Sonos Beam Ultra Review: The Soundbar You Really Want
Soundbars are just one of those things; most people don’t necessarily want to own one, but they also don’t want to sit there and try to divine muddy dialogue out of their tiny, underpowered TV speakers, either. The first thing I noticed about the Beam Ultra, both in my initial hands-on and while testing at home, is the speaker’s clarity. While watching movies and TV, even sound-packed media with lots of action, everything felt like it had room to breathe. © James Pero / Gizmodo Behind that wide soundstage are a few mechanisms, one of the biggest being the number of drivers in this generation.
- ▪Soundbars are just one of those things; most people don’t necessarily want to own one, but they also don’t want to sit there and try to divine muddy dialogue out of their tiny, underpowered TV speakers, either.
- ▪The first thing I noticed about the Beam Ultra, both in my initial hands-on and while testing at home, is the speaker’s clarity.
- ▪While watching movies and TV, even sound-packed media with lots of action, everything felt like it had room to breathe. © James Pero / Gizmodo Behind that wide soundstage are a few mechanisms, one of the biggest being the number of drivers
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Soundbars are just one of those things; most people don’t necessarily want to own one, but they also don’t want to sit there and try to divine muddy dialogue out of their tiny, underpowered TV speakers, either. In that way, they feel like a necessity, but just because you’re nudged heavily into owning a soundbar doesn’t mean you can’t love the one that you feel forced to buy, and the $699 Sonos Beam Ultra is the perfect…
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