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I wouldn't describe myself as a conspiracy theorist but when almost 3ars

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of people report difficulty understanding dialogue in their favorite

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TV shows and movies and the entertainment industry's response is

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basically watch it in the theater or get your own Theater Red Flag I think you've

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lost touch everyone uses subtitles now old man no I reject that it's the mixers

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who are wrong and I've got the solution while sound bars may have a reputation

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for being either outlandishly expensive or garbage or often some combination of

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the two a goldilock Zone does appear to exist where you can get better dialogue

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quality and a wider Sound Stage without breaking the bank and surprisingly the

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most popular one on Amazon at the time of writing is from Bose Bose and

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affordable aren't words I would normally put together so then why

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the are you all buying this Soundbar ah

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shipping you might think that anyone spending ,000 on a TV would have some

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kind of budget set aside for an audio system but speaking from experience it's

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quite the opposite they're expecting that for that kind of money the built-in

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speakers should be decent already unfortunately the industry Trend towards

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thinner and thinner displays means there's simply not anywhere to put

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speakers like where would these speakers go in this TV now at the very high end

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there are Creative Solutions to this that involve vibrating the entire

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surface of the display and whatnot but most people aren't buying those kinds of

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solutions and the ones that are really

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especially ought to be using external speakers and soap box so let's focus on

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the mainstream then we're going to be pairing our top selling Soundbar the

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Bose TV speaker with another bestseller

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that we're going to get to in another video this 43in Amazon Fire

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TV if I didn't know how good this movie is supposed to sound I might consider

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this acceptable yeah it's fine I can barely hear his dad there

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isn't even any background music right now I can barely make anything out the

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sound quality is not great but that's

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okay we can fix that surprisingly the box for the Bose

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TV speaker contains only an optical cable to connect to your TV so we saw

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some complaints from people who were upset that they couldn't use EC without

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a trip to the local Walmart fortunately for us we have some HDMI cables lying

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around and we would definitely recommend going this route since ER AR should

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allow us to use our TV remote for Soundbar volume control and allow our

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devices to automatically power up and power down together as for the rest of

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the io we've got auxiliary in a service port a base Port we'll talk more about

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this later and power now this unit doesn't have Wi-Fi meaning that you

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can't connect to the Bose app but it does have Bluetooth if you want to use

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it with a mobile device like your phone it's Bluetooth 4.2 though which means

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limited range compared to more modern implementations I'm pretty sure there

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supposed to be base here it's going to come in no but like there's supposed to

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be like

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subbase now here there's supposed to be base Bose yes base no

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oh oh and that is not the mark of a good

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speaker when the base finally manages to

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hit the rest of the sound ducks are it kind of sounds like it's being

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suppressed we also found that there was a lot of compression at high volume on

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base heavy songs pretty good for music at low or medium volumes bad at high

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volumes it's kind of like a giant Bluetooth

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speaker it really struggles with the rumble of the

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train it's way

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better on the built-in speaker on this TV I couldn't tell she spoke a different

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language there it was just all unintelligible to

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me and I get it if you're looking to understand dialogue better I could see

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people bringing this thing home and compared to their onboard thinking man

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this is what I've been missing out on this thing's flipping amazing and if

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you're still having trouble hearing the dialogue enhancer definitely works doing

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even more to well enhance dialogue but

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it does cost you in other areas particularly the little bit of Base that

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there already was gets suppressed even further it's not a home theater in a box

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but absolutely good enough for someone who just wants to hear what people are

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freaking saying the solution to most of my problems seems to be a Bose base

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module base module you mean a subwofer

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ah no remember that base Port we saw

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before well as it turns out Bose locks

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down their Soundbars to prevent you from using a third-party powered sub I mean

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I'm sure they have some kind of brand BS

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ensuring a consistent experience justification for this but we need only

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look as far as the price of Bose's proprietary base modules to find out

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that this just comes down to milking you for more money once you're locked into

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their ecosystem so you can eat a Bose at least it's stylish though like the all

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new LTT tracksuit from LTT Store.com it's poly cotton Blended God it looks

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good Bose has a pretty established look at this point black mesh with the Bose

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logo on top if you've seen one you've kind of seen most of them the finish on

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the plas plastic feels nice though the whole device is small and sleek and at

