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A soundbar in your home entertainment set-up is an easy way to get a more engaging and
enjoyable viewing experience. The best soundbars pack impressive audio into a self-contained
package small enough to sit in front of or below your TV. This makes it perfect for people
who don't necessarily want to build a bulky sound system with lots of wires and overcrowding
speakers in their living rooms. In this video, we will discuss the top 5 best soundbars available
in the market today. The team has prepared this list for you through
comprehensive research. The Soundbars that have been selected have been chosen based
on product features, reviews in the marketplace, quality of finish and price, and where possible
we have been mindful of the different types of buyers. We do suggest you stick around
until the end to see who wins the number one position on our list.
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to help you navigate through the video. The Soundbar coming in at number 5 on our
list is the Sonos Arc The Sonos Arc is specifically designed to
partner bigger TVs. At 45-inches wide, it is proportionally best partnered with a 55-inch
TV. The team loved the soundbar's curvy design, which helps makes the unit look sleek. The
Arc was designed to work in two orientations, wall-mounted or placed on a piece of furniture.
Our team found that it sounded better wall-mounted because of the higher elevation of the speakers.
The Arc uses its array of speakers to bounce sound off your walls and ceiling to create
a 3D audio effect. The team was impressed to find that the soundfield is tailored to
your room using Sonos' Trueplay technology. This technology allows the soundbar to optimize
the sound for the unique acoustics of your room, allowing you to experience shows, movies,
and games with precise and immersive sound. There are touch-sensitive play/pause and volume
controls on the bar with LEDs that indicate status. Amazon Alexa is also built right in,
so you can play music, check news, set alarms, get your questions answered, and more, by
voice command. In addition to this, the Arc was specially tuned with the help of Oscar-winning
sound engineers to emphasize the human voice. If you have trouble comprehending a show,
simply turn on speech enhancement in the app to clarify the dialogue. Lastly, you can wirelessly
connect and combine this soundbar with other Sonos speakers in order to create a more complete
surround sound arrangement or a multi-room system.
The Sonos Arc is a stunning performer, delivering one of the most immersive audio experiences
you can hear from a soundbar. It s also an app or voice-controlled wireless speaker,
which makes this a superb kit to add to your home entertainment system. We recommend this
to people who want to maximize voice control actions when using their TVs.
The Soundbar coming in at number 4 on our list is the YAMAHA Sound Bar YAS-109
The Yamaha Sound Bar YAS-109 is a compact soundbar with built-in woofers designed as
a plug-and-play solution for your living room. It's a flat, handsomely grilled little bar
that's pretty powerful and intuitive. This soundbar from Yamaha comes at a very
compact package, measuring 2.08 x 5.15 x 35-inches and weighing 10-pounds. It delivers an all-in-one
2.1-channel speaker configuration with two midrange drivers, two tweeters, and woofers
from within its compact chassis. This range of driver types makes for a clean, balanced
soundscape while you're watching movies or TV or playing video games. Our team found
that the YAS-109 sounds best while playing cinematic content, but still does justice
to various other forms of media. This is because the soundbar from Sony has numerous sound
modes. From Movie, TV, Music, Sports, Game, and Stereo mode, each of these does its best
to emphasize the proper frequencies for their specific cases. Our team found the soundbar
easy to plug in and use, with connectivity to Bluetooth 4.2, Wi-Fi, and HDMI. We also
appreciated that this piece of home entertainment has Alexa built-in, so you can start playing
music, listening to news, setting alarms and timers, asking questions, and controlling
smart home devices with your voice. All in all, for a product that comes at a
reasonably affordable price point, the Yamaha Soud Bar YAS-109 punches above its weight
class in terms of aural fidelity and EQ flexibility. Our team thinks this soundbar offers the best
bang for your back out of all the products on this list. That is why we recommend this
to people who want an entry-level soundbar that's just as good-sounding as it is budget-friendly.
The Soundbar coming in at number 3 on our list is the Klipsch Cinema 600
This compact soundbar from Klipsch is an affordable choice for delivering excellent music performance
that you and your whole family can enjoy in your living room.
