Sonos Beam – Smart TV Sound Bar with Amazon Alexa Built-in – Black
Original price was: $462.00.$430.00Current price is: $430.00.
Price: $462.00 - $430.00
(as of Jan 12, 2025 09:03:25 UTC – Details)
All-new Sonos Beam – Compact Smart TV Soundbar with Amazon Alexa voice control built-in. Wireless home theater and streaming music in any room. (Black)
The Smart compact soundbar for your TV, music, and more.
Play everything that matters to you with Beam. Control it with your voice, remote, the Sonos app, and more.
Specially tuned by Oscar-winning sound engineers to emphasize the sound of the human voice. One tweeter creates a crisp and clear dialogue
Amazon Alexa is built right in so you can play music, check news, set alarms, get your questions answered, and more, completely hands free.
Go from unboxing to listening in minutes with just two cords and automatic remote detection.
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Customers say
Customers appreciate the speakers’ sound quality and ease of setup. They find the soundstage good for a small footprint, and the voice boost and ability to reduce loud noises are helpful. Many can enjoy music throughout the house, backyard, and garage without any issues. The speaker broadcasts TV sound to all other Sonos in the home. Customers also like the size. However, some have mixed opinions on functionality, value for money, build quality, connectivity, and overall quality.
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7 reviews for Sonos Beam – Smart TV Sound Bar with Amazon Alexa Built-in – Black
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Neil AZ –
Works as advertised
I recently purchased an 82″ Samsung Q8 TV and researched the heck out of soundbars to use with it. For reference I have Martin Logan speakers with Parasound and Adcom electronics because I used to be heavily into audio, but I really wanted to simplify my life and clean up the clutter in the family room. Enter the soundbar search! I still had a little bit of the audio snob in me because at first I decided that I really needed Dolby Atmos, so I was close to pulling the trigger on a 1.5k Samsung or Sony system. But then enter a whole bunch of technical gobbledegook about needing eARC and current HDMI ARC outputs not being upgradeable and lack of streaming Atmos content and yadda yadda yadda – ok forget Atmos.So I decided to heck with Atmos, just give me a basic soundbar. Then I was about to pull the trigger on a $100 Yamaha when I realized it didn’t have HDMI ARC. That was the one thing I wasn’t going to compromise on – I wanted the soundbar to act like the tv’s built-in speaker, and HDMI ARC allows the tv remote to control the volume of the soundbar vs optical requiring you to use the soundbar’s remote. I wanted to simplify my life and getting rid of remotes was part of that!I had just gotten my first Sonos speaker for Christmas, a Play:1. So I started looking at Sonos soundbars. Sadly neither the Playbar nor the Playbase has ARC. But surprisingly their cheapest, smallest speaker – the Beam – does have ARC! Finally I pulled the trigger and got the Beam and another Play:1 so I could have a pair for surround.Ok finally the actual review – everything works flawlessly. Really, that’s all you need to know right there. Setup was a breeze, my tv works fine with the Cox cable box connected via HDMI and the Beam connected via HDMI ARC. Alexa works fine for playing music and radio. Spotify and Pandora stream perfectly. The sound is good but obviously doesn’t compare to my previous setup, but it’s less than 1/10th the price so I can’t complain. After the Sonos auto-tuning I did adjust bass down one notch and treble up one notch. The system sounded a bit closed-in at first, like it was buried under a few towels, but after a day or two either I’ve gotten used to it or the speakers have broken-in and now sound much lighter. The Sonos app confirms that they are receiving the Dolby Digital signal, so yay.For people that are true movie lovers that like to play at Dolby reference levels (i.e. really loud), this speaker will probably not do it for you in the bass department. For normal people, I think it’s perfectly fine. The bass is not really deep, but is certainly adequate and definitely much better than the tv’s built-in speakers. If Sonos offered a $200 sub, I’d be all over it. But I’ll pass on their $700 sub. The little Beam does look puny sitting under my 82″ tv, so if the larger Playbar had ARC I probably would’ve bought that instead both for looks and a wider soundstage. Yes, another small nit is that the soundstage of the Beam is not huge at lower volumes, so if that’s important then maybe keep looking. For my purposes, it’s just fine. The soundstage does seem to get larger at higher volumes which is nice when you’re ready to sit and watch a loud movie, but it’s not going to make you think you have a left-center-right setup.Note that since the Beam and Play:1 surrounds are all linked together into a single room/system, you can’t stream to them individually. I’m not sure why you’d want to, but if you wanted to maybe pick up a surround speaker and take it outside and play it by itself without playing the rest of the speakers, you’d probably have to undo the surround configuration. Also fyi, the Sonos TruePlay speaker auto-tune software is not available for Android (iOS only). It’s not a huge requirement but worth knowing.Bottom line – it has HDMI ARC, it sounds great, everything works as advertised. Highly recommended unless you’re the type that needs a subwoofer and plays movies really loud.
