You may get premium Sonos audio for over $100 off for Black Friday

Shopping for a sound bar is among the finest issues you are able to do to enhance your enjoyment of your front room TV. It would make you overlook in regards to the muted audio of your built-in TV audio system, and in the event you play your playing cards proper, it may be the beginning of a whole-home audio answer. For Black Friday, I can consider no higher deal than the one you may get on the Sonos Ray, an entry-level sound bar that usually prices $279, however you may get it from Sonos, Amazon, and different on-line shops for $169.

The Sonos Ray is not as absolutely featured as different Sonos audio system just like the Arc or Beam, however it nonetheless allows you to group the sound bar with different Sonos audio system, and seamlessly move audio from the Sonos Ray to the Sonos Ace headphones whenever you desire a extra immersive listening expertise. Here is the place you may get the Sonos Ray on sale.

The Sonos Ray packs a punch for its small measurement

Deep, loud sound and Sonos software program perks

For its compact measurement — round 21.93-inches lengthy and a pair of.76-inches tall — you may get a shocking quantity of audio oomph out of the Sonos Ray. The speaker will get very loud and loses little or no element at max quantity, which makes it nice for having fun with a blockbuster film at house. It is measurement and variety of midwoofers and tweeters (two of every) naturally means it has a narrower sound stage than a few of Sonos’ different sound bars, however you doubtless will not discover except you are a extra discerning audiophile.

The place Sonos audio system usually shine, and the Ray isn’t any exception, are the additional software program options. Sonos’ app makes it straightforward so as to add the Ray to a gaggle of audio system in your own home, and management what these audio system are enjoying at a second’s discover. Utilizing the Sonos app, you can too tune the Ray’s sound to your room with the corporate’s Trueplay feature. For the reason that launch of the Sonos Ace headphones, you have additionally been capable of switch no matter sound is enjoying out of your Sonos Ray on to the headphones simply by pushing a button. What different sound bar allows you to do this?

A terrific worth makes up for some lacking sensible options

You’ll miss out on just a few issues, in fact. The Sonos Ray does not have any built-in microphones and naturally will not allow you to entry voice assistants like Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, or Sonos Voice Control. If the remainder of your sensible house ecosystem is constructed round utilizing your voice to manage issues, you will not have that choice with the Sonos Ray. As a result of the sound bar connects to your TV over an optical audio cable fairly than HDMI, the Ray cannot leverage any form of eARC options to manage your TV, both.

Even with these lacking options, what the Ray can do is definitely worth the worth. Sonos’ ecosystem simply works higher and extra seamlessly collectively than different merchandise do, and if you may get in on that for lower than $200, you completely ought to.

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