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hey I'm Matthew Muscovy AK from C net and we're taking a look at the JBL SB 300 is a premium price sound bar selling for about $500 and it has a very distinctive design the sound bar itself has sharp angles with a plastic cabinet that kind of looks cut away to reveal the speaker grille the subwoofer is Wireless and not only is a pretty huge it kind of looks like Darth Vader's helmet both of these components really draw attention to themselves so if you're someone that wants their home theater to blend into your living room rather than stand out this probably isn't the right system for you the system comes with the remote which is decent but it's nice at JBL includes one at all since a lot of sound bar systems don't come with the remote when you make adjustments with the remote you'll notice there's no front panel display on the JBL so you're not going to get any visual feedback as to how loud the system is playing or what input you're on around back is the connectivity and there's not much just a single analog input and an optical digital audio input that means you're going to end up connecting all your components directly to your TV first then connect the TV's audio output directly to the sound bar that arrangement should work pretty well and allows you to use more than just two devices with the SP 300 there also aren't any extra features on the JBL like bluetooth streaming or airplay which would have been nice at this price level sound quality is excellent this is the jumbo size system and that makes a difference as the S be 300 pounds bigger when you're listening to music and movies movie sound particularly powerful and you're really going to feel the difference between the JBL and a smaller system on say loud action movies like with most sound bars music doesn't sound great but the JBL does a better job than a lot of the other competitors overall the JBL SB 307 SB 16 and it does that for $100 less so it's a good value if you're looking for a high performance sound bar our main hang-up is the style but if you can get past the SB 300 looks it's a pretty nice home theater system I'm Matthew moscovia and this is the JBL SB 3