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It can be wall-mounted using an optional mount or laid flat in front of your TV, with the built-in accelerometers automatically sensing the orientation and adjusting the sound accordingly. This is a really nicely made and minimally styled unit that blends in neatly. If you do take the plunge you’ll start to consider it money well spent as soon as you take the unit from the box.
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The Sonos Beam has since launched with HDMI, should you prefer a Sonos TV speaker with this connection. You definitely want to check if your TV’s got one before forking out on a Sonos Playbar. This has advantages in terms of simplicity – all of your devices stay connected to your TV as normal and you have just one cable connecting the TV and Playbar – but it’s not as neat as those systems with multiple HDMI inputs and a single HDMI output for video.Īnd while optical outputs on TVs are pretty common these days, they haven’t been for that long. Disappointingly, there’s just one way to do this, and that’s via digital optical cable. The difference is that the Playbar also connects to your TV. Of course, you can buy a simple Sonos One or Sonos Move if all you want is lots of music. MORE: Sonos tips, tricks and features Set-up Despite the fact plenty of other players have entered the wireless, multi-room market, the Sonos proposition remains a very compelling one, thanks to a slick interface and a willingness to support new features and services.
