There’s even a slight sense of verticality to the Soundbar 700’s audio, despite its narrow bodywork and lack of upfiring speakers. There’s enough left and right dispersion to spread right across even a large living room wall, creating a sense of cinematic scale way beyond anything any TV’s built-in speakers can do. Next, the Soundbar 700 projects sound impressively far beyond its diminutive bodywork. And the well-built bodywork never buzzes or rattles, no matter how hard a work out it’s given. Trebles only sound at all harsh or shrill under the absolute most extreme pressure. First, it manages to avoid pretty much all distracting distortions, despite being able to go much, much louder than you’d expect such a diminutive design to go.īass doesn’t phut or drop out. The Soundbar 700 does some things very well. (Image credit: Bose) Bose Soundbar 700 review: Sound quality Ports on the rear, meanwhile, use a resistant screening design to produce cleaner bass. And crucially, they are backed up by innovative PhaseGuide technology, where small transducers in two elongated areas either side of the main driver array direct beams of sound in multiple directions to push the sound way beyond the physical confines of the speaker’s bodywork. These are custom-designed to retain clarity from within a slim profile, though. Just four, actually, all positioned behind the mid section of the soundbar’s grilled front. One final disappointment is that the Soundbar 700 doesn’t carry nearly as many drivers as some of its similarly priced rivals. However, you can add optional external wireless bass and surround sound speakers to the Soundbar 700 (though you'll more than double the price if you do).Īlso, many other soundbars now – including some vastly cheaper models than the Soundbar 700, such as the Sony HT-G700 – use clever acoustic processing to try to deliver some sort of Dolby Atmos or DTS:X effect, and do it well. I guess Bose might argue that such support isn’t necessary on a soundbar that doesn’t carry any up-firing drivers, and ships with no included rears or subwoofers. It’s a shame, too, to find no support on the Soundbar 700 for either of the Dolby Atmos or DTS:X object-based sound formats. Other connections include, thankfully, an optical audio input, plus Wi-Fi and Bluetooth support, complete with AirPlay 2. You can’t route audio and video through the soundbar, using it as a convenient switchbox. Particularly unfortunate is the presence of just one HDMI, meaning you can only feed it audio over HDMI from TVs with ARC/eARC HDMI outputs. The Soundbar 700’s connections, though, aren’t as high-end as I’d like. There are other premium set up and day to day use features, too, that I’ll discuss more in the Design and Usability section a little further down. This really does make a difference to the sound’s impact and dynamics, so definitely take the time to run the routine. This gets you to sit in the five most-used seating positions in your room with a little headset on, while the soundbar outputs a series of test sounds so that it can optimise its sound to your room layout. Particularly great is its Adaptiq auto calibration system. The Soundbar 700 enjoys some genuinely premium features for the premium price. To save on your order, it's worth checking our Bose discount codes.
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