MajoritySound Bar for Smart TV, 50 Watts, 2.0 Bluetooth TV Sound Bar, 15 Inch Home Audio Sound Bars, Small Soundbar for TV and PC | AUX, RCA, Optical, USB | Gaming, Music, Movies - Bowfell Black

This is exactly what I had hoped it would be for the price paid. Please note that my 5 star review is based on it being an extremely affordable soundbar. It's not high end - but it wasn't supposed to be.I recently upgraded to a 45" ultra-wide display for my office. I kept my older monitor and plugged in an Android TV box so I could watch the news while working. But like most monitors, it has no speaker. Enter the Majestic sound bar.For around $40, it plays sound over optical, headphone audio jack, USB, or bluetooth. It's just 15", which makes it a good fit on a smaller desk (or kid's room). I had read reviews of several similarly priced units and found the Majestic to be a better fit, for several reasons:1) Many of the budget soundbars in this category have built in USB and analog audio cables. Which means if something happens to the cable, it's not easily replaced.2) Many of the others had all ports on the sides (meaning you're more likely to see cable clutter on your desk or dresser). This one has power, USB, and optical audio ports in the back. Unfortunately, the headphone jack is on the right, but it conveniently comes with a right-angle cable which helps.3) This works fine with my Onn 4K Streaming Pro's remote, so I can turn it on/off, mute, and control volume via remote control. Several other competitors don't seem to work well (or at all) with Universal Remotes, and some flat out say it can't be controlled this way in the product description.4) Three year warranty offered, along with lifetime technical support. I can't comment on how good the support is, not having needed it, but at face value, that sounds great.Negatives?1) This is not a very sonically impressive soundbar. Just fine for watching the news, or TV shows, but I'd find a different device to play high fidelity music.2) No HDMI support, but again, that's hardly a negative at this price point. For my use case, it's irrelevant, but it is a notable item if that's important to you.3) The remote has three buttons to tune the sound - flat, rock, and jazz. If they actually do anything to the sound, I sure can't tell.

I've had mine for 5 years and it just died so I figure this is a good time to leave a review. Worked great for the price. The volume settings are not my favorite.Every time I'd turn it on, it would start at highest volume so god forbid you forgot to pause the movie before spamming the volume down button. The lowest volume was still pretty high which meant I could only use it during the day.. but my wife and I are light sleepers and we live in an apartment so I have to be more conscious of those things.

For the price, you can't beat it. I've been using my Bose L1 tower for my TV audio and there's no comparison but I didn't want to put the hours on it so I ordered the sound bar. It lacks the bass response of the Bose but that's to be expected. I'm very pleased with the quality vs price. Will likely order a second one for my bedroom TV.

I'll never understand what this seemingly incurable problem is with providing reasonable sound for a flat TV, but it seems to be unresolvable.Not only does the new wave of flat-screen TVs provide fantastic visuals, with almost feather-light frames, but they also provide absolutely dismal sound.I'll never understand why this would be so, but I have a suspicion: They do it so people will resort to buying a sound bar, to provide some semblance of acceptable sound.Except they can't even seem to do that.I've bought no less than half a dozen sound bars, or speaker systems, and the only thing that has met, or actually, exceeded my expectations, was a Bose home theater system.But for my other, smaller TVs, which also needed some help in the sound department, the sound bars they offer are a joke.And a bad joke.One begins to wonder: It could be that they actually are masters of the visual aspect of TV, because it's hard to imagine a TV picture any better than what we are seeing right now.But they don't seem to have a clue when it comes to the audio aspect. And that suspicion seems to be confirmed when we not only get a TV with terrible sound, but can't even find a sound bar that will cure the problem.Actually, it begins to appear that selling TVs with superb visuals but abysmal sound may possibly not be a deliberate ploy, after all.From the evidence, they simply may not be capable of coming up with anything better.I fondly remember having a rear-seat speaker in my 1956 Oldsmobile 98, which was a little 6"X9" speaker in the back window well, which delivered absolutely phenomenal sound, including booming, crisp bass, from the AM car radio, and I could crank it up louder than I could even stand to listen to.Connected by two wires.Now, you see all these sound bars advertised as having fantastic sound, thumping bass, etc, etc, coming from a small, slim housing, which sits neatly under the front of the TV.They tell us just exactly what we want to hear, except none of it is true.You've got to wonder: Where are all these glowing reviews coming from? Surely they're not talking about the same product that so many others are complaining about.In spite of the TV, which really needs the help in the audio department, these all talk about boosting your phone, or computer, and barely even mention that it can be used with your TV.In fact, you order it without any verbal assurance that it will even work with a TV, at all. If it would, by chance, be compatible with your TV, this is only mentioned in passing, and if you don't look hard for it, you will miss it.They mention all of the myriad choices for hooking it up, almost none of which can be understood, with the mangling of English descriptions.Further, they tie it in to a battery, which has to be re-charged, which calls for yet another connection, when we aren't looking for a battery in the first place.We just want a sound system, that works on AC, which will give us halfway decent sound.Somehow, that seems to be beyond the ability of the sellers to understand, or possibly beyond their ability to produce.They're selling their product in the United States, but somehow can't seem to manage to hire someone to describe the product so it can be understood.But the clincher is that most of them either don't work at all, or if they do, the sound you hear coming out is anemic and pitiful.Since virtually all of the sound equipment we can now find is manufactured somewhere in the Orient, and almost none of it is left that is made in the USA, the end result is that we're stuck with beautiful pictures on our TV, but abysmal sound coming out of it.And even when we spend the money to try to remedy the situation, we are hopelessly defeated.Looks like a wonderful opportunity for someone to step in and profit from, but nobody seems to be coming forth.It's really a major mystery as to why so many companies in the business of making speaker systems for TVs and computers are failing so miserably in making something that has been around for decades.That is to say, one that works.The part that defies understanding is that it should be such a simple device to make, and the market for it is incredible.It just doesn't seem like it would be too difficult to design a speaker, in a nice, wood-grain housing, that could be plugged into your TV set, to provide decent sound for a flat TV.