Denon Heos Bar

The heos does not sound as good as the sonos playbar, but the bose soundtouch sounds better than the sonos playbar
i have heard a Bose sounbar (don't remember the model), and it impressed me. I have heard the playbar a number of times in a store, did not sound as good. I will give the playbar/playbase a listen and will compare them to qacoustics M4 which I own.

I don't listen to much music and before I owned the sonos 5.1 system, I owned the Bose 5.1 system - in the end I had to return the Bose to the store because I was unable to get it setup and working

However I did get to listen to a movie shortly on it and it sounded better than the Sonos because it was able to produce sound over head that Sonos can't do and also the Bose was able to make left and right channel sounds actually sound like they were next to me

Bascially the Sonos system is real 5.1, the Bose system is actually 7.1.2 (because its able to do some left/right channel and overhead channel sounds)

But I'm still happy with the Sonos because setup actually worked and was much easier, the Bose has some real software issues and is very difficult to get setup

However if I had a choice for which soundbar I would rather have - it would have to be Yamaha, Yamaha clearly make the best soundbars for both music and movies/games as far as sound quality and virtual surround sound goes, but Yamaha doesn't support wireless rear surround speakers which is the only reason I didn't buy Yamaha

The heos does not sound as good as the sonos playbar, but the bose soundtouch sounds better than the sonos playbar
i have heard a Bose sounbar (don't remember the model), and it impressed me. I have heard the playbar a number of times in a store, did not sound as good. I will give the playbar/playbase a listen and will compare them to qacoustics M4 which I own.

The bose has better bass then the playbar, the playbase makes a jump in bass responses so it is much closer to the bose sound touch 300 in that regard. Give both a listen, only you can decide which ones sound best for you. While I am a fan of sonos for music and multi room music audio. I still use a onkyo 3.1 HT system, as I like the sound of the onkyo better. And I do not need to multi room my tv sound.

I an planning a TV upgrade, and have toyed with the idea of added the sound base to the sonos network. But I am very satisfied with old onkyo. And can't see to talk myself switching out the onkyo.

The heos does not sound as good as the sonos playbar, but the bose soundtouch sounds better than the sonos playbar

Bose is well known for juicing the sound of their products to appeal to unsophisticated ears.

The heos does not sound as good as the sonos playbar, but the bose soundtouch sounds better than the sonos playbar

Bose is well known for juicing the sound of their products to appeal to unsophisticated ears.

To be clear, I was not refrencing music quality - I was actually refering to something that in particular interestes me which is the surround sound effect - the bose soundbar creates a significantly better soundstage that is wider, has better channel seperation and even has additional channel such as overhead sound

I don't listen to much music and before I owned the sonos 5.1 system, I owned the Bose 5.1 system - in the end I had to return the Bose to the store because I was unable to get it setup and working
Sonos works perfectly for me, that is why I would like it to handle my tv duties

However I did get to listen to a movie shortly on it and it sounded better than the Sonos because it was able to produce sound over head that Sonos can't do and also the Bose was able to make left and right channel sounds actually sound like they were next to me

My room is open space and my sitting position is 5.5 metres from the tv. So, the sound must travel that far without having to crank up the volume.

Bascially the Sonos system is real 5.1, the Bose system is actually 7.1.2 (because its able to do some left/right channel and overhead channel sounds)

But I'm still happy with the Sonos because setup actually worked and was much easier, the Bose has some real software issues and is very difficult to get setup

However if I had a choice for which soundbar I would rather have - it would have to be Yamaha, Yamaha clearly make the best soundbars for both music and movies/games as far as sound quality and virtual surround sound goes, but Yamaha doesn't support wireless rear surround speakers which is the only reason I didn't buy Yamaha

Yamaha relies on bouncing the sound of the walls, and I am a bit short of that.:-)

Best

Neven

The heos does not sound as good as the sonos playbar, but the bose soundtouch sounds better than the sonos playbar
i have heard a Bose sounbar (don't remember the model), and it impressed me. I have heard the playbar a number of times in a store, did not sound as good. I will give the playbar/playbase a listen and will compare them to qacoustics M4 which I own.

The bose has better bass then the playbar, the playbase makes a jump in bass responses so it is much closer to the bose sound touch 300 in that regard. Give both a listen, only you can decide which ones sound best for you. While I am a fan of sonos for music and multi room music audio. I still use a onkyo 3.1 HT system, as I like the sound of the onkyo better. And I do not need to multi room my tv sound.

Which onkyo system do you have? The another thing i have in mind is the sources i listen to. Here in croatia, most tv channels have poor bit rate sound. I highly doubt sonos is able to squeeze something from that. I will try the playbat and playbase, If I’ll have to pull the volume to 50+ % in order to hear the news man, i will stick to my qacoustics.

I an planning a TV upgrade, and have toyed with the idea of added the sound base to the sonos network. But I am very satisfied with old onkyo. And can't see to talk myself switching out the onkyo.

Cheers
Neven

If you are leaning towards the Heos bar because of HDMI I would hold off on buying either. Looks like Sonos will be releasing a home theater option with HDMI relatively soon based on a FCC filing.

Soon is an undefined point in time. The FCC filing was exposed this week.

If you are leaning towards the Heos bar because of HDMI I would hold off on buying either. Looks like Sonos will be releasing a home theater option with HDMI relatively soon based on a FCC filing.
If this is true, Playbase and Playbar will flood the used market.
Neven