Bar 300MK2

i just bought the jbl bar 300 mk2 for 400, its good 🤷🏽 can also cast music from my phone, so thats cool. its just an all in one bar with no sub or anything. also am not an audio man and never had a soundbar before. i mostly just watch streaming apps from my tv which mostly dont support dolby or any higher audio files. but im happy with it, it sounds pretty nice. (im sure others here will disagree lol)

music sounds good on it, has a suprisingly nice bass that you can increase or decrease, and the couple movies i watched on it so far had nice surround sound especially for just a sound bar that sits under the tv

JBL Bar 300 Mk. II. It’s one of the best without a subwoofer. I have the Mk I version and it’s pretty good. I was shopping for the Mk II but couldn’t justify over triple the price. I got the original version sealed on EBay for $100

For a bedroom, you don’t really need a sub. But you can always add the Sonos sub after. For that price range, I think the Beam is still the best sounding to me. I sold mine and downgrade to the JBL Bar 300 Mk2, and it’s been pretty decent so far (I just needed the extra HDMI port, which the Beam does not have). The Beam sounds a little better and definitely clearer. And damn, I actually miss having Amazon Alexa integrated into the soundbar

JBL 300 MK2 is a beast and I recommend it I personally hate quiet dialogue and loud noises, same problem with kids sleeping etc. The above has great dialogue isolation and boosting, but only if the sound is mixed in 5.1 or better. If you're watching content that's mixed in Stero sound, you'll need to turn on tv PCM mode and also any kind of Night Mode/dynamic sound suppression options on whatever you're watching it on. Once I did that, I don't get loud noises anymore. And it's quick to turn these settings off when I get 5.1 or better mixed content.

I would suggest a JBL Bar 300 or Bar 300 Mk2 check in your country if the Bar 500 is at a good price for you. You probably should avoid Sonos as they still have heavy software issues, it’s still not fixed after more than one year of shitstorm. They have significant hardware issues in their current line : paint flaking from the grids. When we ditched everything Sonos in my house I replaced the Sonos Beam in the gaming room with the JBL Bar 300 and it’s incredibly better. Sound is more detailed, precise. It’s a good bar to listen to music too, with a good musicality. And it’s more open, with a good support of DTS. Sonos doesn’t even support it properly.

JBL Bar 300. I had a full house of Sonos speakers and soundbars and when I ditched it because of its software issues I replaced the Sonos Beam in the gaming room with a JBL Bar 300. We were all amazed by its sound quality vastly superior to the Beam. And it has no subwoofer. I got it on sale for 250€. Now they have the Bar 300 MK2 which is a newer model. Sound is very clear.

JBL Bar 300 MK2 It has no subwoofer, a very good sound, very clear and detailed and a sound projection system which gives the feeling you have rear speakers. It's not as good as actual and well placed rear speakers but it's quite good to create an immersive sound bubble.

No certainly not because Sonos devices are unreliable. 2 years ago they revamped their whole software platform, moving it to the cloud. It has been a shitstorm and they eventually fired their CEO and many other people. They have still not fixed all the issues. 1 month ago their new CEO gave an interview to Bloomberg explaining they are working hard to fix the software but it will take time. Do you really want to commit in such a closed and unreliable ecosystem ? And expensive too. We replaced a Sonos Beam by a JBL Bar 300 and discovered how much Sonos sound quality is overhyped. They are actively influencing to make people believe they are the best but they are not and far from it. Their influencers will tell you all the issues are solved by now. But if this is true, why does their new CEO says it's not ? Check the Sonos Bar 300 MK2.

I would ad the JBL Bar 300 MKII. I have the original one and it's quite amazing for the price. And it's a very simple setup.

I have a Bar 300 which comes without sub and without rears in the gaming room and am extremely happy with it ! But I don’t like heavy basses generally.

I have only the Bar 300 and the Bar 1000 and voices are very clear to us in the house. You may wanna check what formats you use and if your TV is not messing it a bit like downmixing or something like that. You can try to connect your source directly to the soundbar and then the soundbar will send the picture to the TV. Have you calibrated the sound properly ?

I also have the 300, had it for almost 6 months for gaming streaming etc, Its all one needs for a small room. Have you touched the equalizer or just run it flat?

jbl 300 mk2 thank me later :D