At £70 more - oddly you usually get more if you spend more

I don't ever blame the young lads that they employ, it's greedy management that are pushing them to sell these ridiculous cables/insurance/set up DVD's.

It's a detrimental system that both puts pressure on the employee to hit a target on scam-type peripherals, and pressure on the customer to buy stuff they don't actually need. I'm surprised this type of selling still exists to be honest.. :neutral_face:

for 199.99 get the lg 320w wireless 4.1 soundbar. has more channels, surround sound, wireless, bluetooth, optical and hdmi connectivity, more powerful and a better design.

I bought this soundbar today and a Currys geek gave the same **** that I needed a special cable for £50.
When I pointed out that it was just an optical cable which you can buy on Amazon for £5 he immediately offered £20 off and assured me these cables were special, lol

Any ideas why my volume keeps turning itself up & down? Even when its at its highest it doesnt seem very loud. Im using an optical cable, have tried hdmi but cant get it to work. Thanks

Will this work with a pc? I have limited space for speakers so was thinking a soundbar may fit better.

Thanks

At the time, the lg one was 129.00, it's now 149 and the panny was full price, Amazon also have 250 watt panny model for 155.00, there's loads of sounds bars out there. It's nice to have a good spe choices around 150 ish mark at the moment with high specs, normally all above 200, it's good to go and try them out, like you did. Most people just match it the same brand bars with the tv brand.

£129.00 was a nice price for most people's budgets it seems, good specs and sound for the price.

THIS DEAL is better IMO, I just tried both in currys, the panny sounds much better, more volume, bass, treble, it just sounded clearer, so I am not sure why the other deal is cold.

£150 now

Just wanted to know if anyone has taken out the Knowhow care plan for an extra £30? I don't normally buy extended warranties but my last LG soundbar and subwoofer stopped working within 2 years, although I must admit I called LG about it and as a one off gesture they replaced the subwoofer at no charge.

Has anyone mounted their soundbar to the wall i have fitted the brackets (no screws included which is annoying) I now need to find a screw that feeds through bottom of bracket and into the soundbar just wondering if anyone has done this already and can tell me the size of the screw needed!

Has anyone mounted their soundbar to the wall?

I have fitted the brackets (no screws included which is annoying) I now need to find a screw that feeds through bottom of bracket and into the soundbar just wondering if anyone has done this already and can tell me the size of the screw needed!

yes lol
she has a rotten face but a good character

theme tune sounds better though

I didn't recommend them, I told you to look at them if you wanted to pay less for a decent basic entry level soundbar.

Popped into currys today, as a few of you have mentioned they tried selling me a £50 hdmi 'gold plated' cable which transmits the signal quicker for your 4k television! Lol. Someone needs to complain about these people.

Reading through the comments this looks like a good piece of kit. Am I right thinking I can just plug it in through a hdmi or optical cable if my TV isn't Bluetooth? Thanks in advance

this soundbar ain't that good if anyone is actually gonna buy it, i'd rather go for the £199 JBL or the Sony 100Watt soundbar

If I'm in a store and the shop staff start lying to me and I know it, I'm walking. I'll tell them why too. There's no need for it. If it's so they hit their targets, then shame on them.

Side note. If I was to purchase a home cinema system (5.1 with BR player), could I still use buy a soundbar or would all the connections be used up?

Checked the specs on the page but just to confirm does this not have DTS HD and Dolby TrueHD support? Suprised that its hi res compatible for that price though :smiley:

Does anybody know if this can connect wirelessly to the John Lewis JL9000 TVs (made by LG)? Can't find any information!

reserved today and tried to collect only to be told not in stock and a mix up with there computers, any other decent sound bars out there at roughly the same price? cheers.

Picked this sound bar up last night. Really good product
the sound is amazing, just got to mount it on the wall above the TV.

Bluetooth is great, you can connect up to 3 devices at one time but only one of them plays the music.

eastenders sounded good last night lol

Apologies. Found a 800w one wirh 3D bluray player for £179.99
Here

Can you recommend another or say if this is decent?

You're getting your quotes mixed up - it was Nate187 that recommended the bush or goodmans - I wouldn't even consider either of them given the decent manufacturers are offering quality kit starting at £100 or thereabouts.

got this one sounds awesome worth every penny. got a £50 optical cable for free with it on black Friday. (I paid 129).

