For $119.99, it didn’t sound half bad.
Soundbars are tricky. They need to be big enough that they sound better than the dinky speakers on your TV, but they need to be cheap enough that you don’t balk at upgrading your sound after just spending a lot of money on a TV. I didn’t get to spend enough time withWhat I didn’t hear was a lot of detail. Voices rumble with appropriate amounts of bass — but in the very audio-unfriendly environment we listened to the soundbar in, dialogue was a little harder to track.
Only people spending $120 on a soundbar don’t necessarily want pristine detail. They want it to be loud and to have all the bass that TV speakers typically lack. With the, it’s already difficult to hear what people are saying, so the lack of detail in the speaker I heard might not be an issue — and again, this was a very fast demo. We’ll need to spend a lot more time with the Fire TV Soundbar before we can say it’s worth it over something like the $99 Vizio V-Series.
But I think what I’m most excited about with this bar is the stuff we haven’t gotten to test —like the setup process. Many soundbar makers try to use software to improve on the speakers and make them sound more expensive than they are. But that software can be fiddly and annoying to use. The promise of the Fire TV Soundbar is that it will work with any Fire TV product with no messy setup required.
It feels like we’re slowly moving away from that period when soundbars all were exclusively controlled by remote, and that’s a very welcome thing.
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