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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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melvimbe

Trying to remember exact details since I don’t have access to the equipment right now...

AppleTV + Blu-Ray player + Beam → HDMI 4x1 switch inputs (I think one specific input receives ARC back but I don’t recall for sure on my switch)
HDMI switch output → ARC01 HDMI input
HDMI switch optical extract (output) → ARC01 optical input
ARC01 HDMI output → Projector HDMI input

The result is that HDMI audio from the active input to the switch is extracted as optical audio; sent to the ARC01 where it is injected as ARC returned back to the HDMI switch which is passed to the Beam over HDMI while the video signal goes on to the non-ARC projector.

I’m not following how this would work to get audio to the Beam through an ARC channel. If for example, you had the switch set to Apple TV, then video from the ATV goes to the ARC01 through HDMI, and audio goes to the ARC01 via optical. The ARC01 passes the video onto the projector, no problem there. If the ARC01 injects ARC audio into the HDMI input, how does that get to the Beam? The switch is pointed to the ATV as input, not the Beam.

I’m betting that your actual setup is slightly different.

AppleTV + Blu-Ray player → HDMI 4x1 switch inputs
HDMI switch output → Projector HDMI input
HDMI switch optical extract (output) → ARC01 optical input
ARC01 HDMI input (ARC) → Beam HDMI-ARC

That seems like it would work to get an ARC signal, but I don’t see how that would get CEC controls in play, and as pointed out, it would not get you better than optical quality audio. I’m confused to as the images of the ARC01 don’t show all the ports?

Danny

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d0A0b

Lyricist II

It looks like I might be able to use the Oppo as a mini switcher and HDMI audio splitter but will test it out.

Thank you very much!

K

kyronius

Contributor I

Wow, I thought @JeffDs had found THE solution. But looking at the datasheet (had not checked that before) and the explanation above, this will not do what I am looking for with my non-ARC projector or for people with older TVs.

As @egrunden said, there really is no benefit over an optical connection in this case, since Sonos already provides an optical to HDMI converter.

So that means back to square one: there are currently no known devices that can take the full HDMI audio signal and return ARC, except of course for (e)ARC capable TVs...

same here, i thought this was it… @JeffDs - if i could trouble u, if u have the chance, would the ARC01 work in this layout:

PC HDMI Out -→ HDMI Switch/splitter (1x2) → ARC01 Converter → Beam

Just exploring whether its possible to pass through PC audio that way.

Honestly after reading the forums the past few days, i’m likely to give up and just live with optical / DD5.1 instead. probably won’t have a perceiveable difference vs using HDMI.

Come on sonos, take my money, make the damn device...

J

Jabba1980

Collaborator II

MY TV is a 2016 Samsung (UE55KS7000 or UN55KS8000 in the US). The HDMI audio format is currently set to Dolby Digital and is working fine with my BEAM connected via ARC. The only other options I see in the TV settings are PCM and DTS Neo 2:5.

I guess this means that this TV does not support Dolby Digital Plus via ARC? Is that correct?

R

ryan_29

Enthusiast II

Like a lot of us I’ve been searching high and low for a magic box that will allow me to listen to Atmos from my ATV via my TVs ARC. (My TV is a Sony Af8). Anyway on another forum someone mentioned the thenaudio SHARC EARC audio converter. http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B083QPCNQN#Ask

I don’t know if it’s what’s required but from my limited understanding it might work? Could someone with more technical knowledge than me could look into it?

M

Marc_51

Enthusiast II

Like a lot of us I’ve been searching high and low for a magic box that will allow me to listen to Atmos from my ATV via my TVs ARC. (My TV is a Sony Af8). Anyway on another forum someone mentioned the thenaudio SHARC EARC audio converter. http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B083QPCNQN#Ask

I don’t know if it’s what’s required but from my limited understanding it might work? Could someone with more technical knowledge than me could look into it?

This definitely does look interesting. It looks like could sit between a uhd player and the arc to feed audio into the bar via the players audio out hdmi.

J

John B

Like a lot of us I’ve been searching high and low for a magic box that will allow me to listen to Atmos from my ATV via my TVs ARC. (My TV is a Sony Af8). Anyway on another forum someone mentioned the thenaudio SHARC EARC audio converter. http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B083QPCNQN#Ask

I don’t know if it’s what’s required but from my limited understanding it might work? Could someone with more technical knowledge than me could look into it?

Well I am no expert on this stuff, so i definitely would not treat what I say here as reliable! But, the strapline for this device is:

“Converts TV EARC audio to a suitable format for your current sound system”.

So it seems to be designed for TVs with eARC working with sound systems that don’t support eARC. Whereas anyone buying the Sonos Arc is likely to be in the opposite position. Unless they have a very recent TV with eARC, in which case they are sorted anyway. No?

R

Rck010

Lyricist III

Reading pages and pages of questions, whether TV’s work with the Arc, or not.

I think, making some kind compatibility chart would a be a wise thing to do for Sonos (if this is, by all means possible).

I am afraid a lot of people will be disappointed, possibly not getting what they expected to get.

R

ryan_29

Enthusiast II

Like a lot of us I’ve been searching high and low for a magic box that will allow me to listen to Atmos from my ATV via my TVs ARC. (My TV is a Sony Af8). Anyway on another forum someone mentioned the thenaudio SHARC EARC audio converter. http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B083QPCNQN#Ask

I don’t know if it’s what’s required but from my limited understanding it might work? Could someone with more technical knowledge than me could look into it?

Well I am no expert on this stuff, so i definitely would not treat what I say here as reliable! But, the strapline for this device is:

“Converts TV EARC audio to a suitable format for your current sound system”.

So it seems to be designed for TVs with eARC working with sound systems that don’t support eARC. Whereas as anyone buying the Sonos Arc is likely to be in the opposite position. Unless they have a very recent TV with eARC, in which case they are sorted anyway. No?

I think you might be right. That was me too keen and not reading it properly.
Oh well back to searching...

melvimbe

Reading pages and pages of questions, whether TV’s work with the Arc, or not.

I think, making some kind compatibility chart would a be a wise thing to do for Sonos (if this is, by all means possible).

I am afraid a lot of people will be disappointed, possibly not getting what they expected to get.

While there’s no doubt that such a chart would be useful , I’m not sure Sonos can really do this. Sonos is following the industry standards and guidelines for ARC/eARC and all the various audio codecs and formats involved. They don’t own these standards and guidelines, and really don’t have the authority to certify that a specific product is meeting a standard properly. For the standards they do own, such as the interface music streaming apps, they absolutely can and do certify what works.

That’s not even considering the volume of various content sources, services and TVs out there that would need to be tested, and the possibility that anything can change at any time through firmware upgrade and/or service policy changes.

In the past such data has been collected and organized, in a way, by users in this forum and elsewhere. Something that would need to happen again. It would never cover all possibilities and combinations, but could be rather useful for the most common situations.

Danny

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