Hey Everyone. Welcome to Everyday Tech! In this video we're going to discuss the top
five things you should know about the Sonos Arc. Now for a bit of context,
I currently work for a New Zealand Retail Company and my primary role is to install
TV's for people. Through that I'm able to experience a wide variety of AV equipment,
you know from your cheap 2.0 TCL soundbar all the way up to a full Sonos setup when you've got an
Arc, a sub, two rear speakers and even further than that where you've got a full AV
setup of you know an amplifier, big floor standing speakers that's really kitted out for
a home cinema. Anyway, that's enough on me let's just get into the top five things you should know
I'll come out the gate and say that the Sonos Arc is a really good soundbar. It gives you adequate
bass for listening to music or watching movies. The soundstage especially when you're watching
a movie is really wide because it's a physically big bar. I did a job for a customer the other week
and we were setting up a Sonos beam with a sub. I gave him a demo of the Arc just by itself and they
said that they preferred the sound of the Arc over the sub with the beam so we left the Arc with them
the great thing about Sonos is that you can start with the Arc see how you like it and if you want
to add a little bit more bass because there's a certain area in your room that is a bit of
a dead spot for bass then you can add a sub later but it's not necessary to buy all at one time. If
you did decide to add a sub at some point whether that be you know straight away if you wanted to go
all guns blazing or whether you wanted to you know wait a bit see how it is and and buy it later down
the track, the lower frequencies are all channeled down to the subwoofer which frees the sound bar up
for you know your mids and your high frequencies. The benefit of this is that you get clearer sound
from your mids and highs. You also get deeper bass as the sonos sub is just an absolute beast and
really allows you to feel the bass as opposed to just hearing it. Now for my second point,
soundbars i've always found the ones that have dolby atmos they never really sound like the
sound is coming from behind you or even above you to be honest. A lot of the time that comes down
to the fact that we can't put our tv and soundbar in the best location of the lounge or the living
room that we're setting it up in. The other factor is that rooms aren't always rectangular;
a lot of them have different you know bits that jut out that change the acoustics of the space if
your goal is to have the most immersive experience when watching you know the latest action movies,
then adding a pair of sonos ones the fives or in-ceiling speakers with the sonos amp will be
your best bet to give you that full immersive experience. One thing i really hope Sonos comes
out with soon is a dolby atmos enabled Sonos one. The samsung have their Q950A soundbar that they've
just released and the same as their predecessor the Q950T they both had upward firing rear
speakers. Being able to put the dolby atmos rear speakers as well as having it from the soundbar
just gives you the ultimate surround sound experience. On the point of dolby atmos i'd
like to caution you that your tv may not support dolby atmos pass-through. If your TV has eArc
then you'll be all good but if your TV is a few years old, has a normal Arc port it still may not
support dolby atmos pass through. The best way to find out is get in touch with your manufacturer,
sometimes there's forums as well that you can research your specific TV model and they'll be
able to tell you whether or not it supports dolby atmos pass-through unfortunately from my TV it's a
2018 Samsung and it doesn't support pass-through. The other downside is that the Sonos Arc doesn't
have an HDMI input so you can't plug an Apple TV or another streaming box directly into it. I've
never been that fussed with losing an HDMI port on my other Samsung soundbar, I've never used
the HDMI input on them anyway, but if you tend to run out of HDMI ports because you're
using you know a PS5, a blu-ray player and other streaming boxes then that is something you might
want to take into consideration you may need to use a switch to add more HDMI ports to your TV.
The enhanced dialogue feature on the Sonos Arc is absolutely amazing. Being able to just push
a button on your app and enhance all of the dialogue coming through the soundbar it makes
it for a much better experience especially for those movies that you find hard to hear what
they're saying over the music. For those of you that are coming from the big AV receiver world
and having you know the floor standing speakers and the big subwoofers and center channels,
you've always been able to tweak each individual speaker based on your listening preference.
With this it's just a one button push or you can slide and change you know your treble or bass
but there's no specific speaker channel level. I like to think of sonos as apple
and an AV receiver as an android the AV receiver lets you change pretty much anything. It's very
manual and you can dial it into your liking. The Sonos system on the other hand is more like
Apple in the sense that it's very simple to use there's not many buttons that you have to push.
It just works out the best way to present the audio to you based on what you're watching or
listening to. This is what i think is one of the biggest selling points of the Sonos,
it's super simple to use, right from setting it up with the Sonos S2 app integration
all the way through to tuning the room with your iphone they make it seamless in the way that
everything works together. For my sports lovers out there picture this. It's a saturday morning,
you're watching either the Cricket or the Formula One. Both of which take hours to complete,
but you don't want to sit down at the TV and watch it all day because you've got stuff to do.
Imagine if you could take that sound with you no matter where you are in the house.
With the Sonos system and especially the Sonos Arc, you can take that sound from the tv and
blast it throughout your whole house so long as you've got a Sonos speaker with you. Whether
you want to go and do the washing outside, you can grab a sonos move and you can take it with
you. All you need is a good Wi-Fi connection and your Sonos speakers will work really well. So for
my last point it's a bit of an interesting one but hear me out. If you pair a Samsung
Tv with a samsung soundbar and you change the volume on the tv remote it gives you a scale from
zero to a hundred, when you change up through the values the soundbar stays with it the whole time.
If you pair a non-Samsung soundbar say for instance a Jbl and you pair it with a Samsung TV
it doesn't give you a scale because it can't determine what the soundbar values at, so all it
does is give you a plus and minus. This is fine for most other branded sound bars as they all
have screens on them that give you a value, so you can see what it's at with the Sonos Arc it has no
screen whatsoever, so you're really flying blind unless you have the Sonos app right next to you,
which is a bit of a pain so really you're guessing at what the sound is. Generally when i turn the TV
on I turn the volume down just in case it's at a very loud volume, from you know the last time i
played some music. I thought I'd just add that in there as when i'm deciding what sound bar I should
sell a customer a lot of the time it's based on how easy it is to use and when you pair
the same branded soundbar with the same branded TV it generally works the best. So I hope you found
some value out of this video. Comment below which of those points you found the most interesting and
if you've got any other tips or you know comments you'd like to make please leave them down below,
I'll endeavor to have a look at them. If you found this video interesting i'll be making
some other videos about Sonos systems coming up the next one will be Top Five Things You Need
to Know About Sonos Systems, which covers Sonos speakers as a whole as opposed to just the Arc.
If that's of interest to you then feel free to subscribe down below, that'll make sure you
don't miss when that video comes out. Thanks for watching, see you guys in the next one