Bose SB 700 WHT Soundbar 700 in White with Amazon Alexa Built In
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Price: £799.00
Brand: Bose
Description: Sophisticated Design with Exceptional Sound ADAPTIQ Audio Calibration Personalised Bose Music App Wi-Fi & Bluetooth Connectivity Amazon Alexa Built-In Built-In Voice Control Control with Voice, Touch or App Superior Voice Pickup Multi-Room Music HDMI with ARC Connectivity Bass Module & Speakers Icon Universal Remote Control Included Optional Bass Module & Surround Speakers Premium Glass Top Finish Colour: White H58 x W978 x D108 mm. Bose SB 700 WHT Soundbar 700 in White with Amazon Alexa Built In - shop the best deal online on appliances4.me
Category: Audio Equipment
Merchant: Sonic Direct
Product ID: 72511
Delivery cost: 0
RRP: 839.99
UPC: 0017817788816
MPN: SB-700-WHT
Author: DADDY D
Rating: 5
Review: Simply superb in all departments
Author: Marky Mar
Rating: 2
Review: I replaced my old LG SN7CY with this Bose 700 because the dialogue was thin and tinny When I installed the Bose 700, I played the first 5 mins of Return of the Jedi which sounded amazing along the whole range from bass to mids to treble, and more importantly I could hear the dialogue clearly and with nice tone. I then played the first five mins of Saving Private Ryan, followed by some newer movies and TV shows with similar positive results. Music sounded good enough through Amazon music with Bluetooth Right, so here we are. The point where I started to notice some really weird things going on with the sound on this unit as we settled in for the evening and put on a TV show, which happened to be The Handmaids Tale from Amazon Prime which streams in 5.1 audio and is a modern production with all the bells and whistles in the right places - spec wise The scene started off with rain falling around the actors and some ambient music in the background, then a car pulled up and the actor got out and they slammed the car door shut. As soon as that car door shut, the rain and the ambient music went COMPLETELY SILENT for a few milliseconds and then gradually increased in volume to the original loud room filling ambience that it was before. Then once the actor spoke, the rain and music immediately cut out again and then once the dialogue was finished, the background increased in volume again. Basically anytime a signal comes out of the centre speaker, it kills anything in its path that is coming out of the side speakers. I thought this must be a compression setting somewhere, maybe I'm in night mode, or dialogue mode. I checked all settings on the app, only to find that there is no night mode or compressions settings. There is a dialogue mode, but this was definitely switched off. Wimbledon Tennis happened to be on the TV at the time so I watched this and sure enough, the pumping compressor smacked the heck out of that too. You could hear the crowd in the background raised to an unnatural volume level, and every time a player belted the ball across the court, the sound was instantly sucked out of the crowd, only to be raised again as the ball travelled to the opponent. I thought this CANNOT be right for a £700 piece of audio equipment, so I started looking on official Bose forums for answers, only to find that this has been a highly reported problem since 2019 and Bose appear to have done nothing about it. Just Google Bose 700 auto gain issue and you can see the reports I know Bose are a reputable company and I'm sure they will fix this, But I can't wait around for software to be corrected on something that in my opinion, should never have left the factory in the first place like this, or it should at least have a toggle switch in the app to allow the recipient to completely switch off all forms of audio compression and auto gain, leaving the dynamics of the audio exactly how they were originally produced. I can pin point the exact moment I decided to return mine for a refund. I was watching a film called The Dig, which is a heavily dialogue driven film, and I found myself anticipating what the next sound trigger for the compressor would be, completely detached from the story of the film, I found myself listening to just the background sounds of birds tweeting and distant wind blowing in the air, only to see someone walk up to a door and grab the knocker and bang it, and as the door knocker struck home, I thought to myself... here it comes.... That's how I knew on a phycological level that I needed to get this speaker as far away from me as possible.