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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DuranDoranMartell

Avid Contributor III

The charge that was applied on Monday night remains 'pending' status in my bank account. I called my bank to see if there was a problem and they said Sonos' bank in the Netherlands hasn't fully completed the transaction on their end yet.

The fine print on standard shipping says 1-2 days in Europe, excluding weekends, so hopefully that means it will ship today to hit the 10 June date. Crossing fingers.

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marcospg18

Contributor I

So cannot connect my multimedia player (Nvidia Shield) directly to the soundbar? I think its the only possibility to pass all the digital audio codecs from the Nvidia Shield to the soundbar. My television its old and converts the audio codecs from and HDMI IN to a HDMI-ARC out.

Thanks

bockersjv

Local Superstar

Maybe get a new TV then?

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pompeygreg

Trending Lyricist I

I am hoping that my Arc isn’t too long in coming as the Beam it replaces has been sold and is now giving somebody else enjoyment. Mrs P has even commented on the TV sound.

I ordered back on 12 May, and it’s showing as New order with a status of backorder, whereas the Five that I ordered some time later shows as Dispatch Acknowledged with a status of processing. I haven’t yet been charged for either unit.

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Rom7475

Contributor I

Hi,

I am tempted also, but have doubts on Qamsung q90r compatibility for atmos passthrough. Any samsung user here (or Sonos staff) could confirm atmos source plugged on TV (specially future PS5) will send atmos signal to the sonos arc via hdmi-ARC? (not eARC).

I heard PCM will be added in a firmware update but samsung promised eARC also this way, and never happened...

Thank you very much

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tomwhitaker

Avid Contributor I

Checking the reviews and excited for mine to arrive. For now, my setup will include 2x Play 1 and a Sub, and be set up as

PS4/Apple TV → HDMI splitter w/ optical audio extraction to Arc → projector

Then if our magical eARC device ever exists, it’ll be

PS5 (by then!)/Apple TV → [the magic dongle] → projector

So when I get it, I’ll be setting my PS4/ATV to output 5.1 and no matter what the audio content I receive is, I’ll get 5.1. Right? I’m doing this now as a test with my home cinema AVR, and DTS content works fine, no silence, because the devices are re-encoding the DTS before output.

Then in future, I’ll be setting them to output LPCM (after the Arc update), and I’ll hopefully get the full experience, including Atmos, and even DTS won’t be a problem? Given that the only device I can imagine running DTS content through ever again (my Apple TV) supports LPCM out, I should be set for the foreseeable future with this setup?

I saw this on another thread from @Rpmartinez1987 so hopefully the missing piece of the puzzle appears at some point soon.

Last night I contacted HDfury about the vertex2 to see if it would allow me to send an AppleTV signal to an Epson 5050ub projector while At the same time sending Dolby Atmos from the Apple TV to the Sonos arc…

their tech support said:

No there is no solution in the world for Sonos currently, we will have one by the end of the year.

Finally, as a projector owner (all my AV sources are external to my display, and always will be) do I have any reason to expect lip-sync issues based on either of the above scenarios (obviously taking something of a leap of faith on the capabilities of whatever eARC audio extractor we end up with)?

Update: Ooh, my credit card just got charged for my order as I posted this!

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Marc_51

Enthusiast II

Mine has been showing as ‘processing’ since last Saturday when my card was charged (payment pending). Still no sign of shipping though.

i guess they will be shipping them out on Monday for Wednesday delivery. That’s what I’m telling myself anyway.

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Morten69

Lyricist II

Danish tester on REC.dk confirme that Atmos workes with appletv and lg oled c8. He testet iTunes, Netflix and Disney and all workes.