Customer Ratings & Reviews

Nice sound. Not as good as a true surround system but great sound from a bar. Probably needs the subwoofer.

The Sennheiser AMBEO Soundbar is the type of soundbar that shines without an external subwoofer but when you add your own decent subwoofer the soundbar itself tends to lose some of its advantage. For a bit of background I previously used a tried and true very expensive wired 5.1 surround sound system for over 15 years till bit by bit over the years my rear channels gave out and eventually my receiver started to fail. All I was left with was an absolute monster of a subwoofer (500w) and a couple of left/right speakers. It was at this point I converted to a soundbar setup. The only requirement being it had to have an aux subwoofer port to continue to use my excellent subwoofer. I have used three soundbars starting with a very inexpensive Vizio sub $100 soundbar before upgrading to a $250 Yamaha Yas-108 4 years ago and now the Sennheiser AMBEO. All three soundbars have an external aux port for a subwoofer. My review will reflect on price:performance along with compared to a proper, wired 5.1 setup. Arriving neatly packaged with a professional presentation, setup was quick and painless. It offers optical and HDMI in options which was nice and connecting it to my Sony 65" Z9F took less than 5 minutes (if that). It is not small by any stretch of the imagination and is much bigger than my Yamaha which in turn was much bigger than my Vizio. There is a firmware upgrade and using a Smart Phone and their app is pretty much mandatory but available free of charge. You use the app to not only update your firmware but also to "map" your viewing room (it works in tandem with the bar itself) and let it know you use an external subwoofer if so desired. The app is pretty easy to navigate. Once I had everything setup, I flipped on my AppleTV and started testing recently viewed programs that included Foundation, Carnival Row and Avengers Infinity War. PROS: One FANTASTIC feature of the Ambeo is the dialogue enhancement. One complaint I had about the previous two soundbars was absolutely dialogue enhancement and truly bringing it to the forefront for listening. The Ambeo makes it so front and center it stands clearly distinct from all the other ambient sounds without overpowering them. To me this is the star of the show. Dialogue is clear and distinct regardless of what is going on. Many small, nuanced audio details I could only pick up with a good set of headphones are now easily discernable with the Ambeo vs non-existent or sometimes muffled with my other soundbars. The Sennheiser shines with mids and highs and clarity. The seperation is top notch. Compared to the other soundbars, running the Ambeo by itself it more than passes the stand alone basic bass test and is worthy. It doesn't rattle and produces what I would call strong, average bass with decent punch. It doesn't compare to a competent, true, externally powered subwoofer but it provides enough to where if you are unable (or unwilling) to connect an external subwoofer, you will still get a good overall soundscape. It is nothing earth shattering, wall shaking or floor rumbling but will get the job done. The room mapping does allow the Ambeo to project and seperate the soundscape to some degree providing and richer and more immersive experience when viewing programs.I found many of the space scenes in Foundation were projected much more properly than my other soundbars. The Ambeo is clearly heads and tales above $80-$300 soundbars for highs and mids and lows in stand alone fashion with no external sub woofer. The remote is nice and oversized and solid to hold and use. CONS: The problem is once you do connect a good subwoofer, much of the bass advantage disappears as my same sub hooked up to my previous two soundbars provided equal amounts of punch and kick negating much of the advantages of the Ambeo low end reproduction. Running the Ambeo without an external sub and the difference is like night and day (Sennheiser does offer an external subwoofer for this model too) in regards to a true bass experience when watching cinema or listening to music. If you are considering a soundbar of this class and price, you might want to figure out if you plan to use an external subwoofer. Even with the firmware upgrade, I found myself sometimes having to turn it off and on several times to either work or recognize my Sony Z9F signal. I never had this problem with my Yamaha. While it maps your space for sound projection and immersion, I never once got a true surround sound experience or effect even remotely comparable to my true 5.1 setup. I can definitely hear and appreciate the sound processing and seperation and it is far better than my other soundbars but for a true surround sound experience you are going to need to purchase a real 5.1-7.1 setup. There just is no substitute. With all its advantages, it is still $1400.00 for a soundbar and I was getting 80% of what the Ambeo provided for 20% of the price with my Yamaha. The Ambeo is for someone where price is no object and you start heading into the, "I want the best of the best," echelon of Soundbars. SUMMARY: So where does that leave the Ambeo? While I love the voice enhancement, excellent high, mids and stellar sound, it can't compete with a real 5.1 system nor a real external subwoofer. If you are expecting a true surround sound experience or "deep and kicking bass" you will be disappointed. I found myself routinely enjoying it while also questioning if it was worth the premium price when a lower end sound bar coupled with a decent external subwoofer would offer much that is offered at less than half the price? On the other hand, if you're looking for a competent all in one soundbar that provides fantastic highs, mids and lows for what they can pack into an under the TV soundbar and do not desire that extended theatre like bass or true surround sound experience, you can't go wrong with selecting this Sennheiser Ambeo. Setup is a breeze, updating and calibration is quick and painless and it works fairly easy and straight forward and is most definitely a step about the lower tier sound bars on the market.

