Sony HTST7 HD Sound Bar with Wireless Subwoofer Electronics
Lets preface this by saying that I have a nice wired setup at my house and have wires running all over. Wires bug me. I was given a chance to test this thing out and was pretty amazed. It sounds nice, you can pump up the volume and it has very good ambient sound. When an airplane moves across the screen you hear the airplane move across the screen. I have my Xbox, Sony PS3 and some vintage equipment hooked up to the soundbar and all three sound excellent. If you have an Xbox you know the sound that comes out of it to your tv is pretty low. You need to crank your television up if you want to hear it. When you hook it up to the soundbar it sounds amazing. I was playing a videogame and you could hear the creatures sneaking up on you. It was a pretty new experience for me as I did not have the xbox hooked up to my sound system as I had run out of connectors. It has three HDMI hookups on it and this is the only place where I got a little irritated. Hooking up the final HDMI cable is a little rough if you start from the top and work down. Start from the bottom and work up when connecting them. There are other hookups as well that you can hook up an optical out as well as an audio out. It is easy to hook up and best of all there are no wires per say. Even the subwoofer is wireless and it works extremely well.
The bluetooth on this thing is awesome. It took me less than a minute to get my phone connected and begin blasting out some music. It gets loud and there is minimal distortion. I liked that a lot.
I am very happy with this item. It is a good size. It is not small by any means and is pretty big. If you are looking for something small and dainty this isnt it. It works very well with my 65 inch TV and all in all this is a solid item.
If the price freaks you out then try something else. It is an incredible soundbar and while I have nothing to compare it to soundbar wise it is up there with my 5.1 system which is powered by a Harmon Kardon receiver and nice Yamaha speakers.
