Customer Ratings & Reviews

Idem sounds better in store than my house. Problems after problems

Not good for dialog. Bought this thinking that Dialog would improve from the rear speakers only to find that a much cheaper bar with rear speakers on the same TV had a much better conclusion

For the money, the quality is not great. I would spend the extra few hundred dollars and go with Sonos!

There's nothing overpowering about this, I bought it for the detachable speakers and they are average, at best. I am disappointed with the detachable speakers output.

Very well explained of questions and concerns that I had. Loved the service that I was given.

Bought for a gift just reviewing so i can have a chance to win 400 gift card.

I’m very happy with this product I would definitely recommend to someone else.

Not as powerful as jbl 9.1 older version. It's good for small living room I'd say such 2br apartment max

The sound is great. Unfortunately, after about a week, it just goes to MUTE and the ONLY way to fix this is to unplug it all. If I could, I'd take it back. Yah, the sound is good, the headache isn't worth it.

good value. add on speakers are no easily available to be bought

Great purchase.I would recommend this item for your entertainment area!

Ive had both models. The new model which is this on and the last model 9.1. The last models woofer was amazing. The bass in movies was ridiculous. The voulume max is 30. On the last model i at 16 i was amazed. At 30 it was ridiculous. I dont recommend this one. Im going in tomorrow to find something else.

Great item, great customer service at purchase and easy to connect

Love it……………………,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

The JBL Bar 1000 on the surface looks like a normal soundbar + subwoofer combo. Sleek and black, it mounts just like a normal soundbar under, or in my case over, your TV. Unlike some others, this has optical audio input, bluetooth, and three HDMI inputs in addition to the HDMI out to the TV. Which means it can as a reasonable sound receiver taking multiple inputs and passing through to the TV as needed. The TV audio goes out through the same HDMI out/eARC connection which is great - as you don't need your other sources to go through the TV. So between this and the likely several HDMI inputs you have on the TV, you're likely pretty well covered. My only disappointment input-wise was that the optical input effectively shares the channel with TV. So you couldn't use the HDMI out to TV and optical at the same time. That said, it's pretty unlikely to have something that has optical out but not HDMI. That said, I do have a smart TV device that's capable of outputting better audio over optical than HDMI so I lose out by not being able to have it pipe video to the TV but audio separately to the soundbar. Now, even that wouldn't be that big a deal if this soundbar was just a normal 2.1 channel (stereo + the subwoofer). But it's not. It can effectively act as a 7.1 channel system. That's because the soundbar itself has two detachable speakers than when detached act as rear speakers and the bar itself is effectively a 5 channel device, with left and right up-firing speakers, left and right "stereo" speakers, and a center channel. With the sub, and detachable speakers, you get the full 7.1. Setup is pretty easy - as is normal for these. Mount the sound bar, connect the sub to power, hook up HDMI and you're up and running. The sub connects automatically on first start and using the remote to repair it is pretty simple. On the remote you can cycle between TV (HDMI/eARC or Optical), Bluetooth, and the three HDMI inputs. It also supports WiFi which lets you stream music to it as a Chromecast or Alexa device. I liked being able to add it as a source for whole house music during parties. Normally, the living room isn't covered as it doesn't make sense to have a permanently on smart speaker there getting confused by the TV. Wifi setup is through the JBL One app which configures things over Bluetooth. And aside from connecting to smart speaker services, you can simply connect to it over Bluetooth to stream music directly from your phone or other device. With the two detachable speakers connected, it's obviously not acting like a 7.1 system. I'm not sure if it's doing 5.1 in that mode or just 2.1 but the speaker sounds great. Definitely better that my TV speakers alone and the base from the sub is very nice. I use it with the detachable speakers connected most of the time, but when it's time to watch a movie or show I'm really into, I grab the speakers and put them on the sides of the couch for the full surround experience. And it is ridiculous how great they are. Frankly, I can't tell the difference between this and completely wired systems. The detachable speakers charge when docked and last for at least 3 hours which is a decent amount. I've yet to use them long enough that the battery runs out. They also have USB-C power input so you can mount them permanently in surround mode and just plug them into a standard USB charger. I never noticed any lag in audio so if you don't already have a surround setup, this is a great choice due the flexibility you have. There's even a wall mount in the box for them. The remote is pretty basic, power, input selections, bass, calibrate, mute and volume up/down buttons. A cool thing you'd notice when getting everything set up is that there's no "screen" to break up the front. It's instead cleverly "hidden" by the visual indicators being LED pixels that are behind the speaker grill. They turn on when the speaker is first turned on and in response to making a change using the remote but otherwise stay off and unobtrusive. If you've ever had a soundbar or other device annoy you with an always on light or too bright screen when in use, no worries here. Sadly, the remote itself is infrared only which means it needs line of sight to the soundbar to work. Most of the time, I'm not using it anyway as eARC lets me use my TV remote to control volume and mute. The only weird thing is that the volume level indicator on the soundbar and my TV don't match up. With my TV speakers disabled, the volume level jumps by 3 instead of 1 when volume up is pressed. Also, if you use the soundbar remote, the TV also displays the same volume change. But once I got used to seeing volume "30" not be something ridiculously loud, I don't even pay attention to it anymore. I've experimented with sound projector like sound bars that attempt to do a virtual surround sound system with varied success. I like the approach taken here, it works a lot better. There's een a calibration you can perform but this works great without it. I honestly can't think of a feature I'd want that this doesn't have. Maybe in some distant future, we'll have 16K TVs and this won't be able to keep up but until then, it's pretty dang awesome.

It was good it just didnt work as i was thinking with my tv.

Found out a week after I bought it went on sale for $200.00 less

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Its a good system, the sub makes random crackles though

Sound quality was bad. Rear speakers hardly worked. Went with bose ultra soundbar and 500 sub. Much better sound.