![]() ![]() The bass capabilities and sharp trebles mean you get both satisfying room-rattling sound, and crystal-clear dialogue. The JBL Bar 5.1 is clearly designed for one specific audience: movie fans. A button on the remote allows you to easily swap backwards and forwards between a wired and Bluetooth connection.įor us, this feature proved a little redundant, and the bar’s ‘intelligent’ switching whenever we used our phone during a movie meant that the sound often cut out to favor the phone, even when there wasn’t anything playing on the phone. The JBL Bar 5.1 can also be paired to a device over Bluetooth for wireless music playing, allowing it to double up as a Bluetooth speaker. The speakers uncoupled from the main unit The sound quality favors trebles and bass (and we’ll get into this in more detail later) which meant the echoing chamber of Rey’s reveal in Star Wars felt expansive but not quite real which was a shame.įor the general movie and TV watching experience, the sound stage has clearly been optimized to bring out voices, and this is welcome in big action sequences in which you can distinctly hear dialogue over heavy scoring, and even gunfire in the case of John Wick. The balance was very satisfying, and immediately immersive, exactly as a good surround sound system should be. With Mad Max, you could hear with perfect clarity the different whispered voices and soundtrack elements that are supposed to draw you into Max’s insanity. We tested its capabilities with movies renowned for putting a surround sound system through its paces – Mad Max: Fury Road, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and John Wick. ![]() We didn’t know what to expect with such a low-fi approach to surround sound, but we were pleasantly surprised. The cable is plenty long enough for most living rooms ![]()
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