Measuring 2.8 by 3.4 by 45-inches, the soundbar features a wooden enclosure and a cloth-lined
grille covering much of the visible surface area. The team loved this sound bar's compatibility
with Dolby Digital. When available, the Cinema 600 will play audio encoded with Dolby Digital,
allowing for discrete dialogue channels and a more theater-like experience. Our team recommends
you to opt to add rear surround channels for the best theater-like results. In addition
to this, the sound bar's Surround mode sounds good, not gimmicky. It aids in clarity with
dialogue, and it expands the stereo field significantly. Switching between Surround
and Stereo modes, the audio retains excellent clarity in both, but the soundstage feels
widened with the effect on. However, our team doesn't recommend using Surround mode for
music, as it tends to make studio-recorded tracks sound a bit odd. The Cinema 600 also
comes with a wireless subwoofer in an attractive wooden enclosure. It's larger than the subs
that are usually included with soundbars, with a 10-inch down-firing driver for deeper,
harder-hitting bass. Another thing our team loved about the Cinema 600 is its Bluetooth
connectivity. Whether you want to stream your favorite Spotify playlist, shuffle all your
Pandora stations, or listen to your downloaded podcasts and audiobooks, this soundbar has
you covered. The Klipsch Cinema 600 delivers crisp dialogue
and excellent audio performance while being able to maintain is relatively modest price
tag, Due to its excellent theater-like surround sound, the team recommends this soundbar to
cinephiles or movie junkies who will spend most of their time watching movies and shows.
The Soundbar coming in at number 2 on our list is the Bose TV Speaker
The Bose TV Speaker is a small sound bar that clarifies speech and is a simple fix for better
TV sound. This small sound bar is just over 2-inches
tall for easy placement in front of your TV or mounted to a wall. The TV speaker's overall
dimensions are 2.21 by 4.02 by 23.38-inches and its weight is 5.94-pounds. The team was
impressed with this sound bar's wide, natural sound. This is because of its 2 angled full-range
drivers that deliver a more realistic, spatial audio experience for overall better TV sound.
This TV speaker is also designed to specifically focus on clarifying and elevating vocals and
pronunciation. We found that the enhanced dialogue really adds a lot to the theater-like
experience this soundbar can give you. You can pair your device to this Bluetooth soundbar
to wirelessly stream your favorite music and podcasts. Aside from this, the Bose TV Speaker
is compatible with the Bose Bass Module 500 or 700 and requires the Bose Bass Module Connection
Cable or a standard 3.5 millimeter audio cable. With these, you can further enhance the audio
setup of your home entertainment system, turning it into a full-room setup for the ultimate
theater-like experience. Overall, the Bose TV Speaker is a small soundbar
that delivers spacious and realistic audio performance. In addition to this, the soundbar
is compatible to be used in combination with Bose bass modules. This gives it the potential
to provide you the best audio experience you will ever find out of a home entertainment
system. Not only that, but it is perfectly good as a standalone product as well. For
these reasons, the team thinks this product deserves to be number 2 on our top 5 list!
And finally we come to the number 1 Soundbar on our list: the Sony HT-S350
The Sony HT-S350 is a sound bar system that has excellent performance with stereo content
due to an always-on surround sound mode. The sound bar's dimensions are 41.02 x 20.35
x 9.8 inches and it weighs 22.5-pounds. This means you shouldn't have issues placing it
in front of the TV, as it won't cover the bottom part of the screen unless your TV sits
flush on the table. Our team was impressed with how good the sound bar's design is. The
metal grilles on the bar and in the front of the subwoofer give off a premium feel.
The entire construction is robust and feels solid. The soundstage, while listening to
the Sony HTS350, is great. It sounds large and wide, probably due to the always-on surround
mode. The focus of the soundstage is great and objects are easy to pinpoint. The Sony
HTS350 can get loud and will be suitable for large rooms and slightly crowded environments.
The Sony HTS350 has some useful sound enhancement features, such as a Dialogue Enhancement feature
with the Voice Mode, which makes it easier to hear dialogue in movies, even at a lower
volume. In addition, there is also a night mode to normalize the volume of all your different
content. This bar is also advertised to have an always-on S-Force Front surround sound
feature, which enhances the way sound bounces off around your room to give it a 3D surround
sound effect. Lastly, there are also other sound modes like Sports, News, Cinema, Game,
Music for different types of content. Overall, the Sony HT-S350 is a budget soundbar
setup that gives excellent audio thanks to its surround sound mode that's always on.
The brilliant sound enhancement features are a bonus that provided our team with a wonderful
cinema-like experience. We recommend this to people who want an all-around soundbar
system that can do it all. That is why our team thinks this soundbar deserves to be our
number 1 product on this list! And there you have it folks - the five Soundbars
which got our team at IN THE HOME excited this year. If you have any contenders for
our next Soundbar roundup, which you would like our team to test, do drop it in the comments
section below and we will be sure to look it over for our next update.
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