What Soundbar? €250 - €400 budget

nok2008

Hi, 
Just looking for a soundbar around the budget above. 
Want to use it for both TV and streaming music from phone. So must be able to handle loud volume etc. I have an Alexa dot so if possible linking to that but not a necessity. I have the Sonos Play 3 but Sonos soundbar just too expensive. 
thanks
Posted this during the week but did not appear on the listing so reposting. 

Richersounds.ie: John

nok2008 wrote: »

Hi, 
Just looking for a soundbar around the budget above. 
Want to use it for both TV and streaming music from phone. So must be able to handle loud volume etc. I have an Alexa dot so if possible linking to that but not a necessity. I have the Sonos Play 3 but Sonos soundbar just too expensive. 
thanks
Posted this during the week but did not appear on the listing so reposting. 

Hi NOK2008,

thanks for the post and apologies, I'm not sure what happened your earlier posting!

Have you looked at the new SONOS Soundbar - The Beam? :
https://www.richersounds.ie/p-203473-sonos-beam-black-inc-6-year-warranty-smart-soundbar-with-amazon-alexa-voice-control.aspx

Its £399 so over budget - but at the moment it's a great price in Euro at just €419 including delivery which is a cracking price - check out the What Hi-Fi 5 Star review here:
https://www.whathifi.com/sonos/beam/review


If you did want to stick to the budget do have a look at the Yamaha YSP1600:
https://www.richersounds.ie/cssearch.aspx?searchterm=ysp1600#pgnum=&sort=

At just £299 it is the best you can buy around this price if you are just looking at pure audio quality!

Thanks again and keep us posted if we can assist in any way,

ATVB,

John Mc & Crew

nok2008

Richersounds.ie: John wrote: »

nok2008 wrote: »

Hi, 
Just looking for a soundbar around the budget above. 
Want to use it for both TV and streaming music from phone. So must be able to handle loud volume etc. I have an Alexa dot so if possible linking to that but not a necessity. I have the Sonos Play 3 but Sonos soundbar just too expensive. 
thanks
Posted this during the week but did not appear on the listing so reposting. 

Hi NOK2008,

thanks for the post and apologies, I'm not sure what happened your earlier posting!

Have you looked at the new SONOS Soundbar - The Beam? :
https://www.richersounds.ie/p-203473-sonos-beam-black-inc-6-year-warranty-smart-soundbar-with-amazon-alexa-voice-control.aspx

Its £399 so over budget - but at the moment it's a great price in Euro at just €419 including delivery which is a cracking price - check out the What Hi-Fi 5 Star review here:
https://www.whathifi.com/sonos/beam/review


If you did want to stick to the budget do have a look at the Yamaha YSP1600:
https://www.richersounds.ie/cssearch.aspx?searchterm=ysp1600#pgnum=&sort=

At just £299 it is the best you can buy around this price if you are just looking at pure audio quality!

Thanks again and keep us posted if we can assist in any way,

ATVB,

John Mc & Crew

Thanks for that. Probably just a internet issue when i posted initial post. 
 Do you know if the Beam could be hung underneath the tv. The TV is on a moveable bracket in a corner of the room and was going to attach the soundbar to the tv bracket.  
The specs of the Yamaha of 80W seems low when compared to other soundbars. 
If i upped the budget between 400-500 is anything else suitable. 

Richersounds.ie: Kenny

nok2008 wrote: »

Richersounds.ie: John wrote: »

nok2008 wrote: »

Hi, 
Just looking for a soundbar around the budget above. 
Want to use it for both TV and streaming music from phone. So must be able to handle loud volume etc. I have an Alexa dot so if possible linking to that but not a necessity. I have the Sonos Play 3 but Sonos soundbar just too expensive. 
thanks
Posted this during the week but did not appear on the listing so reposting. 

Hi NOK2008,

thanks for the post and apologies, I'm not sure what happened your earlier posting!

Have you looked at the new SONOS Soundbar - The Beam? :
https://www.richersounds.ie/p-203473-sonos-beam-black-inc-6-year-warranty-smart-soundbar-with-amazon-alexa-voice-control.aspx

Its £399 so over budget - but at the moment it's a great price in Euro at just €419 including delivery which is a cracking price - check out the What Hi-Fi 5 Star review here:
https://www.whathifi.com/sonos/beam/review


If you did want to stick to the budget do have a look at the Yamaha YSP1600:
https://www.richersounds.ie/cssearch.aspx?searchterm=ysp1600#pgnum=&sort=

At just £299 it is the best you can buy around this price if you are just looking at pure audio quality!

