Klipsch - Flexus Core 300

Klipsch Flexus 300 with sub and surround speakers. Amazing sound!

Klipsch Flexus Core 300. Excellent voice clarity.

Klipsch Flexus 300, 10” sub and surrounds…amazing sound with the Dirac room correction!

Sony is not good now, there are a lot of good options besides it. Go for Loewe Home Cinema 553 (if you can spend \~ 3k on it), or another option would be Klipsch Flexus Core 300, with surr's and either original subwoofer or get SVS. These options would would be better than Sonos and sound way more. P.S Do not forget Sonos does not support DTS:X and DTS-HD MA.

Sonos sounds flat, yeah immersive sounds with the backs (Eras 300) will be quite good, but the soundbar itslef is not that good. If you're fine with that and you do not need DTS:X and DTS-HD MA you can go with Sonos, but for example Klipsch will be better in terms of quality. Music (your usecase) and movies sounds flawless. Do not forget, music is also in a movies, so it's important to everyone. Anyway, soundbars (as you know) are mostly designed to listen to music in the background, nor directly. Full Klipsch set would cost you around 2300 EUR.

Please not JBL. While it's having punchy bass it's faking everything. If you're not into sound it will be fine to you, however if you do know how things should sound, then it's definitely not the right option. Wish some quality, Klipsch Flexus Core 300 is a good option, however it costs as full system of samsung or jbl :). Dirac makes difference.

The Core 300, in my opinion, is the best stand-alone soundbar you can get in a reasonable price range. Thing is a beast and even has Dirac Live room correction. People need to take measurements, though. It's long AF.

Does he care about actual physical surround speakers? If not, the Klipsch Core 300 is a monster. It's side-firing and up-firing drivers are legit, Doesn't need a subwoofer and has Dirac Live room calibration. But its wireless connectivity is total garbage so you wouldn't want the surround speakers added on.

Polk Magnifi MAX AX SR. Comes with everything; 10" subwoofer and surrounds (don't believe for a minute the bouncy room angled speakers in soundbars even come close to proper surround) When I get speakers I get them from companies that only make speakers. I did have Klipsch for a bit but their connectivity was horrendous (using a USB dongle in 2025 and pressing and holding buttons, then dropping out once an hour and requiring it to be done over again). Polk literally connects on its own once plugged in and stays that way. That being said, if you ONLY want a soundbar, the Klipsch Core 300 is insane. The built in subwoofers are no joke.

Klipsch told me to return mine. If you plan on getting the surrounds, you may have issues. They use a USB dongle to connect wirelessly and it's terrible. The USB dongle would also get incredibly hot, like to the point I can't imagine the electronics lasting long. It would randomly drop out (longest it lasted was an hour or so) and then require an entire rebinding process. To me, a premium soundbar that relies on such crappy old technology to connect peripherals is a bad sign. What other things did they cheap out on? Even budget soundbars have integrated connectivity. Makes me question Klipsch moving forward. Ended up getting the Polk Magnifi Max. Plugged it in and everything was automatically binded and has never lost signal once. Not recommending you do the same, but I am recommending hunt around a bit. This "flagship" model of theirs has some issues, and their tech support literally said "yeah it may have some bugs to workout since its new, just return it".

Can vouch for Klipsch. Have a Flexus core 300 and it sounds great when playing music. Even my FIL who considers himself an audiophile and has spent 1000s on his proper setup was pleased with Klipsch's music performance.

Absolutely. It has its quirks, mainly software-wise, but soundwise it's awesome. The basic Dirac calibration is a 10 minutes process and already helps with balance and clarity big time. I haven't done the full calibration yet as you need to pay $100 for a license and further $150 for a calibration mic but I definitely see myself giving in in the future.

I've had the Klipsch for a month or two. Sound-wise it's been great. Both for music and movies. After the calibration, the sound is very neutral, maybe a little too flat but you can customize the EQ after calibration as you like. Sound separation and dialog clarity is imo very good - when there's a soundtrack playing in a movie and the characters are speaking / making noises, it doesn't blend together at all. The subwoofers are doing their job done pretty well too. I was a bit afraid they won't be enough but I didn't want an external woofer because I live in a flat and didn't wanna disturb the neighbors too much and my living room space is pretty cramped as it is. My fear however was pointless, the integrated woofers sound nice and powerful to me. Spotify cast works well, don't forget to set the quality to lossless in Spotify app, the difference in quality is clear. The soundbar once bugged out for me though and CEC stopped working. I didn't find a solution and after about an hour of experimenting I decided to factory reset the soundbar which indeed helped. The second setup was fine and fast, APART FROM recalibration. It's not hard to do, just annoying and would be completely irrelevant IF you could export - import your calibration files, which you unfortunately can't. Overall very pleased with it as a standalone bar.

