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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pelleerobren

Lyricist I

Can I use sonos symfonisk as a pair of our surround for the the new sonos arc?

melvimbe

Can I use sonos symfonisk as a pair of our surround for the the new sonos arc?

yes

Danny

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djviko

Contributor I

Hi, I currently own a Home Theatre setup with a Playbar, Sub and a couple of Play:1’s. On our current app, there is no way on adding a couple of other Play:1’s or One’s for aiming towards a 7.1 setup.

Will the ARC be 7.1 capable with the new App? Or what will happen if the audio source is TrueHD 7.1 + ATMOS or DD+ 7.1 + ATMOS? Will the audio be downgraded automatically to 5.1 and retain ATMOS metadata for truly playing Dolby ATMOS? Thanks!

Ryan SAuthor

Retired Sonos Staff

Hi @djviko, the side and rear surround audio channels of a 7.1 signal are sent to the rear speakers in that configuration. It’s officially a 5.1.2 setup, but the side surround channels aren’t discarded.

Mark good posts by pressing the like button, and select the best answer on questions you've asked to help others find solutions.

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djviko

Contributor I

Hi @djviko, the side and rear surround audio channels of a 7.1 signal are sent to the rear speakers in that configuration. It’s officially a 5.1.2 setup, but the side surround channels aren’t discarded.

Thanks a lot Ryan, that makes sense… Can´t wait for Arc to be available in Mexico to purchase it :D

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huntaaar

Avid Contributor I

Hi,

I have a question about trying to get Atmos to the ARC via apple TV or other means. My television doesn't have e-ARC, but I was wondering if I could use a HDMI splitter to connect the Apple TV to both the TV set and the ARC - sending the atoms signal to the arc and the picture to the TV.

Any advice welcome,

Thanks

Ken_Griffiths

Hi,

I have a question about trying to get Atmos to the ARC via apple TV or other means. My television doesn't have e-ARC, but I was wondering if I could use a HDMI splitter to connect the Apple TV to both the TV set and the ARC - sending the atoms signal to the arc and the picture to the TV.

Any advice welcome,

Thanks

It would likely work, but that’s if you can find an audio extractor/splitter which supports Dolby Digital MAT/DolbyTrueHD Atmos and DD+ Atmos and has an HDMI-eARC port… I’ve been looking and can only seem to find one that has HDMI-ARC support.

Ken_Griffiths

Something ‘similar’ to this (perhaps?), but with HDMI-eARC support …

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tendak-Switcher-Optical-Toslink-Extractor/dp/B07YD2CLMY/ref=sr_1_9

...and support for the Dolby atmos codecs mentioned in my post above.

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huntaaar

Avid Contributor I

Hi,

I have a question about trying to get Atmos to the ARC via apple TV or other means. My television doesn't have e-ARC, but I was wondering if I could use a HDMI splitter to connect the Apple TV to both the TV set and the ARC - sending the atoms signal to the arc and the picture to the TV.

Any advice welcome,

Thanks

It would likely work, but that’s if you can find an audio extractor/splitter which supports Dolby Digital MAT/DolbyTrueHD Atmos and DD+ Atmos and has an HDMI-eARC port… I’ve been looking and can only seem to find one that has HDMI-ARC support.

Thanks for the reply.

Having read back a few pages it seems there are lots of people searching for a solution to similar things.

I just want to understand what other hardware I could incorporate into my setup (other than a new TV) to get Atmos to the Arc. There must be some way to workaround this?!

ratty

It would likely work, but that’s if you can find an audio extractor/splitter which supports Dolby Digital MAT/DolbyTrueHD Atmos and DD+ Atmos and has an HDMI-eARC port… I’ve been looking and can only seem to find one that has HDMI-ARC support.

Nobody, to my knowledge, has yet found an audio extractor with an HDMI-ARC port which can strip audio from another HDMI input.

There are devices which can take audio from an S/PDIF and push it out the ARC port; there are some able to take ARC already generated by a TV and pass it through. Neither does what’s required here.

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