I listened to the Arc in a room the size of an average 1990s walled living room, with an eight foot ceiling. The Arc’s 11 Class D amplifiers, yes, correct, 11, may seem overkill, but even without the marvellous Sonos SUB (a must for the most immersive musical experience), the Arc can rock any genre to ear busting levels. My frustration with Alexa and my Sonos system integration led to her firing (more Alexa support problem than Sonos’ integration).
Qobuz and sonos tv#
It really works.Ĭontrol is via the new app, your existing TV remote, or voice commands with Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant or Apple AirPlay 2. Ensure you do this interesting tuning exercise in your own room to get the most out of your Sonos speakers.
Sonos speakers feature an adaptive, software-driven equalization tool on the app called ‘Trueplay’.
Qobuz and sonos drivers#
Like every product from the Santa Barbara company, all drivers are designed in house. The Arc has 11 drivers compared to Playbar’s 9-3 tweeters (a center tweeter and 2 firing outward) and 8 elliptical woofers. Double the price of Sonos’ earlier, smaller Beam Soundbar, the Arc is 45 inches long, and sheds some of the boxiness of the original Playbar with sleek rounded edges. SONOS describes its $799 Arc as ‘The new premium smart soundbar’. Please take into account the brevity of listening experience when reading the review. Both surround features are a first for Sonos.įYI, if you want to wall mount, the Arc uses a different version than the Playbar (with an MSRP of $89.99). Even the Sonos web store has them back ordered.Īfter some scrounging around, I was able to listen to the Arc set in its natural habitat and auditioned it for a several hours with YouTube Music, Qobuz, Tidal and a few movies for the Dolby Atmos and ‘3D’ surround support. Sonos says its new internals can produce ‘3D Soundscapes’ and Dolby Atmos. I’m wait listed as there are no review units out in the wild. Sonos products are among our most requested reviews. Getting an Arc has been quite a challenge.
Qobuz and sonos upgrade#
See if your system is compatible with the app upgrade here. The upgrade even streamlined my system by getting rid of the Sonos Bridge. I was surprised my 6 year old system was compatible with the upgrade. As I tweeted last week, better clarity, improved quality of instrumental timbre, more bass and more coherence. I’m not sure how they did it, but the new Sonos app (S2) released last week-an app to accommodate the upgraded processing power of the new speakers-improved the sound of my system significantly. The recent upgrade path to the present began in an odd way. Over five years later, my units (Playbar, SUB, Play: 1 x2) are still sounding very good. It quickly became the choice for ‘a superior lifestyle system’. My task in this review is to report my findings about the successor to Sonos’ fabulously successful Playbar, a product so popular, you’ll see one under a TV in most style magazines. Rather than rehash the ‘Recycle Mode’ policy decision and its fallout, please read this link. Finally, the transition to the new products and post debacle marketing. And then my thoughts turned to more challenging days-the massive layoffs, the paradigm shift to ‘smart’ speakers and how Sonos navigated those minefields. The tenor of the Verge interview got me thinking about the birth of Sonos and its exponential growth based on superior engineering and brilliant marketing. As such, the anger was not typical of the ‘faux-outrage’ you read every day on social media. Even with a healthy discount, my older purchased review units were expensive and not ready for the landfill.
Qobuz and sonos software#
Spence was particularly smooth and spoke mostly in corporate talk but did take responsibility for the debacle last year where some bright spark at Sonos decided to brick older products when new software updates were applied. Driving with cabriolet top down on a particularly sunny Spring day last month, I heard the CEO of Sonos, Patrick Spence, being interviewed by Nilay Patel of The Vergecast.
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