Bose Smart 600

Bose Smart Soundbar 600 review: small size, big sound review

Up-firing speakers add genuine height to TV and movies; Upscales non-Atmos content; Minimalist design; Impressive Alexa compatibility; Bass is a little lacking; Not all non-Atmos content sounds convincing with TrueSpace; No built-in Google Assistant ; Forces you to create a Bose account to use app features;

Excellect quality soundbar

The smart soundbar 600 has a superb sound output for medium to larger size rooms. Easy setup & a very compact remote control. Overall a very impressive product.

Bose Smart Soundbar 600 Review

The Bose Smart Soundbar 600 is a small and feature-packed speaker that features upward-firing drivers for height-based spatial audio, but its highs can be cutting and its bass response is often too thin. The Bose Smart Soundbar 600 ($499) packs impressive technology into a compact design. Notably, it adds height channels to the standard left-center-right driver arrangement, creating a large sound field with excellent spatial audio imaging. It also features Amazon's Alexa voice assistant and Apple AirPlay 2 and Google Cast. Without a subwoofer, however, the soundbar's audio balance is skewed toward the high-mids and highs. This makes dialogue easy to understand at the expense of bass response. While the Sonos Beam ($449) also doesn't have powerful bass and lacks height channels, it has many of the same features, costs less, and offers a more balanced sound signature.Compact Design The Smart Soundbar 600 is fairly small, measuring 2.2 by 27.3 by 4.1 inches (HWD) and weighing 6.9 pounds. Those are approximately the same dimensions as the Sonos Beam (2.7 by 25.7 by 4.0 inches). It’s short enough that you should easily be able to fit it comfortably in front of all but the lowest-sittin...