Sound Bars

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Anyone have any experience with sound bars? I want to get one but wow are their a lot of options and I'm idiot when it comes to electronics, especially speakers. I don't need anything crazy but I do want a good one. I have a pretty small room to fill with sound (25' x 15' with 12' ceilings). It'll be used mostly for streaming, TV (via HD antenna) and music (via Spotify, Pandora, and Amazon Music). I don't need top of the line, but was looking for wireless, compatibility with my other components, and of course, sound. I see them run from $160 (many brands) to $700 (Sonos). Any suggestions??

EDIT: A little more background if necessary: I have a Samsung 8 Series TV (new), an Amazon Fire, an X Box One (blu-ray), and an Amazon Echo.

8/12/166:24 PM

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"We"-Ka-BongYou ungrateful biscuit eating son of a bitch

I got a vizeo to go with my vizeo TV. TV is amazing, sound bar not so much. First one I got had a scale of 1-99 for the sound, but all the sound fell between 8 numbers. Regardless of where you started, say 50. 50 would be OK, 46 would be silent and 55 would be horribly loud. Vizeo replaced it for free with the newer model. Now all the sound falls between about 25 points, but continuously gets lower and lower on the scale, so periodically I have to pause TV, bump the sound up to 90, then shut the TV off. When I turn it on again, it is way to loud, but I can drop it down to about 80 and start the process again. Sound bar does give great sound for apps like pandora or even using bluetooth with the Ipod.

We got my folks a samsung soundbar for their samsung TV. Sound range is much better with none of the problems I described with the vizeo. My near deaf dad can hear the sound great (especially compared to the TV speakers, which suck balls).

8/12/167:48 PM

oldschoolMember

I've heard that using a Bose radio works better than soundbars for the money...can't beat Bose base.

9/3/162:21 PM

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