Beam Gen 2
Sonos · £449
Worth being NRY provisional
The one most people should buy. It is compact enough for an ordinary sitting room, it does Atmos properly for the size, and at £449 it is half the Arc Ultra while joining the same system, so a sub and rears can follow later rather than being decided now. Sonos have iterated this bar for years and it shows in the details rather than in the specification.
- For
- Someone furnishing a normal-sized room who wants one good box and the option to grow.
- Not for
- Anyone with a large room, where the Arc Ultra has the cabinet to fill it and this does not.
What we checked
- Sonos describe the Gen 2 as a reworked Beam, inside and out. Richer Sounds
Marked provisional: the justification rests on 1 source(s); two independent ones is the bar. We publish it anyway and say so, rather than waiting for evidence that may never arrive.