trade, or already have a discount, it’s good for any single item in the store….unless this is a new exception?

Danny

Chris

Lead Maestro

Ryan, do the upfiring speakers play a role with non-dolby atoms content? For example, when streaming music or playing dolby digitial content?

I read that for non atmos content the upfiring speakers put out low end (like a sub)

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Chris

Lead Maestro

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.

I missed the bit where it said P:1s can't be used. Where is that?

It has been confirmed that is not the case - the information just mentioned current available for sale units. Units currently being used for surrounds - going back to Play:3 even - can be used.

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Ryan SAuthor

Retired Sonos Staff

Ryan, do the upfiring speakers play a role with non-dolby atoms content? For example, when streaming music or playing dolby digitial content?

Yes. Arc performs an up mix for content that doesn’t include full audio, while it may not be noticed depending on the content that’s on, it may be very audible at times too.

Hi will the arc be included in your trade up programme if you already own the playbar?

You can use Trade Up credits from any Trade Up that you’ve done for available devices. So if you’ve done a Trade Up for a Connect, Connect:Amp, or Play:5 gen1, you can apply that credit to a purchase of Arc. Playbar is not a legacy product and is fully compatible with S2, so it isn’t available for Trade Up.

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