Thanks again and keep us posted if we can assist in any way,

ATVB,

John Mc & Crew

Thanks for that. Probably just a internet issue when i posted initial post. 
 Do you know if the Beam could be hung underneath the tv. The TV is on a moveable bracket in a corner of the room and was going to attach the soundbar to the tv bracket.  
The specs of the Yamaha of 80W seems low when compared to other soundbars. 
If i upped the budget between 400-500 is anything else suitable. 

Hey NOK2008.

You could you the Sanus WSSBM1 mount priced at £49 to mount the beam to your TV bracket. (Fits onto most TV brackets).
https://www.richersounds.ie/p-203614-sanus-beam-tv-mount-wssbm1-tv-wall-bracket-for-sonos-beam.aspx

One thing to remember is that Watts does not determine how good a product is just how loud it can be turned up.

The beam is already in the 400-500 Euro budget coming in at 419 which a good price on it.

At the same price point there is the Sony HTXF9000 - 419 Euro
https://euro.richersounds.ie/p-203248-sony-htxf9000-soundbar.aspx

Going above the beam there is the Yamaha Musiccast Bar 400 coming in at 529 Euro
https://euro.richersounds.ie/p-203613-yamaha-musiccast-bar-400-soundbar.aspx

Let me know your thoughts.

nok2008

Richersounds.ie: Kenny wrote: »

nok2008 wrote: »

Richersounds.ie: John wrote: »

nok2008 wrote: »

Hi, 
Just looking for a soundbar around the budget above. 
Want to use it for both TV and streaming music from phone. So must be able to handle loud volume etc. I have an Alexa dot so if possible linking to that but not a necessity. I have the Sonos Play 3 but Sonos soundbar just too expensive. 
thanks
Posted this during the week but did not appear on the listing so reposting. 

Hi NOK2008,

thanks for the post and apologies, I'm not sure what happened your earlier posting!

Have you looked at the new SONOS Soundbar - The Beam? :
https://www.richersounds.ie/p-203473-sonos-beam-black-inc-6-year-warranty-smart-soundbar-with-amazon-alexa-voice-control.aspx

Its £399 so over budget - but at the moment it's a great price in Euro at just €419 including delivery which is a cracking price - check out the What Hi-Fi 5 Star review here:
https://www.whathifi.com/sonos/beam/review


If you did want to stick to the budget do have a look at the Yamaha YSP1600:
https://www.richersounds.ie/cssearch.aspx?searchterm=ysp1600#pgnum=&sort=

At just £299 it is the best you can buy around this price if you are just looking at pure audio quality!

Thanks again and keep us posted if we can assist in any way,

ATVB,

John Mc & Crew

Thanks for that. Probably just a internet issue when i posted initial post. 
 Do you know if the Beam could be hung underneath the tv. The TV is on a moveable bracket in a corner of the room and was going to attach the soundbar to the tv bracket.  
The specs of the Yamaha of 80W seems low when compared to other soundbars. 
If i upped the budget between 400-500 is anything else suitable. 

Hey NOK2008.

You could you the Sanus WSSBM1 mount priced at £49 to mount the beam to your TV bracket. (Fits onto most TV brackets).
https://www.richersounds.ie/p-203614-sanus-beam-tv-mount-wssbm1-tv-wall-bracket-for-sonos-beam.aspx

One thing to remember is that Watts does not determine how good a product is just how loud it can be turned up.

The beam is already in the 400-500 Euro budget coming in at 419 which a good price on it.

At the same price point there is the Sony HTXF9000 - 419 Euro
https://euro.richersounds.ie/p-203248-sony-htxf9000-soundbar.aspx

Going above the beam there is the Yamaha Musiccast Bar 400 coming in at 529 Euro
https://euro.richersounds.ie/p-203613-yamaha-musiccast-bar-400-soundbar.aspx

Let me know your thoughts.

