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Even without going through the Trueplay setup to optimize the sound for my particular space through the Sonos app on my iPhone, the sound delivery proved to be a major step up on my TV's own speakers.Īctivating the Trueplay mode (once you've been through the room calibration process), did achieve a slightly wider soundstage, but it sounded a bit too unnatural and otherworldly in a fake 'pseudo surround' way for my ears.
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In fact, its factory sound was better than many larger soundbars I've unboxed recently, which is impressive indeed.ĭespite being a larger room and a different layout arrangement to the way I heard the soundbar at the demo, the Sonos Ray delivered plenty of punch at home and I could place the speaker on the same shelf as the TV without blocking the bottom of the screen.
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Sometimes products don't quite live up to the memory of a professional demo once you get them home, but in the case of the Sonos Ray soundbar, it sounded almost as good straight from the packing crate as I'd heard at the Sonos event.
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Listening to the Sonos Ray at home connected to my own TV via the supplied optical digital audio cable (there's no HDMI port), proved to be just as rewarding. The Sonos Ray delivered plenty of punch at home, and I could place the speaker on the same shelf as the TV without blocking the bottom of the screen
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Moving on to the next demo sequence and the latest Bond movie, No Time To Die, where the car windows are being shot at with the inhabitants barely flinching inside, this was impressively powerful despite the fact that Sonos Ray uses just two mid-woofer speaker drivers inside a comparatively small bass reflex ported cabinet. The Sonos Ray delivered the powerful dialog between Tom Hardy's character Eddie Brock and his alien psyche in Venom: Let There Be Carnage with an impressive amount of depth to give the voices conviction, and despite there being just left and right speakers (a tweeter and mid-woofer each side), vocals steered and panned perfectly in sync with the images on the screen. Nevertheless (and despite the smallish speakers built into the cabinet), there was no feeling of being shortchanged. Dialog can often be the most tricky range of frequencies for many compact speakers to accurately replicate, as mid frequencies in the vocal range rely on mid-woofers that very often aren't large enough to achieve the kind of frequency extension to bring sufficient weight to voices, particularly where male voice are concerned that require a bit more gravitas to make them sound convincing.