Soundbar Buying Guide - How To Choose The Best Soundbar For You & Upgrade Your TV Sound 📺 🔊

A good soundbar will make it easier for you to understand what people are saying on TV, provide a better music soundtrack experience, and provide far richer deep bass than any TV speaker. In this video, we discuss how your listening and content tastes, your room size and shape, and where you will place your soundbar will impact your soundbar buying decision!

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0:00 How to choose a soundbar
0:19 Why You Need a Soundbar
1:29 Answer These Questions First
3:31 Basic Soundbars
5:27 Soundbar Performance Tips
5:55 Soundbars with Surround Sound
8:45 Ultimate Soundbars
10:33 Additional Considerations
11:00 Soundbar Alternatives for Music

[Devilcity]

Great explanation, best I have listened to so far. 🎉😊

[jimwilliamson]

Ultimate sound bars. These form factors have come such a long way to give decent audio in a more aesthetic package.

[martybrazill]

I really enjoy my Sonos ARC soundbar with the matching Sub. It does a great job in my family room and looks very sleek with my 65 inch tv.

[javidtaghiyev]

it's amazing to see how far the modern soundbars have come.

[harrisonlainhart]

Soundbars are such a great option with all the new tech packed inside them!

[chibbyylol]

Hopefully Audio Advice does some coverage on the new Sony soundbars etc coming up!

[MrRaghavann]

I want to buy jbl 9.1. But can you tell me the minimum room size required for this. Or any size room would be fine? Will rooms under 200 sqft create problems in audio? Let me know if I can use it in compact room.

[randycribb]

I believe the subwoofer option is key. The speakers in a TV simply have no way to reproduce lower frequencys, which is where the fullness of sound comes from.

[jonathanbarnes]

What is the best sounding stand alone soundbar overall not needing any additional speakers or subwoofers 🔊 etc?

[ertzgdds]

@AudioAdvice

I still have an very old AV receiver 5x100W sinus (still without HDMI, only Toslink with limited old 5.1 codecs). Plus large Canton floorstanding speakers from the Ergo series and Ergo rear speakers. I never bought a center (for optical reasons about such an ugly loudspeaker in front of me). I also never needed a subwoofer because of the good bass from the floorstanding speakers. The problem of the AV Receiver from year 1998 is the meanwhile limitation of sound codecs, I think. Incidentally, the old AV receiver also has no acoustic calibration.

Now a revision of a new TV is on the agenda. I would also like to replace the audio system. The new sony TVs also have the possibility of beeing a center speaker.

Would it be a step backwards to swap a good soundbar (e.g. Sony Bravia Theatre Bar 8/9 + rear speakers + woofer) for the floorstanding speakers and sell them? The room is rather small/medium in size and I shouldn't completely bombard my neighbors with acoustics, which is why I already have the night mode almost always active.

With a soundbar mounted direct under the tv on the wall, I generally have concerns about the soundbar-side speakers, as we have the 55"/65" TV hanging direct on the wall above a sideboard and there are larger cabinets to the left and right of the TV, which frame the TV (1.3ft inside). That would probably clash a bit with the side speakers of soundbars, wouldn't it? Sony's Theatre Quad with the 2 front speakers on the outside in place of the floorstanding speakers outside of the cabinets would certainly be the better choice in terms of acoustics, wouldn't it?

What would be the smartest? Get rid of everything old including floorstanding speakers? And put in a new audio system? A soundbar despite the spatial limitations of the acoustics of the side soundbar speakers? Or a system like the Sony Theatre Quad?

Or simply a more modern new AV receiver? And keep the floorstanding speakers? Use the TV as a center... But this variant would not support virtual 3D Sound from above...

[nitinkumarkumar]

Hi Sir I am from India I want to buy a Dolby digital Atmos Soundbar My Budget 2000$ please suggest me Best Dolby Atmos Soundbar

[michaelscheepers]

I have a Samsung HW-F551 sound bar, it's old, but it pumps. The subwoofer has packed up. What soundbar is available that gives the equivalent sound?

[DivyankSinghg]

Is it possible to use 2.1 or 3.1 soundbar with PC

[stevelucey]

Good information! Those Sonos soundbars are a great basis for an easy whole-home audio system!

[youtubehandol]

6:14 .... errr... the q990 series has been 11.1.4 for years now... That's pretty bad for a 4 month old video...