Sonos Arc bass bug take care of comes, and it appears to get the job done

The bass bug that bedeviled the new Sonos Arc soundbar appears to have been squashed thanks to a just-introduced software update.

Sonos has issued an update to its Sonos S2 mobile app for iOS and Android, and it incorporates a deal with that will help tighten up the muddy, distorted bass that some users—myself included—were listening to from the $799 Sonos Arc, a 3.1-channel soundbar that offers its very own constructed-in woofers for low-frequency effects.

A Sonos rep introduced the update on the Sonos subreddit:

We introduced a application update currently to deal with a bug that resulted in audio distortion for some customers listening to bass-hefty content at better volumes on Arc.

Make guaranteed you are current to 12..1 to get the most current release.

I just mounted the application update (version 12..1) on my Apple iphone and then uploaded the firmware patch to the Sonos Arc (for the iOS version of the Sonos S2 application, tap Configurations / Program Updates / Look at for Updates), and gave the Arc a fast listen.

The scene that gave me the most difficulties in phrases of bass was the famous asteroid discipline sequence in Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, in which Han, Leia, Chewie, and C-3PO are frantically striving to escape from the Imperial fleet. As the Millenium Falcon banking companies and weaves with TIE Fighters and a Star Destroyer in pursuit, the freighter’s roaring engines have been creating the Arc’s crafted-in woofers to shudder and pop, practically like they had been overloaded.

Right after installing the update, the sequence sounds significantly superior, with the Arc’s bass sounding awesome and restricted. Mind you, the Arc’s constructed-in woofers just can’t match the deep bass of a independent subwoofer, this kind of as the $699 Sonos Sub, but at the very least now the Arc seems to be handling lower-frequency rumbles considerably more easily.

The eagerly anticipated Arc is Sonos’s comply with-up to the 7-yr-aged Playbar. Introduced in early Might, the $799 Arc started delivery before this month.