Make your Sonos Arc sound even better with these best settings!
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- čas přidán 28. 10. 2022
- The long awaited video for the best recommended settings for the Sonos Arc. The Arc is paired with the Sonos Sub Gen 3 for this setup. Even if you are using the Arc on its own without the sub, or if you are using it without surrounds, this set of settings should work well with you.
It took me a long time to arrive at this set of settings. Hope it works as well for you as it does for me! Enjoy!
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I think an extra profile which can be saved and switched between would be a great addition in an update. One for home theatre. One for music.
Attach to Home Assistant and you can do just this.
@@CalMUK91wait what? I just got my arc and sub yesterday. I just add the home assistant? Then what? Please help 😂
Yeah custom presets would be sick. Even 1. Movies 2. TV shows.
Thank you Peter for helping my sonos system sound amazing! Your work has been instrumental and without my system would be lacking. This is just a small token of my thanks!
I appreciate this michael. Thank you!
Thank you so much for taking the time to test and share with the community, much appreciated by this newcomer to Sonos!!
Great video as usual Peter!
I personally really appreciate all your work on the Sonos products. You are an invaluable part of my Sonos ecosystem. Keep up the great work!
I appreciate your comment and thank you for showing it!
Your time and effort is truly appreciated, thanks Pete!
My pleasure!
Thank you Sam!
Thanks Peter! The only thing better than your expertise is your approach to making content. Really appreciate your candor and commitment to doing things the right way. Hats off 🎉
Thanks for your kind words Jason!
@@PeterPee Peter I am desperate. I just purchased a full Sonos system with the Arc, 2-sub gen 3’s and 2-300s for the rear surrounds. I don’t know if I could be more disappointed.
The dialogue is not good.
If I play a program from either live tv or from a recording on the DVR everything is fine.
But if I play something from streaming like Max, Tubi, etc or if I play a movie on DVD the dialogue is horribly low. And there is no volume adjustment for the Arc!
The speech enhancement does nothing when you are playing a dvd or streaming. It makes no difference on my system at all. Extremely disappointing.
To have no way to adjust the volume on the Arc/soundbar is insane especially at this price point.
The first movie I played was my Blu-ray copy of San Andreas with Dolby atmos.
I had the volume up as much as I could take. The surround sound great, lots of impact. But I was struggling to understand the words the actors were saying.
I can’t believe I have invested all this time and money only to find out I have no way to adjust the Arc volume.
Do you have any suggestions for me? Thank you
Sibei Ho ! Thanks for summarizing everything in the front and give context for the remaining for the video ! I love how u take time to explain your summary !
I always appreciate your passion, attention to the technical details, AND what matters most to home users like myself - settings, positioning, and anything else to make our systems sound the best it can be. Thanks for all you do. Keep up the great work.
Thanks Bert! It's greatly appreciated!
Sibeh Ho
Thanks Peter. I look forward to your Beam Gen 2 settings. And, thank you for all the great content!
Coming soon! I am working on that already! :) Thanks for supporting!
As usual, many thanks for this most informative video! I have paid many hundreds of dollars over the years to have my televisions professionally calibrated so I am in a position to truly appreciate your work here in connection with an improved sound signature for the Arc when combined with a sub. I will adjust my settings and hope I perceive an improvement. That said, as you have indicated several times in this video, “the room”. No two rooms are the same and that space requires individualized tweaks. Fingers crossed.
Yes Arnie, the room! Thanks for pointing that out and appreciating my work!
Definitely going to try this out in depth. I tend to use the Night Sound at night when the kids are asleep. So as soon as I can I'll be putting this baseline through its paces. Thanks again!
Thanks Peter! Happy to support your Channel. Thank you for all you do!
Peter I love how you always post the tldr version right at the start. That is a huge reason why I enjoy your content so much and am happy to keep watching after to hear the explanations
These videos are fantastic Peter. Both Sonos and your fans have a lot to thank you for.
You just do not get this level of quality, detailed Sonos content elsewhere.
