Sonos S36 "Fury" Entry-Level Sound Bar

Seems like they’ve jumped the press embargo time restraint, thanks for the link. 

Price is a bit more than previously rumored. 

Also…

However, Sonos makes no mention of the rumored option to position Ray vertically as Dolby Atmos rear speakers. There are already references to the vertical orientation in the Sonos app, so it may be added later.

The Ray is now available for pre-order on the Sonos website. There is no mention of it being used as a surround speaker… which gives me hope that a new One or Three with an upward firing driver is still possible. Maybe it will be announced on May 25 along with the Sub Mini and/or Sonos headphones.

https://www.sonos.com/en-us/shop/ray

I came to post that, I went through the pre order page but nothing suggests or says that the Ray can be used as a surround speaker 

Meh let down. It's been a good journey Sonos, sadly it's the end of the road. I pick up my Sony HT-A9 tomorrow. :) 

Honestly, I’m happy if the Ray won’t be used for surrounds. I never really liked the idea of using that size/shape speaker as surrounds to begin with. And $558 for a pair of surround speakers is a little pricey.

If I were you, I would wait for the May 25 announcement. I have a feeling what they announce on the 25th will be much bigger than what was released today.

No they won't. The May 25th event has already happened... It was brought forward, most likely due to the leaks. You have a Ray and coloured roams. Guessing with their new voice control stuff coming, that will be it for this year. If I'm wrong, well then I'll hold my hand up. But in the home theatre side they have fallen behind now. No mention of new rears and no DTS codecs means I sadly won't miss it. Maybe I'll return one day, but for now it's goodbye.   

The Verge sort of let us down on the surround sound  idea and on the price.  Leaks are not always accurate.

There is a chance that the feature will be added later on, but if you look at the wall mount for the Ray, it doesn’t really look like it would work vertically.  And I somewhat doubt they would build a separate mount for veritcal placement, if they didn’t need to.

On a positive note, it does look like you can easily slide the Ray on and off it’s wall mount, without tools or anything.  I don’t know why you would really need to do that...but you can.

Goodbye old, hello new. Had to buy a new TV stand for them to fit. Hates me to say it, but they sounds miles better than the Arc, sub and rears. :( Trying to convince the wife to let me use the Sonos in a different room and not sell though, so shall see how that goes. 

 

Goodbye old, hello new. Had to buy a new TV stand for them to fit. Hates me to say it, but they sounds miles better than the Arc, sub and rears. :( Trying to convince the wife to let me use the Sonos in a different room and not sell though, so shall see how that goes. 

 

 

Have you got the sub also? Tempted to chage my ARC for the sony setup… How do you find it with no dedicated centre channel?