The Secret Weapon For Your Gaming Setup? - Sonos Ray Review

Your Gaming Setup is great... but does it have one of these?! Great PC Speakers are a must, but now there's a way to cleanly add a gaming soundbar to your PC! Join PC Centric for the Sonos Ray Review, with audio and sound test! - Links to everything featured below!

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[greatbriton]

You have such a classy editor my dude. I LOVE the subtlety of his humour. 2:15.

[Eric-Wall]

I will now tell you the most important thing to do when choosing speakers of any kind. GO TO THE BLOODY STORES AND LISTEN. You will never be able to choose the best for you by reading. The absolutle only way to get the best you can, is to listen. And compare.

[Mr.Lee]

I started watching your videos 2 months ago from how to build a pc to good pc parts/accessories. I can now say I’m a proud owner of a RTX 3080/i7 11700k that I built myself 2 weeks ago. love all these videos.

[botdx]

Nice video and a very important topic to me, cheap speakers with poor sound can potentially ruin the gaming experience a bit.
I keep my G560 2.1 system though it's a bit outdated but the audio quality is still superb when connected to a proper sound chip.
Personally, I don't like those big bars blocking my desk, I'm using a wall-attached sound bar for my tv set in the living room where it is fine.

Keep up the good work and greetings from Germany!

[MrMikey]

G’Day there,
I’ve become a bit of a SONOS convert and am very keen to get one specifically for PC Gaming as I really don’t love having headphones on all the time.
As soon as I gain approval from the Bank of Wife, I’ll be adding one of these to my “study”. Might even accidentally get the wall mount and a couple of extra ONE SL’s to sit behind my desk for that surroundy soundy-vibe. :)

[antoniogalu]

If you have an iPhone or an iPad, you should try trueplay. Every Sonos speaker I've ever had sounded dramatically better with trueplay.

[camcampbell]

I like how you show us your screw ups! Most folks would have edited that out to look smart and perfect. I don't want perfect, I want normal!

[kevinbrook]

I am old enough to remember when gamers cared about sound. A creative Audigy card was essential, and I went through multiple PC speaker setups like the Creative Gigaworks and Logitech 5500's. Nowadays that all seems to have gone the same way as optical drives. I haven't owned a sound card, a DVD rewriter or Blu Ray drive or PC speakers for at least a decade.

I guess better motherboards, fast internet and computer moving into the front room have completely replaced the need for sound cards, optical drives and PC speakers for the most part.

[CraigFlanagan]

I much prefer using my Creative GigaWorks T40 Series II speakers over a soundbar, upgraded from a soundbar to these and have 0 complaints. Also half the cost of the Sonos too.

[Mr.Glitch]

Fugitive orchestra?! Yeeesss, Portsmouth represent!!! ❤️

[NokeManzo]

I have the Creative Katana v2 which has a sound bar(rgb) and subwoofer and for the price of $329.99 usd vs this for $279.99 usd I have to say unless ur a Sonos enthusiast I dont feel this is the best choice.

[SirGingerOfKnight]

Fugitive Orchestra, nice!

Saw them at a showcase gig with 8 people the other month in Hampshire!

[KingSev]

@PcCentric that is the whole concept of the whole SONOS name, the designer designed it that way so you can read it upside down and it says @SONOS as well. It is genius!

[hostilegamerxbox]

I actually I have the lg gaming sound bar and I love it!

[thetruesupremebacon]

hello my name is macai im new to pc gaming im 13 turning 14 in december i am getting a new pc that i have to build can you give me some tips to help

[SurvivorToHero]

Have the beam, may try the ray eventually…the front forward facing speakers make this tempting for a pc for video calls. The beam radiates sound quite a bit so even with dynamic mics it can be. A challenge

[NightOwlGames]

£50 will get you a LG Z333 you get 2 speakers and a subwoofer best pc speakers ive ever had they sound perfect! claims to be only 80w but still has the potential to annoy the neighbors.

[marcsantos]

So glad someone finally did a video on PC audio. Please do another one, Logitech has a great THX option that sounds amazing.

[mrkmh]

I tried this with my system, I had the Panasonic SoundSlayer sound bar which was fine for gaming but my wife and I like to listen to music on my PC and Alexa. The SoundSlayer just wasn't up to the level we wanted for music. We found the Sonos Ray was even worse for both gaming and music, It just didn't have the power we wanted and the lack of inputs (only Wi-Fi and Optical) was unacceptable. I ended up paying a bit more for Polk MagniFi Mini AX Sound Bar and we love it. If you want to go with a sound bar and want better sound than any PC speakers can produce then Polk MagniFi Mini AX Sound Bar is the way to go. I also compared these to the Bose 600 sound bar which was in the same price ranged and the Polk MagniFi Mini AX Sound Bar blew the Bose 600 out of the water it wasn't even close enough to consider the Bose. The Polk MagniFi Mini AX Sound Bar also has a nice verity of input options including Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, HDMI eARC/ARC, optical, and AUX-in.

[JTHAMMER]

What “optical switcher” are you using?