Great job!
Thanks for the support Gordon!
Love your channel & content that you create! It has helped me decide to get the Sonos Arc System & OREI HDA-935.
Thanks for all of your tips & advice!
Appreciate the effort you put in to make it easy for me to get the best sound out of my Arc. Thank you! 🙏🏼
New Sonos owner here; Arc, Gen 3 Sub, and 2 x Era 100's for surround. Discovered your channel just today and have been watching over the last couple of hours and I've learned SO MUCH! Thank you for the wonderful videos, Peter!
Hey mate, I just bought the sonos Arc + sub gen 3. The two Era 300 are way expensive. Is the Era 100 a really good idea? Thanks
Hi,@@Nilsonxix - you have the exact same setup as I did initially (I purchased the Sonos Arc + Gen 3 Sub) before I got the Era 100's. I can say that the Era 100's are working GREAT. I don't have a ton of room where I installed, so the 300's just did not make sense for us as they'd have been way to close to the wall and to other furniture. The 100's had just enough space and they work beautifully. The only real thing you'd be missing with the 300's is ATMOS capable rears, which not sure how much that really means to you. For me with my setup, the Era 100's work great and really made a big difference with surround. And as you said, the 300's were a little pricey for surrounds IMO. I think you'd really be happy with a pair of 100's as surrounds!
Cheers.
@@Nilsonxixur missing out on some good sound with no era 300.
Peter, your channel is unique in its high-quality, concise, thoroughly-researched and expertly-presented content. You’ve become my go-to source for Sonos technical help and evaluation. Hen hao!
PS: You definitely do not talk too much.
Thanks for that John! :)
@@PeterPeejust purchased the Sonos Arc, 2-Sub gen 3, 2-300s for rear surrounds. For some reason my speech enhancement doesn’t do anything, and the voice is too low while everything else is loud. It is frustrating as I’m straining to hear what actors are saying.
I had a much cheaper Bose soundbar system and I didn’t have this problem. Rather disappointing!
Love your expertise though Peter.
I’m getting great results in my room. I increased height a little more since I have tall ceilings. Thanks your your hard work to get these for us! ❤
Thanks you so much! I’m impressed about the difference because I was struggling for a long time to get the good sound quality
Wow ! What a difference! My system sounds amazing. Your the man Pete! Thank you and nice work. Can’t wait for the Beam 2 and Ray setting video.
Thanks for the feedback! Beam coming soon! But unfortunately I can't do the Ray. Don't have it anymore!
For those that have Arc + Sub Mini, I’m going to guess the recommended settings would be the same except Bass 0, Sub +3. I say that because if you compare his Beam + Sub Gen 3 and Beam + Sub Mini videos, he recommended 1 higher on Bass and 2 higher on Sub for the Mini compared to the Gen 3.
Thank you. This is exactly what I was looking for. I hope Peter verifies this in the future
Thank you so much for doing this work, Peter. Giving it a go. Excited to listen to how it works in my space and adjusting from there.
I never watch videos to the end, but this guy has vital information that has made my ARCH sound even more amazing!
Excellent!
Great video Peter. Could you do a similar one with the Beam Gen 2 and Sub mini please?
Keep making videos, keep engaging your subscribers and keep being independent in your views.
Thank you kind supporter! And for showing it in such tangible ways.
Thanks Peter, I stumbled across your channel recently and you’re my favorite creator for Sonos content. Great stuff all around! I appreciate the detail you go into in your videos.
Dear Peter, I wanted to extend my deepest thanks and gratitude for sharing your findings on the best settings for the Sonos Arc soundbar. Your extensive research and attention to detail have undoubtedly helped many of us who were struggling to optimize our home theater setup. Your efforts have not gone unnoticed, and I am personally grateful for the time and effort you put into making this video. Thank you for generously sharing your knowledge with the community. Your contribution is highly appreciated and will undoubtedly help many of us enjoy our home entertainment systems to the fullest. Best regards,
That’s very kind of you to show this level of appreciation! Thank you!