There are two things that keep this soundbar from getting five stars it was incredibly close and the sound is amazing, but before I get there let me start from the beginning. The packaging for the soundbar is great using recycled materials is great. It is also very minimal which makes it less of a hassle to get rid of later on. The soundbar is extremely nice looking and for everything it is packing inside is a very manageable size. It fit under my tv without me having to get a new stand or adjust anything and be able to use my tv remote. Setup was a breeze I use a pair of Sennheiser headphones so I already had the app installed after a firmware update I had the soundbar up and running withing ten minutes. Now here is where the first issue to me comes up. The soundbar has no info bar so you have to rely on a led light strip on the top of the soundbar for you information on how loud you have it and even then it hard to judge from my couch. I was able to remedy this by connecting the soundbar to the ARC on my tv and using my tv remote to control the volume. My tv then was telling what the soundbar was at, I am lucky in my case as I know not every tv does this. After that I started testing it out with several movies and while not perfect the Dolby Atmos sound is pretty good for a soundbar. It definitely sounds like there are more speakers around the room, but since the soundbar does not come with a sub you feel like you are missing something. For most tv watching this is fine you don't really notice the lack of low end bass. But once you started watching movies you really miss it. The good thing is that you can use any subwoofer that would normally work on a home theater system you do not have to use the one Sennheiser sells. Once you get a subwoofer connected this is easily a five star sounding system. I can ultimately live without the info bar but not coming with a soundbar I feel like is a big miss in this range of soundbar. would I recommend it yes but with the caveat of getting yourself a subwoofer to complete it the sound.

I've had multiple Dolby Atmos soundbars over the years, but this is the first supposed "audiophile" quality soundbar that I've used. I've always thought that the sound couldn't really be that much better, but boy was I wrong. This thing blew me away. The Ambeo combined with Dolby Atmos really makes if feel like the sound is coming from all around you. I tested it out by watching Wakanda Forever, and I felt like I was in a movie theater. Just amazing. I've also been underwhelmed with the way music sounds through other soundbars I've owned, but this really makes music pop, especially Dolby Atmos tracks. I usually listen to music with headphones while I'm at home, but I can't stop playing music on the Ambeo plus. I feel like I'm a music bubble. Another thing I'll highlight is how easy this was to setup via the app. The firmware update went through pretty quickly (I can't tell you how many issues I've had with other soundbars connecting to the internet and downloading updates) and it was easy to figure out how to calibrate the system to the room. There are a number of different sound modes you can tune it to (including turning Ambeo off, but I can't think of a reason why I would do that) based on what you are watching or listening to. However, I find it annoying to keep switching between activities, so I leave on "adaptive" which tunes based on what you are doing. I've found subtle differences switching between different modes, but I've been very happy just leaving it on adaptive for whatever I'm listening to or watching. I also love the appearance of the soundbar. Most others I've owned use a lot of plastic and aren't very aesthetically pleasing. The Ambeo Plus actually looks like a speaker. The Ambeo Plus also provides a lot of flexibility with 1 eArc port, and 2 other HDMI ports. I have an older TV that does not have eArc, so I was never able to get true Dolby Atmos from all sources with other soundbars. With the Ambeo Plus, I can plug my Firestick and DVD player directly into it and get the best sound quality. Another minor plus, there was zero styrofoam in the packaging. Everything was paper and cardboard, so bonus points for being environmentally friendly. So why 4 stars? The Ambeo Plus is definitely NOT user friendly. If you are using the phone app, everything is easy. It lets you control different modes and tells you what input you are using. However, I don't like to have to open my phone every time I watch TV, and my kids don't have phones (and my wife can barely use one). Good luck trying to figure out what's going on without the app. All statuses are located on top of the soundbar, which you can't see unless you are standing right over it, and you have to remember, and figure out, what location the LED bar is at to tell what input you are using. Also, when one device turns on, all devices seem to turn on, and it defaults to the DVD player. Then I get called over by other family members to try to figure out how to get it on the right input (the included remote is great but useless since you can't tell what it's actually doing unless you are standing over the soundbar, in which case, you don't really need a remote). This is very frustrating and I can't fathom how someone thought this was a good design. Another thing I'll note, is that it probably needs an added subwoofer. The bass is fine, but it really can't match a dedicated subwoofer that most other soundbars come with. Luckily you can add any wired subwoofer. All in all, if sound is the most important thing (and you don't have small children), I highly recommend this soundbar.

