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Pros and Cons

Pros4

For $250 bucks it offers a great upgrade to my tv speakers, huge difference. Set up is extremely easy and the sound is amazing. It connects super easily to bluetooth if u want to use it to play pandora or another music service. It's very easy to conne...  Read More

The price is a bit steep, but bose delivers. This is bose lowest price offering and i am pleasantly surprised. It lives up to its reputation and exceeds the price point.

The sound quality is excellent and very easy to use with a little patience and reading the instructions. It can get very loud with little to no distortion. The remote is massive and unnecessary, but that's not an issue.

The soundbar has the ability to switch between full sound and a speech setting by pressing a button on the remote. The bass is pretty good and makes movies and sports games sound a lot better. It also has a setting to enhance speech by reducing bass. ...  Read More

Cons2

Remote quit working within 3 weeks. Prongs on the power cord we're also bent. Speaker is brand new but won’t work.

At max volume on the bose (with tv at max volume), we have to pause movies if anybody is making any sound around the viewer. I still remain so confused as to who allowed this, what happened to bose and why it was allowed to even make it to production ...  Read More

Pros4

The bass ext really adds a solid low end.

The yas 209-bl has great bass and a clear, smooth tone for our living room. It has a subwoofer output to add any sub rather than a prepackaged setup. Bluetooth sub is of heavy quality and sound bar is very long with 2 hdmi and a usb.

Yamaha sound control works with hdmi arc and hdmi cec signals. Set up by downloading the yamaha app and downloading the firmware update in the process. I have a samsung tv, but i stream using a roku.

The audio quality is amazing compared to * built-in tv speakers, but don’t expect it to compete with some cinematic 7. Surround sound. There are multiple sound settings such as tv, movies, music that adjust the sound output for optimum playback.

Cons3

Sounded like static in a tin can. Could not distinguish guitars or riffs on any of the presets. I can't get the controls on the bar or remote to do anything, i have to unplug the bar to shut it off. The info button does nothing.

There's what looks like a wi-fi light on the top. The app is horrible and you expect them to set it up with this app? Still no connection to the iphone. Can't get phone app to work either.

The sound out of the sound bar tends to be very muddy. At this point the app is useless since it can't find the soundbar. No real improvement from the tv's speaker quality.

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