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Reddit Reviews
Agile_Doubt8061I have the Bose TV Speaker and happy with it in my studio apartment.
Different_Quality_28I found a bose tv speaker, open box for 189.00. Works and sounds great.
dj_boy-WonderI bought a Bose tv speaker a few years back and it sucked, it was marginally better than tv speakers but not much, as a laptop soundbar it is not bad though, still lacks bass but I don’t game I watch YouTube and teams calls so yeah it’s fine.
funkygrrlI totally loved mine. But it depends on your situation. I live in an apartment where I can't have a thundering subwoofer. Surround sound didn't matter to me either. What was really important to me was to have clear speech since so many movies are what I refer to as "whispers and screams" and Bose really delivered on that.
LGSStaticmeh, too expensive for sub par sound (for the Bose tv speaker) in my opinion You can get better for less. Especially if they are just after clear voices
when i was looking for a bar, the reviews for the bose tv bar were avg at best. Look around, i cant even find it on many top X lists... just what i observed :) thats all
MaydenAmericaI'm not an audiophile. I've been using a cheap Vizio soundbar with a subwoofer for the last 5 years or so. We've always complained about how bad the dialogue was on it, very hard to hear if there's also music. I ran out to Best Buy and grabbed the Bose TV Speaker for $200 and hooked it up last night. The difference is night and day. All sound is crystal clear and the bass is surprisingly good even without its own subwoofer. There may be people with way more experience and knowledge than me that can tell you something better or why my pick is bad. But from my casual perspective the Bose TV Speaker far exceeded my expectations.
It's literally just called Bose TV Speaker
Mr_helpdeskMy wife got this Bose as a gift and I was shocked at the sound of this in the bedroom. I have a surround sound system in my family room that's set up to watch movies and sports, so I would not get this for that room but I would definitely buy it if I was looking for a low-cost effective solution before I pulled the trigger on something more expensive. [Bose soundbar for $199 at Amazon in sale] (https://a.co/d/4gX9BLv) https://a.co/d/4gX9BLv
Ok_Pudding7918bose is known for its outstanding dialogue clarity amongst its competitors and offers brilliant clarity over a small unit unlike samsung which provides a much larger bar for similar to slightly better performance such as the q800f or q600f, not taking in regard of the tv speaker instead the smart soundbar, its probably the best to me, i was going to purchase it if not the lack of white color so i had to go with the beam gen 2, but the bose smart soundbar and tv speaker are definitely really amazing soundbars, would recommend both of them, buy the smart soundbar only if you watch dolby atmos encoded content else the tv speaker will suffice.
Rankings by Use Case
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