This thing has no business sounding this good, given what it costs. It is a tremendous value for a simple, home theater audio in a box solution.
Now the "good for what it costs" part is important. It doesn't break the laws of physics, you can certainly spend more and get more, but the little dedicated subwoofer really does a solid job in compensating for the relatively small speakers in the main unit. It also gets surprisingly loud for its size without introducing meaningful distortion.
Are you going to put this thing in a giant, dedicated home theater or a huge great room with a cathedral ceiling and be happy with the results? Probably not. But in a bedroom, an apartment or an average-sized living room or den, this is likely going to give you results you are happy with for both movies and most casual listening.
When you give it a workout across a bunch of different genres of music, you find the results vary between adequate and excellent. There are some basic physics reasons behind why you normally need much bigger speakers to get truly excellent high fidelity sound. So occasionally the results are a bit flat and uninspired. But it does a pretty remarkable job for what it cost and how big it is. What you will notice if you listen with a very critical ear is that there is some muddiness in the mid-range and the bass rolls off too early because the little sub runs out of steam, but that almost seems unfair to criticize at this price point. Most people won't even notice any of that.
On the other hand, don't get super excited about the strength of the Dolby Atmos effects here. Atmos is designed to create a 3d sound field and place sounds in the physical space around the listener. It is a cool new technology and movies are starting to be mastered in it. Normally that 3d sound effect means you have to have additional channels physically mounted in the ceiling. Like all of these sound bars, it doesn't have actual ceiling speakers and instead has to make do with pointing some speakers up at the ceiling to bounce the sound off the ceiling indirectly.
If you stick it in a basically square or rectangle shaped room with an 8 foot ceiling and no obstructions, it does sort of work. But if you have a cathedral ceiling or sloped ceiling or anything other than the basic box shaped room it likely won't do much of anything. On the other hand, the more basic, 5.1 surround sound effects are perfectly adequate, assuming you can place the little rear speakers properly.
Installation wasn't hard, although note that there are specific requirements that the system sit in front of and a certain distance below the TV because of the Atmos, up-firing speakers. The rear surrounds connect to the subwoofer with standard speaker wires and the separately powered subwoofer then connects wirelessly to the main unit. The little sub is ported, so it can't be set absolutely flush against a wall. It all came pre-paired up and worked perfectly right out of the box.
I have a modern tv, and was able to connect with eARC/HDMI successfully. I also paired my phone to the device using bluetooth and that worked easily too. I can control the volume with both the TV remote and the Apple TV remote control, and so I will almost never need to use the included remote for much of anything beyond initial setup.
There is a reason why this unit got such good reviews on the big audio review channels. It really is a good value for the price.
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Dolby Atmos and DTS:X audio technologies captivate your senses with realistic sound, drawing you into your movies, music, and video games on a whole new level.
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Enjoy deeper bass and indulge in crisper highs. The M-Series All-In-One sound bar has separate tweeters and woofers that are designed to enhance every detail.
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At just over two inches tall, this low-profile sound bar is wrapped with acoustically-transparent fabric that blends seamlessly into any room.
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Unlock the highest-quality audio formats with the simplicity of a single HDMI eARC connection and enjoy seamless control of your sound bar using only the TV remote. HDMI input also fully supports 4K HDR and Dolby Vision passthrough from your connected device.
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| speaker type | Soundbar | Soundbar | Soundbar | Subwoofer | Subwoofer | Soundbar,Subwoofer |
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| weight | 5 pounds | 2.49 pounds | — | 7.1 pounds | 5 pounds | 3.97 pounds |
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Awesome for bedroom surround
I have a Full size home theatre setup with large speakers and a 12 inch sub in my living room, so going from that to my tv speakers when its time to head to the bedroom at night was always a disappointment. This fills in that gap nicely, I have the two surround speakers on the far corners of my night stands on each side of the bed facing inwards towards me and the subwoofer under the bed frame. I like a little more bass with my movies so i raised the sub volume a few notches from the normal setting and i can say this little sub punches above its weight class (My bed could be helping this sub perform a bit better due to acting as sort of an enclosure like you would find with a sub in a box for a car stereo, so that might be an idea for some people). I like the way my bed shakes when theres an explosion or something lol. I also use the soundbar to listen to bluetooth music from my phone and it works very well for that also. The treble/high end is a little lacking at normal levels but if you raise the treble level a few notches and also the dialogue level a bit that helps with the high end. Overall satisfied with this soundbar no buyers remorse.
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