Customer Ratings & Reviews

Bought this for Christmas and now the blue tooth volume glitch has started by Feb. Volume will max out if you try turning up the volume or go zero if you turn the volume down. Now it only works with HDMI ARC.

Good at stabilizing sound when commercials come on. Sound is good. The bass is severely lacking even with the bass boost activated, little disappointed considering that it had good quality bass. Also disappointed because I was expecting so much more quality from a name like Bose.

Not as loud very low from what was advertised. I am very disappointed.

Bose is by far one of my favorites brands for speakers but this one was a total letdown. The sound wasn't loud nor clear. I had to return it.

This is a very nice yet relatively small soundbar. If you are looking for a soundbar that doesn't run the entire length of your TV and still sounds great, then this might be for you. As is always the case with Bose, the sound is great. Mind you it is not going to be as loud and booming as a larger soundbar with a sub-woofer. But, it is as good as you will get while keeping things compact. The sound is clean & clear with nice vocals and just enough bass. The bass is there, but it's not thundering. This is to be expected without a dedicated sub (one can be added if you like). The standard connections are all here: HDMI, optical, 3.5mm and Bluetooth. As always, the best sound will be with HDMI or optical although I am finding the Bluetooth to work very well. From a controls & features standpoint things are pretty simple and I like that. Controlled with the remote, you have the usual volume settings and a button to select to select the vocal clarity. Also, if you have an ARC compatible TV you can control the sound bar with your TV remote. This is working nicely for me (I've had issues with this with previous soundbars). All in all, this is a great option if you just want better sound than what your TV has built in, yet you want to keep it simple and not have to have a giant sound system hooked up. Does it sound as good as a giant system, well, no. But this is probably the best sound you will get with a one piece soundbar and I am sure you will love it.

Very disappointing in Bose. Upon first impression had almost no bass and could hardly tell any sound improved from TV speakers. I decided to live with it and then the HDMI port just stopped working as a connection, brand new Samsung TV as well. I ate that loss too and just used the included optical cable. Less than two weeks later the sound bar just stopped turning on all together, tried different outlets and still no luck. I had to return this product very disappointing and let down by Bose after loving many of their products.

Not happy with this thing at all. Originally bought a little over a year ago, and then within a few months it would not power on. I did an RMA with Bose and they repaired it and sent it back. Now every time my TV comes on, the speaker sometimes will not work at all and I have to restart it. First time purchasing a Bose product, and likely never will again. Nothing but frustration with this thing.

Not what I expected sound not good very low sound quality

Does NOT amplify voices as advertised. Cannot increase

I have to constantly turn it off and on until i could eventually adjust the volume with no buttons on the speaker itself it’s extremely annoying.

Connector/power in/output gets extremely hot and it stopped working

The sound quality is not so good. There is not much quality sound difference between our Sony TV speakers and the Bose soundbar.

Sounded terrible. We have old bose that are over 15 years old and they sounded better then this. I would recommend a sonos sound bar instead.

The sound was too low for the size of the room. I need a bigger sound system and it did not match up with my turntable.

Speaker sound is ok but that’s if it’s working goes in and out of connection about every 15 seconds it’s hard wired to the TV but still loses signal for whatever reason tried hard resting doesn’t fix issue

not the best sound quality compared to the old bose solo bars

Returned. Didn't think the sound was much different than the TV sound.

Purchased based on brand name but disappointed with performance. Barely better than my Sony tv output. Unless you have an inexpensive tv with poor sound pass on this item. Returned

Having problem with speaker shutting directv box off when speaker turns on,also when it turns on the green or white light comes on but no sound have to turn off and turn back on for sound

Very disappointed for a $230 Bose Unit. My TV speakers produce more sound than this does. No difference whether I send the audio thru HDMI arc or Bluetooth. Need to crank it all the way up to hear shows clearly.