Customer Ratings & Reviews

Couldn't hardly tell the difference between the TV speakers and this entry level Sonos soundbar. Definitely not worth it in my opinion. I can understand why you might want it for some applications - two stars.

When I tried to work the remote for sound it didn’t work so techs came back out & he still couldn’t get it to work. Took sound bar back

I would not recommend this product to anyone. After watching several videos from Sonos and on you tube I was never able to get this product to work properly and ultimately gave it to my tech savvy brother in law who also had the exact same issues.

Bluetooth does not work, tried connecting multiple times.

I have to turn the volume up only with my phone other than that its fantastic!

[Employee of bestbuy] it fine I think we can find better speaker whit this price

Sonos bills the Ray Sounder as a great choice for people who want big sound in a small space, but I have to tell you, it is great for big rooms as well. We have a 60" TV mounted above our fireplace in our main living room/kitchen area (open concept). We have found that some sounds and especially dialogue can seem a bit muffled or 'lost' in all that open room. We don't tend to watch movies and such in there, we have a multi-media room for that, but we do watch lots of news and my wife watches her reality TV shows in there, so lots of dialogue. The Ray product description talks about how it is tuned to help with voices and dialogue, and I have to say, Sonos and the Ray delivered in spectacular fashion. Everything sounds crisp and precise no matter where you are in the room or what you are doing. For that reason alone, the Ray is completely worth it for me. The Ray is also incredibly easy to set up. I was able to plug it in to the power plug behind the TV and slot the digital audio cable (fiber optic) without even having to move the TV on my mount. I had already downloaded the App to my iPhone right before opening the box and within a couple minutes I had the Ray up and running and was ready to 'tune' it for the room. Sonos has you hold your phone so the mic is up and then has you walk around the room sweeping it from high to low as it pings our a tone so that the software can figure out the acoustics of your room. It took me three tries to get it done (first I went too slow because I was trying to minimize the noise I made, on the second try I made too much noise because I was going faster, but on the third try I managed to do everything right). It is completely worth it to go through the tuning because I could tell the difference almost immediately. It really felt like the sound was being beamed right to my ears. I was as happy as could be with the set up and sound of the Ray and my wife was even impressed with the sound and she hardly notices that stuff. Unfortunately, the next day we started running into a problem. While I was able to get my Samsung and the Ray to talk that first day and was able to control the volume with my TV remote, it stopped working the next day and I had to go through the troubleshooting process. Got it to work again and my wife was happy. The next day, same exact thing. While I appreciate the the fiber optic connection for it's sound quality, and lack of delay, I'm really wishing that Sonos has put in an HDMI connection, because I have YET to have a problem controlling a sound bar through that way (though I HAVE had problems with sound synching through HDMI). The Ray is new and so is my Samsung TV so I'm hoping that maybe we might get this worked out with a firmware update to one or the other or both. It also wouldn't be a problem if all shows and commercials were required to be leveled to the same volume, so that you didn't need to crank down/up the volume all the time and could instead, just find the precise volume that works for you and let it be. Finally, I really hope that Sonos also makes a TV undermount for the Ray. It has one available to mount it directly to the wall, but I don't want to have to do that. Right now it is sitting on the mantle, which is fine in the short term but I would really like it slung underneath the TV so we don't have to see the cords. It is such a diminutive soundbar that it shouldn't need anything fancy or too bulky. I'm sure I could find something from a 3rd party but I would prefer to have one made especially for the Ray. All-in-all, I am VERY happy with the Ray. I eventually got my wife to put the Sonos App on her phone and she can adjust the volume there for the time being, but I would really like for Sonos to come up with a solution to utilize the remote we already have a bit better. For the price, the Ray is an outstanding addition to any TV setup and will vastly improve the sound quality of your shows regardless of the size of your room.

Sounds clear when listening to your show! I do wish it would have a lil more bass but overall great speaker

Did not work with our new Sony OLEDF TV. Had to replace it with a Bose which worked fine. Give me a break! Don't they test these with major TC manufacturers before they go out the door.

Good for entry level. Adjusting the sound takes an engineering degree. Have to use app on my phone which is really a pain. Have a few days to take it back so I'm returning this boat anchor.

Sonos - Ray Soundbar with Wi-Fi - Black. Nothing extraordinary!

comes with no remote and really has no options like other products do. you either need to download a app. to control volume through your phone or control volume at the soundbar.

Bought this because my other soundbar was fritzing out. I am very pleased with the quality of sound.

Only had it a month -- stopped working properly 2 weeks ago and can't get it fixed??

Poor app setup and didn’t work with my IR remote or generic IR remote. Not the experience I expected from Sonos

no worth the price imo. the five has better sound quality for the price of the ray.

Couldn't get it to connect to my Samsung TV.. What more is there to say.

This is an amazing speaker for the price! I love it with a passion of a thousand suns!

We returned it for a SONOS upgrade bigger soundbar

a waste of time and money. I bought this speaker 30 days ago. it cannot be tuned. I asked the Best Buy geek to tune it, he knew how to connect it but could no properly tune it to my Sony TV. I tried but dialog sounds like it's in a barrel and I'm being overwhelmed with pounding bass.