Customer Ratings & Reviews

Not impressed, barely has any bass at all and really have to use volume

This is made for a doll house, lol. The sound from the tv is better.

This may be ok for a small room but the sound is not very loud and of average quality

Not great quality of soundbar for Sony. The Bluetooth connection kept disconnecting

Sound is very low quality,l should have known because of the cheap price. Thank goodness when I hooked my Bose soundbar and sub woofer back up it decided to work.So even though I wasted my money on the Sony,at least it was cheap.You get what you pay for!!

Quality of sound was poor. Not as loud as expected. Item was returned

This dose not work well at all for me. Too late to exchange it.

Terrible purchase. Not worth a dime. Rarely works and starts FLASHING bright blue lights in the middle of the night. I have done all I know how to do, spent an hour on hold and tried online support. We will NEVER purchase another SONY product.

I’m a fan of Sony products, but the price and size of this sound bar made me skeptical. I was wrong. Now tamper your expectations. YES. It does have an integrated sub-woofer, but it’s not gonna hit hard like your 20” sub in your car while cruising down the street listening to Beck’s “Loser” on a Friday night (sooooooo 1990’s). However, this a definitive upgrade to anything built-in TV speakers have to offer. And for the price and simplicity of setup, this is a great value! Packaging and Initial Setup The packaging was thought out. No wasted space where you think something should be that might be missing. Everything is laid out right at the top to get started. THANK YOU SONY for providing an actual user’s manual. Maybe I’m in the minority here, but I want a physical manual (not online) that tells me every single feature I can use. Like many other electronics I’ve purchased recently, it seems like the onus of obtaining auxiliary cables falls on the end user. No HDMI cord and the optical cable could barely make it the length of my TV, let alone to the table where I wanted to place the sound bar. This isn’t just Sony, it seems to be everyone lately. So depending on how you plan on connecting, make sure you have the correct cable. Obviously if you connect with Bluetooth, this isn’t an issue. I would suggest NOT doing that, which I will explain later. I have not connected the sound bar to the wall yet, but this thing is relatively small compared to others I own. The instructions are simplistic but you will need to purchase the correct anchors (ex. screws, wall anchors, etc.) because they are not included. The remote is the right size. Small but not too small where you will lose it. There is a lot of functionality in the remote that make it necessary to have. There are also features for “long pressing” certain buttons. Refer to the owner’s manual for more information. Sound As I said before, this sound bar is sleek and relatively small. But don’t let that fool you. It puts ample sound out. When I test my speakers I use a staple of movies and songs to test different ranges: 1) “The Matrix” - Rescuing Morpheus (1hr 41mins) I love this scene for testing! The quality of speech is tested at the beginning. The surround capabilities are truly tested with the gun battle. And the music capabilities, especially on the low end, are tested with the soundtrack. This sound bar proved ample in all. Although it can’t get to the truly low bass “thump” that the soundtrack has, it doesn’t feel lacking. The crispness of the audio’s upper end is great as you hearing casings hitting the floor. For being just a sound bar, the surround capabilities were surprising. 2) “One Night Only” by The Struts A rock anthem definitely tests the highs and midrange capabilities. I did notice in the chorus of the song, the sound gets muddled and distorted in the midrange. This is more noticeable at higher volumes. It’s slight, but it is there. However, the crispness of the vocals is great! 3) “Loser” by Beck I mentioned this song before and it is my go-to for testing out vocal quality and how low speakers can actually pick up. Again, the vocal quality and guitar quality (high end) were great. The lows were good for what they can pick up. But obviously without having a larger sub-woofer, there is just no way to pick up that “thump”. Again, this isn’t a slight. It’s just an impossibility given the hardware. Inputs With all of that being said, there is a HUGE difference between the three inputs (HDMI, Optical and Bluetooth) and their quality. If you can connect with HDMI-ARC, I highly recommend it. It by far sounds the best and provides the most capabilities. I was shocked to see that when I connected the sound bar this way, even my Roku remote was able to control the volume of the sound bar. Pretty cool! The next highest quality was the optical cable. Although the difference in sound quality was slight, the loss of functionality that ARC gives is worth just connecting to HDMI. I would not suggest connecting to Bluetooth for TV purposes unless it’s an absolute necessity, or you just don’t care for crisp sound. Bluetooth is intrinsically lower in quality when it comes to sound. You’re giving up quality for ease of connection. Summary In conclusion, I would recommend this sound bar. Its price point is way under the value of the quality. While the bass isn’t going to hit you in the chest, I think the quality overall and the simplicity of setup make up and are well worth it.

Don't buy this soundbar. The audio is very weak and sounds hollow. It says it includes a subwoofer for bass but it's so small and weak, why bother even having it. You can find much better Soundbars.

Sound varies from broadcast to broadcast. It is too much work to adjust the bass with each one. When I do adjust the bass I have to get up and stand at the sound bar to do it. I don't use my TV as much as with my old set. This one just sounds like noise too much of the time.

Not loud enough!!! The sales person on bestbuy told me it was one of the best.. In my honest opinion i think she was more worried on the sale then my satisfaction on the product.

I have never owned a sound bar before because I felt there was no discernable difference between one and the built in speakers on a TV. I want to say that for this sound bar at the very least, I was very wrong. This soundbar is very compact and I love the bluetooth feature that allows me to cast a playlist while I cook or clean and it automatically comes on with the TV using arc. While watching a movie or just watching TV you can hear and feel a difference because of the base in the device and effects like knocking sound real. I am not an audiophile, but I do not regret getting this product because everything from reality TV to Spotify sounds 100x better.

We are not happy with the sound bar. Tony turned off the speakers on our tv and used this. He used a HTMI cable as the fiber optic cable. And we have to turn it up to 68 before we can hear it

Giving this a 1 star even before trying it out because it’s absolutely ridiculous for Sony to put a 1 cent piece of garbage optical cable in a $150 soundbar package. Very disappointing. Step it up Sony.

I do not recommend this product at all very low quality. I'm in an apartment so I didn't want to disturb neighbors but this soundbar was worse than speakers on the tv.

Weak sound with ZERO base, had to return the Yamaha thinking this is better but no way , so I'm on my way to return it and never look back .

horrible sound quality. I would have returned it but had to wait for an appointment because due to cancer and chemo damage could not install myself

This sound bar sounds great! It is small so it doesn't take up too much room but it really has a great sound. The built in subwoofer also works really well. I really like this soundbar, I just wish it had some kind of LCD display to confirm settings. There is some guess work doing the setup but thankfully setup doesn't take that long. This is one of my favorite soundbars!

Not a good product from Sony. I've had Sony products before, but I would have to say this sound bar is the worst I have ever bought from Sony.