A year later would you say these are the best setting witha sub?
Does having the volume limit set lower than 100% make a difference to the sound if you don’t go above 50% volume?
Also what settings changes would you make if you pair the arc and sub mini?
Thank you!
I haven't done extensive testing to the Arc and Sub Mini so I will refrain from making that call now. But if you are using that combination, try out the settings and maybe just tweak the sub settings from there. There may be some changes to the crossover point for the sub mini so bass settings may need a bit of change too.
For the volume limiter, yes, it lowers the volume for everything. So it re-maps the whole volume curve lower by say 20% if you set the limit to 80.
Love the whole you gotta stay till the end and then BAM settings are posted. Subscribed!
Just discovered you Peter and you made my newly bought Sonos sound so much better. Thank you!
Excellent video as always! Where do I set the volume setting to +15%? I can't seem to find it!
Hi Jatin I was wondering at first been then going through his video it is not a setting. Peter is just suggesting to increase your listening volume by 15% so if you are usually listening at a volume 50 then take it up to 58.
Would this be the best settings for an arc paired with 2 x sonos gen 3 subs and 2 x SLs as surrounds? Thanks Peter!
You might then want to take the sub setting down 1 or 2 notches.
Really impressed Pete with your fine detailing, surprising how much different in changes the sound.
Nice!
Sibeh ho! A great detailed video from Peter as usual. Thanks for taking your time to do all the testing for the community!
Thanks for showing appreciation yet again! Your support is appreciated by me!
Just need a beam gen 2 guide … feeling you left this one behind
No la. I didn't. I just need to produce that video. I don't have enough time to do everything all at once.:)
Thanks my good man you help me a lot wiv my first setup … beam gen2 and 2 play:1
It's really disappointing Sonos has continued to ignore Android users by making Trueplay iPhone only. Is it so hard for them to include a $5 mic (similar to what Bose does) to get the best room acoustics for ALL users. It's almost a one thousand dollar system for something so important as room correction. Talk about company fan boyism.
Every Android device/brand has a different microphone. That’s why.
@@fmgillis Sonos is considered a high end audio system and are worth over $2 billion dollars. Yet they choose to not accommodate for not even a single flagship android phone. All latest pixel phones in the last 3 generations use the same mic. All of the latest Galaxy phones use the same mic and those are millions and millions of users they choose to ignore. If they choose to not support millions of phones then include a mic to fix the sound. I've owned over 6 AVR receivers for the past 25 years and even the cheapest come with a mic to collaborate the system properly. For them to say go borrow someone's phone to optimize the sound is just plain ludicrous. They support generations of iPads and iPhones yet not a single android. They can make a different sound profile that you select your phone and it can run the proper tests and optimizations. You act like iPhones and iPads use some sort of magic mic. GTFO
Applied settings. Will listen to full video later. You the man Peter!
Thanks ern!
I watched your video on my phone with earbuds. I heard a difference when you play the sound demo and noticed the voices were much clearer. I put the settings into my system and noticed the increase in clarity. I have a test mic too, but too lazy to measure and see how it compares to yours. Maybe in the coming days. Thank you very much for sharing
Thanks again Pete! Your settings sibei ho!! Amazingly, it improved overall my listening experience!!
These settings made a noticeable improvement to my system. Thank you for the tips.
Sibeh Ho!!! Thank you for all of your detailed and time consuming work. Love watching your videos, but also appreciate the upfront summary for when I'm pressed for time. Keep up the great work mate.
You are welcome and thanks for taking the time to leave a comment to show appreciation!
@@PeterPeePeter could you please tell me how to do your recommended setting “volume +15%”. I don’t see how to do this. Thank you so much for your video here!
I’ve been an avid viewer of all your Sonos videos Peter and although some of your charts go a bit over my head you certainly know your stuff and I trust your recommendations completely. Please continue to keep us informed of everything Sonos related Thank you
Thank you for showing appreciation!
