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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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Airgetlam

Does the Arc have any kind of on-screen OSD?

It will likely have a screensaver image, same as the Beam. I haven’t heard an official word from Sonos on this. If if it provided something more than a screensaver, Sonos surely would have advertised it as a feature.

That’s unfortunate. For something as “premium” as the Arc + whatever you get to pair with it from Sonos, it should have some kind of overlay / OSD to show things like volume when you change volume and image format (UHD, Dolby Vision, 4k, 1080p, etc.) of whatever is playing.

I don’t think you’re quite getting the concept of ARC, either via HDMI or via eARC. It isn’t a standard that’s designed to be in the middle, so it can have its own screensaver. The meaning of the term ARC is Audio Return Channel. Which means the signal goes to the TV first, then gets “returned” back an HDMI cable to the speaker. The speaker isn’t designed to be in the middle, it’s at the end of the chain.

Bruce

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Synomenon

Lyricist III

Does the Arc have any kind of on-screen OSD?

It will likely have a screensaver image, same as the Beam. I haven’t heard an official word from Sonos on this. If if it provided something more than a screensaver, Sonos surely would have advertised it as a feature.

That’s unfortunate. For something as “premium” as the Arc + whatever you get to pair with it from Sonos, it should have some kind of overlay / OSD to show things like volume when you change volume and image format (UHD, Dolby Vision, 4k, 1080p, etc.) of whatever is playing.

I don’t think you’re quite getting the concept of ARC, either via HDMI or via eARC. It isn’t a standard that’s designed to be in the middle, so it can have its own screensaver. The meaning of the term ARC is Audio Return Channel. Which means the signal goes to the TV first, then gets “returned” back an HDMI cable to the speaker. The speaker isn’t designed to be in the middle, it’s at the end of the chain.

I understand. I know. Those other sources aren’t directly connected to the ARC like they are a Samsung Q90 or Sennheiser Ambeo so I’m asking too much w/ regards to that. At least some overlay to show volume or audio codec should have been added. Show volume level on-screen when changing volume or if something with Atmos is playing, show that when the piece starts playing. My cheapie Samsung soundbar in the guest room does this.

Airgetlam

Ah, then I think I misunderstood you. You mean in the controller device? Since the speaker isn’t in the direct video stream, it would not be able to ‘add’ anything to the HDMI stream being sent to the TV set. And I’m not familiar with any TV that can combine video from two different HDMI ports at the same time.

There’s a lot of things that can be done with pass through devices that can’t with standard ARC devices, it’s true.

Bruce

jgatie

I understand. I know. Those other sources aren’t directly connected to the ARC like they are a Samsung Q90 or Sennheiser Ambeo so I’m asking too much w/ regards to that. At least some overlay to show volume or audio codec should have been added. Show volume level on-screen when changing volume or if something with Atmos is playing, show that when the piece starts playing. My cheapie Samsung soundbar in the guest room does this.

But the source for the video isn’t going to be connected to the Arc. How it works is you have the Arc connected to your ARC port, say HDMI #1. Then you connect cable to the TV’s HDMI #2 and a streamer to HDMI #3. You are watching cable via HDMI #1, and you turn up the volume. How is the Arc supposed to display a volume level on HDMI #2 if the Arc is connected to HDMI #1? It would be up to the TV to transpose HDMI #1 over HDMI #2, and no TV I know of can do that.

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Wilker

Lyricist I

With respect to the main discussion, will this product be helpful

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07ZTWGBHL/ref=ask_ql_qh_dp_hza

This is what i asked the sellers

“Using a 4k projector(no hdmi-arc), apple tv 4k and thinking of the new sound bar sonos arc(has hdmi arc). how to enable this setup for dolby atmos?”

Here is their answer:

“You can connect the Sonos ARC to output A and your projector to output B and set the EDID to COPY.”

