Sonos Arc with Sub Mini? Sure or not?

The Sonos Arc is the flagship Atmos capable soundbar from Sonos. If you wanted the best, this will be what you'd want to get.

The Sub Mini, is the smaller, cheaper sub woofer from Sonos. If you bought the highest end soundbar, would you be able to benefit from their most budget subwoofer? Let's find out today.

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Paired my Arc with the Sub Mini and 2 Era 300 sorrounds. The sound is so refined.

[pritzp]

Thanks Peter. Amazing how you go into so much depth for seemingly niche questions but you're helping out loads of people! Keep em coming

[Giorgos_ks]

Hi Peter!
Please do your best settings for the Arc + Sub mini.
There are many of us who have this combination. 😁

[Bransor]

Wow. your explanation here is fantastic. It has really helped me learn some things and increased my assuredness that adding the mini to my Arc Ultra is a positive move for my listening experience. Thank you for taking the time and making videos like this for less knowledgeable folks like me..

[seankyh]

This is exactly my setup. Arc + Submini. Bought the Sub to free the Arc from bass duties. Very happy with it. I never saw the need to add surround. My room is quite small and the Arc does a good enough job of simulating sounds coming from beside and even behind me. Particularly when there is Dolby Atmos. I also get to enjoy Spatial Audio from Apple Music, played thru AppleTV over eARC.

[dennissmit]

Thanks a lot Peter for your information in this video! Because of this video i bought the Sub Mini to go with my Arc. I ordered the era 300’s as well, as everybody speaks highly of them, to substitute my One SL’s. I just finished my true play and just had to come straight back here to tell everybody who reads this how awesome the sounds is!!! My Arc “breaths” better and the bass is incredible in my 52m2 / 560 sqft living room and the spatial audio tracks of Apple Music are like visiting a club / concert/ operahouse!
If anybody doubts the power of the mini, don’t! It is truely a brilliant addition to the system ❤. The Era’s are like everybody says, great! A real step up from the One SL’s. Real room filling speakers!

Thanks Peter for everything! And everybody here, have a great time listening to your awesome soundsystem! 😊

[peterhelbers]

Hi Peter,
thank you for this review and your advice/observations. It confirms what I had in mind when I bought the SONOS sub-MINI with SONOS ARC and 2 off ERA300 in April last year. The Sub MINI is pushing up the base enough in a stable lower power range. This SONOS setup was for me a superb investment. Keep up the good advice. Greetings from Belgium.

[Drgnrt]

Really appreciate your videos! Just got an Arc with Sub Mini based on your recommendation and I'm pretty amazed by the deep bass and overall sound clarity (upgraded from Polk Signa S3).

[averagejoeinvestor]

I have the Arc with the Sub Mini and I find the sound to be excellent, I also bought 2 x One SL used which add some good surround for movies, will upgrade to the Era 300 when they are priced at £300 :)

[StevenvanderGraaf]

Got the Arc and 2 Era 300’s with the sub mini. Before it was the big Sub but it was to loud and it was -5 bass all the time. With the sub mini is so much better. Especially on lower volumes the sound quality is superb. On higher volumes it’s also tip top.

[MikeS-nn]

Outstanding video. Fantastic level of detail and excellent approach. Thanks!

[XeRzclanPR]

Ive had the mini paired with the Arc since the mini’s release. I dont have any complaints

[therealvictorpo]

Great! Finally got the Sub Mini yesterday. Finally got a deal at 1/3 off from TCA. So chuffed to complete the set with the Beam and One SL. Cheers PP.

[irap]

Thank you for this video. I had an issue unrelated to the sub-mini and was speaking with Sonos tech support. When they reviewed my configuration (this is is my bedroom), a Sonos Arc, two rear Sonos One, Gen 2, and a sub-mini, they told me that the sub mini was not designed to be paired with the arc and I was hurting my sound quality. They strongly encouraged me to upgrade to the larger Sonos sub. I have the larger sub, an arc, and two Eros 300 in my larger living room, but to my ear the sub-mini worked well in my bedroom. It is is good to get conformation that I am enriching not harming my bedroom listening experience, .

[bobbubevski]

Awesome Pete, been dying for this combo

[LCO]

Peter, You Rock! Thank you for being here.

[TrashfordKent]

I’ve been more than happy with the sub mini paired with a beam but I think I’ll move to the Arc. This video answers my question 👍

[LibertyRPF]

Thank. I have an Arc and was wondering about adding a Mini, so this video is extremely useful to me.

[vladislavgaitukaev]

Dear Peter. Thank you so much for the video. It’s confirmed my choice to combine for cinema Arc+Sub Mini and another my setup for music are 2*Five + Sub Gen3

[AudiophileTommy]

🎉 HAPPY NEW YEAR Peter 🎉 Can you show us a video on sub placement in a room ?