Super device, both individually and in the surround composite

Super device, both individually and in the surround composite

Sonos Playbar: TV Soundbar and Smart Speaker for music streaming (wireless controllable with iPhone, iPad, iPod, Kindle, Android), black (Electronics)

Customer Review

My Playbar I received and installed yesterday.

The Playbar came securely packaged in one of the typical cardboard boxes designed Sonos.
The installation of Playbar runs other Sonos components on the same principle as the installation.
You just have a Sonos component via the app towards inflict, briefly press the Mute and Volume Up simultaneously keys and already the Playbar is detected.
Unlike the speakers you then need at the Playbar still make a few configurations, but this process is very simple only takes a few minutes.

I use the Playbar together with a sub and two Play: 3, so I had these components only once connected to the Playbar. Since I play: Need 3 as a stereo pair for the surround sound, I had this, dissolve the previous connection with the sub and then connect all the components with the Playbar.
First, the sub is added and calibrated (you can also skip), then follow the two Play: 3, first the left, then he right speakers.
Then you have the possibility to adjust the distance of the speakers, where you can choose between three distances here. The choices are less than 0.6 m, 0.6 to 3 m and more than 3m distance from the box.

After these steps have been completed you must have the TV remote control to adjust, this process took me only a few seconds and was completed with a push of a button on the TV remote volume up button.

After the Playbar was now connected with 5.1.-Surround I have only times a few test, among other things, I've looked at a football match, several movies, series and the issues of the day, and listened.

In football game and the cinematics of surround sound came over very good and you got the movies a real cinema experience.
The series and the issues of the day from the surround sound was (unsurprisingly) not much to listen to, but you can tell this vastly improved sound quality of Playbar compared to the normal TV sound.

All in all, I can after a night already say that the sound through the Playbar alone (I have partially the Sub and the stereo pair for testing off) already improved considerably. Through the Sub you get a further improvement in the sound quality even with news and series. For films brings the surround function with the two Play: 3 a really convincing cinema sound. And all that you have to lay cables without.

Other nice features are the Playbar night mode and the vocal amplification mode.
The night mode ensures that loud sounds are attenuated, which especially in action scenes in conjunction with the sub is a very useful feature, because otherwise you run the risk of angering his roommates or neighbors.
The voice enhancement mode ensures that voices are louder and softer to hear background noise. This function performs at low volume means that the spoken word is really a better understanding, but then the sound seems a bit tinny.

After I tested the sound in conjunction with the TV, I also tested music.
Here I noticed that the Playbar also very good for listening to music is appropriate, I now have no direct comparisons between the Playbar, the Play: 3 and Play: 5 made, think, however, that the Playbar as a standalone device very is good to use.
In conjunction with the Play: 3 I noticed that the Playbar, at least at a low to medium volume, much louder than the play:. 3
That is, according to Sonos in mind that players connected synchronously, but play music only each specific frequencies or channels. For example, a connected SUB only low frequencies again.
This leads However, this means that in some tunes, the Play: 3 as well as not to be heard. A bigger problem is the terrible, because you can easily change this in the settings in which you adjust the volume of the surround sound.

Overall I am very satisfied with the Playbar and can as a single solution, and in addition to the sub and the Play: 3 recommend and am already looking forward to the next movie nights with my new surround system.

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