Bose Smart Ultra Soundbar
Not as good as you would…
10/25/2023 11:42
Let me start by saying the surround sound I amazing., I does take a little bit to set up though. When we are watching a movie, there are times it sounds like someone is messing with stuff in another room in our house, or noise feels like it comes from right behind the couch. It is amazing with the emersion and feeling of surround sound.
With that being said, the sound quality itself is a pain. I have messed with the setting in the app a lot of different times and the EQ is so hard to get dialed in to sound great. I dont know if its the accustics of the room we are in or what. But I cannot get the sound to sound balanced.
another huge issue I had was with the Bluetooth connection. We had a samsung soundbar that Bluetooth to the TV and worked perfect for the year we had it before getting the Bose soundbar. Hooked up the Bose bar with Bluetooth and after 5-10 minutes of watching you would start to get audio lag of a couple seconds. hard to enjoy a movie when the sound is delayed. I called support and they said to hook up with Optical Audio or HDMI (Arc). hooked up optical audio and it made it where you had to use the Bose controller to change volume and because there is no display you have no clue what volume level you are at.
After that, I tried hooking it up with HDMI, after messing with it for a little bit I got it to work. but every time we turn the TV off, it disconnects. so we just have additional steps, outside of just turning on the TV and relaxing, every time we want to watch anything. Support said it should stay connected and we just have to unplug the system and plug it back in. This does fix the issue for a day or two, but then it disconnects again and we have to unplug and replug it in and then reconnect it every 2-3 days. Its very annoying.
I wish that all thee kinks were worked out before getting this soundbar because I have no clue how, or if, they will be able to fix these issues.
ryanhester
Mesa , Spojené státy americké
Age: 38
Gender: Female