Anyone using a 2012 Panasonic plasma (GT50) and confirm if the Viera link controls this Soundbar. Need something that will turn on and off with the TV and volume commands work with the LGs sound.

When you said 'similar spec' I didn't realise your idea of similar was quite as varied as the alternatives you mentioned. They're both much less powerful and the hitachi lacks a separate subwoofer and the Samsung has a wired subwoofer.
There's an LG one with a wired subwoofer that I think is 300w total for £99.
You'll need to be clearer on what your requirements are if you're after recommendations.

Edit: I fibbed, the LG for £99 is also 120w -
http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/tv-and-home-entertainment/dvd-blu-ray-and-home-cinema/home-cinema-systems-and-sound-bars/lg-las350b-2-1-sound-bar-10122457-pdt.html

Out of the two would look at the Samsung, as it has a sub, Yamaha models are worth a look at though are more expensive. If you looking for clear sound and depth and isn't as loud as your tv soundbars with out subs are okay and you will hear the extra sounds, footsteps, rain, doors shutting.

However add one with a sub, it really brings you to viewing to life, a lot a people go on about the best quality picture is required, however try watching you fav film, program, inferior sound. After having a soundbars for over a year now, I have just changed it back to my normal TVs speakers, I was shocked at how bad it was.

Yep I would recommend one with a sub where possible, even if it's not wireless

Having

No thanks. Thats well below what Im looking for.

This 120w Samsung model with External subwoofer, for £89 looks promising.

Or this Hitachi 120w model for £49

Any very similar cheaper alternatives?

Cold. I had issues with an LG Soundbar and TV. The SENIOR LG support technician (Richard) told me he wouldn't buy one, his exact words were "I would not use this technology in my home". Took 6 months to establish that it simply didn't work. Very poor service (always busy, never return calls, lack of knowledge of their own products). Returned it and bought a different brand.

Copper is rarely used in connectors these days due to cost, cheaper to plate bog standard metals with gold.

Gold is quite a soft metal with good conductivity so it is supposedly better at making a connection.

When PC World/Dixons try to sell you their high price HTMI gold (plated) leads, ask them if the HTMI socket connections in the TV are also gold plated?

Just been and picked one up from Hedge End. Got it home and it sounds awesome. All the wireless stuff works perfectly with my LG TV. When I think of the messing about with hifi stuff I've done in the distant past, this is so simple and I'm genuinely surprised by how good it sounds for bluetoothed music too. Now i just need to figure out if I can hook up my old Rotel turntable somehow and I've got a new hifi. Heat from me.

Amazon description says it supports Dts-HD?

Heat for the price, good for a backroom or bedroom TV setup. Never going to get you amazing sound but certainly beats built-in TV speakers!

For a home sound system, there is no audible difference. You are indoors so it is not going to rust (if it does you have more serious issues to worry about in your home). Copper is a better conductor than Gold, so the starting point with a new gold-plated connector is that it performs worse than a standard connector. When it comes to digital cables (e.g HDMI) then gold connectors have no advantage at all over standard connectors.

My dad doesn't understand how these sound bars can be called "wireless" when you still need to plug them in.

Nice deal BTW, hot.

gold does not oxidise (rusts) cheaper options do not guaranty against getting a bad connection -
I think this is why the iphone is so expensive - they are just full of gold to make them more reliable than all the other makes of phone and therefore the best :smile:

No such thing as wireless and avoiding cables in reality, everything needs power which means a cable. A non wireless sound bar is no big deal, is not like you see any cables anyway as most place the sound bar directly above or below the TV.

No doubt about it is though, is above average quality sound bar and a good product.

Lol, well you know at the next bank holiday, we're going to have a lot hot deals on hdmi cables as they seem have a stock pile of them.. I can see it now 85 percent off....

Bought this and it is a great set up. Paired with my LG TV effortlessly and now synchronises to turn on and off with the TV. Have found Cinema and Music to be the 2 best sound effect modes. To turn the display off, just press the Sleep button once. You can also set the display to be a dimmer version of it's current state by selecting the Sleep button twice.

Bought mine this afternoon. Managed to get a optical cable for £10 from them. They started at £50 and said the deal was £35. Said I could get one online for £8. Said I'd just use a HDMI if not till it arrived unless I could have it for £10 and he eventually agreed.

Sounds like the business.

