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Yamaha's SRT 1500 is a $600 sound base that is it's a speaker that you can put your TV on top of it's based on the cheaper SRT 1000 and if there's two key features the other lacks an HDMI input and Yamahas own music caster streaming system this speak offers excellent semi surround thanks to these beam drivers which reflects sounds off your sidewalls the sound base also offers two small subwoofers but you can add a separate subwoofer if you crave even bigger explosions with the HDMI input the Yamaha will decode both DTS and Dolby soundtracks which makes it a good match for a blu-ray player as I mentioned the speaker comes with music cast which is a decent proprietary multi-room system which is also compatible with Yamahas new receivers it doesn't offer many services though compared to Sonos or some of its other competitors the base itself is designed to hold screens up to 55 inches in size but as TVs get bigger they tend to feature stands that are incompatible with this kind of compact speaker legs on each end for example so as a result you'd probably be buying this for a smaller TV like a 46 inch for example but these rarely cost more than $600 would you spend more on a TV speaker than the TV itself well the SRT 1500 sounds really good with movies in particular unless you really want HDMI inputs I'd suggest getting the cheaper SRT 1000 and saving 200 bucks instead it sounds identical there's a tie Pendlebury for cnet.com