Hey I'm JR, training manager here at Crutchfield, and this is the Sonos home theater bundle. One of
the things people have wanted for many years is wireless home theater, so you don't have speaker
wires running from your TV or your receiver, your stereo equipment, out to all of the speakers in
your room. Sonos has figured out a way to do it wirelessly. All of these speakers do need to be
plugged into an outlet for power, other than that, completely wireless. What you see here is the Sonos
Arc. This is Sonos' brand new Dolby Atmos sound bar paired with a third-generation Sonos Sub, and
two Sonos One SLs as your rear surround speakers. Let's start by talking about the Arc. All by
itself it is a 5.0.2 sound bar, and what that means is it is five channels of surround sound. So that's
your front, left, center, and right speakers as well as your surround left and right speakers, plus two
more channels of Dolby Atmos speakers. There are 11 speakers in all inside the Arc: three tweeters that
are definitely geared towards being your front left, center and right speakers, so you get a good
front soundstage with your home theater. It's got eight elliptical woofers, four of them on the front,
two of them on the sides, and two more facing up, and that's what gives you Dolby Atmos. Atmos is a
pretty cool way to do home theater where they actually add channels that sound like they're
coming from above you, so these speakers face up at your ceiling the sound bounces back down at you in
your listening position, giving you an even more enveloping home theater experience. To get the Arc
connected to your TV is actually pretty simple. There's simply an HDMI connection on the back,
you connect that to an HDMI connection on your TV that has Audio Return Channel, preferably Enhanced
Audio Return Channel. Audio Return Channel is an HDMI feature that allows the sound from whatever
you're watching on TV to be sent backwards through the HDMI cable to your sound solution.
Enhanced ARC allows it to do that, including five channels of surround sound plus Dolby Atmos or
Adobe Digital Plus, and that's what gives those upward-firing speakers their dedicated sounds
to give you that more enveloping surround sound. Audio Return Channel has been around for a while,
now it's made it easy to connect sound bars to TVs. However, Enhanced Audio Return Channel,
that thing that gives it the ability to do the Dolby Atmos, that's fairly new, and it's only on
the latest few years of TVs, and the capabilities of Enhanced Audio Return Channel do vary from TV
brand to TV brand, so you should check your owner's manual to find out exactly what your TV can do.
We have this Sonos home theater bundle paired with a Sony 65-inch A8H TV, which definitely has
the Enhanced Audio Return Channel. We're also using it with a Panasonic 4K Blu-ray player.
When I took this Sonos Arc home to my house, my TV doesn't have that, it's just a few years too old,
but the Sonos Arc's processing inside was still able to make very enveloping surround sound, so I
didn't really feel like i was missing anything by not having Enhanced Audio Return Channel.
And if your TV is old enough to not have an Audio Return Channel capable HDMI connection but it
does have an optical digital output for sound, you're okay, Sonos includes an adapter so that
you can plug a optical digital cable into their adapter, into the hdmi input on the back of the Arc.
The Sonos Arc sounds pretty amazing all by itself thanks to all the speakers and all the amplifiers
built in, it's a full, rich sound. However, if you want a more impactful full-bodied home theater
sound you're going to want to pair it with the Sub, and this does come with the home theater
bundle, and it adds that really low rumble, the bass that you really want to sort of feel when you're
listening to home theater. The home theater bundle also comes with a pair of Sonos One SLs. These add
even better rear surround sound when used with the Arc and the Sub, and you
can of course put them on some optional Sanus stands like we have pictured here,
they look great and they'll sound amazing. Setting up the Sonos Home Theater bundle
is pretty easy thanks to the Sonos app. You'll load that on your phone first, and then you'll
pair all of these speakers together wirelessly using that app. Once you're done doing all of
that, you can start using Trueplay. Trueplay is a room calibration software built into the app
compatible with your Apple device, so if you have an iPhone, you get started with Trueplay,
you walk around your room with your iPhone, the microphone on your phone sort of listens to
these speakers as they're playing sounds and it calibrates them for your room. So when you sit down
in your favorite spot, the room sounds amazing. Once you've calibrated your room with Trueplay,
you can use some other cool features in the Sonos app such as dialog enhancement mode, which really
brings out the vocals of the actors on the screen so you can clearly hear exactly what they're
saying. The Sonos Arc also has built-in an Amazon Alexa and a Google Home assistant, along with five
microphones that allow it to pick up your voice clearly and you don't feel like you have to yell
at it, you can talk at a normal volume using a normal cadence and your Amazon Alexa or Google
Home assistant will hear you and do whatever you say. And the system is Sonos, which means
in addition to amazing home theater surround sound it does music pretty well, too, all controlled from
the Sonos app on your phone, so you can play any song in any of those zones at any volume.
So this is the Sonos Home Theater Bundle. It's the Sonos Arc Dolby Atmos sound bar, a Sonos Sub, and two
Sonos One SLs. It's a pretty great home theater and music system. If you have any questions about this,
how it could fit into your house, you should definitely give Crutchfield a call and talk to one
of our advisors, or you can chat with them online, or if you just want to throw a comment right here
on this YouTube video you can do that as well. We do watch those comments and we will answer
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