SONOS Home Theater review!

SONOS has been making great iPhone and iPad controlled wireless speakers for years, but recently they've moved into the home theater space as well. Now, not only can you get all your audio anywhere in your house, but you can get 5.1 surround sound in your living room. Easily. How does is work, and more importantly, how well? Watch now and find out!

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[bluecement]

thanks for discussing the sound quality

[edpercarpio]

very helpful and nicely done review but the background music is unnecessary and very distracting.

[BrianG]

Can also be used with Android and applications on your Windows PC or Apple Mac.  Not just Apple products for those new to the Sonos ecosystem.

Another neat feature, you can play music stored directly from these devices as long as they are on the same network, eliminating the need for Bluetooth or AirPlay.

[Brian]

I have the sound bar and the subwoofer and this system has some serious bang!! Can't wait until I buy my play 5's

[linkusenterprises-systemde]

There is a solution if you have a lot of sources, you can use an hdmi converter that will allow 3 sources to stream into the HDMI to upload into the Sonos playbar.

[MWDAdventures]

Looks great how much does your whole system cost? I have been looking for a good sound bar.

[Paul-xzbd]

How does it sound? Does it sound like a real home theatre system?

[loelstein]

Is there a way to effectively integrate my existing sonos network with my existing airtunes/express/powered speaker network? I've successfully integrated the two networks but experience significant latency between the two audio signals. The airtunes signal is a full two seconds or so behind the sonos audio signal. Any ideas?

[astraeus]

Can you only connect via Ethernet? Can you not connect wireless

[luisfc]

I have a Yamaha receiver rx-v481bl with a optical audio option input, will it work with the sonos soundbar?

[danny]

How did you play a film off your iPad through the controller or was it a diffrent app using wifi to the tv and then the tv supply's the sound bar with audio and the. Streamed it to the other speakers?

[metallian]

Tragically it does not support that completely proprietary System of that complete Proprietary Company... yeah ... i think sonos is not the problem... and by the way I have a gr8 Sonos Controller App on my Android... 

[nickroyce]

I really want a playbar and the sub but it's so expensive! Including tax, just the two will run me around 1500$

[thomassvenwhittaker]

Curious, is a Sonos 5.1 arrangement able to pull 5.1 sound sources from applications, such as VLC or MPC on a Windows PC or Macintosh? I'd like to invest in 2 or 3 Sonos Play3s and a Sonos Sub, primarily for music, though, having the option to play 5.1 audio from my PC in the living room would be a deal-maker.

One of the huge advantages I see with Sonos is the lack of speaker wires, which in a surround sound setup are ugly and cumberson, while also giving incredible audio and the ability to add more speakers later, rather than my current Edifier 5.1 S550, which are incredible, but I'm limited to those speakers, and not simple to replace if a speaker is damaged. 

[badchi]

I thought it was a home theater review, he doesn’t talk about the immersive experience. This review is a waste of time.

[gifford]

That background music 😖. That tv stand 😖. The whole review 😖.

[kingblackss]

$700 for the bar and $700 for the sub wow I seen a LG 9.1 for $700

[zolitariglussey]

I just bought a SONY Receiver to go with our 4K TV thinking we could tie in SONOS to handle the back speaker wireless dilemma without having to crawl through the ugly attic now I realize I screwed up because SONOS is like BOSE, it's the complete system by CRUD and it is too late to take the SONY Receiver back...

[Underhills]

By now these speakers should be battery operated. We have cars that operate on batteries, Sonos should follow up and ditch those power cables. Tesla could provide the batteries.

[MrEverisforever]

I have done a lot of research and Sonos is very expensive and doesn't even have the best sounding playbar. You can buy a more powerful soundbar but lose on the surround sound, or you could buy an amp with wired surround sound and get better quality sound.. However! When it comes to wireless surround sound as a whole they are the best.. You will get 7/10 surround sound from small speakers, wirelessely for a high cost. I personally will be buying them because I don't have the space for large speakers and can always upgrade to the amp later on.