
KEW
Audioholic Overlord
I hope it works out for you.I went ahead and ordered the Yamaha from A4L for $150. Reviews of it are pretty great and it supports a bit more than the Pioneer I was considering. I'm still skeptical that it will sound decent, but for the price I'll probably be happy with it.
Kind of funny, the driver complement is the opposite of a typical two way speaker:
You have a 6.5" woofer and I'd consider the 2-1/8" full range effectively a mid-tweeter!
I think you understood the compromise of a soundbar when you made the decision.
Montucky puts it well - if beating the TV speakers is your objective, that is easy.
But if equaling separate speakers is your objective you will be disappointed (even if you sawed it in half and separated the speakers by 6 feet, there would be significant improvement)!
Just looking at this unit on paper, You will not have the crisp top-end of a dedicated tweeter, otherwise, I would expect it to be pretty decent.
Hope you will give us a report and also let us know if Yamaha has figured out any effects that are beneficial!
Looking at Yamaha's more expensive options, they are going smaller on the sub (at least the spot check I did) and adding "beam" speakers which I'd guess to be an effort to throw sound around the room as if you are going to get 5-7 channel sound out of a soundbar. That seems like the kind of gimmickry Steve81 mentioned where the more expensive units sound worse.
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