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Upgrade Your Sound With Sonos Ray

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Hi All,

Today we announce Sonos Ray, a compact soundbar with impressive sound for its size.

Blockbuster Sound from Sonos Ray

Ray raises the bar for at-home entertainment with new acoustic innovations that deliver balanced sound, crisp dialogue and solid bass.

Room-Filling Sound: Custom-designed waveguides project sound from wall to wall, and advanced processing accurately positions elements throughout your room so you feel like you’re at the center of the story.

Precisely Balanced: A new bass reflex system with a proprietary design delivers thrilling lows with perfectly weighted bass, while custom acoustics precisely harmonize mid and high-range frequencies.

Tuned to Perfection: Like all Sonos speakers, Ray was tuned with the input of the Sonos Soundboard, a collection of leaders across music, film and more. Fine tune the sound even further with Trueplay to create the ideal listening experience for any room.

Enhanced Listening: Sonos’ Speech Enhancement ensures even greater clarity so you never miss a word, while Night Sound reduces the intensity of loud effects so you don't disturb anyone else at home.

Compact Design: Whether you’re placing it on your media stand or tucking it inside a credenza, Ray’s understated and impressively compact design blends into any space.

Sustainable Sound: Ray also features our most sustainable design packaging to date, with a gift box and protective cushions that are 100% post-consumer recycled paper.

Ray brings Sonos' category-leading simplicity and versatility to a more accessible price point, making it easy to build your first home theater setup or expand in more rooms. The new soundbar is compatible with all of your favorite streaming services, so you can enjoy movies, music and more with simple setup and control - just open the Sonos app and start listening in minutes. You can easily control Ray with your existing TV remote, the Sonos app, Apple AirPlay 2 and more. Add a pair of Ones to your home theater setup for surround sound or connect to any Sonos speaker for multi-room listening.

Sonos Ray is available globally on June 7, 2022 for $279 USD, €299, £279, $399 AUD / $449 NZD. You can purchase Ray directly from Sonos.com: Sonos Ray

Read the full press release on Sonos Ray and Roam Colors here.

Sonos Ray

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DrKoch

Trending Lyricist I

The rumor was that these could be used as rears. Is that something that is possible to do with an Arc in a big room? If so, will their be mounts/stands to do so?

I would really love the option to hang the Sonos Ray on the back wall of my TV-room and use my Arc as front speakers and the Ray as a single stereo rear speaker… Hopefully, this will be made possible :-)

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Mitchellsx

Renowned Enthusiast II

The rumor was that these could be used as rears. Is that something that is possible to do with an Arc in a big room? If so, will their be mounts/stands to do so?

No. Ray is a soundbar that lives at the front of the room connected to a TV.

What do you think about using this as a PC soundbar?

I think it would be a great addition to a PC desk setup! In fact, I’ve written an article about using various Sonos speakers with your PC that you can find here: Using Sonos as PC Speakers

Bit disappointed it can’t be used as a rear up firing speaker, I think people really wanted that more than just another smaller soundbar. The ARC needs to get its game up so it can compete with other soundbars that have upfiring rears.

Thanks for the feedback. I’ve passed it on to our product team.

Thank you if you could, I think its a very requested addition that sonos users are asking for..

Jeffrey_35

Headliner III

I assume that the holes on the back are consistent with the other soundbars like Arc/Beam so it can use the Sanus/Rocketfish type hanging brackets that attach to the tv?

“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.”

melvimbe

I assume that the holes on the back are consistent with the other soundbars like Arc/Beam so it can use the Sanus/Rocketfish type hanging brackets that attach to the tv?

There is a separate mounting bracket for the Ray. The Beam mounts from the bottom, while the Ray mounts from the back, so certainly can’t use it for that. That said, I would bet most of the generic VESA mounts to attach soundbars to TVs would work with the Ray.

Danny

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Mitchellsx

Renowned Enthusiast II

@Caroline V. Are there any plans to bring out some rear atmos speakers? I think these are one of the most requested products Sonos users ask for. Still baffled that sonos released another soundbar..

James L.

Retired Community Staff

@Caroline V. Are there any plans to bring out some rear atmos speakers? I think these are one of the most requested products Sonos users ask for. Still baffled that sonos released another soundbar..

We don’t share details on our future roadmap, but I’d be happy to pass the request on to our product team for consideration 🙂

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ElectricPaul

Lyricist I

I see that Sonos Ray is advertised as a ‘gaming’ soundbar. Is it going to offer an improved latency when gaming on a PC compared to the original Beam with a HDMI-ARC to optical adapter?

Airgetlam

I’d think it would be the same, I.e negligible. There’s no perceptible delay when using the optical to HDMI-ARC adapter, either.

Bruce

Airgetlam

Note, that adapter we speak of is one way, from optical to HDMI-ARC only, it does not take an ARC signal and change it to optical.

Bruce

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ninjabob

Chromatic Producer I

As usual £53 dearer than it costs in US or Australia. Rip off Britain 😊

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