I went to best Buy to actually grab the Bose TV Speaker because it was on sale and got to listen to it and was pretty impressed with its sound as well for such a smaller unit
The Bose is nice. THe surrounds are stupid in price though for what they are Though. Like half the price of the main bar itself. Sub not real cheap either, at least for the 700 model.
They're ridiculously priced but fortunately my employer gets 30% off bose products so that made the impact a little easier to absorb. Don't think I would pay full price for it though.
These soundbars from Samsung are the best thing in a price/quality metric, nothing comes close.
SONY HT-a5000
If you aren't blasting music 3 blocks away.. Sounbars are more than enough to get crystal clear sound. You could be more constructive and less childish.
I was just Joking. Not at all serious. Its just sound options afterall.
I miss having my large music speakers, i dont miss how much space they took up. But bars have progressed a lot to the point i considered one. Game and movies wise, my bar beats it but my large speakers could pump some serious music sound out.
I choose Floor Speakers for the Bass and the Ability to create a wide sound field.
Soundbars that have a sub and rear speakers are more than enough for an average home. If you are dropping 10s of thousands on a home theater experience, sure max it out.
Waiting for its arrival
just 2 high quality front speakers and a sub will sound better than basically all soundbars. dont need $10k for that.
Not for movie watching and gaming they don't.
2.1 is still an extremely popular set up.
For Atmos gaming and movies... a decent to great soundbar with rears is better than any 2.1 setup.
With ever-changing technology, does it make sense to pack up and haul most things with you? I thought most people who moved to distant countries, not to mention continents sold things locally as shipping is expensive and things end up damaged.
You're absolutely right for most. In my case, moving overseas is cost free to me, as it is paid by my company... up to like 18,000 lbs. So it makes sense to keep things around. I've lived in multiple countries on different continents and I've only had a few things break over the years. But nothing that was sacred. My Sony Soundbar is EU spec (240V, 50Hz) so I'll be selling it when we move back to the States. And then I'll buy the latest and greatest.
That's my sentiment entirely. You get what you pay for.
There are still cheap ones that are just what you think they are. But now they can go for over a grand with all kinds of advanced tech in them, though IMO buy during sales and go for the $350-500 on sale range.
Your receiver will take in HDMI cables for everything. So the PS5 HDMI cable will need to go into the Sound receiver. The XSX one. The PC cable. Everything has to go through the receiver instead of plugging into the tv. if your TV suppports vrr but your receiver does not, you are not getting vrr.Sound systems need to support VRR? This is news for me, I mostly play with my XM5 headphones and it’s been a while since I researched audio systems, but this caught me by surprise
What about eARC though? My consoles and PC let me enable VRR, and my soundbar isn't HDMI 2.1.
Yep. Vizios are really good for their price to performance ratios. LG, Samsung and Sony are too expensive. For $300, they give you 2.1 surround systems while vizio will offer 5.1 (rear speakers) for the same price.
You are plugging your PC into the soundbar then plugging the soundbar into the eARC slot?
If you want powerful HQ Atmos/DTS-X sound.
XSX and PC both had issues with audio lag over eARC. I also had weirdness when the audio wasn't always detected on start and took a minute or two for a console to recognize it and us that rather than the TV.