Came across this video while deep-diving into all things Sonos after yesterday purchasing a Sonos Arc and Sub G3, with plans to add surrounds later after I learn more about what I'm considering (a pair One SLs) and some of the newer Sonos offerings (Era 300 and Era 100). Your honesty in the beginning about monetization of your video is what kept watching and I'm commenting before even finishing. Also liked and subscribed, which I rarely do. Well done. Thanks for the hard work, and I look forward to seeing what else you have on your channel. EDIT: After digging into several more of your videos, I've cancelled plans to purchase the One SLs and will instead likely get a pair of Era 300s to get ATMOS in my surrounds.
Always happy to have been of help!
I don't think you talk too much, the more information you provide the more we all benefit so thank you very much for all the hard work !!!! I switched to Sonos mainly because of your videos.
Thanks for the affirmation and support!
He doesn’t, he just talks right. He offers a short summary and for those who want in depth discussion, they are always free to stay or leave at any time. All of his points are important.
The comparison at the end says everything. Excellent Video.
Glad that helps!
Thanks for the hard work! Love the approach to the settings preview up front. Totally watched the whole video and subscribed!
Thanks for the sub Nexos!
This video together with the one from 2 years ago on tilting and trueplay has really helped me calibrating the Arc. I was disappointed one week ago but not it blasts (I also had to move back a little the two Play:3 surrounds and might need to to them to -2/-4 otherwise they overwhelm the Arc front and height channels)
Thanks for your good spirit. I really appreciate that sharing the core Contant at the beginning I was so appreciate how detailed you always been.
Peter, This Video Is The Reason Why I’m Purchasing The Arc And Gen 3 Sub! I Was Looking At Several Different Soundbars, But This Is All I Needed To See 🙏🏽
Very nice! I hope you enjoy the setup!
You've got another subscriber - thank you for all of your work for the community, your videos have been incredibly helpful!
Thank you for showing appreciation!
Just setup my Sonos home theatre (Arc, Sub, and 2 x One SLs) and your video is one of the first I came across. Will try out your settings and see if they make a difference! :)
You the only reason I stuck with Sonos and didn’t go to a full home theater with M&k speakers etc. … keep up the good work 🎉
The credit should go to innovators in the industry and making these stuff sound so much better today than 10 years ago.
You are incredible peter.your videos are awesome.you have helped revive my sonos set up.keep them coming.thank you
Glad I was helpful on your journey!
Thanks a lot Peter for all your effort and time you spend to help us to optimize our Sonos setup. 👍
Happy to share and help!
Thanks Peter. Your advice is truly exceptional
Thanks for your very kind words!
Thanks for this Pete. Appreciate the break downs and education, especially as a sonos system owner.
Dear Peter Pee,
Thank you is not really enough to express how grateful and overjoyed you have made us with your hard work for this best settings and especially for Sonos products. This is one of the best setting for Sonos set system Arc, Sub Gen 3, and surround One SL. I could say now the new update 14.18 and with your recommendation settings made my Sonos set system are amazing. I was really waiting this from long time and it is time to turn off the automatic update. Thank you for your time and effort in order to help us especially for Sonos users.
Always keep up with hard job.
Wishing you all the best.
Sincerely,
Saeed from Middle East
Thank you Saeed!
Thanks for all the effort you put in! Instantly switched all my settings.
Glad I could help!
Thanks Peter! Incredible content as always.
My pleasure! And thank you for your recognition!
Just ordered one, will be getting it next week. I will try your settings out. thank you
Thanks! Appreciate your time doing the testing.
Wow, just changed to these settings! Thank you for the improvement!
Thanks Peter I have been very upset with the sound for over a year. Your a life saver thank you so much
Sibeh ho! Recently picked up the Arc and Sub but have watches several of your videos prior to the purchase. Really appreciate the content.
Sibeh Ho… and thanks, I always come to your channel for all my Sonos questions. Keep up the great work..
My pleasure! And I am thankful for your trust!
