Sony - BRAVIA Theater Bar 6

Doesn’t really matter fortunately what brand tv + brand soundbar it is. 1. Sony Theatre Bar 6, 3.1.2. system and one of Sony’s cool features is that the soundbar is capable of making stereo content more spatial. Voicezoom is only supported on Sony TV’s and Sony Soundbars. 2. Samsung q800f, 5.1.2. system personally I would say it’s more of a 3.1.2. system BUT with the right audio format is does sound more spaces then a typical 3.1.2. 3. Samsung q600f 3.1 system, nothing much can’t complain. Models above have more functionality. Please know, I don’t know the prices of the products in your area. but for me the Bar 6 is priced the best

I would personally recommend the Sony Bravia Theatre Bar 6 for more options with your Sony Bravia X75K. Let me know if you have any more questions

AVS forums just picked their new x70 as an editor choice pick. It's a 7.1.4 set up with 12 total speakers including 4 up firing speakers. You can pick that up for $650 as an early bird special. It's $999 when it comes out. I'll be getting the x60 (only difference from the x70 is it has an 8-in sub, And $100 cheaper). I have a Sony, Dolby Atmos, theater bar 6 and it sounds like upgraded TV speakers. Zero sense of surround. Hardly any left or right channel separation, and again zero sense of height. And I paid $650 for it. And It has 2 up firing speakers. If the x60 doesn't have much height to it, at least I'll get 7.1 surround for cheaper than a Bar 6. Was going to go with their theater system six. Which has rear speakers. But it's $800. Going to give Ultimea a try. And yes. I've had surround sound systems for over 20+ years. Hk, bose, Klipsch, polk. You name it. Didn't feel like dealing with the wires and the cost of those systems anymore And if you don't like it, they have a 30-day money back guarantee. Can't lose with that price. Might as well try it. The x70 and x60 also have HDMI. 2.1 pass-through. Which you can't find for under $1,000 Also, Utimea Is a seattle-based company. Not Chinese

I know this would be above your $500 price range, but right now the Sony Bravia Theater 6 is on sale for $570. It would sound great when watching movies and games, giving you that home theater effect. However, when you want to switch to Bluetooth so you can listen to music, you can toggle the settings to Multi-Stereo which will then play the same sound in all the speakers which would give you that whole room filling music experience. However, if you really need to stay below $500 then on Woot you can get the Samsung HW-Q600C for $290. That would give you great sound for movies, and can also be used as a Bluetooth speaker.

100% I'm voting the Klipsch. Sony just doesn't sound good to me & they're too expensive for the performance in my opinion. & Sonos is just a disaster right now so I can't recommend Sonos to anyone. But the Flexus system is a fantastic system. 2 4" Subwoofers that hit quite well, & it just ROCKS. And the Sub 100 is a mean subwoofer!

Room calibration doesn't make or break sound staging. I can't exactly speak on the A5000 but I can speak on the S2000. To me, all Sony soundbars are underperformers. Yea they might do DSP work better but if it doesn't sound good overall then that's a deal breaker for me. And Sony is delivering systems that are nowhere near my expectations of them. I think they're starting to get better & closer to my expectations with the Bravia bars, but I've only heard a demo before. The S2000 is their "entry level" bar that some reason can apparently get louder than the A3000-5000-& 7000 (according to rTings.com with SPL readings). And I won't lie it does get quite loud, but it definitely does NOT sound good at high volumes without doing a decent amount of EQ tweaking on my phone. Also that SW5 is the biggest joke of a "flagship" subwoofer I've ever seen. I had an old Sony 5.1 AV unit with a single 8" subwoofer and let me tell you, it was so much better than this SW5, Like twice the performance at about the same size. Hell I honestly can't personally even recommend Sony until they release new subwoofers cause these subs are just ass. The Sonos Mini Sub was legitimately half the size, sounded 10x better & honestly can probably get louder too. I had the Sonos Mini Sub literally sitting on top of the SW5 & honestly I think it might be able to sit 2 mini's on top of the SW5. My Klipsch Flexus on the other hand, entirely different animal. Has been one of my absolute favorite systems along with the Q800B & Sonos Arc + Sub Mini as close runner ups. EDM & especially guitars have an incredible richness to them on this Flexus system that the Q800B & Sonos Arc just don't come close to. And if I'm honest I think this bar has an incredible soundstage. I was watching something the other day and something was happening to the left off screen & it was madly impressive how much I actually thought there seemed to be a whole separate speaker actually making the sound instead of the bar. Also choice of a 10" or 12" subwoofer, & choice to run 2 of them if needed. I have a single 10" (Sub 100) and its definitely a subwoofer that really means business.