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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).

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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djviko

Contributor I

It would be nice if theres a area where we all can confirm if its compatible.

Anyway, I just came here to help a little bit:

My LG OLED TV from 2017 model: OLED65B7V is working perfectly with Apple TV and Sonos Arc playing Dolby Atmos. Tried netflix, apple tv series ( See), and Disney plus. Everything working perfect.

Im in the UK

Apple TV is sending DOLBY ATMOS as Dolby Digital and the arc is recognising the signal.

Is the DOLBY ATMOS text displayed on your SONOS S2 app above the night mode button? (It would be great if the app showed the type of content/codec it is actually reproducing on that spot --not only for DOLBY ATMOS-- instead of having to go to “About my System” to get that details on the Audio In details)

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Morten69

Lyricist II

It would be nice if theres a area where we all can confirm if its compatible.

Anyway, I just came here to help a little bit:

My LG OLED TV from 2017 model: OLED65B7V is working perfectly with Apple TV and Sonos Arc playing Dolby Atmos. Tried netflix, apple tv series ( See), and Disney plus. Everything working perfect.

Im in the UK

Apple TV is sending DOLBY ATMOS as Dolby Digital and the arc is recognising the signal.

Is the DOLBY ATMOS text displayed on your SONOS S2 app above the night mode button? (It would be great if the app showed the type of content/codec it is actually reproducing on that spot --not only for DOLBY ATMOS-- instead of having to go to “About my System” to get that details on the Audio In details)

You can do that. If you push settings then system and then about my system.

melvimbe

It would be nice if theres a area where we all can confirm if its compatible.

It would be, but when you consider all the different TV models available, input devices, and streaming services, it becomes very difficult to map all that out. Not to mention that everything can change with firmware updates these days. It’s not something Sonos can really get too far into. It something users can put together on their own, as has been done previously, but it’s never going to be complete and 100% reliable.

Danny

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djviko

Contributor I

It would be nice if theres a area where we all can confirm if its compatible.

Anyway, I just came here to help a little bit:

My LG OLED TV from 2017 model: OLED65B7V is working perfectly with Apple TV and Sonos Arc playing Dolby Atmos. Tried netflix, apple tv series ( See), and Disney plus. Everything working perfect.

Im in the UK

Apple TV is sending DOLBY ATMOS as Dolby Digital and the arc is recognising the signal.

Is the DOLBY ATMOS text displayed on your SONOS S2 app above the night mode button? (It would be great if the app showed the type of content/codec it is actually reproducing on that spot --not only for DOLBY ATMOS-- instead of having to go to “About my System” to get that details on the Audio In details)

You can do that. If you push settings then system and then about my system.

Hi Morten, yes, thanks, I know of that… but I’ve seen pictures like this one, where DOLBY ATMOS is displayed on the now playing screen and guess it would be a good addition for the app… (for all types of Audio In)

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gerardolenin

Lyricist III

Hello there. Yes the dolby atmos is shown in thr screen. Which i found very helpful.

at first i was double checking everywhere. Incluiding in the area of the settings, bla bla bla.
Putting movies in 5.1 only. Others with atmos. Etc.

and yes. Everytime its an atmos. It will display in the main screen. Obviously when u go to the other settings area u will see it as well.

hope this is helpful.

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Pompyblade

Contributor III

Need some help had a mare to setup the arc and pair it with 2x play ones and sub gen 2 . Finally got it all working then all of a sudden I get message on app that speakers not configured correctly it was all working as should for about half hour now all I get is sound from the arc . Please someone help before I go insane

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djviko

Contributor I

Hello there. Yes the dolby atmos is shown in thr screen. Which i found very helpful.

at first i was double checking everywhere. Incluiding in the area of the settings, bla bla bla.
Putting movies in 5.1 only. Others with atmos. Etc.

and yes. Everytime its an atmos. It will display in the main screen. Obviously when u go to the other settings area u will see it as well.

hope this is helpful.

Thanks a lot for your input gerardolenin. I guess that message only appears when you’re playing DOLBY ATMOS, correct? not when Dolby Digital 5.1 or DD+5.1 or Dolby Stereo 2.0… (which is what I would like Sonos to include in the app since it is already doing it for atmos...)

I have a Playbar myself and I am able to see the Dolby Digital 5.1 on the Settings but it would be nice to have it displayed there...

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gerardolenin

Lyricist III

Hello there. Yes the dolby atmos is shown in thr screen. Which i found very helpful.

at first i was double checking everywhere. Incluiding in the area of the settings, bla bla bla.
Putting movies in 5.1 only. Others with atmos. Etc.

and yes. Everytime its an atmos. It will display in the main screen. Obviously when u go to the other settings area u will see it as well.

hope this is helpful.

Thanks a lot for your input gerardolenin. I guess that message only appears when you’re playing DOLBY ATMOS, correct? not when Dolby Digital 5.1 or DD+5.1 or Dolby Stereo 2.0… (which is what I would like Sonos to include in the app since it is already doing it for atmos...)

I have a Playbar myself and I am able to see the Dolby Digital 5.1 on the Settings but it would be nice to have it displayed there...

That is correct. Its only when its receiving Dolby atmos. I actually had the same reaction like you: it should be nice if it shows watever the sound is providing.

i do as well replaced my playbar with full surround extra sonos devices. I can say that the Sonos Arc sounds a lot lot better. Even for other stuff like for example: With the playbar i always had the speech enhancement on. With the Sonos Arc is not needed.

in case somebody didnt read my previous messages. Im in a LG OLED B7 from 2017 and an apple TV 4K

regards.

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Rom7475

Contributor I

It would be nice if theres a area where we all can confirm if its compatible.

Anyway, I just came here to help a little bit:

My LG OLED TV from 2017 model: OLED65B7V is working perfectly with Apple TV and Sonos Arc playing Dolby Atmos. Tried netflix, apple tv series ( See), and Disney plus. Everything working perfect.

Im in the UK

Apple TV is sending DOLBY ATMOS as Dolby Digital and the arc is recognising the signal.

Hello,

thank you for your feedback, just one question, it is not clear for me: how do you know it is reading atmos as DD+ ? Someone says higher that DD+ is not showing in the app? Sorry I missed it somewhere.

I have a samsing qled, not earc, and a Q900r user on another topic says it won’t passthrough atmos from ATV to the arc (evend dd+). Same with any sources he says…

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frenzy382

Trending Lyricist I

well...my ARC arrived about 1hr ago and I’ve learnt something about my TV (on a positive note).

I’ve a 2018 Samsung Q9FN and it’s actually passing through ATMOS from my Nvidia Shield..lossy.

The complete opposite of what I thought would happen, is happening. I thought no Atmos from Nvidia Shield, but possibly from built in Netflix App.

more testing this pm….but so far, exceeding my expectations

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