Sonos - Ray

I bought and am returning the ray, the sound is awful ! Worse than a cheap refurbished Panasonic unit I had !

Consider Sonos.Ray or Sonos Beam 2 if can afford, you'll wonder how you ever did it before

I have the Ray, Beam, and Arc. While there is a noticeable difference between the Ray and the others, the Ray is in a smaller room and it works just fine (and is much better than the built in tv speakers).

For a small office or bedroom, especially from my own experience, the Ray with Ikea Symphonisk speakers used as surrounds is simply amazing. The fact that it uses optical only as a connection is not a problem for me as I was not looking for Atmos on this room. If you can get the Ikea speakers for like half of the asking price or refurbished, like I did, you will have a very enveloping experience.

I’d recommend you check out your friendly neighborhood Costco. Mine has been selling Beams at $299 for the past month or so. That said, I have 2 rays, a beam, arc/sub/1’s, and various 1’s littered around the house. I love the ecosystem and each unit has its own strengths. I use the rays in my bedroom. One under the tv, one vertically mounted between mirrors in my bathroom. I think the ray is ideal for my bedroom for occasional use for tv. It’s an improvement for dialogue from those awful stock Samsung speakers, but certainly helps with overall immersion when watching tv in bed. Great for music too. Definitely not a beam or arc though… I see the ray as a Sonos 1 SL in a soundbar format. I think it’s pretty neat

Get a Sonos Ray or Beam, add surrounds and subwoofer later when you move out.

Sonos Ray. Pretty decent for 179$

The Klipsch 200 or Samsung HW-S60D are your best options in your price range. The Klipsch will run you about $350 (on sale) and the Samsung $280. Klipsch is a 3.1.2 system, Samsung is a 5.0 system. If you need one a little less expensive, I'd go with 1. Sonos Ray 2. Samsung HW-S50B 3. Bose TV Speaker 4. Denon DHT-C210 5. Amazon Fire TV Soundbar Plus. Those five are $250 and below. BONUS!: Yamaha SR-B30A is another very solid option at the same price as the Samsung S60D

Then the Samsung HW-S60D or Sonos Ray are going to be your top options. Unless you splurge for the Klipsch Flexus 200.

You guys are forgetting he wants a standalone bar without a sub and $200 or less. The Samsung S60D is going to be your best option if you can find it on sale. Otherwise, the Amazon Bar Plus or Sonos Ray 2nd Gen are the best options IMO.

Then the Samsung HW-S60D or Sonos Ray are going to be your top options. Unless you splurge for the Klipsch Flexus 200.

You guys are forgetting he wants a standalone bar without a sub and $200 or less. The Samsung S60D is going to be your best option if you can find it on sale. Otherwise, the Amazon Bar Plus or Sonos Ray 2nd Gen are the best options IMO.

I own a bunch of Sonos, took too long to realize that they are terrible in terms of Sound quality for music. However, the Sonos Beam is quite good for TV & movies in a small to medium sized room. If you could get one on sale or maybe open box with a good discount then it’s totally worth it. Forget about Ray, it’s trash. Vizio that you attached will sound better than a Beam on its own. Your 3rd option could be to get a pair of powered or Active speakers, they will be amazing for music but average for movies. Speakers such as Edifier S1000mkii. They will cost only as much as Sonos Ray on Sale.

Get the Fives, buy a cheap Sonos sound bar, second hand, Ray or Beam and add the Fives as front L/R with SonoSequencr ( just realised Vorosaur has said this)

I’ve used Sonos Ray, Beam Gen 2, and the Ultra and have not once been impressed with their tv sound. Every bar sounds like it’s coming from inside a steel trash can. Dialogue is trash. Sonos is good for music speakers around the home, but not for tv