Amazon Fire TV Soundbar Review

Verdict

A standard soundbar that enhances your television sound, but the Fire television Soundbar can not quite run away the sensation that it’s a bit expensive wherefore it does and that Fire TV combination would have given this even more of a factor to purchase. It’s fine wherefore it does however possibly one to purchase in the Amazon sales than to grab at its RRP.

Introduction

I have actually evaluated Televisions, cordless speakers, and video streamers from Amazon, yet the Fire Television Soundbar is the initial of its kind– a real soundbar from the shopping titan.

And it’s a shock that it’s taken this wish for an Amazon soundbar to appear. Launched in the US back in 2023, it’s taken nearly a year for this version to make its way across the pond. Compare that to its rival Roku, which has located success with its Streambar and others.

The Fire television Soundbar aims to be a portable service to improve your television audio, however upon evaluating it, it’s not all I quite imagined it would be.

Layout

• Minimalist looks
• Comes with a remote
• LED display screen

Amazon has actually placed the breaks on design and concentrated on function with the Fire Television Soundbar. It’s possibly rough to call it boring when it was never intended to thrill, but nondescript and confidential are fairer words to put on its grey/black outfit. It features a wall-mounting kit if you wish to put it on a wall surface.

At 60 centimeters vast it’s best fit to smaller-sized TVs (50 -inches and smaller sized)– it looks wise enough, feels well built for the rate (18 % originates from recycled materials), and behind the covering is an LED display screen. It’s a series of dots which are easy adequate to recognize considering its simple procedure.

Set up is very easy– this is basically a plug and play soundbar– though I did locate that to obtain audio playing with the soundbar, I needed to mute a Samsung QN 90 D TV, which was weird, especially with an HDMI connection. The problem didn’t reappear with a Sony Bravia 8

In a recessed location beneath bench are the links, with an HDMI ARC port, electronic optical output, and USB input. On top are controls for power, input, Bluetooth pairing and quantity control.

The remote is a small event, one that might go missing out on if you’re not mindful with it. Everything covered on the soundbar itself makes its means to the remote, with added bonus in EQ alternatives, bass control, and a spatial sound setting.

Features

• No Fire television or Alexa combination
• Dolby Audio and DTS Virtual: X assistance
• Bluetooth streaming

Surprisingly, the Fire TV Soundbar does not function Fire TV assimilation. Unlike the Roku Streambar, this isn’t a soundbar-cum-streamer in one tool, which seems like a missed opportunity. Offered how synonymous Amazon has made the Fire TV brand name with video clip streaming, you ‘d presume its Fire TV tools would factor it somehow.

There’s no HDMI input so there’s no means of adding a Fire television Stick into the soundbar. You may think Alexa integration however she’s not available, which indicates no assistance for Alexa Home Movie theater either. Amazon makes clear the Fire television Soundbar is for sound only, and of course while I recognize that the Fire television branding relates to TV/home cinema, calling this the Mirror Soundbar would certainly have made more sense.

The Fire TV Soundbar sustains Dolby Digital soundtracks, in addition to DTS Virtual: X handling with DTS soundtracks. The Spatial audio setting increases the soundstage yet do not perplex this with immersive audio formats such as Dolby Atmos and DTS: X. Despite Spatial audio turned on, this is still a 2.0 stereo soundbar.

There’s Bluetooth assistance for streaming from a mobile phone, three EQ settings (movie, music, and discussion), bass EQ (low, medium, high) … which’s it on the function count. Considering the asking price, it does not feel like you’re getting much value.

Audio Quality

• Good discussion recreation
• Spatial Sound mode increases soundfield
• Does not have bass

While the Fire television Soundbar could err on the wrong side of the price/value line, it’s a decent-sounding initiative as long as you’re aiming to improve your TV’s noise and nothing even more.

Does the Fire television Soundbar offer room-filling sound in the manner in which Amazon’s advertising and marketing materials would suggest. No, it does not. Is it a renovation over your TV? If it’s an affordable and tinny seeming one then of course it is.

Impacts are positioned properly enough on display, sound does not appear as if it’s simply originating from the soundbar yet from points on the screen also. Dialogue is clearly and efficiently duplicated in the bar’s Movie setting, and it removes a respectable amount of information from flicks and TV programs, though in its stereo setting the soundstage has a squashed feeling to it.

Switch over to its Spatial Setting and the soundstage broadens in size, although to be sincere that width needs to be foregone conclusion for any kind of soundbar. Its merely ‘respectable’ degree of information in its default mode end up being ‘great’ when enjoying Kingdom of the World of the Apes– there’s even more history information and ambient to grab– a dialogue scene where waves crash upon a beach ends up being extra obvious– there’s more space for effects, songs and discussion to co-exist without tipping on each other’s toes.

It appears clearer and louder if a little bit thinner too, the processing used in its Spatial mode burglarizes the soundbar of its level of smoothness and weight, tossing a crisper tone right into the mix.

Personally, with films I would certainly switch to the Spatial Setting for that added width and crisper sense of detail and clearness. There’s no sibilance slipping in regardless of dialogue sounding thinner with it on.

It offers three levels of bass from low, medium to high but none actually include even more deepness or power. If anything it solidifies the soundbar’s bass outcome, which makes the Fire TV Soundbar’s result audio awkward in minutes when where even more punch or bombast is needed.

Viewing an episode of Industry on the Player, it’s a clear and comprehensive performance with vocals seeming basically natural. The Spatial Mode works once more in regards to a larger soundstage.

With music over a Bluetooth connection, the Fire television Soundbar seems sufficient. Whatever I pointed out above applies below with its stereo and spatial settings. Its feeling of dynamism is more recognizable with songs than films, even relocating between quiet and loud is a lot more small than significant.

Boosting the bass has a bigger impact with songs, bringing even more deepness and weight, and I ‘d suggest having fun with the presets available– the Music pre-programmed makes audio crisper but the Flick mode adds warmth and level of smoothness.

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