Sonos Beam

More deft and refined sound than most affordable soundbars, and with the bigger audio of Dolby Atmos

£449

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The original Sonos Beam was one of the best soundbars around, particularly because it brought high audio quality in a size small enough for compact TVs, which is not so common among other soundbars from big brands.

The second-generation Beam is the exact same size, but breaks new ground by including Dolby Atmos in such a small body. And it sounds ace, bringing the same quality and nuance to your TV’s audio, but now with extra width and the extra position that Dolby Atmos can deliver.

The on-board processing here is massively more powerful than that in the original Beam, and this allows Sonos to deploy some potent digital sound processing in an effort to extract meaningful height, as well as width, from the second-generation Beam’s presentation.