Given Apple has a 30-day return policy you could always try it if you don't get a definite answer. My guess is that it would work. The only Sonos soundbars with an HDMI input are the Arc and the Beam, the smaller/less expensive Ray does not have an HDMI input. Do you already have another Apple TV with a TV connected and a Sonos setup elsewhere in the house? If so you could always whatever you want to listen to there and group any Sonos speaker you want even if it were just a single Sonos SL which I believe would be the cheapest Sonos speaker you can buy. If my TV wasn't mounted inside a cabinet with very little clearance which makes it more difficult to unplug things and plug them back in I'd try it because we have a Sonos Arc, but our Apple TV is connected by HDMI to the TV and then the Sonos Arc is connected also by HDMI to the eARC port of our LG Tv. I am most likely going to upgrade to the recently released Apple TV 4K as ours is if I remember correctly the first Generation Apple TV 4K which was released in 2017 with the A10X processor, then they released the second Gen with the A12X processor just last year and this year the third generation with the A15X CPU which I understand is very noticeably faster and of course it comes with the new remote. If I do I can try to connect it directly to the Arc before I put it in place and hide all the cables behind our cabinet.
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