Sonos Premium Immersive Set with Arc, Sub and Era 100: Your Complete Home Theater in One Bundle
Most people spend years building a home theater system one component at a time, adding a soundbar here, a subwoofer there, eventually getting to a full surround setup after multiple purchases spread across multiple budgets. The Sonos Premium Immersive Set with Arc, Sub and Era 100 makes all of that unnecessary. It is a complete, carefully matched home theater system in a single bundle, combining the most acclaimed soundbar Sonos makes, a wireless subwoofer that delivers bass you can physically feel, and a pair of next generation smart speakers that fill your room with true surround sound from behind.
Add cinematic surround sound to your home entertainment with Arc in the centre, Sub providing the bass, and a pair of Sonos Era 100 rear speakers. Experience enveloping sound from all angles with crystal clarity and rumbling bass.
This is not a starter system. This is a premium, complete home theater setup that delivers a genuinely cinematic listening experience from the very first day you switch it on.
What Is in the Sonos Premium Immersive Set?
The bundle includes four components that work together as a perfectly tuned, matched system:
The Sonos Arc is the centrepiece and one of the finest soundbars available at any price. It handles the front sound stage, the dialogue, the music, and the Dolby Atmos height channels that make modern content sound truly three dimensional.
The Sonos Sub is the wireless subwoofer that adds the deep bass dimension the Arc does not handle on its own. It connects to the Arc over Wi Fi with zero cable runs required, and it can be placed anywhere in the room that suits you.
The two Sonos Era 100 speakers serve as the rear surround channels, positioned behind your seating area to wrap the sound around you from all directions and complete the immersive surround experience.
Together, these four components create a 5.1 channel wireless home theater system that delivers an audio experience most people have never heard in their own home before.
The Sonos Arc: Dolby Atmos From a Single Sleek Soundbar
The Sonos Arc delivers shows, movies, and games with the precise and immersive sound of Dolby Atmos. Arc’s upward firing drivers create a multidimensional soundstage that moves around you, rendering every whisper and explosion with dramatic clarity, detail, and depth. Arc’s advanced processing creates five phased array channels that masterfully deliver sound to your ears from all directions at the exact right moment.
The five phased array channels are a significant technical achievement. Most soundbars that claim Dolby Atmos support are doing so through processing tricks applied to a relatively simple driver array. The Arc uses a carefully engineered combination of eleven drivers, including upward firing tweeters, to create height channels that actually place sound above you. Explosions rain down from above. Helicopters genuinely feel like they are flying overhead. Rain sounds like it is falling from the ceiling. This is Dolby Atmos as it is meant to be experienced, not as a marketing checkbox.
Enhanced Trueplay tuning technology optimises the sound for the unique acoustics of the room, even calibrating the height channels for precise localisation. The fact that Trueplay specifically calibrates the height channels is particularly important for the Arc because those upward firing drivers depend on ceiling reflections to create the overhead audio effect. Different room heights and ceiling materials produce different results, and Trueplay compensates for all of this automatically so your specific room gets the best possible performance from the height channel technology.
Beyond Dolby Atmos, the Arc is also an exceptional music speaker. Its eleven drivers, including a centre channel tweeter, two side tweeters, three woofers, three upward firing midrange drivers, and one upward firing tweeter, produce a wide, detailed sound stage that is equally impressive for music as it is for movies and television.
Control is comprehensive and flexible. The Arc responds to your TV remote via HDMI eARC, to touch controls on the top panel, to voice commands via Amazon Alexa and Sonos Voice Control, and to the Sonos app on your smartphone or tablet. Apple AirPlay 2 is fully supported, meaning iOS users can send audio directly from their iPhone or iPad with a single tap.
The Sonos Sub: Bass You Hear and Feel
The Sonos Sub delivers deep bass wirelessly over Wi Fi. Place the award winning design upright or lay it on its side and enjoy pure bass with no vibration or rattle.
