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whether you call it a sound plate a speaker stand or a speaker base a product like the LG L ab540 W is designed to act as a stand for your TV while also boosting its audio capabilities hi I'm ty Pendlebury from C net and this LG is somewhat unusual amongst its peers in that it's also a full home theater system with a blu-ray drive and Smart TV most speaker bases just accept an optical or HDMI input and can't play any content of their own this package consists of two units the speaker base with four woofers and a wireless subwoofer which pairs as soon as you plug them both in this LG sound plate features the same interface of its blu-ray players with shortcuts to the most used apps such as Netflix and Amazon video and is fairly zippy in use the blu-ray player is 3d compatible as well there's HDMI in and out in addition to Bluetooth and an optical input the remote controller comes with it is big and clunky but fairly easy to use while video playback is excellent the audio quality is geared towards music rather than movies the integration between the sub and the plate is excellent which means you aren't alerted to the subs location every time there's a low-frequency effect for example the sound can lack a little warmth though due to the tiny drivers and other products at the same price have more convincing surround effects but for speech clarity and music playback this little speaker is excellent while $600 is not a small amount of money the LG sound plate is a very good choice if you're looking for a system that will play music well in addition to playing back blu-ray movies this has been Tye Pendlebury for cnet.com