Sennheiser - Ambeo Soundbar | Plus

Sennheiser ambeo plus is on sale for $999 at bestbuy and is a great sounding soundbar. You will still need the $600 sub or you can use whichever sub with that soundbar. But no rears.

Ambios plus is amazing , it's very clean and clear sounding imo

Thanks for sharing! I have the sennheiser ambeo plus. Connected a svs mini 3000 and it’s way better. Doesn’t really get as loud as I’d like (compared to my main stereo system).

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 bought one a couple weeks ago and returned it 3 days later. The sound was awesome when it worked, but I had connectivity issues. Very well could be my fault, but I couldn’t figure it out. Just ordered a Bose smart ultra and fully expect to have the same problem.. but it seems like there might be more options in the Bose app to troubleshoot it. Fingers crossed… I really just wanted the full sound those both offer without getting a sub that would startle my skittish dog. And I don’t really have room for surrounds. That’s why I’ve skipped the 990 (also the price). However, if the Bose is annoying too, that’s my next stop. (Btw I have a ~6 mo old Samsung tv so figure the 990 has to work. Haha)

I’ve had the sennheiser ambeo, Bose smart ultra, and the Samsung q800, in that order. First two were returned for connectivity issues with my newish Samsung tv. The q800 has been great (the ambeo probably had the best surround but only if it connected). Q symphony is amazing. With the first two bars, you could clearly tell the sound was coming from below the TV… q symphony fixes that completely. And the subwoofer is amazing.

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.

If you think the Ambeo Plus sounds good in an open store environment, it sounds that much better in an actual room. The sub brings it to a much higher level as the bar isn’t trying to reproduce bass. I bought it for a small bedroom with the hopes that the rumored rear channels would be released, but sennheiser has disappointed us all. This was hinted at by dealers/employees, and I’ve emailed Sennheiser several times and they don’t deny the possibility, so it’s not pure conjecture, and there are 4 wireless channels built in (for subwoofers) so the potential is there for rears. I’m a crazy audiophile with a dedicated surround system in my living room, so I wanted good fidelity in the bedroom system, and returned the Samsung’s I bought (800 series I believe) because it sounded like a louder version of the TV’s speakers. That being said, the Sennheiser doesn’t have tweeters, just aluminum full range drivers, so I find I have to add a bit of top end eq to get it to sound neutral.

2 smaller subs is always better than 1 larger. I’m using it (single sub) in a small NYC bedroom and find the amount and quality of bass perfect, and I’m a fan of very high quality bass, owning 2 Velodyne subs with servo in my main system.

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 Max or Plus (they don’t have rear speakers though). But that’s the best sound bar in the price range.

Yep I got the Ambeo plus with the Sub - had tested Sonos, JBL, Bose, Samsung, LG, Sony (yep even Sony) and also surprisingly the Devialet Dione Sound Bar.