Outstanding modern soundbar for specific room types, March 12, 2011

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M. Gerenser “Creative Director” (Webster, NY USA) – See all my reviews

  

I got this Yamaha for our bedroom, which is the perfect candidate for a soundbar: its symmetrical, with the TV perfectly centered on one wall. If you have an open concept room, a soundbar is going to be far less effective. In my case, it really does work like magic. We popped in the Italian Job and were immersed in surround sound. It didn’t sound quite as good as my dedicated 5.1 system in the living room, but it was close!

Subwoofer is adequately powerful for small rooms, and produces nice bass. Again, if your room is larger or more open, the sub will really struggle to keep up. In my case, in the bedroom, the subwoofer has ample power to deliver decent-sounding explosions!

What I love about this system are the 3 HDMI ports + 3 digital audio inputs. This means I can hook up my PS3, cable box and Apple TV, and still have inputs left for audio if I want. This leaves me with just one HDMI cable going out from the soundbar to the TV, a great option for folks…

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Best Sound Bar value today, June 11, 2011

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P. Freer – See all my reviews

  

We tried several different models over the years to use in our vacation/retirement home and this is the only one that gave us an excellent surround experience while also being able to handle our music needs. The lack of wires around the house was my wife’s #1 priority, and my #2 – my first priority has always been the sound quality and the ability to fill our 19′ x 25′ great room. You can tailor the overall sound quality through a number of settings.

Having been in the reidential and commercial audio/video industry in the 70s and early 80s in both retail sales and as a manufacturers’ rep, I was well aware of the developments in surround sound and have watched it evolve. I more often dealt with recording and sound reinforcement products – the former usually involving small monitors and the latter using large scale multiple speaker arrays and so I tend to lean toward the larger box sound, but this system amazes me. I also sold a large amount of Yamaha pro equipment,…

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Awesome Soundbar!, October 28, 2011

I just hooked up my Yamaha YSP-2200 to a Panasonic Viera 1080p, 3d TV and I love the sound it puts out. I even retired my Yamaha receiver since now I can run amplified sound right out of the Sound Projector/sound bar. It’s the best if you have an ARC HDMI input on your flat screen tv since with this feature you can control the volume of the sound bar with any remote (no more juggling 3 different remotes! I haven’t tried to pump up the bass so if you are looking for house shaking bass then maybe this system isn’t for you. When I played music CDs I thought the YSP 2200 sounded great–crisp, clear and full. I know the system is a little pricey which made me pause before purchasing, but in the end I am totally happy that I spent the money this system. If you are fed up with all of the speaker cords and rgb cables etcetera then going fully HDMI is the way to go. My system now is minimized with 2 HDMI cables and when I finally get a blue-ray player that will add a 3rd HDMI cable…

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