Sonos Era 300 - Black - Wireless, Alexa Enabled Smart Speaker with Dolby Atmos.

If you're looking to add wireless speakers, etc. to your TV or other entertainment devices, Sonos is the way to go. Sonos is quite expensive, but you're buying not only high-quality audio devices but also the flexibility of being wireless for sound and the interconnectedness of all the Sonos devices. The Sonos app recognizes all of your various devices and makes it easy for them to work together. You can assign devices to specific rooms or, if you want, set up a home audio network where music is played everywhere. The Sonos app also integrates access to Apple Music, Amazon Music, or just the Sonos music that they offer. For a home theater, starting with a Sonos soundbar opens the door for adding other Sonos speakers and a Sonos subwoofer. The sound bar, while using the Sonos application on your smartphone, will recognize other speakers and a subwoofer in the room. You also can configure the speakers to work separately, or they can be part of a surround sound system tied to the Sonos sound bar. The nice thing about each of the system audio components is that individually, you can touch the component (a speaker or soundbar for example) and control the room sound level, so you don't always have to go to the Sonos app on your smartphone to do so. You can get great sound for your entertainment system without requiring a receiver and complicated wiring. Generally, you just need: • A power cable • An HDMI cable for connecting to a TV • Preferably an Ethernet cable so all the devices can work over your Wi-Fi network • The Sonos subwoofer can work wirelessly, without requiring an Ethernet cable connection which is optional

Superb audio for large living room

I upgraded our Sonos Arc system, (which had consisted of Arc, Sub, and a pair of Sonos Ones), to Arc, Sub and a pair of Era 300s. Once I got everything set up perfectly the sound is nothing short of otherworldly! Even on a low volume setting the sound just seems to come out of the atmosphere. That said, the set up was not as straightforward as one might expect. The directions are not easy to find for every situation. First you need to decide whether you want to set it up ultimately as a surround system, or put the emphasis on stereo music. Though you can switch back and forth, it’s somewhat complicated to do so. I tried it out both ways and settled for the surround mode and the music is still spectacular. I did ultimately call the Sonos help line to help me set things up so that my existing remote controls worked with the system rather than just the Sonos app. I got through to a rep in less than 5 minutes and he patiently walked me through the needed changes. One last complication I ran into after the helpline call: I performed the Sonos Trueplay procedure repeatedly and it kept saying something went wrong and to try again.Get this: I wear hearing aids and they were interfering with the Bluetooth setup. I turned off both my hearing aids and the Bluetooth on my iPad and Trueplay immediately did its thing. Then I turned my hearing aids and iPad back on, and everything worked as it should. From classical, to rock,to jazz, to Bluegrass the music is sensational! So, now the music is sensational, the TV surround is fantastic, and speech is more clear than it has ever been. We invested a fair amount of dough, but this now truly is a case of quality isn’t expensive, it’s priceless, as even my wife, who thought I was nuts to spend this much ,is absolutely thrilled with the end result. If Mama ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy,and Mama’s happy.

I bought a sonos arc ultra soundbar, a sonos subwoofer gen 4, and 2 sonos era 300 speakers for rear channel in our family room home theater. We use them with a 83" LG OLED C5 TV. Also for playing music without the the TV over a streaming app. It's incredible. The simplicity and audio quality are amazing. We used to always watch TV at night. But now with our Sonos setup, we will spend evenings with the TV off and listen to the amazing audio provided by Sonos. I've tried a variety of speaker systems o er the years... but this is my favorite setup. It's not cheap... but the quality and experience is amazing. If you want a high quality home theater system... get the same speakers I purchased.

I've used many products over the years that combine hardware and software, and Sonos is just tragic. Their hardware is excellent. Sound quality, and specifically the ability to fill a room with sound from a single, small, unobtrusive speaker like this one is excellent....when it works. However, if the software to talk to it, set it up, and use it day-to-day is garbage, then it makes all that excellent hardware useless. Sadly, this is the case with Sonos. The main problem is it just loses connectivity and stops playing for no reason. No problem you say, just restart the app. Nope. It won't connect to the speaker. OK, then just reset the speaker. Two issues: First, that's a 50/50 roll of the dice. Sometimes it reconnects, other times, it just refuses. You now have an expensive brick until it decides to reconnect. Second, I had the speaker up on a high shelf in a room with a 20ft ceiling, so it was up about 8ft. Resetting the speaker meant getting a ladder! Every....single....day. This just should not be....ever. I called Sonos, I wrote to Sonos, I filed service tickets with Sonos. Nothing. Zip. Nada. They couldn't be bothered to even respond, let alone help solve the problem. Do an internet search folks. Mine is not a unique experience. Many people have reported the same exact issue. And don't let the review stuffers on Amazon fool you. Do your research so you don't end up with an unusable brick.

Amazing sound from a small package. Work great as a stereo set too.

Amazing speakers. Definitely a game changer. You will get and feel the true surround sound with these bad boys. You can never go wrong with Sonos.

My first Sonos experience. The good: Packaging was really nice, well done, easy to access and the overall setup and install was very easy and intuitive. Pairing the two in a speaker group was easy as well and the sound is incredible. Rich, deep, and immersive. It feels like my entire living room, vaulted ceilings and all, is a studio space with sound that I think would be hard to beat at this price point. I just smile every time I turn them on. Support for Apple AirPlay is a big, big plus. The frustrating: The app. It's not intuitive to use on a daily basis, controls don't make sense, but most of that I would overlook if the app just worked consistently. I have app crashes on my iOS device, frequently, and frustration with sound control and synching the playback with my Move 2 which I just recently purchased from Sonos as well. I'm honestly shocked at how poor the app is give the quality of the speakers. The middle of the road stuff: The voice integration works well enough. I find that many of my voice commands simply are not understood but it might be my prompting and how I'm trying to interact. It's not as intuitive as Alexa devices or Siri, but for the basics it works well enough. On the fence regarding expanding my Sonos footprint at home. I really want to, the sound is amazing, but the app really, really needs some help.