8:38 I'm wondering if I did something wrong. I just bought an ARC for 699 on sale and and a sub 4 to pair with it. Threw on music for new Years and put it to 100% volume. No sound limit was active. I remember as a kid in the 90s my dads speakers couldn't go past 50% before shaking the house down. I thought I was buying some of the best quality and expected to be blown away I guess.
Question: every time I want to watch TV the sound on the Arc is on the lowest volume possible. I have to every time up the volume to hear anything. Next time same thing. Any tips on how the Arc can remember the last volume setting, so I don’t have to do this every time?
It might be TV related? I have LG OLED C1, C2, & C9 TVs with several Beams and an Arc and they seems to close the volume setting when the TV was turned off.
Overall this is a very good walk through of features. But your short stint with Trueplay could be misleading. The most important use of the app is to optimize the area where you sit to watch, mostly optimizing the acoustics focused to the listener. It will ultimately optimize the ATMOS "dome." Then check the rest of the room with caution. Sometimes too much focus on the whole room can degrade the listening position. With your trueplay reference mic only around the room you are probably getting good general tuning but I doubt if your listening position is optimized. Correct trueplay is only part of optimizing Atmos. You also need your rear speaker locations at ear height and about 120 degrees from your listening position.
Fantastic instructions. It’s 2024 and I’m unable to find Trueplay or any adjustments any longer for any of the speakers in my system. Is there something I should or could be doing to access tuning?
I think it's weird that the raise volume is on left side and lower volume is right side and they don't distinguish the 2 buttons in any way. Just 4 dots and let you figure it out lol edit: 0:50
@@HotshotTekhotshot I am desperate. I just purchased a full Sonos system with the Arc, 2-sub gen 3’s and 2-300s for the rear surrounds. I don’t know if I could be more disappointed. The dialogue is not good. If I play a program from either live tv or from a recording on the DVR everything is fine. But if I play something from streaming like Max, Tubi, etc or if I play a movie on DVD the dialogue is horribly low. And there is no volume adjustment for the Arc! The speech enhancement does nothing when you are playing a dvd or streaming. It makes no difference on my system at all. Extremely disappointing. To have no way to adjust the volume on the Arc/soundbar is insane especially at this price point. The first movie I played was my Blu-ray copy of San Andreas with Dolby atmos. I had the volume up as much as I could take. The surround sound great, lots of impact. But I was struggling to understand the words the actors were saying. I can’t believe I have invested all this time and money only to find out I have no way to adjust the Arc volume. Do you have any suggestions for me? Thank you
Idk if is only my sun gen 3 that at the first set up was super loud, I loved it but I notice one day I was playing music tru RUclips and the bass dramatically reduce like I have my sub at plus 4 to hear it. Can some one help
I’ve had my Sonos arc for a few months now and when I’m watching any movie, some parts of the movies that have no dialogue all of a sudden goes silent. It’s noticeable when I’m watching a movie and can hear the crickets but then it’ll go quiet for no reason until someone starts talking in the movie, then you’ll be able to hear the crickets. I guess it’s not picking up all the audio and I don’t know how to fix this issue. I tired compressed audio fixed the height and delay. I’m just stuck. Can you please help me?
I had something similar when I added my Arc/dual sub/Fives. I already had several other Sonos products, smart appliances, smart TVs, and 4 people in the house with smartphones/computers/wi-fi printers. I think my issue was too many wi-fi devices on the same network (even web surfing and webpage refresh was slowed down adding the Arc). Sonos is always on communicating; but, it has to share the lanes with 20-30 other wi-fi devices. The sound cutting in-out was solve instantly when I hard wire connected the Arc to my Xfinity router and restarted (Arc was centrally located to all other Sonos devices). No issue since doing that change; except, the v15.11 update causes all my devices to go offline and power resetting the Arc brings them all back in the iphone app.
