Sonos ARC - Premium Smart Soundbar (What HiFi? Awards 2024)

Cinematic Sound

The premium smart soundbar for TV, films, music, gaming, and more.

Bring all your entertainment to life with the brilliantly realistic sound of Arc, featuring Dolby Atmos. Enjoy control with your remote, the app, your voice, and Apple AirPlay 2.

A realistic listening experience

Arc's advanced processing creates five channels that masterfully deliver sound to your ears from all directions at the exact right moment.

3D sound with Dolby Atmos

Experience shows, films, and video games with the precise and immersive sound of Dolby Atmos on Arc. The upwards-firing drivers create a multi-dimensional soundstage that moves around you, rendering every whisper and explosion with dramatic clarity, detail, and depth.

Requires TV that supports Dolby Atmos and Atmos-encoded content.

Surround yourself in the story

• Sonos Arc
• Dolby Atmos
• Phased Array
• Trueplay™

Immerse yourself in the music

Stream music, radio, podcasts, and more from your favourite services with the Sonos app or Apple AirPlay 2 when the TV is off.

Extraordinary sound meets elegant design

Featuring eleven high-performance drivers for crisp highs, dynamic midranges, and surprising bass, Arc's slim profile can be discreetly mounted or placed on furniture.

Get crystal-clear dialogue

Arc was carefully tuned with the help of Oscar-winning sound engineers to emphasise the human voice so you never miss a word.

Turn on Speech Enhancement in the app to clarify dialogue when characters talk quietly or action intensifies.

Shuffling your playlist

Voice control

The Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa are built right in so you can play music, check news, set alarms, get your questions answered, and more, completely hands free.

Easily expand your system

Wirelessly connect Sub and a pair of matching rear surrounds for an even more immersive listening experience.

Audio

• Eleven Class-D digital amplifiers perfectly tuned to Arc's acoustic architecture.
  
• Eight elliptical woofers ensure faithful playback of mid-range and vocal frequencies in addition to rich bass.
• Three precisely-angled silk-dome tweeters create crisp high frequencies and crystal-clear dialogue.
• Far-field microphone array uses advanced beamforming and multi-channel echo cancellation so your voice assistant can be readily activated.
• Trueplay™ software dynamically tunes the speaker to the unique acoustics of the room. iOS device required.
• Adjustable EQ settings in the app, including bass, treble, and loudness.
• Speech Enhancement emphasises the frequencies of the human voice to clarify dialogue.
• Night Sound reduces the intensity of loud sound effects.

Dimensions

• Dimensions - H x W x D : 87 x 1141.7 x 115.7 mm
• Finish : Black with matte finish or White with matte finish
• Status LED : Indicates the speaker and microphone status and adjusts based on the ambient light of the room to be visible but not distracting.
• Capacitive Touch Controls : Tap to play, pause, adjust the volume, and mute the microphones. Swipe right to skip ahead or left to revisit a track.
• Weight : 13.78 lb (6.25 kg)

Power & Networking

Power supply : Auto-switching 100-240 V, 50-60 Hz AC universal input.

Ethernet Port : 1 x 10/100 Mbps ethernet port. Wire directly to your router if WiFi is unreliable.

WiFi : Connects to your home WiFi network with any 802.11b/g, 2.4 GHz broadcast-capable router.

Sonos S2 ; Download the latest generation of the app to set up and control.

Apple AirPlay 2 : Works with AirPlay 2 on Apple devices iOS 11.4 and higher.

Infrared (IR) receiver : Syncs with your TV remote for streamlined control

CPU : Quad Core 1.4 GHz A-53

Memory : 1GB SDRAM | 4GB NV