Ambeo Soundbar | Mini

Grab a Sennheiser Ambeo mini than the much inferior Sonos Beam gen 2. It supports all the codecs and even sounds decent for music

You’re in for a treat for the lg c5. If you can spend money on anything I would say get the google streamer or onn 4k. This is just me saying this as someone who has a really nice sound bar: if you went from a shitty tv to the lg the amount you jump up in your tv watching experience will be huge. I do not think you will have as noticeable jump to a 3.1 system. Listen to the tv I don’t think it is too bad. And if will cost a lot more to get into a system that actually make more of a difference. But for less than 100 bucks you can go from the lg os system to a dedicated android system which will be much faster and smoother. You will notice the change in ui more than a sound bar

Yea I just don’t know if your parents are going to notice either directional or bass. My wife couldn’t tell the bass on the tv. I picked up the Sennheiser ambeo and would recommend the mini. However, I am going to be honest there has not been a lot of content where I am noticing the directional sound. Bass yes for sure and it is sweet, but I only notice it when I adjust and listen to the difference. But what I do notice is my lg is so laggy (I am using stremio) but when I switched to a Google one it was so clean and beautiful. Now I have a like picture of snow falling and it is the coolest thing ha. Ambeo mini I think goes on sale well at Best Buy and it has base. But you probably want something with satellites because it is so hard to notice the surround sound without it

If your place isn’t too big and you want to focus on the front stage, I am a stan now for Sennheiser

I've had mine since June and I think it's great for my small/medium living room.

Yep ambeo does support not sure how well but it does and I don’t think the beam does for all of it

Thought so. Worried about the earc connection issues some have brought up but I think ill risk it

Sweet. No connection issues? Saw some complaints about hdmi or earc not connecting a year ago when reviewing some posts

Thanks for the reply. Yep I’ve heard about the Sonos issues and basically it saved me from immediately buying it when I started the search a month ago. Sadly I need an under 30 inch bar due to the tv size and space where I’m gonna put it. Which has made this way harder because all the “best compact soundbar” reviews are 95% focused on only reviewing the beam. It’s been alarming to the say the least. Even sites I trust like rtings are so high on it but they don’t seem to even talk about the app issues. I’m likely gonna go with the ambeo mini for $450

The mini is good value for money if you can get it on a sale

Maby a refurbished senheiser ambeo mini

Yes i have one at home. Its definitely worth the money. The sound is clear and very full, you can even save custom eq settings for different types of media. Thus far no regrets.

Cannot recommend this enough. I have an Ambeo Mini and it blows Sonos beam outta the water

Interested in this too, I've also been looking at the Bose Smart soundbar but leaning more towards the Sennheiser Ambeo mini, currently £329

I'll assume you're talking about the Beam 2 as similarly priced I have a small lounge and thin walls so don't want a sub, and don't really have the space for rear speakers, so don't need to buy into the whole Sonos speakers everywhere thing. Plus if I did that it would be cheaper to buy a proper receiver and speaker package From reviews the Ambeo has better sound than the Beam. I also don't have any Apple products so can't set up the trueplay on a Sonos which it needs to get the best out of it. But the main thing is the Beam doesn't have Bluetooth, which would be used from other devices, music from phone etc