There are no harsh edges, clunky protrusions, or jarring cavities.

And with each angle from which I observed, a new dimension of the design was revealed. It feels like a piece of furniture in your home.” As Kitty Suidman, Director, Color Material and Finish says, “ design is purposeful, delivering a seamless, soft familiar profile. The overall effect is that Arc doesn’t feel like it’s trying to compete or stand out from the rest of your home theater setup. It almost appears like it’s in motion, as if undulating. (You can also mount Arc to the wall.) Here’s the thing about the design of Arc: It’s actually quite difficult to describe its shape.

I carefully carried it over to my media console, placed it in front of my TV, and stood back. Now, by that point I’d seen a ton of photos of Arc, but because of the subtlety of its design, I wasn’t quite sure what to expect when I finally saw it in person. I peeled back the final layer of protective packaging and there it was. We created a 96.1% paper-based construction-moving away from foam-based cushions, which would have been the easier and more cost effective path.” As Michelle Enright, Senior Design Manager, Packaging Experience describes, “For Arc, we had a clean slate opportunity to design packaging from the ground up. More importantly though, we’ve continued to look for ways to minimize the environmental impact of our products. The experience with Arc is as exciting and dramatic as I had hoped. And 76,000 individually-drilled holes.īack at home, I began one of my favorite parts of setting up a new Sonos product-the unboxing. Hey, does anyone have one of our new, top secret speakers lying around? Just, you know, waiting to be picked up? Like, right now?įast-forward through a cinematic montage of secret closets, product handoffs, and I finally had an Arc in my hands-an hour before our offices shut down. So when I received that email, asking us to get everything we needed out of the office by the end of the day, I panicked. How was I going to write about our new home theater speaker without ever having heard it? And, to be honest, I still didn’t fully understand what Dolby Atmos was-one of Arc’s most exciting features. Whenever I write about our products for the blog, I immerse myself in the experience because I want to be able to share what it’s like to actually live with them. I was on a train, coming back to Santa Barbara after visiting my family when I got the email from our head of HR: “All employees, please work from home.” We were a little under two months away from announcing Sonos Arc to the world and I hadn’t even heard what it sounded like yet. He also talked with sound engineer Chris Jenkins about his Oscar-winning sound mixing for Mad Max: Fury Road and what it’s like to hear it in Dolby Atmos, the gold standard for home theater audio. From setup to Dolby Atmos, he shares what it’s like to have an Arc in your home when you’re spending the entire day there. He couldn’t stop talking about our newest soundbar, so we finally told him to just write a blog post about it. Our Global Head of Editorial, Steven Saftig, managed to get his hands on the new Sonos Arc right before we closed our offices.

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