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hey I'm Matthew Muscovy ak from Cena and we're going to take a look at the Boston Acoustics TV model 25 this is a pretty basic sound bar with a street price of three hundred and fifty dollars and as you can see it's not exactly the most stylish device on the market the sound bar has a matte gray finish and there's a small wireless subwoofer included and there's not much else to it aside from a few front panel buttons on the right it's not a thick device overall but compared to some of the thinner sound bars coming out these days it does look a little chunky now the Boston actually doesn't come with a remote instead it relies on you to program the sound bar to respond to commands from your TV's remote which doesn't exactly work flawlessly in every setup the manual also tells you to disable the TV's internal speaker and the TV I used for testing would show a message that said not available every time I adjusted the volume it's an annoying court that happens with a lot of sound bars that lack a dedicated remote so you may want to check if your TV displays a similar message before buying the Boston around back you'll see there's an analogue audio input and optical digital audio input and mini-jack input that's not much connectivity overall but the model 25 is counting on you to connect all your devices right to your TV and then connect the output of your TV right to the sound bar that means you'll be using your TV to switch between devices and as long as your TV has an audio output it should work pretty well sound quality is actually pretty good for a sound bar this size especially since the sub is so small the subwoofer blends nicely with the sound bar and while larger systems will deliver a bigger impact on say action movies the model 25 generally handles movies pretty well like most sound bars music doesn't sound great so if you plan on listening to a lot of music you're better off with a more traditional stereo or home theater system aside from its design flaws the main issue with the model 25 is the price three hundred and fifty dollars is a lot to ask for a sound bar these days and there's really nothing about the TV to warrant the extra cost if you can get it at a discount the bus and acoustics TV model 25 sounds good for its size but otherwise you'll get a better value from some of our other top sound bar picks I'm Matthew Muscovy ak4 CNET and this is the Boston Acoustics TV model 25