Just replaced my Nakamichi 7.2.4 with Sonos Arc system (Arc, sub, rear surrounds). I have the Sonos Beam, Gen 3 Sub, and two One SLs as rear surrounds in my office. The smaller Sonos sounded noticeably better than the Nakamichi. Sonos also handled the transitions of stereo to 5.1 evenly compared to the Nakamichi with volume going high to low or muffled/somewhat muted to clear going between stereo/5.1 when commercials came on when watching TV. One helpful hint for me was putting the Arc on a wired LAN hardwire connection. Sonos will set up a separate wireless network just for the Sonos products. I did this because I noticed a slight slowdown in wi-fi network speed, web page refresh, and download speeds before connecting directly to the router. Back to normal with wi-fi. I "think" the Sonos network will automatically be set up for any soundbar, sub, or speaker with a LAN connection if you plug directly into it (might need to unplug/plug other Sonos devices power to connect to it).
Hello thanks for the video so helpful ! I wanna install homecinema and i cant put bars cause i have a video projector. Can i do a home cinema with the Sub and two Sonos One ? Thanks a lot
Unfortunately Trueplay is only available to iPhones because Sonos says Apple is consistent with their mics versus Android which has literally hundreds of different phones. What's Sonos should have done is include a microphone for Trueplay function. Sucks donkey balls for the rest of us. Maybe you can borrow a friends iPhone for that.
Just got mine yesterday, like it only wish there was a way to turn it OFF I didnt buy it for general Tv watching purchased for movies..by the way they suggest leaving a 4” gap between the bar and your tv for the top firing atmos speakers (noticed yours is right below the screen)
I am planning to install this for a home theater setup. I am getting the Arc + Sub (Gen 3), and will be installing 2 in-ceiling mono speakers (non-Sonos brand), and will be connecting those to a Sonos Amp. The Sonos amp will be installed in a small IT/linen closet. We already ran the wiring to the speakers and they terminate in the IT closet. Is that the correct setup? Or will the Sonos Amp have to be right next to the TV to connect to the Sonos Arc? Everything he CAT6 wiring (behind TV), and IT closet. I hope my question/setup makes sense.
Hi..need some advice here.. Just purchased a Sonos Arc, sub, and 2 SL's ..replacing my Yamaha receiver. I used to connect my devices such as Apple TV, Roku, etc.. directly to the HDMI's on the Receiver HDMI Inputs and then sent this signal from my receiver to an HDMI splitter so I could share the output of these devices with other TVs--it worked great. However with my new Sonus system, I'm now attaching these devices directly to my Samsung 82", with Samsung's ARC/output to the Sonus Arc.. sounds great but I no longer have a way of splitting that signal to share with the TV's in the other rooms.. I even tried taking the signal from the Samsung Arc output to the splitter, then sending the splitter output back to my Sonus Arc..but it does not work..help! How can this be set up?
Good Video on general features. But could you please advise on how to get Dialogue / Speech volume up and music / background noises / sounds down. I can hardly hear speech with 5.1 films from Sky or Netflix. Please please please, otherwise I have wasted a lot of money.
Dang you're gonna have a busted neck looking at that TV on the ceiling like that. The Arc isn't meant to be placed 6 feet high, you ruin how Atmos works with this setup. Arc should ideally be at ear level.
Nope you dont need EARC to get Dolby Atmos, i have a Sony 900f and only has regular Arc and I get Dolby Atmos would not be triue HD but is indeed Dolby Atmos
Guys..never ever buy current Sonos products..all are tuned for bright sound but foolish company did not realize how it affects hearing pleasure..metallic sound,tinny voice across tv and music...first 5 mins u may think it sounds great..but u need to live with ear discomfort all thru..keep that in mind. Playbar and Sonos ones sound mellow and awesome not new arc,era 100,Sonos five etc
Not my experience with my Arc, dual subs, and Fives with LG OLED TVs (19 Sonos/IKEA soundbars, speakers, subs, and Roams total). Sonos isn't for everyone listening preferences. Seems a little unreasonable to tell every person on the planet to boycott and force a company out of business because you personally like a different sound profile.
I have the arc and a Sonos sub… This system is terrible. Music might be great, but the dialogue in movies is way too low. I’ve tried everything to fix this including true-play tuning with multiple Apple devices, using different streaming sources, turning loudness off and on, attaching to both my LG GX and my QN90A, turning speech enhancement off and on, and playing with height audio, playing with the eq, and calling a $300 per hour audio specialist who installs this crap. It’s still unacceptable. The only thing that gets it close to acceptable is turning the night mode on, speech enhancement on, treble to +2-3, and sub to -1, but night mode destroys the dynamic range. This whole problem could be abated with a single setting that even the most basic Vizio sound bar possess. I’m speaking of left, right, and center volume control for the sound bar. I’m selling this piece of junk and getting a passive sound bar for the LCR, in ceiling surrounds, new sub, and separate dedicated 5.1 amp. Don’t waste your money on this. If you need a sound-bar get the cheapest Vizio SB and you’ll be better off.