I'd say it's just alright but my living room has a very specific shape that doesn't help at all. So I can't really tell how it is in a 'normal' room. Honestly the detachable rears of the JBL seem like a great thing and I would've considered it too, but it's about 50% more expensive in my country.

The Klipsch Flexus 200/300 series have great sound without a sub. Can add surrounds and sub later, and has provision for a subwoofer pre-out so you can add any sub you’d like

I haven’t heard the 990f in my own room (just at a friends house), but have a JBL BAR1300X with 12” sub that I got refurb for $770, and have a Klipsch Flexus 300 with their 200 surrounds and their 12” sub. The Klipsch bar by itself was very impressive. Obviously much more expensive, but I think I’d rather go with just the Flexus 300 at first and add the surrounds and sub later with how good the bar itself was. It honestly surprised the crap out of me, I thought the sub was hooked up when I first set up the bar. If you have the extra coin to spend, I’d 100% recommend looking into the Klipsch setup. The 990f vs 1300x, the 990 has a little better bar clarity for music listening, but for movies, the punch from the 1300x fits my liking better, once I got the EQ dialed in on the app. It’s very impressive for the refurb price, if I paid retail, I’d absolutely rather spend the extra and get the Klipsch setup

Klipsch flexus core 300, plus rears and sub.

Klipsch Flexus Core 300 if you can come up a bit or wait for a sale. It also gives the flexibility of adding a powered subwoofer of your choice down the road where many of the others do not.

The klipsch option with your current subwoofer will outclass the Sonos offering by a wide margin.

There are already reviews of the Core300 system, and overall, it’s not as good as the Arc Ultra setup. Core300 is muddy and In particular, the Surr200 falls far behind the Era300, and unfortunately, even Dirac Live can’t save the underwhelming performance of the height channels. If someone really needs DTS:X — which, to be honest, most people don’t — then the Sony HT-A9M2 is a better option. That said, the ultimate Sonos setup, especially when paired with SonosSequencer, easily outperforms all other soundbar systems.

Yeah in that case seems 300 the only option, but with its surround you can tell it’s just standard average rears, not flagship level

I’d try a Klipsch flexus core they have built in subs that actually work. And you can upgrade. Wired sub out so you can use any wired sub

Id throw the Klipsch flexus core 300 into the mix if you’re willing to spend. You can get atmos rears and wireless subs… or use any wired sub you want. I have a core 200 with the surround 200 and (kinda boomy looking to upgrade) 2x Klipsch r-100sw and I think it’s pretty sharp. I went with the cheap Klipsch sub just for that. They’re inexpensive. But you can use any wired sub even the reference premiere 1600 if you wanted

Of your current options id be between the Flexus Core 300 & the Ambeo Plus. I have the Core 200 right now and it's a very solid system, no complaints at all. Impressive audio & solid app controls. However, I did get a demo of the Ambeo Plus in Best Buy and the level of detail in it was just purely mind blowing! Sounds sooooo insanely polished & perfect it's almost scary how clean it sounds. I've never heard anything come even close to this. I'd say Bose is close (I had the Smart 600, also an absolutely amazing system), but the Ambeo still felt like a different level of sound. I know the Ambeo doesn't offer rears but even from a brief demo I felt it's immersion was off the charts! I cannot express enough how good this thing sounded! If you strictly want the absolute cleanest sounding system, Ambeo Plus is the ONLY way to go!! Now if you want loads of power, the Klipsch Flexus Core 300 might be a bit beefier sounding. This is almost like comparing a Ferrari to a Bentley. Ferrari being loud & ferocious (Klipsch) while Bentley being smooth, clean & luxurious (Sennheiser).

The Klipsch Flexus Core 300 would be an awesome choice. I have the Core 200 & it's a fantastic system, but the 300 looks like a different beast. 4 4" subwoofers built in, up firing & side firing drivers. My Core 200 has an impressive soundstage so I can't Imagine how insane the soundstage of the Core 300 is.

I'd pick the Klipsch setup. That's my exact setup and it's an awesome system. Really fills my room quite well. Unless you can find a Samsung Q800D, then I'd grab that over the Klipsch. But I wouldn't buy the Q800F as I think it's a small downgrade from the Q800D due to the subwoofer. That new subwoofer is the same Sub as the S800's slim soundbar series subwoofer. I've personally had both the S800B and the Q800B and the older Q800B single 8" subwoofer is significantly better than the 6.5" + 8" PR design. I'll never understand why they did this but I can only assume it's to put a little bit more distance in the difference between the Q800's & Q900's considering they both used to have the same subwoofer design (or extremely similar). But I definitely think they could've come up with something better than what they made