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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Ryan SAuthor

Retired Sonos Staff

Ryan S. - Any issues with pairing the Sub gen 2 to the Arc? Any decreased functionality now? Just ordered 2 Arcs and want to make sure I don’t need to upgrade my subs yet.

Hope you love them! No issues to worry about at all. Arc will need products to be running Sonos S2, which the Sub gen2 is fully compatible with.

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ewolkoff

Enthusiast II

Ryan S. - Any issues with pairing the Sub gen 2 to the Arc? Any decreased functionality now? Just ordered 2 Arcs and want to make sure I don’t need to upgrade my subs yet.

Hope you love them! No issues to worry about at all. Arc will need products to be running Sonos S2, which the Sub gen2 is fully compatible with.

Awesome. I’m all Sonos S2 compatible so ready to rock there. Excited to hear the latest!

Chris

Lead Maestro

The Arc looks like a great product. Great to see that Sonos has chosen to get with the program for Home Theater and include eARC and full Dolby codec support.

That said, unfortunately, I will not be ordering one soon. While not entirely unexpected, the lack of HDMI in/out in favor of eARC makes it impossible for me to implement. I own a projector, that I will not be replacing anytime soon, that doesn't even do ARC, let alone eARC. There aren't many TVs that have HDMI 2.1 with eARC yet and it's almost guaranteed it will take a few years for it to come to projectors - there is just no need, bandwidth-wise. For the time being consumer projectors are max. 4K and eARC is not that big of a deal since most people that project, use an A/V receiver.

I was hoping against hope that Sonos might go with HDMI in/out like some other Atmos soundbar manufacturers have, but when I saw on leaked renders how slim the design was and how small the I/O panel, I gave up thinking I would buy this soon.

TL;DR: very excited about this new product, but sad I will not be able to fit it into my use case.

Wouldn’t devices like this that split the HDMI cable work for projector etc.

https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=15258

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Downl1nk_1

Trending Lyricist II

Today I use two Play:3 as surround to my Playbar. Would the Arc have comparable sound as this setup, or is my setup today better? Sadly the Play:3 are not compatible with the Arc for surround use..

The Play:3s are compatible as surrounds for the Arc. And it will be a pretty big improvement from the Playbar to the Arc.

I will say it is very frustrating that your FAQ completely contradicts this. It complete infers that you need a new Sonos One (or SL), AMP, or a a brand new Sonos Five. It makes no mention of any “S2” compatible rear speakers.

Also when you go below the FAQ to “Product Manual” and click “Arc product manual” you get an error message, “AccessDeniedAccess Denied56C71B41BF4B010DDKzGdnbTlTryMk70YHx70fZyqa5a9rYCF5eE9sW2tOH/p8DIAhageO/JBlZFlRHMVtaEukxXBS8=” so I can’t even check to see if the product manual says otherwise about surround speakers. Seems like a big miss on your teams part… Lots and lots of posts in the Reedit about people not wanting to place pre-orders because it doesn’t support Play:1’s or Play:3’s as surrounds because that isn’t clear on that page and now you have conflicting communication.

What is frustrating is a did a pre-order and ordered a new surround set (2x One SL’s plus a sub) plus new stands for the SL’s based on this incorrect information on the FAQ that my current Play:3’s wouldn’t work.

Now I am not sure if I should cancel the order, of if customer service can just adjust the order, or if I should just keep set. Clearly the SL’s have more CPU and memory than the older Play 3’s, not sure if that will have any effect on the Arc at all, but the Play 3’s should still have a bigger sound stage than the SL’s...

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Mike_K

Lyricist I

I can’t believe there’s no HDMI passthrough. I have an expensive OLED TV from just a few years ago that doesn’t support Atmos or eArc. So, I’d have to buy a new TV to get the best sound with Arc.

Ryan SAuthor

Retired Sonos Staff

Hey @Downl1nk_1, sorry for the confusion. Hopefully those folks on Reddit get the right information that it will work with just about anything that does work as surrounds today with the Playbar/Beam/Amp (excluding the original Connect:Amp). The team’s already working on the FAQ answer to clarify now. Probably will take a cache clear tonight before the fix goes through.

@jgatie I hope so, but the ordering page has the following on it.

Ryan S confirmed above that the Play:3 can be used for surrounds, so the much newer Play:1 is probably good to go.

Sorry for the confusion @Codefish and @lucasSWE, they’re looking into that FAQ right now. Generally they don’t include products on the Sales FAQ that we don’t sell currently.

The team’s working on getting the product manual link fixed as well.

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melvimbe

Regarding using a splitter with ARC (or eARC), I think @Sjoop1985 is correct. I don’t think those will help in anyway. Remember, the Arc is essentially a video source, even though it doesn’t seem that way. The HDMI port on the Arc is OUT going into the HDMI IN on a TV. This is why you’ll see a Sonos screen saver when you turn your TV to the HDMI input the Arc (or Beam) is connected to. In turn, ARC means the TV sends audio back upstream along the same cable to the Arc.

So then look at HDMI splitters. Often those splitters are 2 or more HDMI inputs to 1 HDMI output. So they work great for connecting 2 video sources, like cable TV and blu ray to a TV (or projector) through a single HDMI port on the TV. If such a splitter device was ARC capable, how would that apply to the Arc? The Arc is a video source, so it would be one of the 2 or more HDMI inputs to 1 TV. If the TV is ARC capable, that means it could send a single back upstream through the switch to the Arc...when the switch is selecting the Arc as the input device. If the TV or projector is not ARC capable, then how would an audio signal get to the Arc? Nothing is generating the signal.

Other HDMI splitters have 1 HDMI input going to 2 or more HDMI inputs. That’s ideal if you want to have your cable TV signal go to 2 TVs for example. Applying this to the Arc again, the Arc is a video source.so it would send it’s screensaver signal to 2 TVs, theoretically, and could receive the ARC audio signal back up stream from either (both?) TVs. That seems like it would work. Now lets say that neither of the TVs in this connection are ARC capable. Where is the audio signal generated from? Not from either TV and there isn’t any HDMI input device (other than the Arc) at all for the splitter to possibly generate an audio signal, much less send it to the Arc.

What would be needed is a device that somewhat duplicates what a TV does. It would need one or more HDMI inputs. With these inputs, it would need to send the video portion of the signal to a TV or projector through an HDMI out. It would then need to send an ARC signal to specific HDMI-ARC input that’s connected to the Arc. These device would effectively need to fool the Arc into think it’s a TV, accepting it’s screensaver input and sending out the audio stream (which again, it gets from other HDMI inputs) back to the Arc...just like a TV would.

So, I haven’t seen this device, because it’s not going to be your typical HDMI splitter/extractor.

Danny

Airgetlam

I’d taken the assumption, without checking, that if those switches were pulling the audio stream off to optical, that they had the electronics in them to pull it off and send it back on the ARC channel, like a TV does. Sorry for the mistake, Sjoop1985. One does wonder how expensive that circuitry is, and when someone will do such a thing, I’d think there is a fair number of people in your boat.

Bruce

Chris

Lead Maestro

I may have linked wrong product but I’m talking about a splitter 1x2

1 input - 2 HDMI outputs - full video and audio on both

One to TV (it ignores the audio portion)

One to Sonos Arc (it ignores the video portion)

https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=15258

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Airgetlam

I don’t see anything in the description or the manual that leads me to believe it creates an HDMI-ARC or eARC signal.

Bruce

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