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Ryan S
Retired Sonos Staff
May 6, 2020

Meet Arc, Brilliant sound for your TV

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  • May 6, 2020
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Meet Arc, Brilliant sound for your TV

Available on June 10th, Sonos Arc is the premium smart soundbar for TV, movies, music, gaming, and more. Arc brings brilliant surround sound in 3D, along with immersive music, elegant design, and voice control built in. Experience shows, films, and games with the precise and immersive sound of Dolby Atmos, and enjoy incredible sound streaming music, podcasts, and audiobooks. 

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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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    550 replies

    Chris
    Lead Maestro
    May 7, 2020

    ore even fancier - do all your switching 4 inputs to the 2 outs

    https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=39667

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    Chris
    Lead Maestro
    May 7, 2020

    Does the Sonos Arc have to receive HDMI-ARC or eARC.  I have been under assumption most playbars will play direct from HDMI source without ARC (ie exactly why some soundbars have in and out so that it can be direct from the HDMI source and then repeat on the signal to the TV.

     

     

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    Airgetlam
    May 7, 2020

    So far, there are no Sonos products that accept HDMI. Only HDMI-ARC, and now eARC, and of course the older optical.

    Bruce
    Chris
    Lead Maestro
    May 7, 2020

    Per Sonos Keith N on a thread a year ago …

    The Beam will accept an HDMI signal from anything that gives it. It does not necessarily need to be a TV or HDMI ARC port. Keep in mind, if you were to plug a cable box into a Beam, you wouldn't be able to see anything and you'd simply be testing audio. Personally, I've done this to test if TV's were passing Dolby Digital 5.1 properly.

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    melvimbe
    May 7, 2020

    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

     

    In strict HDMI terms, the HDMI port on the Arc is an output, not an input.  ARC is an Audio Return Channel, meaning that it’s audio going in the reverse direction than the normal ‘flow’ of an HDMI signal.  Unless I’m mistaken, the Arc wouldn’t be able to ignore the video portion and just read the audio portion..it’s looking to read the ARC portion of the signal...which isn’t there.

    Danny
    Chris
    Lead Maestro
    May 7, 2020

    Since eARC is rather rare still I believe a lot of people have been doing such things to get TrueHD to their audio sources from Blueray players.

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    melvimbe
    May 7, 2020

    Since eARC is rather rare still I believe a lot of people have been doing such things to get TrueHD to their audio sources from Blueray players.

     

    I don’t know Chris, doesn’t fit what I’ve understood about ARC and eARC.  As far as how people were able to get True HD, I thought it was because the AVR or soundbar had separate HDMI inputs and an output to the TV.  The video source connected to soundbar first, then soundbar to TV, so no need for ARC or eARC.

    Danny
    Chris
    Lead Maestro
    May 7, 2020

    So if your TV doesn’t have eARC then your going to normally get Dolby Digital Plus Atmos from all sources going into TV (not to shabby)

    If your source is a Dolby TrueHD and you want to feed TrueHD to the Sonos Arc then you could get splitter to send the signal to TV and the Sonos Arc.

     

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    Chris
    Lead Maestro
    May 7, 2020

    Since eARC is rather rare still I believe a lot of people have been doing such things to get TrueHD to their audio sources from Blueray players.

     

    I don’t know Chris, doesn’t fit what I’ve understood about ARC and eARC.  As far as how people were able to get True HD, I thought it was because the AVR or soundbar had separate HDMI inputs and an output to the TV.  The video source connected to soundbar first, then soundbar to TV, so no need for ARC or eARC.

    Exactly - no need for ARC or eARC (I just said the soundbars have inputs and outputs - exact thing I said). What I am explaining is the video source is then connected to the Sonos Arc first.  

    What is the difference in the Video source hooked to the Sonos Arc directly vs. the same exact signal that has been duplicated and then sent to the Sonos Arc and TV.

    Keith N post I referenced above confirmed from Sonos that the Beam will except direct HDMI as well as ARC input (so the Sonos Arc should be no different).

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    Chris
    Lead Maestro
    May 7, 2020

    Sonos - naming your device arc makes discussing hookups very difficult!!!

     

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