Sennheiser - Ambeo Soundbar | Plus

I have the Senn Plus + Senn sub. They are excellent together. The sound in our room for music and movies is crystal clear and balanced. You can even enhance dialogue from their smart control app as well. Their Smart Control app is very easy to use to minimize or boost the ambeo effect and select among different sound profiles (it's cool looking too unlike the Sonos app). I've had mine for one year and have had zero issues with overheating or HDMI/cec issues. My ambeo system is also a part of my Google home system as I have a variety of different brands all connected for all home audio across my whole house. Spotify connect works great as well with the Ambeo. I strictly avoided Sonos due to them making you use only their speakers for whole home audio plus they had BIG app issues all last year and earlier this year as well. They have also made older speakers of theirs obsolete forcing you to upgrade, lame. If you have the Best Buy tech membership, they let you return whatever you buy within 60 days if you don't like it. Good luck with the decision!

I have the arc ultra and sounds great with the bar alone. I plan to add a sub later on. I also tested out the Ambeo Plus bar alone and it sounds quite rich in clarity. I was close to buying it instead.

Isn't the ambo max the old version, and the ambeo plus the new one? I couldn't even find an ambeo max at BB, but I did test out the Plus, and it sounds really good for the bar alone. I did find the design quite ugly though (and dust loves hanging on that material), kinda like the 990D lol I tested it against the Bose ultra, and the Sonos Arc Ultra. All of them sounded great, but the Ambeo felt like it lacked that full oomph sound I wanted, but it was very nice clarity. The bose had that full sound I wanted, but so did the Sonos. The Sonos is a newer design with a bit more features so I chose that.

Sonos stuff is great. When I lived in apartments I had the Arc/Arc Ultra and Era 300 and Sub mini in my living room and Beam Gen 2 in my bedroom. Once we got our house though I had to have real surround so I got some Klipsch towers with upfiring Dolby Atmos, center channel and surrounds. I’m going to add rear heights next all paired to a bad ass Onkyo receiver. I love Sonos for small spaces though. I’m going to pick up a set of Era 300s and a sub mini for my bedroom. Right now I have a Sennheiser AMBEO plus in there and my Beam is in the office. Sorry for the word vomit, autistic and you struck a hyper fixation 😂😂

i would prefer a plus+sub if you want only the bar then the max

If you don’t need rear speakers the Ambeo plus is excellent and gets even better with their matching sub. It sounds much better than a friend’s Samsung 800 series.

Ambeo plus and the matching is quite good. Sounds much better than a friends 800 series Samsung.

I find the sennheiser ambios plus has excellent sound quality overall and I liked it much better than Samsung 7 series I had and returned or my friends 800 series.

Wow it’s $2500 but they say that wireless surrounds are coming. I bought the Sennheiser Ambeo plus with the hope that they’d release wireless rears. Rumor was that because it has 4 wireless channels for subs, that dealers were saying they heard it was happening. I even discussed it with Sennheiser but years later still no surrounds. I have the KEF matching subs- 2 KC62’s but I was disappointed after buying KEF lsk II and returned them. I kept the subs and paired them with a very high end Sony nearfield.

Each to their own. I have a 5.1 system with in wall speakers in my living room but for my 85” setup in a walkout and oddly shaped room I went with a demo Sennheiser Ambeo Plus and sub that I got an amazing deal on. No wires or receiver to deal with and it sounds really great. Once calibrated it’s pretty close to my 5.1 system. I wanted the Max but got such a great deal I couldn’t pass it up since the bar and sub were less than the sub costs new. I may wait for the new version of the Max if it ever comes out. But retail this is a $2200 setup.

I have an Ambeo Max and Plus on hand, and I did listen to Kef Xio at showroom for about an hour with my own music and movie scenes which I familiar with. Ambeo Max has the best immersive experience, you can easily tell by the side speakers placement, Ambeo Max and Plus has some angle to deliver sound to the optimal places, Kef Xio has only an 90’ side speakers so the sound has a hard time to deliver to the ideal places, this is physic. It has also a recent firmware update for few levels of vocal clarity, I have no problem to listen to the dialogue. Bass for music? Still Ambeo Max, but I suggest you to get a sub to unleash it for better audio quality by cutting low frequencies and focus on mid and high. The only thing to bear in mind is the Ambeo Max drivers is design by Neumann, whose well known in design of studio monitors, result is the audio quality is more like a monitor than multimedia speakers, it’s a plus point if you appreciate some original sound than artificial additions in sound.

Sennheiser Ambeo Plus Rating: 7/10 The clarity and Spatial Audio is unmatched. If you only buy the soundbar (which is pricy by itself) it still struggles to separate dialogue on low volumes. Without the bass added (also pricy), it struggles to bring in lows which is not surprising. I thought it would be an easy all in one soundbar for the price, and in most ways it is.

I won a Sennheiser Ambeo Plus for $200 on eBay auction. Thing was shipped to me brand new, no idea how I got such an awesome price. Soundbar is awesome. You can connect any 3rd party sub too which is nice. Gets really loud and dialogue is super clear. The immersion effect is pretty awesome for a stand alone soundbar (I live in an apartment and don’t have room to add rears anyways so it doesn’t both me that it doesn’t have any available). 9/10

I’ve got an Ambeo Plus with the wireless Ambeo Subwoofer in an apartment, like 12x18 living space with real high ceilings, that opens directly into a large kitchen. It’s bonkers loud and easily the best speakers setup I’ve ever owned. I’m not about to be running rears and stuff in a rental; the Ambeo surround does a fantastic job at simulating a multi-speaker surround setup. I regret nothing (except for having to tinker with audio path issue with my A95L that is solved now) and am super happy.

I have the Ambeo Plus and the Ambeo sub to go with my A95L. It’s freaking fantastic. Smaller than the Max. I don’t have a space that would work for rears and frankly don’t want to deal with the hassle anyway, so the Plus is perfect. I love good audio but am not an audiophile. Have it set to Adaptive with some minor tweaks to bass and it works great across media, games, and music. :)