Customer Ratings & Reviews

Setup out the box was easy. Not complicated at all. Plug in all the cords, turn on TV and subwoofer and it works. The instructions with pictures are very helpful. As I turned up the sound to the max and changed the channel throughout, I could here some raspy background noise. The clarity of the sound in treble is a 7 out of 10, could be better. The subwoofer does its job and I'm really impressed at the size and sound. The remote will do a lot of things but it wont turn the sub off. Would be nice to have this added feature instead of manual doing it. The sound affects are easy to change and have a clear difference in sound. They suggest Night for clear sound with low volume at midnight and Voice for clear dialogues. Bluetooth was easy to connect, press the Bluetooth button on the sound bar, open your phone Bluetooth and find HT-MT300 and you're on. I haven't tried the secure link so I wont comment on it. It has power saving mode but not entirely convinced its worth using. it's supposed to go into standby mode if not operated for about 20mins. I will skip this and turn it off if I know I wont be using it. same for my tv, just being smart and not wasting energy mode, hah.

I chose this soundbar because of space limitations. This unit was on sale and sounds good in the store with the manufacturers dedicated sound track that maximizes the capability of the unit. I use this mainly for watching movies and it is far better than the TV audio, but far short of a surround system. Because of the small width of the soundbar there is not enough separation of left and right channels. The wireless subwoofer is adequate and adds some depth, but barely even at the subwoofer's maximum level. Also the wireless distance of the subwoofer from main unit is limited and I had to locate the subwoofer in a visible area of the living room (8ft against wall) and not where I wanted (12ft between couch and end table). I could get it to connect at the couch but it required I pull the subwoofer out in front of the couch and then place it back after it connected. It would hold the connection while in use, but if I turned off the subwoofer and back on it would not connect unless I pulled it back out. There are no controls for Treble, Bass, or equalizer. Watching movies via the TV speakers always causes movie dialog audio sound to be low and I am constantly turning the volume up to hear dialog and back down when other sounds are now too loud. The Sony soundbar has a "Clear Voice" setting that does help with movie dialog without having to adjust the volume, like a center channel. Great feature! The unit can only decode Dolby Digital and PCM, not DTS. The unit has no display window to indicate volume level or other settings like clear voice. You have to watch the blinking lights on top of the soundbar to see what mode is set. This is an inconvenience, but not a deal breaker. There is no HDMI in or out only Optical and analog audio in, therefore you cannot control volume via the TV remote. This is fine for what I use it for. It can play USB MP3 and Bluetooth Android/iPhone which now allows me to have a convenient music source in the living room. If you are limited on space and require a small soundbar to give you better stereo audio, this will do the trick. I cannot recommend this soundbar at the retail price of $350. At this price point it should have HDMI ARC, a display settings window, codec for DTS, better stereo separation/surround sound effect and a better subwoofer. However, at the $200 sale price it's good a buy.

Sound is great for tv. Compact size is perfect. However, the blue tooth option when playin from iPhone or iPad constantly cuts out. Super annoying. I would purchase another if it didn’t have that issue. I ended up purchasing an LG for upstairs and the blue tooth has no interference. But I also got this on sale , if I had paid full price it would’ve been returned.

Good mini soundbar with a major issue which is lack of HDMI input. You have to use optical cable to connect to TV. You will need some universal remote to control both TV and soundbar. You can also connect to TV using Bluetooth and be able to control volume but you’ll lose all other Bluetooth functions as you can only connect one at the time and not all TV’s support Bluetooth. Adding HDMI with ARC and google cast would be great. That would be 5 star product.

It sounds good for the size of the bar but it lacks most of the features other soundbars this price and slightly cheaper have. Was disappointed it had to use an optical cable instead of hdmi because it is lower quality signal and i cant control the volume with my TV remote. The remote for the soundbar is not great but it gets the job done, im sure a harmony or universal remote would work for it though.

This sound bar did not come in a packaged plan with the tv. But I was told it was still pretty good. The sound is pretty good. I don’t have much to compare it too. But the reason for the 3 stars is that it occasionally disconnects from the blue tooth. And I have to restart it.

It works fine at first but the subwoofer stopped working close and to a month from when I got it and it took long to get the Bluetooth to pair with a phone .

Not the best bass if that's what your looking for, but definitely sounds better then the tv speakers do all day long

Got my soundbar, got home, hooked it up (which is super easy) and boom, no bass from the sub. Checked all the hook ups and called Sony. After an hour on the phone they told me I had a bad sub and to take it back or send to them. Took it back ( 150 mile round trip) got my new one home and every thing great. would have given higher rating but am frustrated on having brand new product not work AND having to return to get new one.

Not the best it lags quite a bit no matter what option you choose the sound quality is pretty good the price was higher than the quality however system is not a disappointment there’s probably better systems and more affordable with very similar performance if you compared to a cheaper one with Similar sound quality go with cheaper option

Purchase this for my man cave. Not a bass machine but great sound

Good but not great! This was easy to set up but hard connecting to Digital amplifier of it it is hard to reconnect with the main sound Bar. I got This Sony sound with my new TV thinking it would match her real well, but doesn’t with my model. Love the TV wish I had waited on the sound

Setup was easy and very good sound for the price point.

its ok sound . you get what you pay for . its good

Sound field is okay....helps bring out voices in the underwhelming TV speakers. Subwoofer does little with the TV optical hook-up. May need to go in the Televsion settings and try to manipulate sound output.

Sound bar sounded great the first few hours I had the device! Later the next day my speaker started screeching on the higher notes. Otherwise everything else about the sound bar was nice, nice sound, nice bass too!

OK sound quality, wouldn't use it on a primary TV. The subwoofer tends to disconnect from the soundbar which is annoying but very easily rectified.

small and good price, and sounded good in the store. When system was plugged in at home, there were no bass and highs are louder. Even with an equalizer and different television, no change.

The size is great. The simplistic controls on the sound bar and the remote are fantastic as well. The sound is decent. The subwoofer is average and the sound bar is just a notch above. Fit and finish is very nice.

I wanted to give it a try as it sounded promising. Compact and powerful for my small home. But the Open box went wrong this time and the Geek Squad forgot to check all the items and missed a cable.