@@USAF-AMMO-461X0 How do you tweak them? I've tried everything and the dialogue sucks. The voice enhancement does not change anything. I have the Bose 900 soundbar and with their dialogue mode, it's a noticeable difference.
I could not agree more with you. The dialogue / speech is so low, and the music and general sound is very high. I have tried everything to change the balance. I bought new Arc, Sub and 2 rear L/R Ones with my also new LG G2. With normal TV is fine. But with Films ( for Sky or Netflix ) with 5.1, it is simply appalling. SONOS need to fix this. What a waste of money.
8:38 I'm wondering if I did something wrong. I just bought an ARC for 699 on sale and and a sub 4 to pair with it. Threw on music for new Years and put it to 100% volume. No sound limit was active. I remember as a kid in the 90s my dads speakers couldn't go past 50% before shaking the house down. I thought I was buying some of the best quality and expected to be blown away I guess.
Question: every time I want to watch TV the sound on the Arc is on the lowest volume possible. I have to every time up the volume to hear anything. Next time same thing. Any tips on how the Arc can remember the last volume setting, so I don’t have to do this every time?
It might be TV related? I have LG OLED C1, C2, & C9 TVs with several Beams and an Arc and they seems to close the volume setting when the TV was turned off.
Overall this is a very good walk through of features. But your short stint with Trueplay could be misleading. The most important use of the app is to optimize the area where you sit to watch, mostly optimizing the acoustics focused to the listener. It will ultimately optimize the ATMOS "dome." Then check the rest of the room with caution. Sometimes too much focus on the whole room can degrade the listening position. With your trueplay reference mic only around the room you are probably getting good general tuning but I doubt if your listening position is optimized. Correct trueplay is only part of optimizing Atmos. You also need your rear speaker locations at ear height and about 120 degrees from your listening position.
I notice their are multiple apps, Which one do you prefer?
Haha I love how you call in the sono arc 😂
Which app should I download?
Unique video about features I haven’t seen before in other videos …. Thanks 👍
Fantastic instructions. It’s 2024 and I’m unable to find Trueplay or any adjustments any longer for any of the speakers in my system. Is there something I should or could be doing to access tuning?
Hahaha miracles the second I posted the options appeared on my app.
I think it's weird that the raise volume is on left side and lower volume is right side and they don't distinguish the 2 buttons in any way. Just 4 dots and let you figure it out lol
edit: 0:50
Great video. I just purchased Sonos Arc + Sub, and a pair of One SL. Minutes to set it up.
Good choice!
@@HotshotTekhotshot I am desperate. I just purchased a full Sonos system with the Arc, 2-sub gen 3’s and 2-300s for the rear surrounds. I don’t know if I could be more disappointed.
The dialogue is not good.
If I play a program from either live tv or from a recording on the DVR everything is fine.
But if I play something from streaming like Max, Tubi, etc or if I play a movie on DVD the dialogue is horribly low. And there is no volume adjustment for the Arc!
The speech enhancement does nothing when you are playing a dvd or streaming. It makes no difference on my system at all. Extremely disappointing.
To have no way to adjust the volume on the Arc/soundbar is insane especially at this price point.
The first movie I played was my Blu-ray copy of San Andreas with Dolby atmos.
I had the volume up as much as I could take. The surround sound great, lots of impact. But I was struggling to understand the words the actors were saying.
I can’t believe I have invested all this time and money only to find out I have no way to adjust the Arc volume.
Do you have any suggestions for me? Thank you
Idk if is only my sun gen 3 that at the first set up was super loud, I loved it but I notice one day I was playing music tru RUclips and the bass dramatically reduce like I have my sub at plus 4 to hear it. Can some one help
Can also do voice control with the sonos assistant
I’ve had my Sonos arc for a few months now and when I’m watching any movie, some parts of the movies that have no dialogue all of a sudden goes silent. It’s noticeable when I’m watching a movie and can hear the crickets but then it’ll go quiet for no reason until someone starts talking in the movie, then you’ll be able to hear the crickets. I guess it’s not picking up all the audio and I don’t know how to fix this issue. I tired compressed audio fixed the height and delay. I’m just stuck. Can you please help me?
