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).

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Rck010

Lyricist III

I’ll have the team check that out, but the 140mm I quoted should be the most accurate for minimum distance with best performance. The 10cm may be a minimum for fit, but I’ll see if I can get that tracked down.

I doubled checked the web page of the Sonos Arc mount, and this is what it states:

“For the best sound, mount Arc four inches from the bottom of your TV"

Sure sounds like 4 inch (10cm) is the optimal distance between Arc and bottom of the TV.

Anyway, I'll wait for your answer to be sure.

Ryan SAuthor

Retired Sonos Staff

I’ll have the team check that out, but the 140mm I quoted should be the most accurate for minimum distance with best performance. The 10cm may be a minimum for fit, but I’ll see if I can get that tracked down.

I doubled checked the web page of the Sonos Arc mount, and this is what it states:

“For the best sound, mount Arc four inches from the bottom of your TV"

Sure sounds like 4 inch (10cm) is the optimal distance between Arc and bottom of the TV.

Anyway, I'll wait for your answer to be sure.

I’ve heard back from the team on this one. Short answer is that they’re both correct. If you have the mount 4 inches below the TV, the Arc’s speakers should be hanging about 5.5 inches away. There’s a bit of open space created when on the mount. Along with the wall mount is a template you can use to ensure the best distance and easiest install.

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Rck010

Lyricist III

I’ll have the team check that out, but the 140mm I quoted should be the most accurate for minimum distance with best performance. The 10cm may be a minimum for fit, but I’ll see if I can get that tracked down.

I doubled checked the web page of the Sonos Arc mount, and this is what it states:

“For the best sound, mount Arc four inches from the bottom of your TV"

Sure sounds like 4 inch (10cm) is the optimal distance between Arc and bottom of the TV.

Anyway, I'll wait for your answer to be sure.

I’ve heard back from the team on this one. Short answer is that they’re both correct. If you have the mount 4 inches below the TV, the Arc’s speakers should be hanging about 5.5 inches away. There’s a bit of open space created when on the mount. Along with the wall mount is a template you can use to ensure the best distance and easiest install.

That sounds good! thanks a lot Ryan, appreciated!

I guess the space underneath does not matter as much as long as there is no surface directly under, that possibly causes reflections?

Definitely going to wall mount then, 10cm under TV and about 7-8cm above cabinet. Clean install, no cables in sight.

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dennisc6868

Contributor I

can I unplug my sub and move it somewhere else and plug it back in and it will still work without having to re pair or re set up?

jgatie

can I unplug my sub and move it somewhere else and plug it back in and it will still work without having to re pair or re set up?

Yes. But it will still be bonded to the room you took it from.

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amfnyc

Enthusiast I

Does the Arc support playing SACDs via a DVD player connected directly to Arc by optical to HDMI Converter? If so, would out play them in surround?

Thanks!

Airgetlam

Assuming the signal was in a format that the Sonos could read, any Sonos sound bar could. Right now, that’s Dolby Digital. However, since the optical bandwidth is restricted, it would still be Dolby Digital, even when feeding the optical to an adapter and then to the Arc.

Bruce

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John B

Does the Arc support playing SACDs via a DVD player connected directly to Arc by optical to HDMI Converter? If so, would out play them in surround?

Thanks!

This thread gives useful info regarding the current position. I’d be very surprised if this changed under S2. Sonos is surely looking to the future with the Arc, and SACDs are something of a failed past.

https://en.community.sonos.com/setting-up-sonos-228990/surround-from-sacd-dvd-audio-6821863

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JeffDs

Lyricist III

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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?

No; as you noted - this wouldn’t accomplish anything (the ARC01 would basically be doing exactly what the Sonos optical adapter does).

I specifically have this switch: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07XKBR79W/ref=ask_ql_qh_dp_hza

In general consider what ARC does on a TV … it takes audio either received as normal audio on the active HDMI input to the TV or audio generated in the TV itself (e.g. smart TV apps, etc) and sends it backward on the ARC (return) pins of some *other* input. The whole point is to send the audio to an input that isn’t active (the device feeding the active input would also be sending the normal HDMI audio and wouldn’t need the audio to return from the TV).

The switch works essentially the same except rather than generating an ARC signal from an input it takes it from the real TV upstream (which is connected to the output of the switch so the TV receives the video and audio from whichever input is active). It then takes that ARC signal and sends it back to a particular input (I think input 4) just like a TV has a specific HDMI port that supports ARC. That way input 4 will always get the returned audio which is useful when the audio is coming from anywhere except port 4. Either generated in the TV itself (e.g. smart apps); or from one of the other HDMI inputs send to the TV as normal HDMI audio; then returned to the switch via ARC which is passed on by the switch to a beam/receiver/whatever on input 4.

In my case; the ARC01 is doing what the TV would normally do by taking the audio from the switch (extracted as optical - since the ARC01 won’t do HDMI-audio → ARC-audio directly) and return it to the switch HDMI out port. All so I can try and take CEC work. But it shows that a device like we’d all like is very viable at a reasonable cost if an HDMI accessory manufacturer would put the pieces together (since the HDMI switch + ARC01 together are doing the needed conversion - just not eARC compatible and and using optical to bridge the two devices).

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JeffDs

Lyricist III

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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...

As others correctly noted; because the ARC01 has to use optical input - it’s only advantage over Sonos’s optical adapter is potentially getting CEC to work - it can’t do the audio any better.

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