SMB –
Great in a 5.1, 5.0 or 3.1 Setup
I had a Sony receiver with the Polk RM6750 compact speakers and subwoofer which sounded great but Iâve been looking for a soundbar for a few years now for simplicity and visual appeal. I purchased a Sony HT-ST5000 shortly after its release and ended up returning it a couple days later. The dialogue was particularly awful and the lack of surround channels really made it flat sounding.I was originally disappointed that Sonos released a small soundbar instead of a âplaybar 2â but decided to try out the Beam with Sub and two Oneâs after many 3rd party review sites ranked the Beam especially high.It sounds excellent. Together, it sounds just as good and even better than my previous wired system. Movies and music both shine on this. The Beam itself sounds full and produces a wide sound stage although itâs important to note that it produces little bass so I would not use the Beam by itself unless its on a secondary TV in a very small room. Add the Oneâs and you get much better bass. Add the sub and you get rumbling thunder. If you can only get one, Iâd say get the two Oneâs so you also get the surround. Note: Iâm using the system primarily in a 10×12 ft living room but it will easily fill my 700 sqft apartment with music. Dialogue in movies is always very clear and sounds full. I do not use the dialogue enhancer either – no need for it. Night mode works well but Iâll probably never use that.Alexa works well. The microphones can hear me speak in a low tone from 20 ft away in my kitchen around around a corner which was surprising.Big fan of the app. You can adjust all of the speaker levels or turn on enhancements there. You can play iPad music through it. I just wish you could ask Alexa to play XYZ from the iPad like you can with the other music services. You first have to start playing from the iPad in the app and then you can tell Alexa to pause/play or skip the song.I think Iâve been experiencing some audio delay with XBox One X Blu Rays only… I think because its very slight and only noticed in a C movie and then a movie primarily with CGI so I canât trust either one. But there is no delay when streaming from apps on the XBox, apps from my TV or my FIOS cable box. The Xbox and cable box are both routed separately through my x900e then HDMI to the Beam. Need some more Netflix DVDs to come in to further test that.Its nice being able to adjust the volume of the system using Alexa or your TV remote.All in all – loving the system. Was thinking Iâd replace the Beam when Sonos does release a playbar 2 in the following years but thereâs really no need. Iâm very happy with it. Iâd suggest it if you can get it along with two Ones, the sub or most definitely both – alone though, it lacks bass needed for movies and music.Update: 7-31 – I watched another Blu ray on the xbox and there wasnât a perceivable audio delay on that one…Update: 8-29 – Experienced more audio delay on Blurays through the XBox. Bought a new Bluray player – no audio delay so far. I’m wondering if it was only DTS movies that the Xbox had to convert to Dolby. No converter on the new player tho.