I consider myself somebody who is very experienced with sound bars, as I have lots of high end sound bars throughout my house, and am always upgrading them. This is probably the nicest sound bar I’ve ever had, but I was really hoping for more bass from this bar. It has a lot more thump than my other bars, but it still is no replacement for a sub. I’m planning to purchase the sub to accompany this, because I think it will put this soundbar on a whole new level. The sound is incredibly crisp and dynamic. The bar does a really good job of creating a multidirectional sound that is really pretty amazing. Still, the sound is linear in the sense that it’s coming from the front, and not behind me, and the lack of a sub is really noticeable to me in terms of what this system could be. This bar has a voice mode that dramatically amplifies the voice, and I absolutely love it! The voice mode is exactly what I envisioned a voice mode could be, and it’s really one of the highlights of the bar. The remote also has several preset functions that are incredibly well balanced. I typically watch sports, and the sports mode really brings out the crowd noise and creates a more open air experience. The remote is also pretty meaty, and a treat to hold in your hand. I’ve been using this sound bar for a little over a week and have had no issues with it turning on automatically, or Bluetooth connecting, or connecting to the app. The experience of the bar is pretty incredible, but I just can’t get over how much this bar needs the sub.

Overall, a good unit. Crystal clear, good sub link for balance. Only issue is the hit-and-miss hdmi-arc functions upon start up…. One out of three times the Sennheiser will start up in ‘tv speakers used’ mode instead of ‘external speakers used’ mode….which means addition menus must be used to manually switch it over.

Let’s talk about this sound first off. The setup is pretty straightforward. Download the Sennheiser app, calibrate the sound bar to your room, and prepare to be blown away with some of the most immersive sound you’ve ever heard from a soundbar. The Dolby feature is absolutely amazing for movies, and using Tidal Connect to stream music is some of the highest quality sound you’ll ever get from a soundbar that doesn’t require a receiver. The reason I give this 4 stars is I had issues getting the app to recognize the sound bar initially, but after resetting the soundbar and restarting my phone, the app was able to connect.

This amazing soundbar deserves somewhere in the 4.5 to 5.0 rating range. It sounds great overall. Is a very musical soundbar. Has many adjustments, settings, options for you to fine tune your sound. IMO, it misses on two things. One a dedicated front channel adjustment/EQ beyond the Ambeo adjustment. The other is just the two rear speakers to complete the physical .4 of the equation. There rear .2 are virtual and while it does a reasonably good job with simulating rear speakers, it falls just a tad short IMO. I've recently checked out Samsung, Sonos, LG and a few other traditional home receiver/speakers combinations and this is as good as all and better than each in certain ways. It is pricey but when you consider it is a self contained unit, though you will need to pair it with a subwoofer of your choosing, the sound earcandy does offer considerable valuable.

