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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ti33er

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SONOS ARE YOU LISTENING

LPCM support would be a good halfway house in order to support DTS, but simple CORE DTS would be a doddle to implement and satisfy a large proportion of owners and bring in NEW CUSTOMERS; whom cannot compromise on lack of DTS because 90% of Blu-ray Disc utilise this; as nice and simple as SONOS is, it should just work and decode the industry standards

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coops108

SONOS ARE YOU LISTENING

LPCM support would be a good halfway house in order to support DTS, but simple CORE DTS would be a doddle to implement and satisfy a large proportion of owners and bring in NEW CUSTOMERS; whom cannot compromise on lack of DTS because 90% of Blu-ray Disc utilise this; as nice and simple as SONOS is, it should just work and decode the industry standards

PLEASE

@Ryan S this is another good example of why the Arc needs LPCM support.

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Marc_51

Enthusiast II

SONOS ARE YOU LISTENING

LPCM support would be a good halfway house in order to support DTS, but simple CORE DTS would be a doddle to implement and satisfy a large proportion of owners and bring in NEW CUSTOMERS; whom cannot compromise on lack of DTS because 90% of Blu-ray Disc utilise this; as nice and simple as SONOS is, it should just work and decode the industry standards

PLEASE

@Ryan S this is another good example of why the Arc needs LPCM support.

LPMC would be great. It your TV will need eARC to pass it.

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teleskier

Contributor I

I was a sonos fanboy, but then we all know what happened. I never wanted to buy another Sonos product again ($10k in obsoleted units here). Yet here I am in with a remodel and in the market for a discrete 7.2.4 system with atmos support. I was looking at a sonos-ready receiver that switches to sonos when the S1 app triggers the connected CONNECT. However - despite the exceptional sound, that solution is quite expensive as a whole package with processors and in-wall speakers etc.

The atmos-capable arc has me thinking about a SINGLE room on S2 for TV alone - it is just cheaper and simpler overall. I will not need to use two sonos S1/S2 systems, because I don’t need to stream music from the tv location. I probably wont need to access the S2 app very often. Against my principles, just maybe I can tolerate one more sonos purchase.

In the first gen surround setup using a connect:amp / playbar /sub I was able to set the connect:amp to drive in-ceiling speakers as surrounds (LS/RS) to create pseudo-5.1. It was a sort of hidden setting in the connect:amp. Anyone know if the second gen amps and ARC can do this? What another amp driving left and right rear, in addition to the left and right surrounds?

106rallye

The Amp can drive rear speakers if you use a Sonos soundbar. If used for surround the Amp loses the possibility to drive a third party subwoofer.

In your situation you would have the S1 app for your older speakers and the S2 app for the new set up. That should work since Sonos says it will be possible to use split set ups.

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Lampovic

Lyricist II

What about this product to fix eARC. A long thread so dont know if it as been said allrdy.
https://www.amazon.com/product-reviews/B083QPCNQN/ref=psdc_3213035011_r0_B083QPCNQN?_encoding=UTF8&showViewpoints=1

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Christian

Airgetlam

That device appears to accept an eARC signal from the TV and pass it to other devices. But you still need the TV with eARC, as near as I can tell from reading the description.

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egrunden

Lyricist III

What about this product to fix eARC. A long thread so dont know if it as been said allrdy.
https://www.amazon.com/product-reviews/B083QPCNQN/ref=psdc_3213035011_r0_B083QPCNQN?_encoding=UTF8&showViewpoints=1

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Christian

This as so many other adapters works the other way around, converting the eARC signal from the TV to a regular HDMI signal for older receivers.

It’s really starting to make me frustrated how many products does this but that there’s none at all doing the exact opposite! Or maybe we can count the ARC01 mentioned earlier in this thread as half a count. But seriously, such a product can’t be impossible to manufacture, hopefully someone will identify the need for this and present a good quality adapter for such setups. Wouldn’t mind at all if Sonos themselves were to develop such an adapter for the Arc.

Ryan SAuthor

Retired Sonos Staff

@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).

@skraddah and @cue003, Trueplay for the Arc includes tuning for ceiling height, so even in not ideal setups, you should still get some great sound. As rooms get more any more complicated with skewed architecture it can be hard to say how it’ll sound for the vertical channels. I know some testers with vaulted ceilings have been using their speakers without issue and say it sounds great, but this may be one of those things you just have to try out at home as every space is different.

SONOS ARE YOU LISTENING

LPCM support would be a good halfway house in order to support DTS, but simple CORE DTS would be a doddle to implement and satisfy a large proportion of owners and bring in NEW CUSTOMERS; whom cannot compromise on lack of DTS because 90% of Blu-ray Disc utilise this; as nice and simple as SONOS is, it should just work and decode the industry standards

PLEASE

@Ryan S this is another good example of why the Arc needs LPCM support.

LPMC would be great. It your TV will need eARC to pass it.

I’ll add your support to the LPCM request. I don’t have any details or feedback on if it’ll happen, but I’ll make sure the team knows you’re interested.

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mewantsonos

Trending Lyricist I

If the beam and ARC both have the same drivers and what makes ARC sound better or bigger as they are saying?

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