New Sonos Beam Owner Feedback

Yep I'm in a similar boat and experience similar. Though I found the setup of alexa tough (never used alexa before) and it didn't work initially so had to mess around in the alexa app that I didn't understand.

However, setup now and I like it. I just wish they had a cheaper sub for it. A £700 sub with a £400 soundbar makes very little sense.

Yep I'm in a similar boat and experience similar. Though I found the setup of alexa tough (never used alexa before) and it didn't work initially so had to mess around in the alexa app that I didn't understand.

However, setup now and I like it. I just wish they had a cheaper sub for it. A £700 sub with a £400 soundbar makes very little sense.

Agreed, the sub seems expensive and is going to be a hard sell for me unless I get it in a deal. I can stomach the two rears for £150 each but the sub may have to wait or not happen.

Yep I'm in a similar boat and experience similar. Though I found the setup of alexa tough (never used alexa before) and it didn't work initially so had to mess around in the alexa app that I didn't understand.

However, setup now and I like it. I just wish they had a cheaper sub for it. A £700 sub with a £400 soundbar makes very little sense.

Agreed, the sub seems expensive and is going to be a hard sell for me unless I get it in a deal. I can stomach the two rears for £150 each but the sub may have to wait or not happen.

But it's something you will never regret, it will put a smile on your face literally every day! If my sub broke tomorrow, i'd beg borrow or steal to replace it immediately, it's that good.
PS. The sub is the far better upgrade option before the rears (in my opinion, but shared by many others)
Enjoy!

Yep I'm in a similar boat and experience similar. Though I found the setup of alexa tough (never used alexa before) and it didn't work initially so had to mess around in the alexa app that I didn't understand.

However, setup now and I like it. I just wish they had a cheaper sub for it. A £700 sub with a £400 soundbar makes very little sense.

Agreed, the sub seems expensive and is going to be a hard sell for me unless I get it in a deal. I can stomach the two rears for £150 each but the sub may have to wait or not happen.

But it's something you will never regret, it will put a smile on your face literally every day! If my sub broke tomorrow, i'd beg borrow or steal to replace it immediately, it's that good.
PS. The sub is the far better upgrade option before the rears (in my opinion, but shared by many others)
Enjoy!

No doubt, but the current $700 sub is overkill with a Beam. It needs a more suitable match.

Yep I'm in a similar boat and experience similar. Though I found the setup of alexa tough (never used alexa before) and it didn't work initially so had to mess around in the alexa app that I didn't understand.

However, setup now and I like it. I just wish they had a cheaper sub for it. A £700 sub with a £400 soundbar makes very little sense.

Agreed, the sub seems expensive and is going to be a hard sell for me unless I get it in a deal. I can stomach the two rears for £150 each but the sub may have to wait or not happen.

But it's something you will never regret, it will put a smile on your face literally every day! If my sub broke tomorrow, i'd beg borrow or steal to replace it immediately, it's that good.
PS. The sub is the far better upgrade option before the rears (in my opinion, but shared by many others)
Enjoy!

No doubt, but the current $700 sub is overkill with a Beam. It needs a more suitable match.

Problem is though, there is no alternative, and with Sonos you could be waiting for something that may never materialise. Also it’s not overkill, in terms of performance, it will seamlessly blend with the Beam. Price is the only concern.:@

I'm some what doubtful that we'll a 'sub-lite' any time soon. if they made a $400 version of the sub, it would either kill the sales of the full size sub, or be significantly inferior to the full sub that sales probably wouldn't be all that great for the sub-lite. I am guessing but I think it's going to be hard to find a sweet spot in the market for such a product.

I suppose the Beam is for smaller rooms and apartments were bass is not welcome, needed, or allowed! If you want good home cinema, good surround, good bass, you’re probably more of a playbar customer. Basically it’s two different markets.

New to the Sonos world so this is my first purchase to replace an aging Yamaha AV receiver and floorstanders, the wife is happy with the extra space she now has!

Bought from John Lewis with the benefit of the 2 year warranty.

Very impressed so far, was a breeze to setup. Using HDMI ARC and we can control the volume of the Sky Q box.

Alexa works well, we can also replace our Echo Dot in the living room which is handy.

Seems to work fairly seamlessly, the downside is I now want the rears and the sub :)

How did you set up Beam with your Sky Q box and do you get sound throughput.

I suppose the Beam is for smaller rooms and apartments were bass is not welcome, needed, or allowed! If you want good home cinema, good surround, good bass, you’re probably more of a playbar customer. Basically it’s two different markets.

Yea, I bought a beam with a sub for my use in my gameroom. 'Gameroom' is really more of study/bedroom size room that is used for video gaming 99% of the time. Good sound is important in the room (although the kids seems to be on headphones most of the time) and a good size for the beam, but I also really wanted good bass beyond what the beam would do on it's own. I would guess thought that I'm not the typical case, but then again, Sonos does sell the beam+sub in a set.

I've a Beam and a pair of play 1s. When everything works they sound really good, and I'm very pleased. The invisibility of the system is it's absolute strength - there's a lot of sound for hardware that you barely know is there. For stereo TV it's a home run - really good product.

The system really exposes problems with TVs, consoles and players in the way they pass audio formats around - and if one part of the link doesn't work then surround sound won't happen. I'm slowly working through my issues, but I'm still pretty miffed that I can't get a PS4 to transcode DTS codecs. I get why Sonos don't support Atmos on a 5.1 system, but lack of DTS support is harder to justify, it's pretty ubiquitous in this day of age, and it would save their customers a lot of hassle. Blu ray and home cinema buffs should probably stick with traditional home cinema brands.

I suppose I'm lucky, I use a lot of streaming services and transcode my physical media to a good Plex server, so I can get around most of the issues. I guess I'm the type of customer Sonos knows.