Customer Ratings & Reviews

Product comes with universal remote which is nice but quite frankly not totally thrilled about having yet another remote. Have a couple of cables (power cord, optical cable) that are now hanging down from TV after I went through all the trouble to put other wires behind wall but suppose there isn't any other option short of making new holes in the wall. Sound quality is good, but thought that the it wasn't quite as good as when we used to have Bose Lifestyle speakers connected. I am by no means a audiophile so you don't take my word for it, try it for yourself the Best Buy store should have one connected to a TV for you to try.

We needed a good sound bar for our TV this one was easy to install, it has blue tooth so I can play music from my phone on it.

Name is SOLO yes with TV and with your phone awesome sound and combination for music shows SOLO is enough.

I needed a sound bar that was no wider than this one and it worked out great. The universal remote works very good with my setup.

Super clear sound!! I highly recommend!! Set up was simple and done in a few monutes!!!

Great sound. We got the Solo5 as the size is perfect for our place. We're happy we got this over another brand of sound bar. This is definitely a great choice.

Needed improved sound for my Samsung TV. The Bose Solo 5 TV Sound Bar provides excellent improvement. This is my fourth purchase of Bose sound equipment and all of the exceed my expectations.

I love this ! The sound is great has only one connection and was easy to install . The convenience is nice and easy would highly recommend. Nice design too !

Really puts out good sound quality, even over Bluetooth. The only issue is having to sync sound when you connect sometimes.

Bought this for my 40" Sony flat screen tv. Reason I bought it is because my elderly mother, who wears in-ear hearing aids couldn't understand what was being said on tv. (She understands what people talking to her are saying and she has had the hearing aids over a year so she has adjusted to them.) Sound bar did not improve that situation at all even when I selected the "dialogue" mode. Not much difference between the bass and dialogue modes but the dialogue mode is slightly clearer for understanding what is being said. I turned off the Sony sound when I installed the Bose as the manual suggested. If I had known that the Bose sound bar wouldn't help my mother understand what was being said on tv, I probably wouldn't have purchased this. I can tell that it has improved the audio of my tv but not sure it is worth spending that amount of money since I could hear the tv pretty well before installing the sound bar. Wish I could have compared the Bose to the other brands of sound bars--I only went with the Bose because the reviews indicated that the dialogue mode was a big help in understanding what was being said on tv. This one cost more than some others and I don't know if it is really worth the extra money or not. So I'm a bit on the fence as to whether I would recommend this to a friend. But I will select "yes" because it has improved the audio of my tv--just not to the extent that it addressed my reason for the purchase.

My flat screen tv sound was very poor. This bar has good talking sound which helps me hear the conversations better. For the price and size i am very pleased.

The Bose® - Solo 5 Tv Soundbar was easy to install and works very well to enhance the sound quality of the television. We love it and the remote is universal.

Bose is a great name brand and this soundbar stands up to the Bose name. It makes a huge difference to the sound quality of my TV.

The Bose sound bar has good sound and is nice and compact. Bestbuy did a wonderful job of installing and setting it up too!

I purchased this for the tv in our bedroom. We get great sound from it. It is easy to install (does NOT come with mounting brackets) and is he perfect size.

Bose soundbar is perfect for your bedroom. Not big/small. Sound can get really loud while still have the quality. Highly recommended

Purchased this speaker for an add-on for a small kitchen TV to improve the sound clarity for a hear impaired individual. The sound is pretty good, definitely better than the TV speakers but it could put out a bit more sound overall. I knew it did not come with HDMI connectivity when I purchased it but still think this would have been an easier connection option for most peoples setup. Lastly, the remote sensor could better - seems like we have to point the remote right at the sensor for it to work. None of these are huge set backs; the sound is good and the size it small so overall it meets our needs.

The sound from the new speakers allow me to hear what is being said now, instead of the music over riding the voices. The voice quality on my HDTV is poor at best. Not anymore. Love my New Bose' speakers. Two thumbs up. Bose' did a great job.

The Bose Solo 5 TV Soundbar produces very good sound. Easier to understand and considerably deeper or more nuanced than sound from the Samsung flat screen TV's own speakers. It is a definite improvement - not a $1000 improvement, but a considerable step up. The sound is also more than adequate when playing music from my smart phone via Bluetooth. Could have more bass, but the room is small and our interest in deep, loud thumping is small as well. Reviews by others that pointed to sound clarity and not too much bass were accurate. Reviews that spoke to ease of set-up were also accurate -- except about programming the Bose universal remote to handle our other equipment. This was more or less a failure, despite several attempts that scrupulously followed the instructions both in the manual and in others' reviews, which very helpful (why can't Bose do this straight up?) . So the downer is that I now have yet another remote, my LARGEST by far - this one to handle sound only, while I use the satellite system remote to operate the satellite box and some TV functions, the TV remote to access online programming, and a Blu-Ray remote to operate that unit. Pain in the neck. It would be much better if Bose (or someone) could make an add-on that could be paired into an original equipment manufacturer's system. Or, failing that, made a much smaller remote, if it's going to be (for many users) one of several.

Soundbar sound is great, easy setup, and compact size. However, the only downside there is no volume bar showing in the TV monitor. Apart from that best soundbar.