I had something similar when I added my Arc/dual sub/Fives. I already had several other Sonos products, smart appliances, smart TVs, and 4 people in the house with smartphones/computers/wi-fi printers. I think my issue was too many wi-fi devices on the same network (even web surfing and webpage refresh was slowed down adding the Arc). Sonos is always on communicating; but, it has to share the lanes with 20-30 other wi-fi devices. The sound cutting in-out was solve instantly when I hard wire connected the Arc to my Xfinity router and restarted (Arc was centrally located to all other Sonos devices). No issue since doing that change; except, the v15.11 update causes all my devices to go offline and power resetting the Arc brings them all back in the iphone app.
Just replaced my Nakamichi 7.2.4 with Sonos Arc system (Arc, sub, rear surrounds). I have the Sonos Beam, Gen 3 Sub, and two One SLs as rear surrounds in my office. The smaller Sonos sounded noticeably better than the Nakamichi. Sonos also handled the transitions of stereo to 5.1 evenly compared to the Nakamichi with volume going high to low or muffled/somewhat muted to clear going between stereo/5.1 when commercials came on when watching TV.
One helpful hint for me was putting the Arc on a wired LAN hardwire connection. Sonos will set up a separate wireless network just for the Sonos products. I did this because I noticed a slight slowdown in wi-fi network speed, web page refresh, and download speeds before connecting directly to the router. Back to normal with wi-fi. I "think" the Sonos network will automatically be set up for any soundbar, sub, or speaker with a LAN connection if you plug directly into it (might need to unplug/plug other Sonos devices power to connect to it).
dit you try to install the arc above the tv? is that an ok option?
Hello thanks for the video so helpful ! I wanna install homecinema and i cant put bars cause i have a video projector. Can i do a home cinema with the Sub and two Sonos One ? Thanks a lot
What are the options in the audio settings? Standard, movies, sports, music?
Hi, I just install my Arc and couldn't find the Trueplay. Is it removed?
Unfortunately Trueplay is only available to iPhones because Sonos says Apple is consistent with their mics versus Android which has literally hundreds of different phones. What's Sonos should have done is include a microphone for Trueplay function. Sucks donkey balls for the rest of us. Maybe you can borrow a friends iPhone for that.
Awesome thanx, now i‘m on stage 😄
Just got mine yesterday, like it only wish there was a way to turn it OFF I didnt buy it for general Tv watching purchased for movies..by the way they suggest leaving a 4” gap between the bar and your tv for the top firing atmos speakers (noticed yours is right below the screen)
Hi I have sinus system audio, can I connect a second arc and how
Sinus? are we now talking ENT (Ears Nose and (Throat-Thats to swallow the price!))
Is Trueplay available for just the bar only?
How can I make the fire cube sound on the Sonos
screensaver on your screen?
@runninrebel37 yes I would like to know also
Unfortunately, you can only listen to Dolby’s Atmos music via the Sonos app
Can't get mine to connect to wifi
nice review, keep it up!
I am planning to install this for a home theater setup. I am getting the Arc + Sub (Gen 3), and will be installing 2 in-ceiling mono speakers (non-Sonos brand), and will be connecting those to a Sonos Amp.
The Sonos amp will be installed in a small IT/linen closet. We already ran the wiring to the speakers and they terminate in the IT closet. Is that the correct setup? Or will the Sonos Amp have to be right next to the TV to connect to the Sonos Arc? Everything he CAT6 wiring (behind TV), and IT closet.
I hope my question/setup makes sense.
Alright you got me. I gotta subscribe first NFT's now Sonos , + Secret Labs this is the channel for me.
Hi..need some advice here.. Just purchased a Sonos Arc, sub, and 2 SL's ..replacing my Yamaha receiver. I used to connect my devices such as Apple TV, Roku, etc.. directly to the HDMI's on the Receiver HDMI Inputs and then sent this signal from my receiver to an HDMI splitter so I could share the output of these devices with other TVs--it worked great. However with my new Sonus system, I'm now attaching these devices directly to my Samsung 82", with Samsung's ARC/output to the Sonus Arc.. sounds great but I no longer have a way of splitting that signal to share with the TV's in the other rooms.. I even tried taking the signal from the Samsung Arc output to the splitter, then sending the splitter output back to my Sonus Arc..but it does not work..help! How can this be set up?