Rodrigo Miranda –
Antes que nada a mi la calidad de sonido me ha fascinado no esperaba tanto poder de una barra de sonido que se ve un poco simple, además de que no es “estorbosa” y no tiene ese acabado plástico glossy que es un imán de huellas. Hice varias investigaciones sobre que serÃa en general lo mejor para una barra de sonido de este rango de precio con lo que se encuentra en el mercado y al final me decidà por Sonos, he tenido un par de dispositivos Bose pero siempre hay como una falta de bajos increÃble donde todo al parecer suena en la misma frecuencia, cuando lo comparas con esta barra hay una diferencia muy marcada en la que Sonos si tiene bajos tal vez no los de un home theater surround pero no estás pagando por eso a este precio.Ahora los “peros” al parecer Sonos en la mayorÃa de sus dispositivos no tiene soporte bluetooth todo se hace a través de wifi si quieres reproducir musica desde tu celular puedes hacerlo usando Airplay que es bastante fácil cuando usas iOS o a través de la conexión wifi eso es algo frustrante pero no algo que me haga devolverla ya que casi todo mi ecosistema está basado en iOS.No incluye control remoto, todo lo haces desde la aplicación o en caso de que esté conectada a la TV con el control de la tele, el set up no es complicado una vez que ya has podido emparejar la barra de sonido con tu celular pero es un poco tedioso no es lo mismo que solo conectarse vÃa bluetooth en dos toques de la pantalla y listo.Hasta ahora son las únicas cosas que he encontrado que aunque no me hacen devolverla porque la calidad de sonido le ha ganado a cualquier pero que le he hallado, aunque sà me gustarÃa que otras personas supieran antes de adquirir un equipo de estos, ya que esperan que hagan de todo por el precio. No es una mala compra pero hay que saber que estás comprando.
themavericck –
Doesn’t come with a remote. Bluetooth is as good as non existant. But it’s an easy setup. Dock it up and forget about everything elese. It’s easy to use and the sound is top notch. Got it at a fair price of 33k in some sale which is the listed price in US. Go for it.
Minh Tang –
beagn bought this to go with my 35 inch iltrawide monitor. I know some people find it too big for a computer setup but I find it looks fine. I was not super impressed with the sound out of the box. Probably because I expected something close to the sonos playbar. After a while though I start appreciating the sound coming out of the sonos. I also have a homepod in that room and I can say without a doubt that homepod doesn’t sound as good. Mostly the base. The homepod base Max out at around 40 percent. Higher volume it feels like only the mid and high frequency goes up. The beam definitely has a better base response. Being so close to the speaker I can’t hear a really wide sound stage. It does sound good but it’s not impressive compare to the playbar.As per my hookup. I originally wanted to hook the beam to my Mac mini via the digital optical output using a mini toslink to toslink and then use the toslink to hdmi that is included but I couldn’t make it work. Not sure what kind of signal osx can output but the bean never recognize it. I had to purchase an USB sound card to make it work. I purchase a creative omni. I used the optical out of that sound card and the bean works flawlessly. Didn’t had any problem for almost a month now. I didn’t test for latency but for watching movies it was fine.
Alger GV –
SONOS es una marca que vengo siguiendo desde hace unos meses desde que escuche la IMPACTANTE nitidez y claridad de la SONOS 5, la cual escuché en un restaurante donde sólo una bocina llenaba un lugar tan amplio con semejante volumen y sonido cristalino. La SONOS BEAM me llamó la atención para probar esta marca que pese a su precio alto, vale cada centavo que pagas por la calidad de sonido que esta a la par si no es que mejor que BOSE. Fácil de configurar la app de SONOS, eso sà tienen que estar en la misma señal WIFI tu teléfono o tablet para poder configurar la bocina, la conecte al puerto ARC que trae mi TV LG 65″ y vaya que cambió la calidad del sonido, me impresionó mucho la nitidez, no hay distorsión y puedes incluso configurar graves y agudos con facilidad, además de poder usar asistentes como ALEXA y GOOGLE, agregar tus apps favoritas como SPOTIFY, DEEZER, etc. Ampliamente la recomiendo si lo que quieres es escuchar la música, disfrutar el sonido de pelÃculas o videojuegos, esta barra de sonido es para ti.
Joseph –
I had a cheap smaller TV soundbar but wanted to upgrade. Since I already own a Sonos 1, I knew that Sonos has great sound quality for the price. Having the ability to use pair up the Sonos Beam with the Sonos 1 made it an easy sell. It was super easy to set-up since my TV has an HDMI ARC output and so far Ive been extremely impressed with the Beam for TV/Movies/Video games. Pairing with my Sonos 1 is even better when listening to Spotify. I haven’t taken advantage of the Alexa integration, but I dont really feel the voice activation is necessary.Bottom line: strongly consider Sonos if you’re looking for a new sound bar for your TV, especially if you’ve already got other Sonos products.