Customer Ratings & Reviews

PACKAGING It comes in a nice cardboard box with a plastic carrying handle. Convenient, especially if you want to carry this thing around much. As far as simply getting it safely to my home, it was a bit more than necessary. Packaging included decorative foam inserts, unnecessarily durable disposable plastic cable straps, and foam plastic wrapping that maybe protected components from dust but mostly just needed to be removed and discarded. A nice printed user manual is included. Or at least it looks nice. Turns out it’s pretty much useless. It’s of the sort that it describes in careful detail what every button/feature does without actually giving any useful information. For example, a full page is devoted to the “Dialogue Mode” button on the remote, including lots of easy-to-understand graphics, which explains how many times you can press the button to turn Dialogue Mode on, off, or to low, medium, or high settings. But nowhere in the manual is there any information about what Dialogue Mode is, what it does, or when you would want to use it. AESTHETICS This is a really nice looking soundbar. The design is simple, visible wood on top looks nice. My only complaint is that the LED indicator on the front looks a little cheap when it comes on. Fortunately it can be set to turn off after a few seconds, at which time it disappears into the grille fabric. I particularly like the look of the logo on a metal tab in front of the grille fabric. APP You can download an app to get access to more settings. The “more settings” is a 5-band graphic equalizer. I think I would have rather had the EQ be accessible through the remote or on-unit buttons and be able to avoid the added complexity of an app. Additionally, my experience with the app was terrible. For some reason there was a frequent delay connecting from the app to the soundbar. Regularly, I’d have to wait like 10-30 seconds before any controls on the app would respond and I’d be able to do anything with it. CONNECTIONS/EXPANSION This is part of an expandable system, in which a subwoofer or surround channels can be added. I didn’t experiment with this, but I’d be inclined not to waste my money and start with a more capable system before adding to it. Sound input is via HDMI ARC, optical, or Bluetooth. No analog input, and no headphone output. One nice thing I saw is that it has an analog RCA subwoofer output which means you can connect virtually any powered subwoofer to it. Cool option if you want it. SOUND QUALITY I can’t expect stellar sound from anything in the “soundbar” category, but I honestly was expecting a lot more given the price point of this product. There’s a lot of small things that add up, but overall it just doesn’t provide any level of accuracy in sound reproduction or in building a passable soundstage. The sound has great presence, and surprising bass (at least at low volume settings) for the size. But the sound is kind of all over the place. I think it is best suited for smaller rooms, especially with symmetrical walls. But for larger spaces or at higher volume settings, it’s nowhere near as impressive. As advertised, this is a 2-channel system. Not even a center channel speaker (IMO the most important channel in any surround system). The Flexus Core 200 does offer this and more, if you’re looking for a step up. The 2 drivers are front-facing which limits the ability to create a discernible soundstage. What I mean is that sounds tend to be diffuse; you can’t really pick out if a sound is coming from the left or the right very well. The soundstage is decent if I sit directly in front of the bar between 2 feet and 6 feet away from it, but anywhere else in my room the sound was just everywhere with no precision. Even if I stood up from sitting in the sweet spot, I lost any sense of stereo imaging. Most soundbars that attempt to do surround imaging will put speakers on the ends of the bar to throw it into the corners of the room, which would help, but with the drivers on front there’s not much. The bass drivers face upward on this. No complaints about the positioning, and they sound really good at lower volume settings. But as I increase the volume, the electronics seem to cut back on the bass, possibly so it doesn’t distort. So when the overall volume is quiet it sounds really good, but if I want fuller louder sound I can’t get it. There’s no “flat” or unmodified sound setting. Choices are limited to “Music” or “Movie” and I’m not sure what the difference is except that my music sounded much better on the “Movie” setting. Either way, it tries to generate some kind of surround sound effect which, to my ear, gets in the way of accurate listening and enjoying of any source material. There’s a lot of processing to color the sound (maybe make it more authentic American?), including I’m guessing compression that gets rid of a lot of the dynamic range. This is maybe something you’d want for casual background listening, but it kind of destroys the fidelity of a lot of source material. Changing volume settings caused audible glitches in the sound output. Like the digital signal processor had to recalibrate and restart its decoding every time the volume setting changed. Very slight, but noticable. Overall, I guess that this would perform well for casual background sound in a room with other things going on. The characteristics of this sound could be really nice for everyday TV watching too, in a small room at lower volume levels where accuracy is not important. But ther performance is underwhelming for careful listening or being immersed in an A/V experience.

Very unimpressed with this sound bar , I bought one based on positive reviews about the sound this bar puts out. There was almost next nothing good about the sound Klipsch is known for. By pass this one for sure. I returned mine.

The soundbar is very average when it comes to performance.