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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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JeffDs

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I’m following everything you’re doing here, but I’m not sure what functionality your gaining with CEC. What device on you hoping to gain control over? The TV or one of the input devices? I’m assuming volume isn’t the issue, as that’s typically handled fine over IR. The other areas of control I’ve seen is to have a device turn on/off, or to switch inputs on a TV (which many TVs don’t implement very well from what I’ve seen).

I’m asking more out of curiosity.

Volume. I want it to work over HDMI without relying on anything IR-based so when I use my Apple TV remote or phone-based app or whatever to adjust volume - I don’t want to need IR blasters and such pointed at the Beam. It’s not a real problem - but CEC control over HDMI has been working well with cross-manufacturer devices for several years now - don’t like to go backwards just because the Sonos gear has this relatively obscure exclusive dependency on ARC.

I agree with others that it’s too bad that Sonos won’t just put a darn HDMI pass-thru solution on their offerings or at minimum accepted normal HDMI input audio (pretend to be a TV so that normal multi-output switches could send them the necessary signal).

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Synomenon

Lyricist III

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.

Arc does not display OSD directly, however with ARC/eARC, it will send back the command to the TV to update the volume on the TV. So then the TV will display the volume.

Actually, I think it’s the other way around. When you send a command to change volume to the TV (via IR remote) the TV displays volume and sends the volume command change to the Beam. If I went to the Sonos app to change the Beam’s volume, the volume is changed, but nothing is displayed on the TV. I believe it will be the same on Sonos Arc. Of course, they could very well be dependent on the TV and how they’ve chosen to implement ARC/eARC.

With my Marantz NR1510, when I change the volume, it's actually the NR1510’s OSD that shows the volume change.

My TV is a 2020 model, LG OLED65CXPUA.

That is different because your AVR is switching the video. It receives video from your source device, adds the volume overlay, and sends it on to the TV.

The Arc never receives any video, so it cannot add overlay info.

If you are using the streaming apps built into your TV, an AVR can’t add a video overlay.

Right, and even with my 2020 model TV, I’m not going to be using the built-in apps.. I have an Apple TV 4K for my streaming. Would’ve been nice for Sonos to add at least one HDMI input to the Sonos Arc.

Am I going to be able to control the volume with my Apple TV remote still or will I need to get a Harmony remote to change the Sonos Arc’s volume?

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Marc_51

Enthusiast II

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.

Arc does not display OSD directly, however with ARC/eARC, it will send back the command to the TV to update the volume on the TV. So then the TV will display the volume.

Actually, I think it’s the other way around. When you send a command to change volume to the TV (via IR remote) the TV displays volume and sends the volume command change to the Beam. If I went to the Sonos app to change the Beam’s volume, the volume is changed, but nothing is displayed on the TV. I believe it will be the same on Sonos Arc. Of course, they could very well be dependent on the TV and how they’ve chosen to implement ARC/eARC.

With my Marantz NR1510, when I change the volume, it's actually the NR1510’s OSD that shows the volume change.

My TV is a 2020 model, LG OLED65CXPUA.

That is different because your AVR is switching the video. It receives video from your source device, adds the volume overlay, and sends it on to the TV.

The Arc never receives any video, so it cannot add overlay info.

If you are using the streaming apps built into your TV, an AVR can’t add a video overlay.

Right, and even with my 2020 model TV, I’m not going to be using the built-in apps.. I have an Apple TV 4K for my streaming. Would’ve been nice for Sonos to add at least one HDMI input to the Sonos Arc.

Am I going to be able to control the volume with my Apple TV remote still or will I need to get a Harmony remote to change the Sonos Arc’s volume?

I had to change to a harmony elite to control everything via a single remote and it works quite well.

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coops108

No LPCM support is incredibly strange. Especially when it has the bandwidth to support it via eARC and is royalty free and natively supported across all gaming consoles.

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cue003

Trending Lyricist I

@Ryan S, Simple question I haven’t seen asked or an answer provided anywhere.

What ceiling heights are the Arc tested and optimized to work with the up firing speakers/ Dolby Atmos? Was it work properly if the room it is in has vaulted ceilings? Where is the limit? 10ft, 14ft? Etc.

thanks.

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skraddah

Contributor I

@Ryan S, Simple question I haven’t seen asked or an answer provided anywhere.

What ceiling heights are the Arc tested and optimized to work with the up firing speakers/ Dolby Atmos? Was it work properly if the room it is in has vaulted ceilings? Where is the limit? 10ft, 14ft? Etc.

thanks.

Great question. I’m very interested in this too. I know the recommendation with standard height flat ceilings is to place it below the TV (as discussed on this forum), but I’d need to place it above my tv. However, in my room ceiling is vaulted (tv is parallel with the slope) such that peaks at 14 feet high about 6 feet in front of TV. That’s not a standard room design, but all that space above the TV, along with whatever auto tuning the ARC does, makes me hope that it works well in that configuration. Probably will just need to try it and see.

otherwise, I’m buying 4 Sonance/Sonos speakers for the ceiling (which would sound better but I’m not sure by how much).

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Fogfoon

Lyricist I

I’ve got a query on whether I’ll be able to get Atmos on my tv; a 2016 Sony KD55XD9305BU. I’ve already got a playbase, a sub and 2 play 1s and this tv can pass on 5.1 dependent on source. The 3 sources are sky, Xbox one and ps4. The tv support says that it can output Dolby digital plus so am I right in thinking I’ll be able to get Atmos (albeit compressed) if I get the new Sonos arc and connect via the HDMI arc port?

jgatie

I’ve got a query on whether I’ll be able to get Atmos on my tv; a 2016 Sony KD55XD9305BU. I’ve already got a playbase, a sub and 2 play 1s and this tv can pass on 5.1 dependent on source. The 3 sources are sky, Xbox one and ps4. The tv support says that it can output Dolby digital plus so am I right in thinking I’ll be able to get Atmos (albeit compressed) if I get the new Sonos arc and connect via the HDMI arc port?

You cannot be sure until the TV manufacturer confirms it. It certainly has all the right specifications, but having the correct specs and actually doing it are two different things.

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Gryphaea

Avid Contributor I

I’ve got a query on whether I’ll be able to get Atmos on my tv; a 2016 Sony KD55XD9305BU. I’ve already got a playbase, a sub and 2 play 1s and this tv can pass on 5.1 dependent on source. The 3 sources are sky, Xbox one and ps4. The tv support says that it can output Dolby digital plus so am I right in thinking I’ll be able to get Atmos (albeit compressed) if I get the new Sonos arc and connect via the HDMI arc port?

You cannot be sure until the TV manufacturer confirms it. It certainly has all the right specifications, but having the correct specs and actually doing it are two different things.

I’m in a similar situation. I have a. I’d-49xe7073. The guide says that it supports Dolby™ Digital,Dolby™ Digital Plus,Dolby™ Pulse So, it should support compressed Atmos. Shame I use an Apple TV

Airgetlam

I do wonder if there is any value in petitioning Apple. I’ll wait to see how things go on my Arc through HDMI ARC on my Vizio.

Bruce

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