Will have to try to see if it works when we get the Arc

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lukey_13

Lyricist II

Can anybody tell me if my LG B6 which has ARC will be able to pass through DD+ With Atmos?
I’m wracking my brain how I can get Atmos out of this TV and into the Arc to use it for some of its potential; understating that eARC is needed for TrueHD.
I really don’t want to buy another TV as it could possibly lead to divorce lol. But I have been looking, maybe it’s time to roll the dice.
If my TV cannot pass through DD+ With Atmos, will something like what @Wilker found work? If not anyone interested in a mint 65” LG B6? Haha

melvimbe

But alas, Sonos seems to be ready to put out a product that people will buy and it will be amazing for some, and a confusing mess for others. It will be boxed up and sent back because of this lack of transparency on how it can and can’t work in a “it should just work” fashion.

Is lack of transparency really the issue here? Sonos has stated exactly how there product works, what connection is required, what codecs, and what formats. What that haven’t stated is what your TV and sources are capable of doing, and I’m not sure it’s their job to do so since they don’t own the products.

Understood that an HDMI input, in addition to the HDMI-ARC connection, or separate device or dongle that could convert HDMI audio to HDMI-ARC would be very helpful, but that’s not a lack of transparency issue.

Danny

melvimbe

With respect to the main discussion, will this product be helpful

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07ZTWGBHL/ref=ask_ql_qh_dp_hza

This is what i asked the sellers

“Using a 4k projector(no hdmi-arc), apple tv 4k and thinking of the new sound bar sonos arc(has hdmi arc). how to enable this setup for dolby atmos?”

Here is their answer:

“You can connect the Sonos ARC to output A and your projector to output B and set the EDID to COPY.”

Will have to try to see if it works when we get the Arc

I seriously doubt that this device will work, or that the seller really understood the question properly. The Arc can’t take an HDMI input as is suggested. Many soundbars are HDMI-ARC capable...and they have HDMI inputs as well, so his answer is correct in that case. I doubt that the seller understands that ARC/eARC is the only way audio gets to the Arc.

That said, if a device that can extract HDMI audio to HDMI-ARC/eARC, the device above could be rather helpful as a switch in addition to the hypothetical device.

Danny

melvimbe

Can anybody tell me if my LG B6 which has ARC will be able to pass through DD+ With Atmos?
I’m wracking my brain how I can get Atmos out of this TV and into the Arc to use it for some of its potential; understating that eARC is needed for TrueHD.
I really don’t want to buy another TV as it could possibly lead to divorce lol. But I have been looking, maybe it’s time to roll the dice.
If my TV cannot pass through DD+ With Atmos, will something like what @Wilker found work? If not anyone interested in a mint 65” LG B6? Haha

I tried to look for the manual, but LG has this odd support site that I keep getting directed to that’s extremely unhelpful. All I really saw was a 3 year old review where people couldn’t agree on whether it worked or not. I would recommend trying to contact LG with this question.

Danny

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JeffDs

Lyricist III

With respect to the main discussion, will this product be helpful

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07ZTWGBHL/ref=ask_ql_qh_dp_hza

This is what i asked the sellers

“Using a 4k projector(no hdmi-arc), apple tv 4k and thinking of the new sound bar sonos arc(has hdmi arc). how to enable this setup for dolby atmos?”

Here is their answer:

“You can connect the Sonos ARC to output A and your projector to output B and set the EDID to COPY.”

Will have to try to see if it works when we get the Arc

I seriously doubt that this device will work, or that the seller really understood the question properly. The Arc can’t take an HDMI input as is suggested. Many soundbars are HDMI-ARC capable...and they have HDMI inputs as well, so his answer is correct in that case. I doubt that the seller understands that ARC/eARC is the only way audio gets to the Arc.

That said, if a device that can extract HDMI audio to HDMI-ARC/eARC, the device above could be rather helpful as a switch in addition to the hypothetical device.

Right; that switch is a slight variation (2 outputs) on the one I have (one output because I didn’t need two) from the same manufacturer. It can’t generate an ARC (or eARC signal). It “supports” ARC because it can pass ARC from an output device (e.g. TV) back to an input device (e.g. receiver).

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