SEBEH HO!!! 😉I was struggeling with the settings on my beam2 .you’re settings worked perfect me with some small adjustments …thanks Peter
Great video. Now after I get off work I will need to set my Arc up. Again thank you for taking the time to do this.
Even if I only watch the summary I still let the video play through. Good hustle Pete!
Thanks Christopher!
As always I appreciate the videos Peter Pee! Thanks from you’re friend Curtis from Patreon and Canada!
Hi Curtis! Thanks for this and it's very much appreciated! Hope you enjoy the system while you are home! Remember to redo Trueplay!
Finallyyyy , thanks Peter that was great ! More power to you and your channel cheers !
Your stuff is always awesome! Thank you Pete
Thank you so much Peter for actually making the video I asked for.
You are welcome Omar!
Appreciate the advice, Peter! Great video as always.
I'm not going to lie I was thinking he got me again but when you showed the settings I decided to watch the whole video because you deserve everything.
衷心感謝你的分享，把我的Sonso Arc調得極緻
Peter I always watch all of your videos, great content, great presentation 🎉
Very good setting, noticeable difference. Great job.
Thanks Peter, could not have done it without you.......
Great and thorough as always Peter.
Glad to help!
Thanks for this video. And as always, appreciate your thoughts and time to get to where we are!
Thank you so much for showing appreciation!
Sibeh Ho! Thanks for your videos! It really allows people to get the most from their Sonos systems!
Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks Pete
Great video Peter! Helped me configure my sonos setup better.
Sibeh Ho! 🥳
Thanks for your time, efforts and videos!
SIBEH HO!!! Love your vids Peter. They have helped me decide what to purchase and how to properly set them up.
Many thanks.
Yessss. I was waiting for this. Thank you.
I am glad to have put it out! I was trying to juggle other videos and work! Hope this works well for you!
Sibeh ho! I really like the way you present your good work. Already watched hours of your videos. Excellent content for the Sonos community. Subscribed.
Your sub is much appreciated!
Sibeh Ho
Love the pertinent details right at the start. Still watch it all the way through
Big fan also .. thank you so much.
Will definitely apply your recommended settings tonight. ...
Keep up the great work, Peter
Enjoy and thank you for your kind support and trust!
I like your style . good work with the setting and the video you showed between stock and your recommended setting
Thanks for the settings!
Thanks Peter! You are my Sonos Genius... keep them coming!
Thank you!
Thanks Peter, always looking forward to your videos
Glad you like them!
@@PeterPee question, after volume limit you have volume +15%, where or which one is that one? My volume
Limit is at 100%
Thanks very much Pete, just in time was about to a watch a movie and been looking forward to seeing what you use.
Let us know how it went!
@@PeterPee I watched an old 80s movie Wargames which has some heavy bass scenes. I had to keep lowering the volume, so I have dialled back sub to -2 and I'm likely not going to bother with speech enhancement, I don't feel its needed, I can hear speech fine with it off.
To me it just overpowers everything and speech sounds to bright/harsh.
I also leave loudness off.
I left everything else the same though, thanks again, great help as always.
Thanks Peter, for this and all your videos.
You're welcome Tom!
Thanks! My Arc+One SL+Sub set will arrive in a couple of days.
Thank you for all of your hard work. I know your Beam gen 2 settings made my beam sound better. I'm looking forward to applying these settings when I eventually get my ARC.
I will also be doing the Beam settings next!
@@PeterPee Can't wait!
@@PeterPee I can't wait for that one,I been checking everyday for that video.
@@PeterPee My room is 25’ x 11’ and sealed and symmetrical. My question is if I’m not doing surround speakers would you recommend the ARC plus bigger sub or Beam 2 plus sub mini? Not looking for earth shattering levels. What draws me to Sonos is the soft dome tweeter as I’m very sensitive to any harshness or sibilance. Thanks for your help.
@@PeterPee waiting for Beam 2 settings, I think after the update my beam has lost the punch. (I don't have sub)
Thank you for the recommended settings!