Our Overall Score:
9.2/10
Thanks for stopping by to read our SONOS Beam 3.0 Compact Sound Bar review. Here we’ll take a look at a range of the key features, benefits, positives and negatives to help you decide if SONOS Beam 3.0 Compact Sound Bar is right for you, or if you should be looking for a different product in the Home cinema systems and sound bars category.
Latest price search at Currys PC World: £359
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There are many factors that we consider when buying, and reviewing products like SONOS Beam 3.0 Compact Sound Bar. In this review we will take the 4 main considerations and look at how they stack up against the competition, be it other products from the same brand, Sonos or alternative products in the Home cinema systems and sound bars category. The 4 factors that we’re going to explore now are, Quality, Price, Reviews and the overall score.
Quality of SONOS Beam 3.0 Compact Sound Bar
SONOS Beam 3.0 Compact Sound Bar scores 8.6/10 for quality in our review.
Quality is a very important factor when it comes to buying any product, but it’s particularly important with Home cinema systems and sound bars. It’s never going to be easy to get a real feel for the quality of a product without being able to see or even test it.
This is why it’s so important to read lots of customer reviews, where you will be able to get an understanding from many of the customers of SONOS Beam 3.0 Compact Sound Bar, just how good it is, in terms of quality. Take your time to read through the reviews looking for specific comments about the quality. It’s worth spending time looking for reviews from customers that have owned the product for some time as that will give you a really good idea of the product’s durability.
Our best advice for checking out the quality is reading reviews, but also use some of these to help you get an idea of the quality:
- Price: The old saying “you get what you pay for” is a good indication as to how good quality you should expect from a product.
- Specification: Check out the specs for SONOS Beam 3.0 Compact Sound Bar and see how they compare to your expectations and other products.
- Brand: Some brands are known for delivering amazing quality products, it’s a case of trying to find the Rolex equivalent for Home cinema systems and sound bars, but at a realistic and reasonable price.
- Previous experience: Have you ever owned any Home cinema systems and sound bars? Think about your experience of the product and how good it was. What brand was it? How much was it? What was it made from? All of these can help you when considering your options.
Price analysis
SONOS Beam 3.0 Compact Sound Bar scores 9.8/10 for price in our review.
Price is normally the most important factor when considering a purchase. Especially when you’re shopping online, it’s really easy for us to shop around now so we can easily compare prices of the same product against many retailers with just a few clicks. In fact here at Review Pros we do that leg work for you, by comparing many different retailers to find you the best price. But price is also a big factor for which product we choose too, not just which retailer.
To give an example, the most expensive product that we found in the Home cinema systems and sound bars category was £9999.00, whilst the cheapest we found was £24.99 so there’s a significant variance in the prices that different products are available for. For this reason we always recommend that you set yourself a budget before you spend too much time shopping around for a product. It’s easy to get carried away and buying a much more expensive product than you really need, but setting a budget will help to avoid this.
As part of our price analysis we’re going to break the price of SONOS Beam 3.0 Compact Sound Bar down and compare it and analyse it in the following ways.
- Compare to other products in the same category
- Compare to other products from the same brand
- Compare to other products that fit both of the above (the same category and the same brand)
Prices of products in the Home cinema systems and sound bars category
Here we’re going to look at the prices you can expect to pay for products from the Home cinema systems and sound bars category. we’re opted to use Currys PC World for this comparison, as they offered the most competitive prices for SONOS Beam 3.0 Compact Sound Bar.
To start with, we look at the average price of a product in the Home cinema systems and sound bars category. This was £460.46 from the 108 products we found in that category. So SONOS Beam 3.0 Compact Sound Bar actually comes in below average at £359.
We then looked at the most expensive product in the category, which was £9999.00 and the least expensive, which was £24.99. In total we found that of the 108, 41 were more expensive and 66 were less expensive, some products may have then had exactly the same price as SONOS Beam 3.0 Compact Sound Bar.
Prices of products from Sonos
Next up, we wanted to look at products from the brand, Sonos. Again we looked at the average price you can expect to pay for a product from Sonos, which was £405.18 of the 11 products we found. So SONOS Beam 3.0 Compact Sound Bar price is below average for the brand.
The cheapest product we managed to find from Sonos was £159.00 with the most expensive coming in at £649.00.
Prices of products from Sonos and in the Home cinema systems and sound bars category
Then finally on our price analysis we wanted to dig a little deeper by looking at products from Sonos that sit specifically within the Home cinema systems and sound bars category.
For this we found that the average price was £573.80, making SONOS Beam 3.0 Compact Sound Bar at £359 actually below average price.
Then we looked at the highest priced item that falls under this criteria, the price of this was £649.00 with the lowest priced item being £359.00. In total there were 4 items that were more expensive and 0 that was less expensive.
Reviews of SONOS Beam 3.0 Compact Sound Bar
SONOS Beam 3.0 Compact Sound Bar scores 9.2/10 for customer reviews in our review.
Perhaps one of the most important steps in choosing a product that you’re going to be buying online, is reading reviews. The more reviews you can read the better. Take your time to look through a range of different reviews, both good and bad as these will really give you the best insight into how good SONOS Beam 3.0 Compact Sound Bar is.
Overall score
SONOS Beam 3.0 Compact Sound Bar scores 9.2/10 overall in our review.
This part of the review takes the various scores for quality, price and customer reviews and combines them in order to provide you with one simple score to help you determine how good the product is overall. This score can then easily be compared to other products and be used as a benchmark.
There are of course many alternative products from Sonos so feel free to take a look at some of the alternatives, but in the meantime check out the many reviews for SONOS Beam 3.0 Compact Sound Bar by clicking the View Reviews button at the bottom of your screen.
Additional information: SONOS Beam 3.0 Compact Sound Bar
- Brand: Sonos
- Model Number: 10181784
- 5 speakers with dialogue enhancementSupports High-Resolution AudioCompatible with SONOS multi-roomWiFiHDMI
- EAN: 8717755773937
- Description: Voice controlWhy fumble with a remote while you’re playing games or enjoying a snackin front of a film? With Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant built into the Sonos Beam Compact Sound Bar, you can simply use your voice. Just ask to turn up the volume without lifting a finger.Connect to your other Sonos speakersThe Sonos Beam lets you wirelessly connect to your other Sonos speakers for multiroom audio throughout your home, so you can wander from room to room while still enjoying your music.You can expand your Sonos system in different rooms with additional speakers. Use the Sonos app on your smartphone to play music through certain speakers for music while you cook, or group them all together for music in every room, perfect when you’ve got everyone round for a party. And with Apple AirPlay 2, you can stream directly from your Apple devices, and ask Siri to play your favourites from Apple Music.Impressive soundThe biggest films deserve the very best sound. The Sonos Beam Sound Bar puts you in the middle of music, movies and more with rich and balanced sound – and there’s even a speech enhancement mode which means you won’t miss a word, even when characters are whispering.You’d expect this sound to come from a large sound bar, but the Beam is compact enough to sit in front of your TV without blocking your view, and won’t overhang furniture. It has a soft finish, which means it looks as good as it sounds.Easy to set upIf you hate trailing cables running around your room, the Beam is the answer to your problems. All you need to do is connect an HDMI cable between your TV and sound bar and download the Sonos app, so even if you’re not technically-minded, you’ll be able to easily connect the Beam.The HDMI cable’s even included, so you can get set up in seconds.Continuous updatesThere’s nothing worse than not being able to use your favourite app when you want to. With continuous software updates being made to the Beam, you’ll be able to use more of your favourite apps. You can Airplay to the sound bar using your iPhone, iPad, or Mac.
- Product ID: 22026380155
