Amazon Fire TV Soundbar Plus with subwoofer and surround sound speakers (newest model), 5.1 channel, Dolby Atmos, clear dialogue

Got this on Prime Day (20% off!). I'd been eyeing this thing up for quite some time. I wanted to add surround sound to my Fire TV Omni 75". I've been looking at Denon/Onkyo receivers, and the whole Home Theater market is saturated with convoluted opinions on brand preference, good vs bad, etc. I wanted something very simple that I could just turn on, and this fit the bill perfectly.It doesn't have the richest of feature sets, but the ease of setup and sound quality make up for that. I'm not an audiophile, but movie dialogue sounds great, explosions are deep and rumble with the subwoofer, and surround can be heard when going from left to right or right to left.This system brightens dialogue and makes it audible in movies (you know what I'm talking about) and now I don't have to keep adjusting volume during a movie (up during dialogue, down during action scenes etc). It has settings to adjust dialogue volume, bass, and treble. Very nice, but again, very minimalistic.Right out of the box everything is paired together, so literally all you have to do is place the speakers, plug them in to power, press the connect button, and presto, you have a fully-functioning decently capable surround sound system.The box contains all of the cables you'll need including a high-speed HDMI cable. I ended up replacing this with an Anker High Speed HDMI cable, as I don't know what brand of cable was included. I repurposed the included cable to my used LG Blu-Ray player.Everything is packaged well, and is protected with cardboard supports. The Box is BIG and heavy, so be careful when you first bring it into your house.The speakers and sound bar seem to be made to very decent quality (I wouldn't say top-tier, but it's definitely well above average), and feel durable and hefty. The sound bar and surround speakers have cloth mesh on the front of them, so be careful as to not damage those.The sound bar has a very minimalistic remote that doesn't have a lot of functionality. There's 5 LEDs on the sound bar itself that are used to show levels of different settings (volume, bass, treble, dialogue etc) as you adjust them, and a blue LED to indicate Bluetooth connection status. Speaking of Bluetooth pairing, it's very simple. Press and hold the Bluetooth button on the remote to place it into pair mode.I wouldn't have paid full price for this with the lack of feature set, but for the Prime Day price, I'd argue there's not a better deal for a full 5.1 surround sound setup.

Yes, it took way longer to unpack than it did to set up. The soundbar connected/paired instantly with my Sony tv as soon as I plugged it in. And so did the wireless subwoofer and rear speakers. Also worked immediately with the remote from the tv (using HDMI-Arc port). And sounded great when we started streaming a movie a few minutes after plugging it in. Side note - extremely well packed.My old unit was a Vizio SB3651 surround sound system, but I was looking for a something with better voice clarity and also just general surround sound for movies. I have tinnitus pretty bad and dialog gets overpowered by everything else in way too many shows for me to hear people talking. I had read that technology had improved dialog delivery over the past few years but I didn't want to spend $1,500 or more for a new system.I can honestly say this system is a huge improvement - I can hear the voices so much better with this system. My wife has great hearing and even she was surprised at the difference it made for her! The remote has a button just for the dialog with five levels. But the dialog was so clear on the first level, that I haven't really needed to change for the shows we've watched so far.And it wasn't just the voices that were better. The surround sound effects streaming movies are way better than the Vizio. Both systems played DTS, but this system is just clearer and sounds better/sharper/crisper watching streaming shows or for over the air channels. Very impressed.One other note: the only knock I could really find on the system before I bought it was that it doesn't have upfiring speakers. But the room I have it in has a vaulted ceiling, and from reading up on how the upfire systems work, they are simply a complete waste of money if you have vaulted/slanted ceilings. The sound has to bounce off the ceiling and back down to where you are sitting, and it takes a lot of playing with the speaker angles to get the effect right even with flat ceilings - but it's realistically impossible with vaulted/slanted ceilings. Especially if the upfiring speakers are in a soundbar you can't tilt because it would aim all the other speakers in the bar to the ground or over your head. Just doesn't work.I could never bring myself to pay a thousand dollars plus for a sound system just because of the name. So at least for my purposes, this system is just exactly what I wanted - half to quarter as much money, crystal clear voices and sound, and couldn't have been easier to setup and use. Win, win, win!

The setup on this was super easy. I love the fact that it just works. There is no installation and no configuration. If you do want to adjust the settings, they are available in the settings of the TV itself. I really love the fact that the rear surround speakers are wireless. Just plug them into the wall and they pair automatically. It took me a week or two to get used to hearing sounds behind me. At one point I thought someone was talking in my garage and thought we were being robbed! Now I'm used to it and it is awesome. I will admit that it is pretty expensive, but if you watch a lot of television or stream a lot of videos, this is worth it.Edit: The bass is surprisingly deep for a single subwoofer.

I don’t write a lot of reviews but this has a lot of mixed ones, so I am doing this for Dale. We had a Vizio soundbar and woofer and it sounded great. I wanted rear speakers for movies and football. This far exceeded our expectations. Setup was a breeze and it literally rattles the walls in the house. You can control the subwoofer and the rear speakers separately. It is a great product!