Though smaller and cheaper than other Sonos soundbars, the Ray can be the base of a great home theatre system.
Sonos Ray soundbar review: The start of something awesome MSRP $279.00 Score Details DT Recommended Product “Sonos sets the stage for a much more affordable home theater system with the Ray.” Pros Cons Sonos is synonymous with wireless multiroom audio. It’s also been creating home theater solutions for almost a decade. In that time it has released two full-size soundbars . It’s had two midsized soundbars , and a quasi-soundbar/TV stand called the PlayBase.
The Ray is a bit narrower than its bigger sibling, the Beam but the two speakers are almost identical in height and depth, and both are ideally suited for use in smaller rooms, in front of smaller TVs . Connections Around the back of the Ray, you’ll find one of the simplest sets of connections in the soundbar world: A port for the power cord, an Ethernet port, an optical port, and a button for identifying the speaker for setup purposes .
It’s all done using the Sonos mobile app, which guides you through the process of setting up a new system and creating an account . Assuming you’ve already plugged the Ray into a wall outlet, the app will automatically find it and walk you through getting it connected to your TV. Got three minutes? That’s really all it takes.
Sound quality I’ve reviewed almost every speaker Sonos has made and you’d think by now I’d no longer be surprised by how the company’s engineers are able to extract so much sound from such small enclosures. And yet, I am continually amazed. The Ray might be intended for small-to-medium-size rooms, but I think that’s Sonos being modest. This little box pumps out an impressive amount of sound.
Sonos asks a lot of the Ray’s two midwoofers, expecting them to deliver on essentially every element except the highest frequencies, and physics eventually wins. You may notice this as a kind of “thinning out” of the middle tones, where some details become harder to make out. Still, with a few tweaks to the treble and bass sliders in the Sonos app, the Ray provides a nice balance, and can be used to enjoy a wide variety of genres.
Expanding options With any ordinary $279 soundbar, that’s where the story ends. But the beauty of the Sonos ecosystem is that it’s expandable, both within the same room and to all of the other rooms in your home. For as little as $240, you can add a pair of Sonos-powered Ikea Symfonisk Bookshelf speakers to the Ray for a proper surround sound system. Not bad, considering you’re still only a bit over the $500 mark at that point.
It’s a Sonos I think the Ray’s performance is very good, considering its size, but if all you want is a soundbar for better TV sound, there are plenty of other great options from Vizio, Yamaha, Samsung, and others at this price or less. The real reason to buy the Ray over these other systems is the Sonos platform.
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