"I shouldn't have to buy another piece of equipment to make this $700 soundbar work", "Sonos should have designed it with more inputs", and "Sonos should have designed it to pass through HDMI."The thing is... if you don't like Sonos, you won't like a SonosPlaybar

THese things just work great and sound

they release an update recently that made an easy set up even easier and these things sound AMAZING

I can't begin to say enough good things about the Sonos Playbar or Sonos as a whole.

I'm not sure how on earth there are reviewers that say these things are difficult to set up

And the nice thing about SONOS is that it manages music from these different services in a single playback queue - so one song came from Spotify, then a couple from one of my ripped CDs, the next from Spotify

And personally I enjoy this thing just fine without the subwoofer.

And personally I enjoy this thing just fine without the subwoofer.

Like many things should, this just works

This thing is rather overpriced for what you are getting.

Depending on the source, and the material, and the streaming service, and the audio switch I was trying at the time- things would work great, and then not at all, or sound terrible with one thing, and great with everything else

Sure, I could buy a receiver or high-end Blu-ray player that would decode/transcode the source material and send it via optical-out in plain DD 5.1, but the Playbar is supposed to simplify things, not make them more complicated with more components

Love this thing have to get sub for best experience possible

Having your choice of speaker system system dictate what you many and may not listen to, and how you may listen to it is a terrible thing

Not only does this thing sound amazing when your in front of it, but it also sounds amazing in the dining room a room over

No "well you just have to..." or "sometimes it does xyz, but overall i'm happy" no sinking feeling that the next great thing you built up in your head isn't quite as great as you built it up to be

I can understand why SONOS chose this single-input approach - if there were an "input" function on the PlayBar to switch inputs, chances are things could have gotten confusing for some users

This is certainly a positive thing in this era

For me this is one of the most important things for me when watching

The great thing

Better than a movie theatre!I can't say enough good things about this product.

The worse thing is it stopped playing sound less than 24 hours after setup.

Not going to blow your ears off, but this thing has great sound and love the ease of installation

Happy overall just a few things that bug me.

Other than the excellent sound, the best thing is that my wife knows how to use it

The only thing I wish it had was a regular audio port, my optical audio port on my tv is broken but that doesn't take away from the quality of the sound

I'm still not 100% convinced of that, but this thing (with the Sub) is simply fantastic

Cannot say enough good things about the music streaming side

One thing to note, your TV will need to support multiple inputs if you want to support several devices.

Absolutely love this thing

This was when things started to fall apart

Follow up: Now that I have owned this for awhile, I can still say this thing is great

Sure, the Sonos then performs a make-believe 5.1 "simulation" on the resulting signal, but if I spend $700 for a playbar, $50 for a bridge, and $600 for two Play 3's for back-channels, I'd like real thing, thanks.

They have turned a wonderful system into this awful thing that I now hat and loathe using

The greatest thing about the Playbar is that it is two devices in one

I like two things about this sound

And that's a good thing, because none of the Atlanta vendors listed on the Sonos website as carrying the PlayBar had it in stock

Cool thing come out of the Sony play bar Tv sound bar and wireless speaker for streaming music for tv

One thing to know in advance is that if you can't hardwire at least one of the sonos products when building a 5.1 system you will need a Sonos Boost as well.

but this thing smokes that and has lasted longer.

I can't say enough good things about this product

The best thing is when all system sync together with little effort.

Amazed at how easy this thing is to set up.

This thing is awesome.

So this is the next best thing, sound is great and can play my music wirelessly!

If your TV does not support the output of Dolby Digital 5.1 via it's optical out (very likely that it does NOT), then the only thing you'll be listening to is a PCM (stereo) audio signal.

One negative thing about it is the soft fabric which is difficult to clean/wipe and it attracts a lot of dust

This being a completely reasonable thing to say for a speaker that cost $100 or $200 but for what they charge is unexplainable

This thing sounds so good for how minimal it is

I can't say enough good things about how simple it is setting up a new Sonos speaker

This device is as awful as I suspected