Thanks - just struggling to decide which option; 
but because of price Sony or Sonos - 
So decision is whether the dolby atmos worth going for Sony but that does not have wireless capability for alexa. 
Sonos does not have dolby atmos?? Is that worth getting?

Richersounds.ie: Kenny

nok2008 wrote: »

Richersounds.ie: Kenny wrote: »

nok2008 wrote: »

Richersounds.ie: John wrote: »

nok2008 wrote: »

Hi, 
Just looking for a soundbar around the budget above. 
Want to use it for both TV and streaming music from phone. So must be able to handle loud volume etc. I have an Alexa dot so if possible linking to that but not a necessity. I have the Sonos Play 3 but Sonos soundbar just too expensive. 
thanks
Posted this during the week but did not appear on the listing so reposting. 

Hi NOK2008,

thanks for the post and apologies, I'm not sure what happened your earlier posting!

Have you looked at the new SONOS Soundbar - The Beam? :
https://www.richersounds.ie/p-203473-sonos-beam-black-inc-6-year-warranty-smart-soundbar-with-amazon-alexa-voice-control.aspx

Its £399 so over budget - but at the moment it's a great price in Euro at just €419 including delivery which is a cracking price - check out the What Hi-Fi 5 Star review here:
https://www.whathifi.com/sonos/beam/review


If you did want to stick to the budget do have a look at the Yamaha YSP1600:
https://www.richersounds.ie/cssearch.aspx?searchterm=ysp1600#pgnum=&sort=

At just £299 it is the best you can buy around this price if you are just looking at pure audio quality!

Thanks again and keep us posted if we can assist in any way,

ATVB,

John Mc & Crew

Thanks for that. Probably just a internet issue when i posted initial post. 
 Do you know if the Beam could be hung underneath the tv. The TV is on a moveable bracket in a corner of the room and was going to attach the soundbar to the tv bracket.  
The specs of the Yamaha of 80W seems low when compared to other soundbars. 
If i upped the budget between 400-500 is anything else suitable. 

Hey NOK2008.

You could you the Sanus WSSBM1 mount priced at £49 to mount the beam to your TV bracket. (Fits onto most TV brackets).
https://www.richersounds.ie/p-203614-sanus-beam-tv-mount-wssbm1-tv-wall-bracket-for-sonos-beam.aspx

One thing to remember is that Watts does not determine how good a product is just how loud it can be turned up.

The beam is already in the 400-500 Euro budget coming in at 419 which a good price on it.

At the same price point there is the Sony HTXF9000 - 419 Euro
https://euro.richersounds.ie/p-203248-sony-htxf9000-soundbar.aspx

Going above the beam there is the Yamaha Musiccast Bar 400 coming in at 529 Euro
https://euro.richersounds.ie/p-203613-yamaha-musiccast-bar-400-soundbar.aspx

Let me know your thoughts.

Thanks - just struggling to decide which option; 
but because of price Sony or Sonos - 
So decision is whether the dolby atmos worth going for Sony but that does not have wireless capability for alexa. 
Sonos does not have dolby atmos?? Is that worth getting?

Hi NOK2008.

It really depends how many movies you are going to buy with an Atmos sound track. It is getting more and more common but at the moment not ever movie has this audio format.

As you mentioned the Sony does lack the Alexa functions.
The best the Sonos can output is Dolby Digital+.

It really is down to yourself on this one unfortunately.
The Sony will sound much much better (in-fact there would be no comparison between the two for sound quality) but does lose the Alexa side of things. You can still connect you Dot into the Sony and use its speakers using a 3.5mm to 2 phono cable.
The Sony also has bluetooth which you can use to connect your phone.

The Sonos has more streaming options provided you are registered to the likes of Spotify, Tidal etc.....

nok2008

Richersounds.ie: Kenny wrote: »

Hi NOK2008.

It really depends how many movies you are going to buy with an Atmos sound track. It is getting more and more common but at the moment not ever movie has this audio format.

As you mentioned the Sony does lack the Alexa functions.
The best the Sonos can output is Dolby Digital+.

It really is down to yourself on this one unfortunately.
The Sony will sound much much better (in-fact there would be no comparison between the two for sound quality) but does lose the Alexa side of things. You can still connect you Dot into the Sony and use its speakers using a 3.5mm to 2 phono cable.
The Sony also has bluetooth which you can use to connect your phone.

