This thing has no business sounding this good, given what it costs. It is a tremendous value for a simple, home theater audio in a box solution.Now the “good for what it costs” part is important. It doesn’t break the laws of physics, you can certainly spend more and get more, but the little dedicated subwoofer really does a solid job in compensating for the relatively small speakers in the main unit. It also gets surprisingly loud for its size without introducing meaningful distortion.Are you going to put this thing in a giant, dedicated home theater or a huge great room with a cathedral ceiling and be happy with the results? Probably not. But in a bedroom, an apartment or an average-sized living room or den, this is likely going to give you results you are happy with for both movies and most casual listening.When you give it a workout across a bunch of different genres of music, you find the results vary between adequate and excellent. There are some basic physics reasons behind why you normally need much bigger speakers to get truly excellent high fidelity sound. So occasionally the results are a bit flat and uninspired. But it does a pretty remarkable job for what it cost and how big it is. What you will notice if you listen with a very critical ear is that there is some muddiness in the mid-range and the bass rolls off too early because the little sub runs out of steam, but that almost seems unfair to criticize at this price point. Most people won’t even notice any of that.On the other hand, don’t get super excited about the strength of the Dolby Atmos effects here. Atmos is designed to create a 3d sound field and place sounds in the physical space around the listener. It is a cool new technology and movies are starting to be mastered in it. Normally that 3d sound effect means you have to have additional channels physically mounted in the ceiling. Like all of these sound bars, it doesn’t have actual ceiling speakers and instead has to make do with pointing some speakers up at the ceiling to bounce the sound off the ceiling indirectly.If you stick it in a basically square or rectangle shaped room with an 8 foot ceiling and no obstructions, it does sort of work. But if you have a cathedral ceiling or sloped ceiling or anything other than the basic box shaped room it likely won’t do much of anything. On the other hand, the more basic, 5.1 surround sound effects are perfectly adequate, assuming you can place the little rear speakers properly.Installation wasn’t hard, although note that there are specific requirements that the system sit in front of and a certain distance below the TV because of the Atmos, up-firing speakers. The rear surrounds connect to the subwoofer with standard speaker wires and the separately powered subwoofer then connects wirelessly to the main unit. The little sub is ported, so it can’t be set absolutely flush against a wall. It all came pre-paired up and worked perfectly right out of the box.I have a modern tv, and was able to connect with eARC/HDMI successfully. I also paired my phone to the device using bluetooth and that worked easily too. I can control the volume with both the TV remote and the Apple TV remote control, and so I will almost never need to use the included remote for much of anything beyond initial setup.There is a reason why this unit got such good reviews on the big audio review channels. It really is a good value for the price.

This soundbar has the right flexibility, sound quality, and loudness at a very reasonable price. You’ll be hard-pressed to get so much for so little in another brand. I’ll say I’m happy with how this brand caters to budget conscience customers, without punishing them for being in that group.I’ve been watching 5.1 movies through my Apple TV and Fire TV (I have both). My TV is arc, not the updated eArc my soundbar supports, so I did have to move some things around to get the Apple TV to play the sound correctly.If you have this issue, you may also find that it’s better to plug your Apple TV into the SoundBar’s extra HDMI (not to the TV directly), and then plug SoundBar’s main eArc HDMI into your TV’s Arc HDMI. It has to be Arc or eArc for this to work seamlessly. The SoundBar with then have a dual function. It will be the bridge input for the Apple TV (allowing you to switch your TV to the Apple TV input as you did before), but it will also know how to automatically serve out audio to the soundbar of any other devices connected to your TV when you switch its input. So in other words, when the SoundBar is connected to the Arc or eArc on your actual TV, your TV will detect the SoundBar and when you switch to any other input on your TV, its audio will go out through the SoundBar, even when you’re not switched over to the input of which the SoundBar is directly plugged.The Fire TV can continue to be plugged into one of the TV’s extra HDMI ports without throwing out the sound. Fire TV will know how to downgrade the sound correctly for arc so it can use the 5.1 available on your 5.1 soundbar. It has to downgrade because arc has a lower bandwidth than the upgraded eArc. Apple TV, on the other hand, is not as kind to older or outdated protocols so may throw 5.1 out altogether if not connected with the workaround.If Apple TV is plugged directly into your soundbar, the soundbar is able to handle the full high-fidelity sound first, without it having to pass through your TV’s older arc port which causes Apple TV to throw out 5.1 sound either making it mute or having to be forced down to stereo.I have my Echo plugged in through Aux. I haven’t figured that part out yet to get this seamless. It seems the Alexia sounds a bit low or I’m not sure if the sound is coming out as expected. I am asserting that I have to read the manual more to learn how the inputs work or when it automatically switches. I still have to work with that. There is a remote that allows you to manually switch the inputs of the SoundBar (i.e. Bluetooth, Aux, Aux VA (Voice Assistant), USB, HDMI, HDMI arc. HDMI eArc will be your default.But again, I didn’t get that sick feeling one can get when you’re not sure if you should have bought something or not. This is really good for both movies and music. It’s a Sunday Morning right now and I’m playing Lashun Pace before church and the sound is … well, impressive.

