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Onkyo's Atmos sound bar is, sadly, the worst yet

2017-04-05
when I first saw the onkyo SBT a 500 soundbar at CES 2017 I was excited here was an app Masson bar for under a thousand bucks that offered a ton of features including a wireless sub and almost every multi room music system you could imagine it seemed too good to be true and it was the reality is this sound bar is indeed feature packed but that's where things come to an abrupt stop the onkyo simply doesn't have the performance to back up the money you pay for it but those features though I was impressed to see not only chromecast built in but also DTS play-fi and Apple airplay on cows fire Connect is also coming unfortunately most of these features aren't working yet but you can stream to the speaker from your phone using the onkyo app this separate receiver is pretty cool though and it enables you to connect four HDMI devices with support for 4k video the speaker also comes with Dolby Atmos and DTS X support for overhead effects movie sound okay but it's only a front surround bar and it's not as impressive as products from Sony or Samsung music though it sounds dreadful it sounds like a tabletop radio the sound is distant and uninvolved for this money I'd want a lot more instead of this speaker maybe buy yourself a 500 buck on key receiver and surround speakers and the performance you'll get will be lightyears ahead you
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