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Pros and Cons

Pros3

The bass is tight and punchy and the voices are clear and planted on screen.

Surprising amount of bass without a subwoofer.

The design of the sound bar is very sleek but the bright color is a bit easy to notice dirt and yellowing. This sound bar sounds like it is twice the size at least; very full sound especially in the midrange.

Cons3

Sounds good but volume at 100 isn’t even that loud. It changes source and turns the volume up full bast, by itself, repeatedly. It's completely unusable because of lag.

Product still under warranty. Only operated through remote for 2 months. Its a real bummer. It's so infuriating.

It drops its wifi connection whenever the unit sleeps or powers off. When it reconnects, it haphazardly connects to whichever of my satellites it wants. The only way to fix this is to power off the living room satellite and wait for it to reconnect to...  Read More

Pros3

The arc has a noticeably fuller sound. It is a pure demo for the system to flex its muscles. The arc sound quality is very good but arguably not best in class.

The sound is very well balanced no need for subwoofer. I have the total system consisting of the arc, sub and sl1 surrounds. Excellent soundbar, sub, and surround speakers.

The sonos arc soundbar is an absolute stellar of a sound system. It creates an immersive soundstage that puts me right in the heart of the action. It also integrates seamlessly with my smart devices, allowing me to control it with my mobile phone or v...  Read More

Cons5

Sonos arc rarely ever works. The instructions on the sonos website are obsolete. I hope the government investigates these frauds.

When running surround tests there were no sounds bouncing from the sides for surround and nothing from atmos. Very ironic given the cost of the sound bar and subwoofer. Integrated music play is garbage - if you use spotify, etc.

Sonos beam has no remote and does not allow use of optical output. There are no controller setup options in the tv menu.

The app is clearly very buggy. It's just copy/paste bs that always starts with did you disable and re-enable the alexa skill? Awful software. I have only 2 items for s1, the rest are for s2, and it's an utter pain the *.

Very disappointed about this. What in the heck. What a bummer. This is very disappointing.

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