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it seems like the 2010's have been a boon for budget home cinema with some excellent low-priced gear coming out in recent years led by companies such as pioneer vizio and Sony with the la s7 51m musicflow soundbar LG has entered this illustrious group this is a product that looks great sounds great and offers an unexpected wealth of features for the money at around 400 bucks you're lucky to find a sound bar that even supports bluetooth not only does this LG have bluetooth but it also boasts internet connectivity with this speaker comes LG's multi-room system music flow it allows you to stream music from your phone your network or from services such as Pandora and Spotify the system has HDMI in and out but it does lack an on-screen display many functions are instead controlled with the remote or with the music flow app while this is a four point one channel system with two fronts two pseudo surrounds and a wireless subwoofer you can also add two wireless h3 speakers as dedicated surrounds given the number of features it has and how slim the unit is we're all kind of blown away by the sound quality it's not cupped muffled or boomy it's very open and detailed sounding and also sounds really good with both music and movies which is kind of rare Shaw dedicated speakers and a receiver will give you more sonic warmth but at this price is no other products which can match its mix of features and performance the LA s7 51 and music flow sound bar is therefore highly recommended this is ty Pendlebury for cnet.com you