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Sonos · £199
Worth being NRY provisional
The small one, and the only thing here under £200. Sonos pitch it as the compact, balanced option for a television, music and gaming, which is an honest description: there is no Atmos and no room-filling trickery, just a clean two-channel sound that is a large improvement on a flat panel. It joins the same Sonos system as the Arc Ultra, which is most of its argument.
- For
- Someone in a small room, or adding sound to a second television without starting again.
- Not for
- Anyone who wants height effects: this is the one bar here that does not attempt them.
What we checked
- Sonos position it as a compact, balanced all-in-one for television, music and gaming. 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.