Sonos playbar

Advantages: Convenience of using the system, cool design, great sound for the movie. On Playbar, 9 speakers for different frequencies, in principle, the bass is also good at working out. Especially in the movies.

Disadvantages: It's still not a system for playing music, although you can turn it on, but it fits the movie perfectly, and hangs under a TV set that looks both visually beautiful and functional.

Comment: Sonos is a technique for those who have not yet reached audiophiles)) But they want to listen to high-quality sound. Plus for those who love the convenience and "usability" of the system. Playbar is very easy to set up and friendly with any mobile / tablets and so on. But still it is designed for TV IMHO. And for good reason it has this form - it hangs under TV. If you want to listen to music, then collect the whole set of Sonos - and sub, and polochniki for other rooms. Then you will be happy.

Advantages: No wires, you can equip the whole apartment with equipment and make a smart music house. It is controlled by a computer, a smartphone, and at a very good signal transfer rate.

Disadvantages: As such, SONOS is not bad acoustics, but still not a hi-end class, and hi-fi is also better.

Comment: I liked that you do not need to connect anything when using, everything is set up once and for a long time, plus there is access to a bunch of music services. You can not bathe with downloading from the network and connect your own audio collection to the cloud. Objectively speaking, this is above all not a soundbar, and not acoustics, but a cool toy for music lovers who have not yet reached audiophiles, the ability to fashionably and modernly equip a house.

Advantages: control system, sound, design, scalability

Disadvantages: delays

Comment: My first cheap acoustics. Prior to this cost Samsung and Skis. But then I decided to buy a new apartment. The most important thing - without a subwoofer there is no point in buying at all !!! But with a subwoofer .. the sound is amazing (my not sophisticated imagination).
Besides sound, the main advantage is the control and connection system. Forget a bunch of remotes, forget about the HDMI input numbers. Everything. Not necessary. The system is controlled from android or iphone. Able to play sound from the TV (via optics) or from the phone (your play lists) or from the Internet with a dozen music services unknown to me. I have mastered only one - Internet radio tunelin - that is enough. He brought in the memory of his favorite St. Petersburg radio stations and found several interesting thematic (Latinos from Colombia, the top 100 from the states, jazz, and radio with fairy tales for the toilet). True, the sound quality of the radio is noticeably different from the tracks from the phone or from the TV.
What is important is that when the TV is turned on, the diaphragm automatically turns on or switches to the sound of the TV. At the initial setting, it asks to hold down the volume button on the remote from the TV set, and further the volume is adjusted by the remote control from the TV or from the phone - very convenient.
And now the main property of the sos: to the playbar, you can buy more columns and arrange them around the apartment in any order. Speakers are connected to the head playbar on their own wireless channel.When registering a column, you prescribe - this is a toilet, this is a bedroom, and this is a children's one. And for each column you can run your own audio stream - a telly in the hall, fairy tales in the toilet, hard rock in the nursery)) or grouped in any order. You can prescribe this left column in the bedroom, and this is the back right in the hall.
I bought three more in this way. Play 1. True, the sound quality of a separate PLAY 1 speaker rather upset me. No hands can not reach compare it with a portable column JBL or BOSE. But the preliminary feeling that they sound worse. It was necessary to buy PLAY 3 (they are 100 euros more expensive).

Advantages: Slim design.
It does not look alien to the TV.

Disadvantages: High and medium are good.
But weak bottoms. Affects the lack of sabefera.
Even the equalizer is not able to change the situation.
Needed to complete the picture sub.

Comment: Separately, it makes no sense to buy it. There are more worthy sound bars.
BUT!
If you have other SONOS components, then you understand the beauty of this system.
It is exactly that the soundbar can act as acoustics for TV, and as a music center in a multi-room scheme.
I repeat, the sabufer is extremely necessary.