BEST 50 SOUNDAR BAR BLUETOOTH
Size: 5.6 x 131 x 12cm (HxWxD, complete soundbar) 40 x 23 x 401m (HxWxD, subwoofer) | Weight: 6kg (complete soundbar) 9kg (subwoofer) | Finishes: 1 | Voice: Alexa, Google Assistant | Surround: Dolby Atmos, DTS-X, IMAX Enhanced | Connections: Bluetooth 4.2/HDMI eARC/wifi/digital optical/Apple AirPlay ⅔.5mm analogue/Chromecast If you want a flavour of what Dolby Atmos is all about but don’t want to a) put speakers in your ceiling or b) spend an arm and a leg, Sonos has exactly what you need. Only a tiny tendency for the highest frequencies to get a little strident in extremis prevents the Arc from being pretty much perfect.
The way it places sound effects is convincing, the amount of detail it’s able to retrieve (no matter if it’s describing whispered dialogue or full-on action-movie overload) is impressive.
BEST 50 SOUNDAR BAR DRIVERS
Thanks to the careful deployment of a total of 11 drivers inside the bar (including a couple facing upwards and one at each ‘cap’ end of the ‘bar), the Sonos is capable of frankly unlikely audio width and height. Given the right tools – which means a Dolby Atmos soundtrack – it’s a punchy, detailed and, above all, sizable listen. The eARC-enabled HDMI input on the Sonos Arc (£799) means you’ll have to make sure your TV’s compatible, but get over that particular hump and there’s not much by way of downside to Arc ownership. Size: 9 x 114 x 12cm | Weight: 6kg | Finishes: 2īy replacing its superannuated Playbar soundbar with the all-singing, all-dancing, all-Dolby Atmos Arc, Sonos has simultaneously refreshed the part of its model range most in need and delivered the best sub-£1,000 Dolby Atmos soundbar currently available. It lacks advanced features, such as Dolby Atmos or DTS:X support, found in more expensive home-cinema soundbars, but – unless you want a hardcore home-cinema experience – the Sonos Beam is everything you need from a multi-room soundbar. Where needed, a speech-enhancement mode makes dialogue easier to hear, and there’s a night mode for when you don’t want to upset the neighbours. It can handle films and music with equal poise, balancing detail with dynamism splendidly. Flawlessly made and smoothly finished, it looks the part – and it sounds bigger and more detailed than its size suggests. You can combine it with two Sonos One wireless speakers to create a surround system and, while a subwoofer isn’t standard, you can add a Sonos Sub to give movies an extra bass kick.Īll this, combined with Sonos’s proprietary multi-room speaker smarts, makes the Beam a brilliant all-in-one. Pitched as a compact alternative to the Sonos Playbar, the Sonos Beam (£379) measures just 65cm wide – barely half as much as some in our list – and throws Amazon Alexa (and soon Google Assistant) support into the bargain. If you want more easy-to-use units, some of our alternative top picks include the Dali Katch One, LG SN11RG (which has Dolby Vision), Roku Streambar, Klipsch Bar, JBL, Roku Smart Soundbar, Sennheiser Ambeo soundbar, Polk Audio Command Bar, Polk Audio Signa S3, and the Sony HT-X8500 which has a vertical surround engine.This might just be our favourite-ever Sonos speaker. The JBL Bar also has EQ presets aside from the center channel.
This center channel speaker provides extra audio support for a clear voice output. This company also has other surround speakers including the JBL Bar 2.1 Deep Bass and the JBL Bar 9.1 which also has a dedicated center speaker. The JBL Bar is also a great 5.1 surround sound system. It has a great feature set like the Yamaha YAS-209, YAS-109, Polk Signa S3, Sennheiser Ambeo Soundbar, Sonos Arc, Bose Soundbar 500, and the Roku Smart Soundbar, including 4k HDR support. You can also choose surround speakers like the Denon DHT-D718, which has Dolby True HD and DTS HD Master audio - high-quality audio codecs that are used on Blu-ray.Īnd if you want true stereo sound and streaming player compatibility, the Roku Streambar is great. Still, some like the Yamaha YAS-209, Sonos Arc, Samsung HW-Q90R, and Samsung HW-Q950T provide good audio reproduction and surround sound modes (like game mode and other EQ presets). It’s in the premium spectrum, though.Ī lot of the best budget soundbar models provide 2.1 channels, where the front drivers get you close to surround sound (with DTS Virtual X and Dolby Audio) but it’s not quite up there in the Dolby Atmos audio experience. One of the best deals in the market is the Sennheiser Ambeo 3D sound bar, which is a 5.1.4 Dolby Atmos soundbar set up with HDMI 2.0 output, HDMI ARC, optical, ethernet port, and Bluetooth support. The more channels a sound bar possesses, the more immersive the sound performance will be. We suggest looking for products with more than three drivers if you want to simulate surround speakers.
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