The Sub connects to the Arc over your home Wi Fi network with no speaker cables required. This is a genuinely transformative practical advantage. There is no cable running across your floor from the soundbar to the subwoofer. The Sub simply plugs into a wall socket wherever it works best in the room, whether that is beside the TV cabinet, behind the sofa, or tucked under a side table, and it joins the system wirelessly. You can place it on its side and slide it under your sofa entirely out of sight if you prefer.
Dual force cancelling woofers deliver pulse pounding bass and virtually eliminate distortion. The force cancelling woofer design is an engineering principle borrowed from high end audiophile subwoofers. Two woofers are mounted facing each other in opposite directions, so their mechanical forces cancel each other out. The result is deep, powerful bass with no cabinet resonance, no rattle, no vibration transferring into the floor or the furniture. You feel the bass entirely through the air rather than through structure borne vibration, which is a fundamentally cleaner and more satisfying way to experience low frequencies.
Trueplay optimises the sound for the unique acoustics of the room and the placement of your speakers, so the bass never sounds harsh, muddy, or flat, even if you place Sub next to the wall or lying flat under your sofa. This matters enormously in practice because subwoofer placement significantly affects bass quality in most rooms, and not everyone can position their subwoofer in the acoustically ideal spot. Trueplay removes this compromise by calibrating the Sub’s output for wherever you have placed it.
The Sub’s elegant sculptural design, with its distinctive open centre cavity, means it also looks genuinely considered and premium in a living room rather than looking like an afterthought that needs to be hidden. It is available in black and white to match the rest of your Sonos system.
The Sonos Era 100 Pair: Surround Sound From Every Angle
Wirelessly connect Sub and a pair of Era 100 rear speakers for an even more immersive listening experience. Featuring next gen acoustics and new levels of connectivity, Era 100 transforms any room with the finely tuned stereo sound and rich bass your music deserves.
The two Era 100 speakers in this set serve as the rear surround channels that complete the 5.1 system. They connect to the Arc wirelessly over Wi Fi, so no speaker cables need to run from the front of the room to the rear of your seating area. The Era 100 speakers simply sit behind or beside your seating position, plug into nearby wall sockets, and join the system through the Sonos app in minutes.
Powered by a 47 percent faster processor, the next gen dual tweeter acoustic architecture produces detailed stereo separation while a 25 percent larger midwoofer deepens the bass. As surround speakers, this technical capability matters. Cheaper surround speakers in competing systems use small, single driver satellite speakers that produce a narrow, thin surround effect. The Era 100 is a full range speaker with real acoustic architecture. The surround sound it produces is wider, deeper, and more detailed than any thin satellite speaker can achieve.
When the system is not in home theater mode, those same Era 100 speakers continue to work as full Sonos smart speakers in their own right. They can play music independently, they support Amazon Alexa and Sonos Voice Control, and they can be grouped with any other Sonos speaker in your home for whole home audio. You are not buying dedicated surround speakers that do nothing else. You are buying two fully capable smart speakers that happen to also serve as outstanding surround channels.
The Complete 5.1 Experience: How It All Comes Together
When you sit in front of this system and play a Dolby Atmos enabled film, the experience is genuinely different from anything a soundbar alone, or even a soundbar and subwoofer, can produce. The Arc handles dialogue with exceptional clarity from the front, ensuring every word is intelligible regardless of how loud the action sequences are. The five phased array channels create height effects that place sound above and around you. The Sub adds the physical dimension of bass that you feel in your chest during explosions, in your feet during rumbles, and throughout your body during the kind of low frequency soundtrack moments that make movies genuinely visceral. And the Era 100 rear speakers wrap sound around you from behind, placing you inside the audio environment of the film rather than in front of it.
The Arc and Era 100 speakers work in perfect harmony, with lateral and overhead channels that completely envelop you in crystal clear vocals and dynamic stereo separation. Meanwhile, Sub adds the missing dimension, making every high note crisper while delivering low end rumbles that resonate through your entire body.
This is a system that transforms how you watch television, movies, sport, and gaming. Once you have experienced properly implemented surround sound with real bass reinforcement, going back to a television’s built-in speakers or even a basic soundbar feels like a significant step down.