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just over 2.2x 4X 23.4 in and 4.3 lbs

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while mounting it should be a breeze though I suspect most people are just

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going to set it down on their console like we did especially since the paid

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mounting service costs almost as much as the Soundbar itself I'm not going to lie

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uh this is about the least impressed that I have ever been by a why are you

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all buying this thing product we're going to talk about some better options

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in a bit here but first let's take a break from what I think and talk about

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why you guys keep buying these with over 7,500 ratings on Amazon this Soundbar

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averages 4.5 stars with a whopping 74%

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of you giving it a full five stars in spite of my complaints y'all are pretty

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happy with it let's start with the Positive then our five-star crowd loves

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how easy it is to set up how well the dialogue enhancer Works especially for

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seniors or those who are hard of hearing and they love how much of an upgrade it

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is over their TV speakers moving on to the fourstar gang they mostly agreed

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actually saying that it bumps up the perceived volume that having both Arc

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and Optical connections is nice and that the sound quality is good however even

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in the fourstar crowd almost every review comes with a caveat of some sort

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there's an included optical cable but not HDMI it's easy to set up but the

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sound is mediocre it's an improvement over my last Soundbar or my TV but it's

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not as good as I was expecting considering that it's nearly $300 and it

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comes from Bose a well-known company and as we keep moving down we find some

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pretty reasonable complaints from in my humble opinion the people who probably

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know home audio a little bit better than the wow it's better than nothing five

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stars crowd for example we saw criticisms about the lack of EQ settings

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other than dialogue criticisms about the poor performance at high volumes and the

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lack of Bas we saw critiques of the lackluster remote that is all stuff that

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we experienced and I think people were pretty fair about it what we didn't

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experience though was overheating whatever our experience with our unit

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though it's frankly alarming when this many reviews mention it being too hot to

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touch smelling like burnt plastic and leaving marks on things some units even

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broke seemingly prematurely with the customer suspecting heat to be the

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culprit but then even if that wasn't a problem should you buy this thing well

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if Bose was doing more than just making dialogue more intelligible I have no

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problem with it I'd in fact love to see a version of this product that works

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with third party accessories or that can be expanded in the future using it as a

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center channel in a surround config or something like that but as it is it's a

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deadend entry-level solution at a price that just doesn't make any sense I'm not

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even trying to be one of those home theater setups are better than a

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soundbar at any price Bros but for

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$280 come on you could pick up almost

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literally anything and get equally simple setup and dialogue enhancement I

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mean Amazon knows this Vio 2.0 is a better basic option and it costs only

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$69 nice not that I would necessarily even recommend the cheapest solution a

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good Soundbar is still going to sound better than whatever your next TV and

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your one after that is going to be and costs only a little bit more the LG S40

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Q for example or the pulk Signa S2 are only about $130 and $160 respectively

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and both of them come with a base module in the Box for that price so a

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subwoofer exactly and if you were going to drink the Bose koolade anyway you

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could spend the same amount and get something much

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better and get something much better I mean we haven't gotten a chance to try

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all these yet stay tuned cuz the lab's home theater testing room is going to be

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coming online later this year but on paper the Sony HTS 400 Samsung hwb 550

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and Vio vs series are all name brand products that are on sale right now and

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match or beat our Bose's Soundbar while

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also including a base

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module subwoofer right you Bose the

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reality is then if you buy the Bose TV speaker there's a good chance that 74%

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or whatever it works out to that you are going to be happy with it but our job

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isn't to tell you what might make you happy it's to help you spend your money

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wisely and I just don't think the Bose TV speaker holds up especially if you

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spent more than Fire TV money on your display we tried it for example on an

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s95 B and while the dialogue enhancer

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did improve over the stock speakers it

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was not a massive Improvement and it came at the cost of everything but the

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dialogue unusual conclusion today but do yourself a favor and don't follow the

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crowd when it comes to Soundbars make sure to get something with a sub if you

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want to feel your favorite content kind of like how you're going to feel this

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segue to our sponsor thanks for watching we've got a whole series of these why

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are you guys buying this stuff thing so maybe check them out if you like this

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one or maybe check out the last time we did a soundbar the Vio sb2920

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C6 it fared a lot better