Sonos - Beam (Gen 2)
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"perfect dialogue"
"We moved the 2 small speakers, as you suggested, and that made an immediate improvement. ... I turned center speaker up to 9 and we are hearing everything crystal clear. ... I'm shocked at what a difference this made. ... For now, we are sticking with the Beam."
"the Beam has better voice quality. ... You won't have an issue with hearing dialogue with this soundbar."
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"I’m thrilled with the performance for the price."
"You can pick one up on Sonos website refurb for cheap too. ... when you can get a beam gen 2 for really cheap now."
"it ’s the best bang for your buck."
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4
"perfect dialogue"
"We moved the 2 small speakers, as you suggested, and that made an immediate improvement. ... I turned center speaker up to 9 and we are hearing everything crystal clear. ... I'm shocked at what a difference this made. ... For now, we are sticking with the Beam."
"the Beam has better voice quality. ... You won't have an issue with hearing dialogue with this soundbar."
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"soundbars now can be very good with basic plug and play. ... No wires is a huge plus too."
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"Yep, that spot is just screaming for a Sonos bar."
"With my small den the beam works great."
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"Brighter, more detail, more balanced, better surround performance, just better in literally every aspect than the Beam."
"Beam 2 does more of a virtual atmos."
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"I would not say its dialogue clarify is leagues better than the Beam at all. ... likely not if you’re focused on dialogue clarity improvement. ... The Beam Gen 2 and Ultra (I’ve owned both) have similar levels of dialogue clarity."
"Compared to a real system yes"
"Brighter, more detail, more balanced, better surround performance, just better in literally every aspect than the Beam."
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"Very noticeable difference in clarity between the arc and ultra. For our aging ears spend the money on the ultra. ... Return it and buy the Arc Ultra. Much better. ... I also own both and still recommend the ultra over beam for clarity"
"I kept the Samsung with the TV for slightly better dialogue clarity"
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"Sonos would require me to use the Sonos app."
"Had so many issues I ended up taking it back to Costco. ... it’s not worth the hassle of Sonos."
"App thing wasnt fun at all ... i was a lucky one probably because of my more modern router."
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"Sonos would require me to use the Sonos app."
67camar0 1.0I started with the beam 2 sub mini and era 100s. I just got an arc on Black Friday
7e7en87 1.0Sonos beam gen2+sub mini is most reccomended best buy and goes perfect with Sony tv's. I'm personally big fan of this combo. If You wanna premium sound than Sonos Arc ultra and sub 4.
9137891 1.0When I tried Arc Ultra with Spotify Very High, the sound felt richer. Two Era100s hit wider than Beam Gen2, but I prefer Arc for deep, detailed tracks.
A1CBEERS 1.0100% the answer is Sonos. The Beam Gen 2 soundbar is a solid soundbar that offers decent atmos sound. The next step up to the Sonos Arc or Arc Ultra will hit different if you're not worried about cost. Add a Sonos Sub and that's all you'll need. I say this as someone that has a Klipsch Reference Premier 5.1.2 setup with a Denon 2800h receiver in my living room. I use the soundbar setup in my bedroom and it has pretty good quality. Does it hit quite the same as Atmos in a true home theater setup? Of course not, but it's still a damn good soundbar choice that gives you the Atmos you want.
aBlastFromTheArse 1.0Great job! I would say soundbars have their place though. I run a Sonos Beam gen 2 with Sub mini in our very small lounge and I find it to be perfect for that.
AmazingAldow 1.0If you got the money Sonos beam2. If not Samsung S60D
Ambitious_Fishing346 1.0Beam 2 is amazing with surrounds. You can also build a true 5.1 surround system by adding 2 more fronts by using a third party app called SonoSequencr and it sounds amazing. One SL or Era 100 as fronts. Sonos doesn’t support fronts but this app extends Sonos API to add front surrounds.
andyJHnewwest 1.0I have a small room, and bought a Beam 2, then two Era 100s for surround and finally a sub mini. I am fortunate in that even though the room is small I am able to place the 100s behind and off to the sides of the two view seats. Really enjoying movies and music with this set up. Set up was a breeze and the Sonos app works perfectly.
Antonio2274 1.0It could be the Sonos Beam 2, I still have it and I also have the Arc Ultra, for a small apartment or bedroom it is more than enough.
Enjoy friend, I also started with the Beam 3 years ago and recently went for the ultra + sub 4 and have enjoyed a lot of movies since then.
apextileman 1.0I just bought the beam 2 for my outdoor tv that’s Mounted next to our hot tub , I’m going to mount it with brackets so that it’s attached to the TV so that when I pull the TV out and swivel it towards whatever angle, the speakers are pointing in the same direction as the TV, the beam does not have upward firing speakers and that’s what I wanted because they would be wasted outdoors as they would not bounce off of anything, I also got the sub mini because there is a space inside of our hot tub for a sub to go, I have our built-in surround sound for the living room connected to a Sonos amp and I have an arc , sub & 2 era100s in the master, the plan is to be able to connect them all to music and walk throughout the house and have constant music playing
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