Sonos Arc
It’s one of those busy years for Sonos, a company which only periodically updates the products that comprises its wireless multiroom system, compared with the more traditional hi-fi approach of releasing new models each year. Sonos often instead updates software to confer new abilities on products old and new. But it had a glitch in that regard recently, when it announced that the new S2 operating system, which debuts along with the Arc, will not support some older Sonos products. To be fair, it’s only the very earliest Sonos products that are excluded, and after a backlash from its users, Sonos has released a two-tier software solution where you can isolate the oldies in a retirement zone of their own
Meanwhile the Arc arrives, and has to justify costing almost twice as much as the smaller Beam soundbar, which continues in the Sonos line-up. And Sonos comes late to the Atmos party, so can its soundbar make a