The Sonos has more streaming options provided you are registered to the likes of Spotify, Tidal etc.....

Thanks for all the advice but if I went for the Yamaha and broken the budget am I getting much extra for the money.

Any bank holiday vouchers if I went for Yamaha

Richersounds.ie: DavidS

nok2008 wrote: »

Richersounds.ie: Kenny wrote: »

Hi NOK2008.

It really depends how many movies you are going to buy with an Atmos sound track. It is getting more and more common but at the moment not ever movie has this audio format.

As you mentioned the Sony does lack the Alexa functions.
The best the Sonos can output is Dolby Digital+.

It really is down to yourself on this one unfortunately.
The Sony will sound much much better (in-fact there would be no comparison between the two for sound quality) but does lose the Alexa side of things. You can still connect you Dot into the Sony and use its speakers using a 3.5mm to 2 phono cable.
The Sony also has bluetooth which you can use to connect your phone.

The Sonos has more streaming options provided you are registered to the likes of Spotify, Tidal etc.....

Thanks for all the advice but if I went for the Yamaha and broken the budget am I getting much extra for the money.

Any bank holiday  vouchers if I went for Yamaha

Hi nok2008,

The Bar 400 does sound fantastic and you are getting the Musiccast functionality as well. It allows you to add wireless rears and integrate it with other Yamaha Musiccast components.

I don't have any movement on the price of the Yamaha unfortunately!

Let me know what you think.

Kind regards

David

nok2008

Richersounds.ie: DavidS wrote: »

nok2008 wrote: »

Richersounds.ie: Kenny wrote: »

Hi NOK2008.

It really depends how many movies you are going to buy with an Atmos sound track. It is getting more and more common but at the moment not ever movie has this audio format.

As you mentioned the Sony does lack the Alexa functions.
The best the Sonos can output is Dolby Digital+.

It really is down to yourself on this one unfortunately.
The Sony will sound much much better (in-fact there would be no comparison between the two for sound quality) but does lose the Alexa side of things. You can still connect you Dot into the Sony and use its speakers using a 3.5mm to 2 phono cable.
The Sony also has bluetooth which you can use to connect your phone.

The Sonos has more streaming options provided you are registered to the likes of Spotify, Tidal etc.....

Thanks for all the advice but if I went for the Yamaha and broken the budget am I getting much extra for the money.

Any bank holiday  vouchers if I went for Yamaha

Hi nok2008,

The Bar 400 does sound fantastic and you are getting the Musiccast functionality as well. It allows you to add wireless rears and integrate it with other Yamaha Musiccast components.

I don't have any movement on the price of the Yamaha unfortunately!

Let me know what you think.

Kind regards

David

Hi David, 

Not 100% decided yet on the Yamaha and just reading a few different reviews and some positive and negative. Will decide during the week

Richersounds.ie: Kenny

nok2008 wrote: »

Richersounds.ie: DavidS wrote: »

nok2008 wrote: »

Richersounds.ie: Kenny wrote: »

Hi NOK2008.

It really depends how many movies you are going to buy with an Atmos sound track. It is getting more and more common but at the moment not ever movie has this audio format.

As you mentioned the Sony does lack the Alexa functions.
The best the Sonos can output is Dolby Digital+.

It really is down to yourself on this one unfortunately.
The Sony will sound much much better (in-fact there would be no comparison between the two for sound quality) but does lose the Alexa side of things. You can still connect you Dot into the Sony and use its speakers using a 3.5mm to 2 phono cable.
The Sony also has bluetooth which you can use to connect your phone.

The Sonos has more streaming options provided you are registered to the likes of Spotify, Tidal etc.....

Thanks for all the advice but if I went for the Yamaha and broken the budget am I getting much extra for the money.

Any bank holiday  vouchers if I went for Yamaha

Hi nok2008,

The Bar 400 does sound fantastic and you are getting the Musiccast functionality as well. It allows you to add wireless rears and integrate it with other Yamaha Musiccast components.

I don't have any movement on the price of the Yamaha unfortunately!

Let me know what you think.

Kind regards

David

Hi David, 

Not 100% decided yet on the Yamaha and just reading a few different reviews and some positive and negative. Will decide during the week

No problem at all Nok2008.