...but I don't want a smaller soundbar

The other issue I have is my country doesn’t get Alexa anyway so Sonos is not offering me anything that almost every other manufacturer doesn’t do and do better, everybody is now doing multiroom audio and Sonos is betting on smart voice feature that aren’t available in my country anyway so I have no reason not to move to something like a Samsung system that is going to do everything Sonos does and more and do it better

Sonos aims for Quantity not quality imho. To bad, no new sonos for me.
Playbar 2 with hdmi and atmos and i would have ordered a complete home theater system....

While we're on the subject of size, I have a more general question. I have an LG OLED TV, and the Beam is 2.7" tall so too high to sit in front of the TV. Does anyone know if it can go on the shelf of a TV cabinet? Or do the speakers go around to the sides? (My other option is a PlayBase, but I don't want my TV raised by a couple inches.)

If your cabinet has panels on the side of the shelf then the left and right wide channel sounds will be blocked

Well that settles it, selling the playbar, My house is littered with Sonos, like others I was hoping for an Atmos version playbar. I'll keep my 14 other sonos speakers in the house, but with home theatre I have been patient with this announcement. It really wan't much of one. I mean nothing that could not have been rolled out.

So, here where Im going. Either going with the Sony ST500 atmos sound bar or the Samsung Atmos K950 with the upward firing rear surround speakers. I have invested a lot in a new TV and found only a handful of times that i used the playbar for music. I'll keep the sub and learn to "group" it somehow with my main floor sonos 1,and 3, and 5

The n950 is coming soon so sit for it don’t go with k950, the n950 adds the two side channels and does 7.1.4 and also adds dtsx the n950 supports basically every sound format out there and has the most Atmos speakers

The n950 soundbar has 17 speakers and the wireless rears have 6 speakers and the sub has the single driver so that’s 24 speakers in total in that package compared to the 14 you get with Sonos 5.1

If your cabinet has panels on the side of the shelf then the left and right wide channel sounds will be blocked .

Thanks. Not the answer I wanted, ha ha. What about mounting on the wall above the TV? (Even though my TV isn't wall mounted.) I guess that would look a bit ugly. I'm just not meant to have a soundbar!

Well that settles it, selling the playbar, My house is littered with Sonos, like others I was hoping for an Atmos version playbar. I'll keep my 14 other sonos speakers in the house, but with home theatre I have been patient with this announcement. It really wan't much of one. I mean nothing that could not have been rolled out.

So, here where Im going. Either going with the Sony ST500 atmos sound bar or the Samsung Atmos K950 with the upward firing rear surround speakers. I have invested a lot in a new TV and found only a handful of times that i used the playbar for music. I'll keep the sub and learn to "group" it somehow with my main floor sonos 1,and 3, and 5

This was the last straw for me. I'm not only selling my Sonos 5.1 system, but all of my Sonos gear. I'm moving on.

I listened to the Sony HT5000 at Bestbuy yesterday and for not having any rear speakers it sounded pretty good. I really like how Sony has configured the HT5000 to support so many codecs (Atmos, DTS:X, Dolby True HD, DD+) and it passes both HDR and Dolby Vision. This is the type of compatibility that I wish Sonos would use with the Playbar. The HT5000 would be the perfect system - if it had rear speakers. D'oh!

I'm going to wait for the Samsung N950 to come out and see how it stands up.
The Nakamichi Shockwafe 7.1/9.2 system looks good also.
Most UHD blu-ray discs are coming in Atmos now. Whatever I end up getting, it's going to have Atmos that's for sure.