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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).

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ratty

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.

As with many such devices, it supports ARC input on its HDMI output. What it doesn’t have is an ARC output (which would technically be on an HDMI input).

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huntaaar

Avid Contributor I

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.

Interesting. This whole thing is really fighting my “Sonos, it just works” mindset.

ratty

Interesting. This whole thing is really fighting my “Sonos, it just works” mindset.

Sonos does just work, with TVs that have a suitable ARC/eARC port. Trouble is, it’s somewhat ahead of the game, in that few TVs support eARC, and those with ARC may or may not forward Atmos.

What people here are hoping for is some gizmo which would allow the TV to be bypassed in order to render the best audio that an external device (Firestick, Apple TV, etc) could offer. Right now we’ve yet to find one.

Ken_Griffiths

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.

Interesting. This whole thing is really fighting my “Sonos, it just works” mindset.

Sonos devices will ‘just work‘, but to get the ‘full‘ benefit of all the capabilities of the new ARC that it appears capable of, you ‘perhaps might’ need to invest in a new up-to-date TV .. it’s a case that such new Sonos devices are a step ahead of some of us who have older TV’s.. but it will definitely still work for HT surround sound, if the TV has either HDMI-ARC, or optical, audio output, which most TV’s do.

Ken_Griffiths

Ah @ratty beat me to it..👍

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tomwhitaker

Avid Contributor I

Hoping this post gets noticed by @JeffDs…

I’m in a similar boat to you, with an Arc on the way and a non-ARC projector as my display. I see you managed to order the ARC-01 device, but I can’t see if you’ve received it and it’s working? I also can’t quite work out what the benefit of this device is vs an Optical Audio Extractor… does ARC get you more than DD5.1, even if you can’t get full Atmos?

Finally, how much did it cost you?

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Abbraxas

Lyricist II

I have preordered the Arc, I have multiple Sonos products, I will be using my Sub and two Play 1’s for surround set up. I have several other Ones, around the house, namely in two rooms adjacent to where the surround system will be set up. My question is, how many speakers can be added to the surround setup? I am aware that Sonos does not support 7.1, however is it possible for example, to group lets say 2-Play 1s as the rear surrounds, and then group two adjacent Ones as two more rears/sides, or just additional speakers within the surround grouping?

jgatie

I have preordered the Arc, I have multiple Sonos products, I will be using my Sub and two Play 1’s for surround set up. I have several other Ones, around the house, namely in two rooms adjacent to where the surround system will be set up. My question is, how many speakers can be added to the surround setup? I am aware that Sonos does not support 7.1, however is it possible for example, to group lets say 2-Play 1s as the rear surrounds, and then group two adjacent Ones as two more rears/sides, or just additional speakers within the surround grouping?

No. One pair of surrounds only.

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Abbraxas

Lyricist II

I have preordered the Arc, I have multiple Sonos products, I will be using my Sub and two Play 1’s for surround set up. I have several other Ones, around the house, namely in two rooms adjacent to where the surround system will be set up. My question is, how many speakers can be added to the surround setup? I am aware that Sonos does not support 7.1, however is it possible for example, to group lets say 2-Play 1s as the rear surrounds, and then group two adjacent Ones as two more rears/sides, or just additional speakers within the surround grouping?

No. One pair of surrounds only.

Thanks for responding. My thought was to have several rooms broadcasting the sound of a sports game, concert, DVDs etc. at parties from a single TV source, which would also be the primary surround set in one room. Is there any other way to accomplish multiple room sound, similar to music grouping “everywhere” with a single TV output?

Airgetlam

You would ‘group’ the other rooms, in the same manner as is available now. The ‘grouped’ rooms would be slightly delayed from the sound bar room for TV input, but completely in sync when playing music streams.

Bruce

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