Sonos has built its reputation in the wireless home audio category with multiroom speakers, soundbars, and an app ecosystem that connects everything across the home. The Beam Gen 2 is Sonos’s compact Dolby Atmos soundbar, built around smaller rooms and TVs up to 55 inches. Five drivers (four woofers and a center tweeter) create a wide soundstage, with three passive bass radiators handling low-end output and five Class D amplifiers powering the array. HDMI eARC connectivity supports lossless audio passthrough from the TV, with Wi-Fi and AirPlay 2 also available for music streaming when the TV is off.
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A powerful portable soundbar that can enhance your favorite movies and TV shows
The Beam Gen 2 uses psychoacoustic processing to produce Dolby Atmos from its five forward-facing drivers. Two of the five drivers handle overhead and surround audio, using software algorithms made possible by a CPU 40% faster than the original Beam. The result is a wider soundstage for movies, TV shows, and games than the original Beam delivered, with crisp dialogue and centered vocals among the soundbar’s notable features. Audio format support includes Dolby Atmos, Dolby Digital, Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby TrueHD, and stereo PCM, as well as DTS Digital Surround for older audio sources.
