Soundbar speaker

I bought this on the strengh of a review on a respected web site and it does not disappoint. It is a good looking, well made high quality product. Excellent materials and manufacture. What you expect from a brand with a long standing reputation like Philips.

Decent sound quality. Bought because it supports Spotify, which works very well. Bluetooth reception so bad that it is useless. My phone must be 50cm from the speaker to have flawless connection, Philips not testing their release products? For TV sound, HDMI connection with my TV (Philips also) works ok, sometimes soundbar gets confused but mostly it follows TV commands fine. I have no problems with the subwoofer connection, subwoofer located 1.5m from the main unit.

Bought this Philips soundbar for home cinema system replacement after reading good reviews on tech sites.Not as good as full surround system.But gives a good performance and you don't have speaker wires everywhere. The only problem I need to bring to your attention is when you download the new software update you can't connect the wireless subwoofer. I reset to factory settings and it connected with the soundbar immediately. I think you need to sort this issue out as a lot of buyers might think the subwoofer is broken.

Same experience as Dave in earlier review. Units sounds decent when working, but more often than not it freezes, meaning it is completely unresponsive and only option to reset it is to pull powercord. Have not yet worked out why, but it's very frustrating. I have set it up to start with ARC HDMI, but it never does and you have to manually select it each time you turn the unit on. Overall a frustrating experience, I wouldn't buy the unit again.

Pros: excellent sound quality, design is perfect. Cons: , , also Bluetooth connecitiy is too less if you want to listen musinc over Bluetooth

This is a decent soundbar (3.5*) that could be much better with little additional work. For instance, better EQ control. You're quite limited in how you can shape the sound, and must generally rely on the soundbar to set what IT feels is the best EQ curve. The Spotify feature works really well, but the Google Cast feature is less stellar. Also, you'd think this unit would work and play very well with other Philips products, but that doesn't seem to be the case, and it requires all sorts of button pressing and effort to get it to work properly with my Philips Smart TV and Philips Blu-Ray player. The most annoying thing is anytime we watch a disc on the BR player and pause the film, upon resuming, the sound is gone until we press (again) the "optical" input button on the soundbar remote. Little, annoying things like that really keep this from being a better product.

The sound itself when it works is good for its price point. We need to power cycle this unit frequently, whether because the sub drops out, or more often the unit freezes and sound stops. It took a while to work out the first time as the hdmi passthrough stopped working and I thought it was the attached device, but it wasn't, it was the philips unit. Very frustrating. Also bluetooth is pretty useless with this, it's fine if the device you connect to sits on top of it, but android and iphone phones keep dropping out with it (but not with other bluetooth speakers). Also, I couldn't use the app to connect to our wifi with android, even after more than an hour trying and factory resetting etc. Iphone setup worked first time though.

I have one very bad experience on the subwoofer, when soundbar it is playing any sound for tv or iPhone, the subwoofer will.have a ”ba” explosively And it is unacceptable, it keep on even i turned off the router . It is unacceptable and annoying

Hi, Audio performance of this product is bang for bucks. However, the downside is that it does not come with DTS decoder (while the older version HTL5140 does?). Failed to connect this product to my WiFi home network. I had followed exactly as instructed in the user manual however no luck.

Fist one repaired after 11 months. Sent a replacement unit after it froze again now second unit freezing. Phillips not in Australia anymore i will never buy another phillips product.