What it is?
From music to films, the latest generation of Beam enriches all your entertainment with powerful and precise sound from wall to wall. Enjoy crystal-clear dialogue for TV shows, films, and games, and stream music from all your favourite services. Advanced processing unlocks spatial audio, creating a virtual surround sound experience with Dolby Atmos. Get set up in minutes and easily control beam with the Sonos app, your TV remote, and your voice.2 Add a subwoofer and rear speakers any time for more immersive surround sound. Easily create a connected system for your whole home when you add Sonos speakers to more rooms.
Key Benefits
- Smarter on the inside - A 40% faster chip pushes the sonic limits for a soundbar this size, creating two new audio paths for a virtual surround sound experience.
- More beautiful on the outside - The new precisely perforated grille elevates the elegant design and blends seamlessly into your home, whether you place beam on furniture or mount it.
- Exceptional sound all around - Go deeper into every scene with spatial audio. Advanced processing creates phantom height channels for Dolby Atmos content to immerse you in a multi-dimensional soundstage. You’ll hear planes as if they’re flying overhead, sense footsteps moving across the room, and feel the music swell all around you.
- Crystal clear dialogue - Oscar-winning sound engineers helped fine-tune Beam to make sure you hear every word and can always follow the story. For even greater clarity when characters whisper or the action intensifies, turn on speech enhancement in the Sonos app.
- High quality at low volumes - Enjoy balanced sound from wall to wall at any volume level. When you want to watch TV but need to keep it down, turn on night sound in the app to reduce the intensity of loud effects and enhance quieter ones.
- Made for music - Stream from all your favourite services with detailed stereo sound, and feel more dimensions of the song with support for the highest-resolution formats, including Dolby Atmos music.
- Breeze through setup - Go from unboxing to unbelievable sound in minutes with only two cables and step-by-step guidance from the Sonos app.
- Perfectly tuned for the room - Using the microphones in your iOS device, Trueplay tuning technology analyses the unique acoustics of your space and optimises the speaker’s EQ. As a result, all your content sounds just the way it should and reaches your ears at the exact right moment.
- More hands-free help - Ask Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant to control your smart home devices, manage your calendar, and more.
- Surround sound, simplified - Get an even more immersive experience when you add a subwoofer and pair of rear speakers. Sonos products connect quickly, easily and wirelessly.
- Customise your sound system - Mix and match products that fit all the places and ways you want to listen. Pair identical speakers for richer stereo sound, build a surround sound system for home theatre, and feel even more immersed when you add Sonos to every room.
Freedom of control:
- Sonos app - Connect all your streaming services, discover new music on Sonos radio, and personalise settings.
- TV remote - The soundbar syncs with your existing remote for streamlined control and no extra clutter.
- Touch - Tap or swipe the top of the soundbar to pause the music, adjust the volume, skip a track, and more.
- Apple AirPlay 2 - Send sound directly from your iPhone, iPad, or Mac, then ask Siri to turn it up from your device.
What else you need to know
Audio:
- Amplifiers: All five Class-D digital amplifiers have been perfectly tuned to the soundbar's unique acoustic architecture.
- Tweeters: One centre tweeter creates a crisp, high-frequency response.
- Midwoofers: Four elliptical midwoofers ensure faithful playback of mid-range frequencies and maximise low-end output.
- Passive Radiators: Three passive radiators enhance low frequencies for balanced, powerful sound.
- Microphones: The far-field microphone array uses advanced beamforming and multi-channel echo cancellation for quick and accurate voice control.
- Adjustable EQ: Use the Sonos app to adjust bass, treble, and loudness.
- Trueplay: This software measures the acoustics of the room then fine-tunes the soundbar. Supported iOS device required.
- Speech enhancement: Turn this setting on in the Sonos app to boost voice frequencies and clarify dialogue.
- Night sound: Turn this setting on in the Sonos app to reduce the intensity of loud sounds and increase the level of quieter sounds.
- Home theatre audio formats: Stereo PCM, Dolby Digital, Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby Atmos (Dolby Digital Plus), Dolby Atmos*, Dolby TrueHD*, Dolby Atmos (True HD)*, Multichannel PCM*, Dolby Multichannel PCM*, DTS Digital Surround
- The Sonos app's Now Playing screen will display what type of audio is being decoded.
- *HDMI5 eARC connection required.
- **This is not an indication of a licensed decoder.
Other details/dimensions:
- Height: 68 mm
- Width: 651 mm
- Depth: 100 mm
- Weight: 2.88 kg
- Colours: Black, White
- Finish: Matte
- Mounting" Threaded mount 12.7 mm / 10-32 threaded mounting socket
- Controls: Use the capacitive touch controls on the product to play, pause, skip, replay, adjust the volume, turn off the microphones. and more.
- LEDs: Lights on the product indicate connection, mute status, microphone activation and errors.
Power + Connectivity:
- WiFi: Connect to WiFi with any 2.4 GHz 802.11/b/g/n broadcast-capable router. For 5 GHz routers, you can either enable 2.4 GHz 802.11b/g/n in router settings or hardwire a Sonos product.
- HDMI eARC: Connect to your TV's HDMI eARC/ARC port with the included HDMI cable. If your TV has an optical output only, use the included Sonos Optical Audio Adapter.
- Ethernet: 10/100 port for hardwiring to your router
- Infrared (IR) Receiver: Syncs the soundbar with your TV remote for streamlined control
- Voltage: 100-240V 50/60Hz internal power supply
- CPU: Quad Core 1.4 GHz A-53
Box Contents:
- Sonos Beam (Gen 2)
- Power Cable I: Length is 6 ft (2 m)
- HDMI Cable: Length is 4.9 ft (1.5 m)
- Optical Audio Adapter: For TVs With Optical Output
- Documentation: Quickstart Guide
