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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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Sjoop1985

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.

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans (John Lennon) --- Living room: Arc, Sub, 2x One - Kitchen: One - Bedroom: Play 3 - Office: Beam - Bathroom: Play 1

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graeme20

Lyricist I

Hey Ryan,

can you confirm you could use Symfonisk lamps as part of the surround sound setup.

thanks

Graeme

melvimbe

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.

This is a good point. Although you could utilize an optical connection through an extractor, you’re not get getting the full benefit of the product. Hopefully, someone will come out with an extractor/splitter that device that can convert HDMI into an hDMI-eARC signal at some point.

Danny

Sjoop1985

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

This is a good point. Although you could utilize an optical connection through an extractor, you’re not get getting the full benefit of the product. Hopefully, someone will come out with an extractor/splitter that device that can convert HDMI into an hDMI-eARC signal at some point.

I actually bought my Playbar because I moved into this house that had the projector installed. Previous owner used an A/V receiver. I wanted a Playbar to integrate with the rest of my Sonos system. So I did my research and bought a splitter / extractor.

But that was only 2.5 years ago. I love Sonos and was looking forward to this announcement, but I just can't justify the investment in an Arc if I can only connect it by optical and have it do DD5.1, no matter how much better it sounds.

A break out box like you described would be great, but nothing like that seems to be around, also not for regular ARC. Maybe we'll see them popping up in the coming months as people want to transition to using eARC but don't want to replace their TV yet.

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans (John Lennon) --- Living room: Arc, Sub, 2x One - Kitchen: One - Bedroom: Play 3 - Office: Beam - Bathroom: Play 1

Airgetlam

A normal HDMI switch with ARC would work, you’d get Atmos from that. It doesn’t have to be eARC.

Bruce

Chris

Lead Maestro

I did a little research as the TV I bought last year still didn’t have eARC.

Looks like for full uncompressed Dolby Digital TruHD Atmos you need eArc.

But with regular ARC you get Dolby Digital Plus (compressed version) Atmos. This makes it compatible with most TVs after about 2016.

I just played Disney+ on my TV and say it is coming in as DD+ as I would want (but TV transcoding to DD for the Beam).

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Ken_Griffiths

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.

Can you not just simply add one of these type of devices (see below link) to your projector setup and get full Dolby Digital Atmos immersive surround sound from external devices, like Apple TV 4K, or Amazon Firestick 4K etc; and play the Atmos audio direct to the new Sonos ARC and it’s bonded surrounds and sub?

I believe you can even use the Sonos Amp and third party ‘passive‘ speakers too for the Rear channel surround audio.

See this LINK

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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.

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Downl1nk_1

Trending Lyricist II

I did a little research as the TV I bought last year still didn’t have eARC.

Looks like for full uncompressed Dolby Digital TruHD Atmos you need eArc.

But with regular ARC you get Dolby Digital Plus (compressed version) Atmos. This makes it compatible with most TVs after about 2016.

I just played Disney+ on my TV and say it is coming in as DD+ as I would want (but TV transcoding to DD for the Beam).

Yes most newer TV’s (2015/2016+) should support ARC with Dolby Digital Plus/Dolby Atmos (compressed audio at around 1mbit). Most streaming services are using this, and devices like the Apple TV also using Dolby Digital Plus via HDMI/ARC. What is interesting is Lip Sync correction can be included in ARC depending on the TV, so since the ARC supports it, that should work assuming your TV supports it.

Luckily for me, my 2019 Sony 950G, actually supports eARC! eARC supports uncompressed audio at around 37mbits, so high bite rate and object based audio like TrueHD can be passed via eARC, and Lip Sync is mandatory based on the design of eARC. HDMI 2.1 is not required for eARC, some TV’s can have eARC without HDMI2.1, but if a TV does have HDMI 2.1 it will have eARC.

Sjoop1985

A normal HDMI switch with ARC would work, you’d get Atmos from that. It doesn’t have to be eARC.

Not if your video device doesn't do any kind of ARC. The onlyly thing the ARC function on those switches does, to my knowledge, is to direct the ARC coming back on the HDMI out, towards the multiple HDMI-Ins.

Those switches don't create an ARC signal on the inputs if there is none coming back from the video device.

At least mine doesn't, I have a Beam that I use as a PC speaker. I hooked it up to my switch, turned on "ARC"... Nothing.

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

Can you not just simply add one of these type of devices (see below link) to your projector setup and get full Dolby Digital Atmos immersive surround sound from external devices, like Apple TV 4K, or Amazon Firestick 4K etc; and play the Atmos audio direct to the new Sonos ARC and it’s bonded surrounds and sub?

I believe you can even use the Sonos Amp and third party ‘passive‘ speakers too for the Rear channel surround audio.

See this LINK

Am I missing something reading this link? This looks like a splitter, duplicating the full HDMI input. The Sonos Arc is expecting a signal over ARC or eARC, not over the normal HDMI audio channel.

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans (John Lennon) --- Living room: Arc, Sub, 2x One - Kitchen: One - Bedroom: Play 3 - Office: Beam - Bathroom: Play 1

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