Just Reserved one at Hedge End , Ta

I have this soundbar, paid the same in currys on black friday... I did see it in sainsburys on boxing day for £100 unfortunately. Its a great soundbar, revews say midtones are lost and end up coming out the sub, this is true, but I can honestly say, for £130 its a great piece of kit. I enjoy it. HOT!

I am so very tempted but having invested a considerable amount of money in a wired set-up I shall resist. As for the gold plated optical and HDMI cables, obvious over-priced attempt by Curry's staff, and as for that extended warranty shyte, I know that mentioning SOGA is like a stake in their heart.

Picked one up today from the only Currys nearby that had any left in stock. They did indeed try to convince me I needed an optical cable (and the only one you could see behind the counter was £50.. next to the £50-90 HDMI cables!!!) even though I told them I have a spare HDMI cable and can therefore use ARC on my new Samsung TV. They tried to make out that with HDMI I'd need to keep turning the soundbar on separately or some such vague BS (and it turned out that's exactly what it was). After failing with that they also tried to get me to buy an extended warranty!

All I needed to do to enable HDMI ARC was to have Anynet+(HDMI-CEC) turned on and then to select Receiver(HDMI) in the speaker list. The soundbar now turns on/off, volume up/down, etc. with the Sky/TV remote. Overall, I'm extremely pleased with it as it's a massive upgrade from the tinny TV speakers.

The link is for refurbished units, worth the extra tenner for new and for more convenient returns

Ah! That you mean the 4.1 version was £119.99 on ebay

Link?

for 199.99 get the lg 320w wireless 4.1 soundbar. has more channels, surround sound, wireless, bluetooth, optical and hdmi connectivity, more powerful and a better design.

Ahh, ok then. Thanks for the reply. Back to the drawing board, I suppose.

I'd really appreciate some advice from the experienced audiophiles on here, if that's ok,

We currently have an LG Smart tv and a Sony 5.1 blu-ray surround system. The Sony blu-ray player fan makes a hell of a racket. It constantly kicks in and you can hear it over anything else going on. Even when we only use it for the speakers for watching the tv without playing any actual dvd/blu-rays and it's really annoying and distracting. Would we be able to swap out the Sony subwoofer for this LG subwoofer and soundbar and still be able to utilise the smaller speakers belonging to the rest of the Sony surround system? Will they work in conjunction with eachother/without the Sony subwoofer? If that makes any sense.

If you go instore to get this then beware Curries trying to Scam you into buying 'Gold Cables' with this soundbar in some form of £200 package deal. The cables are around £50 each and I'm fairly sure the 'savings' that they offer for the two are just made up prices with fake value.

Salesman tried telling me that I needed to buy them or the soundbar would not connect to my Sony TV, but you can get a decent optical anywhere else for less. Ended up not buying the soundbar because it makes you question if the bar itself is even worth £120. Buyer Beware!

Would this work with LG 49LF510v? How would anyone compare this with JVC TH-WL711B?

Would this work ok with a Samsung 48h6400?

LG NB4540 - currys are selling for £199 just now.

Anyone found a useful Dolby guide as to the differences between 2.1, 4.1 and 5.1?

I did find an article that said 2.1 was better for music, 5.1 is better for films and games - but I'm not sure I'd even notice the difference.

Probably going for the £129 one from currys, all I want is to improve the sound from the TV a bit, I'm not after something that'll turn the living room into a cinema experience to match our local cineworld.

For me a major plus is that the soundbar and subwoofer are Bluetooth and how well it'll work with the TV (60JL9000 which is a rebranded LG)

I have a Samsung ES5500, which I believe does not have ARC. If I get this sound bar and connect to the TV with an optical cable will I be able to change the volume using the TV remote? Or will I have to adjust the volume on the sound bar independently?

Also, would the sound bar turn on/off with the TV?

hmm you'd imagine paying the extra £70 for 4.1 would be worth it no?

Despite googles best effort I've been unable to find if my 50PH660V is a compatable LG TV. Does anybody reading this have said TV and the LG LAS455H soundbar?

What's the best way to set this up hdmi or optical

My lg to I had to go into the sound settings on the TV, and fiddle about with them to get the arc function working

Great soundbar, bought to use with my new 4K Philips tv via Philips Easylink(Arc) but even via the ARC HDMI socket & with a genuine Philips HDMI highspeed + Ethernet cable it will not connect. I'm using via the optical port but still great sound and the soundbar turns off and back on in sync with the TV. The manual voice sync setting is useful on the remote as when using the Virgin Tivo box and Netflix when streaming in 5.1 sound output I need to change to -250ms to match the lips, everything else works fine on the default 0ms with the sound delay turned off on the TV. Overall a great soundbar.