I used to have a bulky onkyo receiver (was top of the line at the time) mated to 5 in-ceiling speakerkraft modules and a subwoofer as my home theatre setup in my previous residence. It sounded phenomenal.But we needed to downgrade and keep things simpler for our new house. Decided to try this Vizio setup to mate to our new 77″ LG OLED unit after racking my brain doing extensive soundbar research.Understand that a soundbar will never, ever sound as good as a good, traditional amp/speaker setup. And you can still spend in upwards of $2k for a soundbar combo.But for $3xx-4xx…I don’t think this can be touched in terms of features or performance.It is VERY impressive for what it is. Assuming your tv has an existing eARC port, setup is pretty much plug n’ play, and you’ll be able to control the volume via your TV remote.The soundbar itself emits quite clear dialogue/highs. You can tell it has quite a few speakers integrated (including vertical firing), as the soundstage is 3 dimensional.The bass is DEEP and loud. The subwoofer module itself is wireless and can be placed anywhere in the room, but is recommended in a corner location to enhance the low frequency reverberations.It honestly sounds like an 8 or 10 inch subwoofer. Trust me when I tell you, you will feel the bass at medium to higher volume levels.The rear surround speakers are not wireless and are mated to the subwoofer module. They do provide ample wire for both of these speakers though. My only complaint would be having truly wireless surround speakers, but beggars can’t be choosers at this price point.I have a $200 hisense 5.1 dolby atmos soundbar setup…and to be honest the Vizio M-Series blows it out the water in terms of fidelity, especially the higher frequencies.There’s levels to audio components, which is only limited by your budget. But from most all the audiophile reviews I’ve seen, you simply cannot beat this M-series unit in this price range.Oh, and lastly….we have not experienced any sort of lag/delay/synching issues that have been reported by many others with this particular model. However, we don’t use it with any external components, either. We exclusively use it with the tv (we use Youtube TV streaming), so you may have a different experience if using in conjunction with a gaming console and/or external media player.This unit is so good, I may end up selling my Hisense and ordering a second one of these for my bedroom.

I have a Full size home theatre setup with large speakers and a 12 inch sub in my living room, so going from that to my tv speakers when its time to head to the bedroom at night was always a disappointment. This fills in that gap nicely, I have the two surround speakers on the far corners of my night stands on each side of the bed facing inwards towards me and the subwoofer under the bed frame. I like a little more bass with my movies so i raised the sub volume a few notches from the normal setting and i can say this little sub punches above its weight class (My bed could be helping this sub perform a bit better due to acting as sort of an enclosure like you would find with a sub in a box for a car stereo, so that might be an idea for some people). I like the way my bed shakes when theres an explosion or something lol. I also use the soundbar to listen to bluetooth music from my phone and it works very well for that also. The treble/high end is a little lacking at normal levels but if you raise the treble level a few notches and also the dialogue level a bit that helps with the high end. Overall satisfied with this soundbar no buyers remorse.

I bought the 5.1.2 Immersive for my LG C2 OLED to use in my bedroom. I read at least 40 reviews on Amazon and I was fairly worried that I would hit, at least, some snags in connectivity, dialogue volume or audio/video sync delay. I’m happy to report that not one problem occurred in those areas. I just plugged in the correct HDMI cables to the correct ports and also the color coded wires for the satellite speakers. Turned it on and EVERYTHING worked perfectly. I didn’t have to calibrate anything. On the remote is an option for a speaker test too. Really sounds great and the surround sound is theatre-like. Not too sure about the height being particularly noticable but the system sound passed my skepticism. One thing I noticed when trying to decide between this model and the 5.1.2 Elevated model is there’s a 5.1.4 Elevated model that was a possible choice when clicking on the 5.1.2 Elevated. I could swear that option wasn’t available before but I could of just missed it or, for some reason, it was made available for Black Friday (which totally made my decision to try this model and the resulting outcome, so much sweeter). The remote has many options to adjust about anything. You don’t get the option for each speaker but you can adjust the volume of the centers, subwoofer, overall surround sound, dialogue, etc. Still experimenting with the EQ presets of Movie, Music, Night Mode, etc. Some reviewers complained the remote isn’t the brightest but if you hold it closer it’s fine.🙄 There’s a Input button that is for the eARC port or HDMI In or USB. While using one, say HDMI In for your disc player, you have to press the input button again if you shut off the unit or disc player. Even if you haven’t changed the input port being used. No biggie. When selecting programs on TV there’s a short delay for the audio to sync to the video. No biggie. Taking advantage of Black Friday was no doubt awesome but I would purchase this unit regardless.