Wireless Setup: No Cable Chaos Required
One of the most compelling practical advantages of the Sonos Premium Immersive Set is that the entire surround system is wireless. The Sub connects to the Arc over Wi Fi. The two Era 100 rear speakers connect to the Arc over Wi Fi. The only cables in the entire setup are the HDMI eARC cable connecting the Arc to your television and the individual power cables for each component.
This means no speaker cables running from the front of the room to the back, no cable channels to fit along skirting boards, no drilling through walls, and no cable management challenges. You place each component where it belongs acoustically, plug it in, and the Sonos app handles the rest of the configuration. The entire setup process from unboxing to watching a Dolby Atmos film typically takes well under an hour.
Trueplay: The System Learns Your Room
Trueplay tuning technology optimises the sound for the unique acoustics of the room, even calibrating the height channels for precise localisation. Trueplay runs individually on each component and on the system as a whole, analysing your room’s acoustic characteristics and adjusting every speaker’s output to compensate for them. The result is a surround sound system that is calibrated for your specific living room rather than tuned for a generic space in a laboratory.
The practical difference Trueplay makes is most noticeable in the height channels and the subwoofer performance. Rooms with high ceilings, unusual shapes, heavy soft furnishings, or hard reflective surfaces all behave differently acoustically, and Trueplay accounts for all of these variables automatically.
Music, Streaming, and Whole Home Audio
The Sonos Premium Immersive Set is not exclusively a home theater system. When the television is off, every component in the set continues to work as part of your Sonos whole home audio system.
The Arc streams music from Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, YouTube Music, Tidal, Deezer, and dozens of other services directly through the Sonos app. The two Era 100 rear speakers can be used as independent music speakers in the same room, providing a broader, richer sound stage for music listening. The Sub adds genuine depth and weight to music playback in a way that transforms the listening experience for bass heavy genres in particular.
Everything is controlled from the Sonos app, which brings all your streaming services, all your Sonos speakers throughout your home, and all your system settings into one interface. Grouping the home theater system with Sonos speakers in other rooms to play music throughout the home simultaneously takes a single tap.
Voice Control and Smart Home Integration
The Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa are built right into the system so you can play music, check the news, set alarms, get your questions answered, and more, completely hands free. Sonos Voice Control is also available, providing a music optimised voice command system that responds with particular speed and accuracy to music related requests. All three voice control options are available simultaneously, and you choose which you prefer through the Sonos app.
Apple AirPlay 2 support across the system means iOS and macOS users can stream directly from any Apple device to the entire system with a tap, without needing to open the Sonos app at all.
Quick Specs at a Glance
What is in the set: Sonos Arc soundbar, Sonos Sub wireless subwoofer, two Sonos Era 100 wireless smart speakers Configuration: 5.1 channel wireless surround sound Arc drivers: Eleven Sonos engineered drivers including upward firing tweeters for Dolby Atmos height channels Arc connectivity: HDMI eARC, Wi Fi, Apple AirPlay 2, Ethernet Sub connectivity: Wi Fi, fully wireless Era 100 connectivity: Wi Fi, Bluetooth 5.0, Apple AirPlay 2 Voice control: Amazon Alexa, Sonos Voice Control, Google Assistant Trueplay: Yes, available for iOS and Android Speaker cable runs required: None Colours: Black and White
Final Thoughts
The Sonos Premium Immersive Set with Arc, Sub and Era 100 is the home theater system that most people dream about but assume requires a professional installation, a dedicated room, and a significant budget beyond what they want to spend. The reality is far more accessible. Everything is wireless except for the HDMI cable and the power leads. Setup takes under an hour. The app handles all the configuration. And the result is a system that genuinely delivers the cinematic audio experience it promises, with Dolby Atmos height effects, subwoofer bass you feel in your whole body, and surround sound that wraps around you from every direction.
