Sound Bar/Woofer

I have minimal experience, but I can vouch for Bose and Yamaha.
On our TV is a Yamaha soundbar with little 4" woofers, I'm not sure HOW it does it, but I can play bass guitar over that & it sounds good.

The Bose I have are meant to be PC speakers, but their bass response is quite good as well, & actually sound a tiny bit better than the Yamaha soundbar, for bass guitar.
However, I think that might be a thing with the processing that the signal goes through in the TV before it hits the soundbar.

I've compared them with "regular" compressed Music & they sound the same, in fact if I were blindfolded I couldn't tell them apart!

My advice is to pay attention to the inputs on whatever you buy, make sure there's enough & the kind you can use.

As good as mine sounds, I was figuratively blown away by some of the systems I heard at Best-Buy!
However, I believe the majority of the difference is actually in the Source, because I'm usually watching "regular" HD broadcasts at home, & surely they have a Blu-Ray playing at Best-Buy with some super hi-def audio track (many channels).

 

I keep reading good things about this company's products (no affiliation, although I do own a Sanus Swiveling TV Stand - different manufacturer - purchased through them).

https://www.sonos.com/en-us/home

 

Our TV room has -
Sonos Playbase (TV sits atop it)
Sonos Sub (shakes the whole house)
2ea Sonos Play 3s as "surrounds"

My smaller music room-
Playbeam
2ea Play 1s as "surrounds"

No wires except the 120VAC cord.

 

Bose makes good stuff..but a tad overpriced. Plus if you get a bose subwoofer make sure it has a volume and crossover on the box. I had a bose home theater system and it sounded really good...except...the stupid subwoofer rumbled all the time. Drove me nuts so I got rid of it. Any decent soundbar with subwoofer made these days will sound excellent. Just make sure the subwoofer has the 2 controls.

 

I use my Maggies. Now, those are sound Towers! Super Cube II handles the first octave.

 

GLWYSB+SW

Personally, I have never met a Bose I've liked, so far.

 

Bose stuff is EQ'd strange.
It is heavily processed and Bose cuts a couple key frequency areas in the musical range on their speakers.

 

Um, no I don't have a song...

just do a little exploration on audio forums.
I was always under the assumption that Bose's reputation was common knowledge.
They're like Beats by Dre, pure marketing hype and false EQ curves that sound "good" to the layperson.
But there is a lot missing.

 

really depends on what you're looking for. I had the full ride Denon receiver and 7.1 high end polk speakers. Hardly used it. Plus it was always too loud for the wife. By the time I got it where she said it was ok, I might as well have had just the TV speakers on. I bought a top rated middle of the road vizio sound bar with wireless sub and rear satellite speakers. I only use it for movies and TV Concerts, but now we're both happy and now I only rarely get "turn that damn thing down!"

 

I have a Sony soundbar and separate woofer.
$150 on closeout. Sounds great.

 

Bose does their own thing with frequency response, and in general I'm not a fan. While listening to almost any Bose system over time, I keep discovering that there are frequencies which should be reproduced but which I'm not hearing.

Denon and Klipsch are always good options.