I initally started out with the Ambeo Plus which was fantastic but for the size of the space it felt like I needed something a bit stronger. I’ve had the Max now for about a week and a half. Sound is incredible and immersive with the Ambeo technology, plus Sennheiser has been solid in my experiences sound wise. My drawbacks are wishing it had the room correction mic built in like the Plus, also a bit more volume around the center channel for dialogue. I did get this on a great deal via price match which is also an add to my rating.

Sound bar works great! Very easy to setup and easy to use. The look is very sleek and goes with our decors

Expected more from this product. It's good but not great. Without the sub woofer, it's certainly a less than full body sound, and with it, there is a better range. But for simple TV listening, it's ok. I'd have liked more options than presents but music, movie, sports, etc, and there is a bass boost plus vocal enhance setting, but no EQ for other tweaks. It is a simplifier which is what I was looking for in a soundbar, but I wouldn't use it for serious audiophile listening.

I'm not an AV person or snob.. it works and sounds good. My TV was made at a weird time, it has ARC but was before eARC came out. So getting a soundbar to connect and stay connected is tricky and annoying. This took me a while to get connected and occasionally disconnects, but when I power off the TV and power it back on it reconnects without issue. Another issue I've found that I don't like, is now that it's connected with my TV and remote, I can't manually or with Sennheiser remote turn it off/on, or change the volume. This is problematic as I have an autistic child who likes the volume loud and will move the remote to weird areas of the house and then I feel like I'm losing my mind while the TV screams at me. I still suspect it may be an older TV issue than the sound bar issue (2020 Sony Bravia). I also don't feel the sound is as impactful as claimed to be... But again not an AV person who has figured out room acoustics or have additional speakers.

After buying the Sennheiser Embeo plus soundbar, I decided to wall mount this impressive soundbar. I first had to decide what mounting brackets to use. I chose Echogear brackets because they were adjustable for width and height. I recommend these brackets. I finally got the soundbar installed over the post holiday weekend. I am now at the stage of trying to get things programmed for sound. I thought this soundbar had calibration hardware. Calibration hardware must only be included in the Sennheiser Embeo Max. I now have to download software to program my sound to my phone via QR Codes. This is not my strength. I need a little time to through the directions. This unit comes with a nice remote! Based on preliminary testing this soundbar is outstanding. I have not yet made adjustments for dialog and preferred modes. The Embeo Plus soundbar looks great under my OLED 77” television! I am very glad I made the choices of Sennheiser Embeo Soundbar and Echogear Brackets.

The product is great overall but it’s not perfect which is why I assigned 4 stars. When turning the volume up/down, there is not a display. Not through the television or on the soundbar itself so if you need that visual, you won’t get it. Be careful you download the right app when setting it up. There’s Smart Control and Smart Control Plus. If you download the wrong one you’ll spend too much time frustrated and thinking you just made a poor purchase like I did. Once I had the right app, process was too easy! Sound is great and paired it with the subwoofer. Television remote can control it without any special set up. Performing exactly as it should as is a nice addition to our home.

[Employee of bestbuy] When working it’s the best soundbar but has issues with CEC and connecting devices directly to it.

It was good but not loud enough for me. The sound is very clear probably the clearest.

Everything about this soundbar is high quality as you would expect from Sennheiser. Previously, I had been using full size Polk speakers (left, center, right) for the TV sound. I wanted to try the soundbar for the size and convenience. In the end, the full size speakers simply sound better and for me the sound was more important than the convenience.

Blown away by the sound, having trouble with eArc not entirely shutting everything down (older 4k 3D tv) and the Sennheiser connect app is buggy. But the system when running is fantastic. Love the look.

I think it's over priced but is a great speaker and is quite immersive for a single speaker. I wasn't aware that it's only Works With Google Assistant instead of Google Assistant Built-in. So I paired a Google Mini with it but it should be able to bs built-in like the Alexa assistant.

This sound bar has a high quality sound even at 75% volume.