If you watch television, films, sport, or play video games, and you want to hear everything at the level of quality the content creators intended, this is the system that makes that possible. It is the most complete and satisfying home audio upgrade you can make to your living room in a single purchase.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Q1. What is included in the Sonos Premium Immersive Set with Arc, Sub and Era 100? The set includes the Sonos Arc soundbar, the Sonos Sub wireless subwoofer, and two Sonos Era 100 wireless smart speakers. Together these four components create a complete 5.1 channel wireless home theater surround sound system. Each component comes with its own power cable and the Arc includes an HDMI cable for connecting to your television.
Q2. Does this system support Dolby Atmos?
Yes. The Sonos Arc delivers full Dolby Atmos spatial audio using eleven drivers including upward firing tweeters that create height channels placing sound above you. The Arc’s five phased array channels and Trueplay height channel calibration ensure you experience Dolby Atmos as it was designed to be heard, provided you are watching Dolby Atmos content on a compatible television.
Q3. Is the surround sound system fully wireless?
Yes. The Sub connects to the Arc wirelessly over Wi Fi. The two Era 100 rear surround speakers also connect wirelessly over Wi Fi. The only cables required are the HDMI eARC cable connecting the Arc to your television and the individual power cables for each of the four components. No speaker cables need to run from the front of the room to the back.
Q4. How does the Sub connect to the rest of the system?
The Sonos Sub connects to the Sonos Arc wirelessly over your home Wi Fi network. There is no proprietary cable or dedicated wireless connection required between the Sub and the soundbar. You place the Sub wherever works best in your room, plug it into a wall socket, and add it to the system through the Sonos app. It can be placed on its side under a sofa if you want it completely out of sight.
Q5. Can the Era 100 speakers be used as regular music speakers when not in home theater mode?
Yes. When the system is not in home theater mode, the two Era 100 speakers function as full Sonos smart speakers in their own right. They can play music independently, respond to voice commands via Amazon Alexa and Sonos Voice Control, and be grouped with any other Sonos speaker in your home for whole home audio playback. They are fully capable smart speakers that also serve as rear surround channels, not dedicated satellite speakers with no other function.
Q6. What is Trueplay and does it work with the full surround system?
Trueplay is Sonos’s acoustic calibration technology that analyses the acoustic characteristics of your room and optimises the output of each speaker to suit it. Trueplay works with the full surround system including the Arc, Sub, and Era 100 rear speakers. It even specifically calibrates the Arc’s height channels for the reflective properties of your ceiling, which has a direct impact on how well the Dolby Atmos overhead effects work in your specific room.
Q7. Which voice assistants does this system support?
The system supports Amazon Alexa, Sonos Voice Control, and Google Assistant. All three are available simultaneously and you choose your preferred option through the Sonos app. Sonos Voice Control is specifically optimised for music commands and responds with particular speed and accuracy. Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant provide the full range of smart home control and information capabilities each assistant offers.
Q8. Can I stream music through the Arc when the TV is off?
Yes. The Arc is a full Sonos smart speaker as well as a soundbar. When the television is off, you can stream music, radio, podcasts, and audiobooks from all Sonos supported services including Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, YouTube Music, Tidal, Deezer, and many more. The Sub and Era 100 speakers all contribute to music playback when grouped with the Arc, giving you a genuinely impressive music system as well as a home theater system.
Q9. Does the system support Apple AirPlay 2?
Yes. The Arc, Sub, and Era 100 speakers all support Apple AirPlay 2. This means you can stream audio directly from any compatible iPhone, iPad, or Mac to the system with a single tap, without needing to open the Sonos app.
Q10. Can I add more Sonos speakers to this system over time?
Yes. One of the most compelling aspects of the Sonos ecosystem is its expandability. You can add Sonos speakers to other rooms in your home and manage everything from the same Sonos app. You can also add a second Sub to the Arc for even deeper and more powerful bass performance, or upgrade the rear speakers to Sonos Era 300 speakers for a more spatially immersive surround experience.
Q11. How long does setup take?
Setup is straightforward and guided entirely by the Sonos app. Most people complete the full setup of all four components, including running Trueplay calibration, in under an hour without any technical expertise required. The app walks you through each step and the wireless connection between components means there is no complex cable management to handle.