I'm confused! I have an LG tv but I always thought that the hdmi sockets were for input only - am I wrong? So how can you connect a soundbar with an hdmi from the tv? I know my tv has an optical socket but someone mentioned that optical doesn't support hd audio - is that correct? My tv is about 5 years old and I'm not sure if it would connect via wireless.

Cheers for imfo Fallen.

soundbar should go directly to the TV, it doesn't need to use the sky box.

Thanks mate. Just plugged the sky into the back of it through HDMI and then plugged another HDMI from the soundbar into the TV. It's working but crackling a bit when the sky is on. Through Bluetooth, it's faultless and has a great sound.

Anyone any idea about the crackling? It wasn't doing it to start with.

Is this one better / worse ?
JVC TH-WL311B 2.2 Wireless Sound Bar Black 120 W Bluetooth NFC Dolby Digital £99.99

I got one of these the other day and it is great. Once paired the Bluetooth connects and changes the functions automatically (tested on iPhone and Mac) sound is great and I have a LG TV so simplink works a treat. Just ordered a 2.0 HDMI cable from Amazon so I can use ARC as the simplink disconnects when i turn the speaker off and don't reconnect when I turn it back off :disappointed:

Sorry forgot to put the model mines the NB4540 4.1 in the specs

I think he is referring to this LG 4.1 soundbar

I've just picked this up. I've never used one before... Do I just plug an HDMI cable into the back of the tv and that's it? Or maybe the sky box? Won't get a chance to look until later, so would be nice to know what to expect. Thanks

This has been on sale at this price since their Black Friday event. I got it then and I am very pleased, good quality sound for the price. Connects to my LG to flawlessly

Bought one last week. using it in my bedroom with none smart Samsung TV. I've fixed it to the wall using the included brackets. Subwoofer under my bed. Sounds great. Samsung TV remote works with it, without having to do anything

Had the more expensive one £199.99 version for a year, cannot fault it, If the 2.1 at £129.99 has the same features it will be a good buy, though if you can spend the extra get the 3.1 one, looks great, sounds great. Got mine for the hdmi in and out and its ability to replace the tv speaker controls on my lg tv. Works great with the sky remote, Have mine in the arc hdmi feature, turn the tv on it comes on automatically, tv off, turns off then sky remote controls the volume. The only niggle is the blu tooth feature for me, to use this you have to scroll through the function to turn this on, its not always on the background or if the option to have it set like that.

Optical doesn't support HD audio so go with HDMI. Cable quality is the same deal.

Digital cables are all the same. It is either a 1 or 0 being transmitted and received. Analogue cables are a whole different matter and quality increases with price.

I'm currently using mine with hdmi via the arc. Would an optical cable be better, and if so, is it like hdmi where a £1 is as good as a£50 one, or should I get a decent one?

they should just built speakers into the TV

​No, it's the NB4540. I bought it on boxing day, and it works flawlessly with my Lg TV...

can you use this with a iphone?

thanks, ordered!

Is this wall mountable?

edit: I just noticed it comes with a wall mount bracket :smiley:

My dads got this and I'm thinking of getting it. Is there any other codes off to make it even cheaper ? I've searched and seen a upto 5% off at top cash back but not sure how much of the 5% it will be

i have this and very plesed. hooked up to Samsung tv with hdmi and optical. volume and on/off with tv remote work great. got the wireless sub behind the sofa. heat

had to hook my samsung tv with an optical cable even thou i have arc

Hey guys, would I lose much functionality if I connected this to my Samsung smart tv? I want a wireless sub but don't wanna pay the over inflated prices of the Samsung branded ones. thanks

I am using this model and very happy, looks and sounds very good. Recommend. Price is good too

I have to agree got this soundbar instore and its a great piece of kit links in with the lg TV and sounds fantastic.

My parents have this model and it seems quite decent. Connects to their LG TV without using cables and works flawlessly.

Curry's/PCworld eBay had this at £153 I sent them a message that it's cheaper direct and they reduced it to £109 (New other) I got it for £99 with voucher but it only has box damage its absolutely new.