Really useful video. Thank you. What’s the song in the background please?
Fury 2 for tv without earc
Sono arc? 🤣🤣🤣. Nice vid tho
Touchable buttons?
Thank you 👍🏼
The arc is to close to the bottom of the TV.
Get the Era 300 and watch the avengers movie you really feel surrounded with sound and the Atmos experience is out of this world.
That TV is diabolically positioned for both viewing and audio.
seems annoying to have to use my phone to control the volume...no?
I lose my phone a lot less than losing the remote for my tv so it doesn't bother me so much
sonoS fam, damn
Good Video on general features. But could you please advise on how to get Dialogue / Speech volume up and music / background noises / sounds down. I can hardly hear speech with 5.1 films from Sky or Netflix. Please please please, otherwise I have wasted a lot of money.
Nice Video :). But the subwoofer stays the wrong way round 😊.
the sub is non directional you can put it anywhere and will sound the same
Dang you're gonna have a busted neck looking at that TV on the ceiling like that. The Arc isn't meant to be placed 6 feet high, you ruin how Atmos works with this setup. Arc should ideally be at ear level.
My tv is on a lever, when viewing the screen it lowers to the appropriate height.
I didn't know the last S in Sonos was silent? 🤣
Nope you dont need EARC to get Dolby Atmos, i have a Sony 900f and only has regular Arc and I get Dolby Atmos would not be triue HD but is indeed Dolby Atmos
Guys..never ever buy current Sonos products..all are tuned for bright sound but foolish company did not realize how it affects hearing pleasure..metallic sound,tinny voice across tv and music...first 5 mins u may think it sounds great..but u need to live with ear discomfort all thru..keep that in mind. Playbar and Sonos ones sound mellow and awesome not new arc,era 100,Sonos five etc
Not my experience with my Arc, dual subs, and Fives with LG OLED TVs (19 Sonos/IKEA soundbars, speakers, subs, and Roams total). Sonos isn't for everyone listening preferences. Seems a little unreasonable to tell every person on the planet to boycott and force a company out of business because you personally like a different sound profile.
I added my comment that you needed as it was"666"👿💀☠️💩🤡🤡🤡👹👹👺..note: your TV monitor is up TOO HIGH ⬆️⬆️⬆️
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I have the arc and a Sonos sub… This system is terrible. Music might be great, but the dialogue in movies is way too low. I’ve tried everything to fix this including true-play tuning with multiple Apple devices, using different streaming sources, turning loudness off and on, attaching to both my LG GX and my QN90A, turning speech enhancement off and on, and playing with height audio, playing with the eq, and calling a $300 per hour audio specialist who installs this crap. It’s still unacceptable. The only thing that gets it close to acceptable is turning the night mode on, speech enhancement on, treble to +2-3, and sub to -1, but night mode destroys the dynamic range. This whole problem could be abated with a single setting that even the most basic Vizio sound bar possess. I’m speaking of left, right, and center volume control for the sound bar. I’m selling this piece of junk and getting a passive sound bar for the LCR, in ceiling surrounds, new sub, and separate dedicated 5.1 amp. Don’t waste your money on this. If you need a sound-bar get the cheapest Vizio SB and you’ll be better off.
Disagree totally.
Disagree as well, once tweaked, this combo rocks….just add Sonos ones in the rear and you’re golden
@@USAF-AMMO-461X0 I agree!
@@USAF-AMMO-461X0 How do you tweak them? I've tried everything and the dialogue sucks. The voice enhancement does not change anything. I have the Bose 900 soundbar and with their dialogue mode, it's a noticeable difference.
I could not agree more with you. The dialogue / speech is so low, and the music and general sound is very high. I have tried everything to change the balance. I bought new Arc, Sub and 2 rear L/R Ones with my also new LG G2. With normal TV is fine. But with Films ( for Sky or Netflix ) with 5.1, it is simply appalling. SONOS need to fix this. What a waste of money.
Sonos is overpriced junk. Just like Bose, Beats and North Face.
Bless your heart for this review 🫡