Sonos Arc SL

Choose this with the sub woofer and additional speakers for best surround sound!

Sonos is just high quality all their items and the arc is awesome easy to set up the app works great. I started with the arc then a gen 2 sub then a pair of era 300s and then one more gen 3 sub paired with a 100 inch Hisense triple laser projector it’s just awesome watching iron man 2 as I am writing this in Dolby atoms it sounds immersive and awesome. It’s as good as my 7.2 AVR system.

Love this product. Not the cheapest thing on the market but the performance is excellent. You will never watch movies any other way.

Speaker sounds great especially at high volume and with my 2 picture frame speakers I have from ikea.

Love how this soundbar works seamlessly with my Roku and TV. There is no fatigue listening to this soundbar wether listening to high res audio or tv. This product has satisfied my GAS gear acquisition syndrome. Set up, sit back and enjoy.

The Sonos Arc SL Soundbar was a clear upgrade from the Bose Soundtouch 300 Soundbar. The SONOS Arc SL delivers an impressive soundstage, clear vocals, and deep bass for all listening experiences from movies and music to tv and podcasts. I believe the difference between Sonos Arc and the Sonos Arc SL is that the SL does not come with a built-in mic and it only comes in shadow black color. The shadow black color is just a little grayer than the black, but you’ll have to have them side by side to notice. Coming from the Bose Soundtouch 300, the Sonos Arc SL sounds better overall, but their difference becomes clear when it comes movie dialogue. While the Bose Soundtouch 300 still sounds great, I had to activate its dialogue feature constantly when watching movies otherwise the voices will sound muffled at times. The built quality of the Bose does feel a little more premium as it has the glossy glass top when compared to the Sonos plastic design. The upgrade from Bose to Sonos becomes clear with the Sonos app and connectivity between other speakers. Setting up the Sonos was intuitive and only took a couple of minutes. Just power on, connect the HDMI, open the app, and within minutes I was able to use my Vizio TV remote or the Sonos app to operate the soundbar.

We have two houses full of in-ceiling speakers driven by Sonos Amps, and I love their products. However, their soundbar system is very underwhelming, and produces very sub-par audio if you want anything more than a minor 3-channel sound upgrade to the TV's built in speakers.TL-DR; Sonos Soundbar only supports 5.x, with front-left-right coming out of the tiny soundbar itself. There is no way to make the soundbar a center-channel only. There is no way to slave a sonos-amp as FRONT-left/right. You can *mirror* the front-left/right onto other sonos-amps, but when you do this, the TV volume control does not affect the volume of those other zones.-----My home theatre is a 200" 4k laser rear-projection setup with a Marantz AV7706 11.2 pre-amp processor feeding XLR outputs to separate (economical) amplifiers driving a 7.2 speaker setup with dual sets of side-surround and subwoofers. I know a Sonos setup would never come close to this, but I just want to set some context that I know what a real home-theatre surround audio setup sounds like.The reason I tried the Sonos Soundbar, is that we have a 65-inch "bar style" TVs in a bar-room that has in-ceiling speakers driven by Sonos Amps. In an ideal world, I'd like to hookup the Sonos Soundbar as a center-channel only, then have it drive my (4) in-ceiling sonos amp speakers with front-left/right, so people in the room could actually hear the TV in the entire room without blasting the people sitting the bar. Formerly the house had a setup like this using Crestron audio/video matrix, but I absolutely despise the complexity and unreliability of whole-home Crestron, so I threw it out.However, despite years of customer requests, sonos soundbars do not support this configuration. The Soundbar can send REAR-left/right wirelessly, but it has to do the FRONT-left/right channels in the soundbar itself.. with it's tiny little speakers. This doesn't work for a large room, because you have to blast people at the bar for anyone else to hear it, and the tiny speakers distort making them this loud.Oddly, you can "group" the soundbar and other AMPS, and it will mirror the front-LEFT/RIGHT onto those other zones, but when I use the HDMI-CEC TV Volume control, it only affects the volume of the soundbar itself... even though it changes the group volume, the other connected amps in the group do not change.As another small nusiance, becuase the soundbar uses HDMI eARC, it can listen to HDMI-CEC volume commands, but it can't display onscreen feedback about the volume level like a receiver with HDMI-Passthrough does.