Sonos Arc is the company's most ambitious soundbar yet

The Sonos Arc has arrived to bring Sonos' soundbar game up to the next level.

This is the widest and most complex soundbar that the visitor has ever produced, and to some, it might even be the nicest looking. The speaker volition be widely available for $999 CAD in Canada on June tenth. Y'all can pre-gild a unit of measurement today on Sonos.com.

All of that aside, the Arc represents the highest-level in Sonos' soundbar lineup. It starts with Beam, which Sonos mentioned is 1 of its top sellers, then information technology goes up to the Playbar, the Playbase and now, the Arc. That said, the company is discontinuing the Playbase and the Playbar, so if you want one of those you'll have to act fast.

Packed inside of the Arc are eleven class-D digital amplifiers, eight elliptical woofers and three angled silk-dome tweeters. In that location are also iv far-field microphones, and so you lot can utilize it every bit an Alexa or Google Banana-enabled smart speaker.

2 of its drivers bespeak upwards to provide Atmos supported 3D audio. Another two speakers signal out of the left and correct side of the soundbar to provide dedicated left and right stereo sounds. This means that even music playback through the Arc is in stereo. This also means that on its own, the soundbar has five.0 sound capabilities for excellent sounding content while information technology maintains a dissever speaker for dialogue.

The Sonos app also provides users with software toggles that increase vocal clarity and reduce loud noises for using information technology at night. Speaking on the Sonos app, the Arc and the new Sub and Sonos V will all only work with the Sonos S2 app that's coming out on June 8th. You can learn more about that in our companion article.

Coming back to the Arc, you can utilize Sonos' TruePlay technology to tune the speaker to sound improve in your room. Notably, this fourth dimension TruePlay too takes the height of a room into account for more than refined Atmos playback. Sadly, due to the wide range of microphone varieties in the Android ecosystem, you can only use TruePlay with an iOS device. If you don't have an iPad or iPhone, Sonos says that the TruePlay information is stored in the deject. Therefore, if a friend with an iPhone came over and you ran TruePlay tuning via their phone, the Arc would stay tuned subsequently they left and uninstalled the app.

The Arc's design features a curved piece of plastic with 76,000 tiny holes drilled into information technology. Y'all can get it in either White or Black similar Sonos' other products. You can too purchase an extra wall-mount attachment that looks quite discreet. The Arc knows when it's wall-mounted and volition lower its bass output to balance out with the extra bass provided by being wall-mounted.

The Arc has and HDMI e-arc port on the back, simply it comes with an optical sound adapter. However, east-arc and arc ports are probable ameliorate

Where Arc falls in the Sonos lineup

Overall the Arc is an impressive package, and it represents the highest starting signal in the Sonos home theatre ecosystem. This is something I alluded to earlier, but I'll get into more item hither for people unfamiliar with the platform.

Sonos' primary goal is to brand multi-room audio really like shooting fish in a barrel with a wireless implementation and a central app that works with other streaming services. The goal of its hardware team is like because information technology's trying to brand great sounding speakers that are simple to utilize. If you lot've e'er wandered into the world of loftier-end audio y'all know you can get lost in the technical terms very quickly.

Sonos does abroad with all of this by request yous to trust information technology to produce pleasing audio, and thus far, that's worked out really well. You lot can buy a Sonos speaker and the more speakers you add together to your collection, the better your sound gets. For example, starting with a single Sonos One is overnice, simply and then when you stereo pair it with a second I, things audio a lot meliorate. It'southward a value-added system.

In home theatre, things work the aforementioned fashion. You tin buy the soundbar and things sound ameliorate than your TV, and in the case of the Arc, a lot better than your Television receiver. Then, if you desire to upgrade it, you can get ii more than speakers to use equally rear environment channels and the Sonos Sub to provide more bass.

Ideally, with the Atmos capabilities in the Arc, users might not need to add together rear-surrounds or aa Sub, but to get the most out of it, that's the best way.

Overall, the Arc is a super impressive speaker and stay tuned to MobileSyrup for a total review coming later in June.