Bose TV Speaker Soundbar
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Price: £228.97
Brand: Bose
Description: Bose TV Speaker Soundbar.
Category: Home Entertainment
Merchant: Electric shop
Product ID: tvspeaker
Delivery time: 5-7 Working Days
Delivery cost: 0
EAN: 0017817811521
Author: Old Peculier
Rating: 5
Review: We sat down to enjoy our new 4K TV, and immediately found that we loved the picture, but also found, to our dismay, that the sound was somewhat tinny and, worst of all, the spoken dialogue was very hard to hear, especially if the actors did not stand up straight and speak like an Englishman! It seems to be the case, that a really good budget 4K TV provides an excellent picture, but will cut corners somewhere, and that is usually the sound, probably on the assumption many can address that by investing in additional speakers of some sort. OK, in our case, the poor sound was not helped by the fact someone (who shall remain nameless) is also going a bit deaf, especially in the base and mid tone areas. Obviously, this meant we had to break open the piggy bank, again, and invest in an Amp and some additional speakers or, perhaps, just a Soundbar. The Amp and Speakers option can be the optimum solution but, that is very expensive, especially if needing the HDMI throughput to be 4K. Soundbars seemed like a good idea, until you start looking, and find they come in all different prices, with often confusing reviews. As luck would have it, I already had a very nice set of BOSE Headphones, and the sound quality there is first rate. So, I decided that BOSE could be a good option to consider first. After a lot of pondering, I kept coming back to the BOSE TV Speaker (Soundbar), because the reviews seemed to be consistent, and the price at around £170 was not too painful. One click, and it was ordered, and then here the following day. Easy to set up via an HDMI Cable connected to the eARC port on the TV, after which the BOSE TV Speaker instantly improved the sound, both in terms of base and dialogue. Even better, it also features a dialogue enhancement option. When that is active, one of the two little LED on the top goes from White to Green. That feature dramatically improves dialogue still further, so much so, that we just leave that on full time. Are we pleased? Yes. Would we recommend this? Yes, without hesitation. The BOSE TV Speaker is an excellent choice that balances price and audio quality very well indeed. You can improve on this, but the cost will rapidly escalate to get anything better.
Author: J. Davis
Rating: 2
Review: The good points...It really does boost the voices. If that's all you care about, this will do the job perfectly. The bad points...Everything else really. The sound has far too much treble, almost no middle, and a muddy bass. It doesn't even attempt to emulate anything like suround sound, clearly being sound coming from a single point under your tv. And there are almost no settings available - only a limited bass boost which did very little, and a further unnecessary voice boost - so this can't be remedied. What few options that are available to control are hard to control. For example you increase the bass not by increasing the bass, but by pressing the bass button then the volume buttons then the bass button again, guessing the results by some esoteric flashing of lights. The volume buttons on the other hand do work, but it doesn't tell you how high or low the volume is, so you don't know if you are at or near the max before actually playing something. The power light is very bright white, and doesn't fade after a few minutes like it does on most soundbars and tvs, so is very intrusive when watching with lights out - a stupid and unnecessary design decision. The bluetooth function is strangely aggressive. Every time I turned my phone on somewhere in the house, the soundbar powered up and connected to it. It did this even when I had manually unpaired it, somehow discovering my phone again. So if you want your phone's bluetooth on for someting else, you have to actually unplug the soundbar to dissuade it from connecting. And connecting via bluetooth also overwrites the sounbard's hdmi connection to the tv, which for my Samsung required a complete power down and back on each time I wanted to persuade the soundbar to recognise it again. So all in all, very dissapointing. I went with Bose due to the name's reputation and the many great reviews. But it is now on its way back to Amazon for a refund.
