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).

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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Lampovic

Lyricist II

Hi guys

Have looked everywhere for a solution regarding the Sonos ARC, Projector (non-eARC), getting Dolby Atmos, APPLETV 4K inbetween etc, you all know the issue…. Talked to HDFURY who has premium “expensive” HDMI devices. They say that there are nothing “in the world” which can fix the problem, BUT they will have a solution end of year… Hurrraaa…

ratty

Hi guys

Have looked everywhere for a solution regarding the Sonos ARC, Projector (non-eARC), getting Dolby Atmos, APPLETV 4K inbetween etc, you all know the issue…. Talked to HDFURY who has premium “expensive” HDMI devices. They say that there are nothing “in the world” which can fix the problem, BUT they will have a solution end of year… Hurrraaa…

One of these, modified so the audio is output over ARC/eARC instead of a conventional HDMI would, I think, fit the bill.

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egrunden

Lyricist III

Hi guys

Have looked everywhere for a solution regarding the Sonos ARC, Projector (non-eARC), getting Dolby Atmos, APPLETV 4K inbetween etc, you all know the issue…. Talked to HDFURY who has premium “expensive” HDMI devices. They say that there are nothing “in the world” which can fix the problem, BUT they will have a solution end of year… Hurrraaa…

Well that’s progress, when I spoke to them a week ago they had nothing in the pipeline.

I also spoke to SC&T who made the ARC01 adapter, which they no longer mass produce and sold out. But they replied today that they also have a team checking on development possibility for an adapter that supports eARC between for example the Apple TV and Sonos Arc, so I’m feeling more positive there will be both premium and cheaper solutions for this problem coming up. Hopefully soon!

Airgetlam

It’s an interesting conundrum. All of these HDMI switches we’ve been talking about for months either strip the audio stream and pass it to the optical output, or take the HDMI ARC from the TV, and send that out via optical. The new device needs to actually have the electronics in it to create the eARC signal, not just pass it back from the TV. It’s a whole new level of device. And one I don’t expect to be anywhere near as cheap as the current HDMI switches. Something closer in cost to what ratty linked to, or even higher. And I’m not even sure if there are any licensing fees involved for that, probably just part of the chip cost, since it’s not a codec in itself, just a transport method.

Bruce

ratty

The ARC01 referred to above is/was able to generate an ARC signal, but only for S/PDIF input.

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egrunden

Lyricist III

It’s an interesting conundrum. All of these HDMI switches we’ve been talking about for months either strip the audio stream and pass it to the optical output, or take the HDMI ARC from the TV, and send that out via optical. The new device needs to actually have the electronics in it to create the eARC signal, not just pass it back from the TV. It’s a whole new level of device. And one I don’t expect to be anywhere near as cheap as the current HDMI switches. Something closer in cost to what ratty linked to, or even higher. And I’m not even sure if there are any licensing fees involved for that, probably just part of the chip cost, since it’s not a codec in itself, just a transport method.

Now this is strictly guesswork but I’m betting HDfury will solve this in something more like an updated Vertex2 priced around $400. Seems reasonable for the tech needed to do all the magic in actually decode/encode the signal, possibly even convert the signal into a format the soundbar speaks. Might sound expensive but I’m guessing IF my projector had the functionality built in I would have payed way more for it.

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khashmi

Contributor I

By same drivers I mean same sized speakers same class d amps… beam has 4 drivers that cover front LR and center, ARC has 4 drivers from front LR and center with additional side and upfiring drivers that will only make a difference when atmos is working? My question is how would it sound better or bigger when playing 5.1 content and using a sub and rear speakers with both the systems?

For one, the Arc is almost twice as wide as the Beam, giving a wider soundstage.

If you look at how far apart the left and right speakers are on both you’ll see there isnt much difference. I think the only way you’ll notice a difference is when you play atmos content and thats it. Those side firing speakers dont work when you have rear speakers attached.

The woofers are different between the Beam and the Arc, but based on a similar design and are an evolution from what we created for Beam. The tweeters are the same as the tweeter in Beam, but use different wave guides. Which all may be more technical than you’re looking for.

If it helps, I have both, and the Arc sounds way bigger, louder, and better than the Beam. But you won’t have to take my word for it, read the reviews as they come out and you can see what people think of the sound.

Thanks for your input Ryan. I’m very interested in what TV you are using. Considering only a handful of TV’s have e-ARC, do you have one of those? And if so, which one?

Ryan SAuthor

Retired Sonos Staff

Thanks for your input Ryan. I’m very interested in what TV you are using. Considering only a handful of TV’s have e-ARC, do you have one of those? And if so, which one?

I have a TCL Roku TV that doesn’t have eARC, but via HDMI ARC I get Atmos from Dolby Digital Plus content.

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khashmi

Contributor I

Thanks for your input Ryan. I’m very interested in what TV you are using. Considering only a handful of TV’s have e-ARC, do you have one of those? And if so, which one?

I have a TCL Roku TV that doesn’t have eARC, but via HDMI ARC I get Atmos from Dolby Digital Plus content.

Thanks Ryan. This is helpful. I’m assuming you’re using the native Roku app on the tcl to stream Atmos content versus using a third-party box such as Apple TV 4K?

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scottcar

Contributor I

By same drivers I mean same sized speakers same class d amps… beam has 4 drivers that cover front LR and center, ARC has 4 drivers from front LR and center with additional side and upfiring drivers that will only make a difference when atmos is working? My question is how would it sound better or bigger when playing 5.1 content and using a sub and rear speakers with both the systems?

For one, the Arc is almost twice as wide as the Beam, giving a wider soundstage.

If you look at how far apart the left and right speakers are on both you’ll see there isnt much difference. I think the only way you’ll notice a difference is when you play atmos content and thats it. Those side firing speakers dont work when you have rear speakers attached.

The woofers are different between the Beam and the Arc, but based on a similar design and are an evolution from what we created for Beam. The tweeters are the same as the tweeter in Beam, but use different wave guides. Which all may be more technical than you’re looking for.

If it helps, I have both, and the Arc sounds way bigger, louder, and better than the Beam. But you won’t have to take my word for it, read the reviews as they come out and you can see what people think of the sound.

Can you tell us when reviews for the Arc will be released? Definitely looking forward to reading the opinions that will be out there.

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