Sonos Ray is a budget soundbar packed with features for £279/$279

- Sonos has expanded its portfolio with the launch of a 3rd soundbar. The Sonos Ray would be the least expensive soundbar within the firm's providing, sitting beneath the Sonos Beam Gen 2 and the top-of-the-range Sonos Arc.

Taking up an identical design strategy to the Sonos Beam Gen 2 however with a couple of key variations, the Sonos Ray is a compact soundbar that options an angled rear and a speaker grille on the entrance solely, permitting it to be positioned inside a TV unit for instance.

There are 4 Class-D digital amplifiers making up the soundbar's acoustic structure, together with two full-range midwoofers, two tweeters and cut up waveguides to venture sound with one directing forwards and one outwards. There's additionally a bass reflex system to assist with low-end frequencies.

Connection is by way of optical relatively than HDMI, and there are not any good assistants on board the Sonos Ray or Dolby Atmos help, just like the Beam 2 and Arc. You will discover contact controls on the highest of the Ray just like the Sonos Beam Gen 2 and Sonos Arc although, and you'll nonetheless management the Sonos Arc along with your voice by way of one other good speaker.

Most of the options you'd count on from a Sonos speaker are on board Ray too, together with compatibility with over 100 music streaming companies and Trueplay for tuning - which shall be essential in case you place the Ray in a TV stand relatively than on prime.

There are additionally options like Speech Enhancement and Evening Sound, each of that are current on the Beam 2 and the Arc. In fact, the Sonos Ray works with every other Sonos audio system you will have and it may be used as a conventional Sonos speaker when not enhancing your TV audio. 

The Sonos Ray will are available in black and white color choices and it'll price £279 within the UK, $279 within the US and €299 in Europe. It will likely be obtainable from 7 June.

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