DESCRIPTION Bose Acoustimass 5 Speaker A revolution in speaker design and thinking was launched with this speaker system from Bose. The two satellite speakers are small enough to fit in the palm of your hand, making them perfect for any room in your house! They may be small but will still provide the famous Bose Direct-Reflecting M-^Y sound. The Bass Module will fill your room with deep, rich bass, while staying out of sight. Invisible never sounded so good! Color: Black Experience enhanced sound from Bose’s most affordable, next-g
Amplify your listening pleasure with the slim, compact HT-450 Sound Bar. Difficult room configurations are not a problem – the HT-450 can be mounted on the wall, with the wireless subwoofer placed anywhere in the room to achieve maximum audio impact. Connect to your HDTV, then sit back and enjoy the show, enhanced by 280 watts of 2.1 channel virtual surround sound.
Features
2.1 Channel
Wireless Active Subwoofer
Optical Input
Smart Volume
Virtual Surround (C451 will have a brushed aluminum finish to match TV)
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115 of 121 people found the following review helpful:
Best Soundbar on the Market for the price…, March 31, 2010
This review is from: Samsung HW-C450 Soundbar Speaker (Electronics)
Ok let’s start by telling you, that I am not just some guy doing a review. I have purchased and tested 3 other Soundbars and tested all the rest in the stores… First was the Vizio Bar – Ok sound, but did not produce a real surround sound effect. And I was able to max… out the volume at 3am in the morning with out waking anyone up… Needless to say it ain’t all that loud… Although it had easy one wire hookup with a fiber optic cable… Second was the Sony HTC100 with HDMI hookups. This one was loved for it”s ease to hookup HMDI components straight to it and it acted as a switch. The big thing is, this unit was horrible on sound. I turned it up to it’s max of 50 and could still hear my dishwasher in the background… As a matter of fact when me and best buy guy Dave tried it, we could talk over it on max vol… Now for the Samsung HW-C450: Amazing – amazing- amazing… This unit out did all the others on volume of only 26 with a max of I don’t know (I think 60), because I’m afraid to turn it up because it may bust the speakers it’s so loud… This Sound bar is great for the person who knows nothing about 5.1 and 7.2 channel theater systems. You will be very happy. Now I am a owner of a old Sherwood Receiver and 5.1 Dolby Surround System, with Cerwin Vega speakers… And it doesn”t give the back noise as great, but it definitely stands it’s ground for a one pc speaker… Now for someone who knows about theater systems, don’t get scare, this is the best low cost unit you can get and you will be amazed, but all I’m saying is, don’t expect a 5.1 Dolby Sound from this. It is amazing sound, but doesn’t hit every corner like your seperate speakers will. Now for design, A+++… Samsung gets thumbs up from me. It’s not a big as the others @38″ I think… But this thing hits harder then the rest. But the look is classy with revealed speakers with the crome tone tips… Just nice… Oh and I almost forgot it’s touch operated, which is a nice added feature… Now for room size, mine covers a petty good sized family room. And still rattles the walls upstairs. And clearly heard outside the house. This one has 2 options for sound hook up, Analog RCA (Provided) and Fiber Optic (Provided). I opted for Fiber Optic, because my TV automatically sends the sound from the TV to the Soundbar. Which is the easiest thing for me, because it saves you from having to hook up and waste money on a receiver. All you would have to do if you had all HDMI hookup (Seeing if your TV didn’t already have enough of them) is buy a HDMI switch from online or Best Buy. I use my Cable box HDMI, Blu Ray Player HDMI, DVD/VCR HMDI. But if you havee more things like Wii, Xbox360, etc. The switch will help you send the signal to the TV. I have not found any negatives with the unit as of yet. It has played both, burned DVDs well and regular ones with great sound… So there has not been any problems… Great sound, Great look, and Great price… And the Wireless Sub is fantastic. Use Cinema for Music, not Music… Under the equalizer. Has about 5 options…
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This review is from: Samsung HW-C450 Soundbar Speaker (Electronics)
Bought this soundbar to go along with my 52″ Samsung LCD. What a big improvement over the TV speakers! Watched 2 Blu-ray movies with it already and was very impressed by the sound. It was very easy to hookup. Just used the provided optical cable to connect the sound bar to the TV. Plugged in the subwoofer, plugged in the soundbar, turned on…. and the sub was instantly connected to the soundbar. It was up and running literally in minutes. The volume of the soundbar can be controlled by the TV remote so that’s nice. You may or may not want to turn off the TV speakers. The problem with turning off your TV speakers is it will say “not available” on your TV when you adjust the volume with the TV remote, but that is a minor problem.
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This review is from: Samsung HW-C450 Soundbar Speaker (Electronics)
The sound from this system is great. Not necessarily surround sound, but it’s much better than the tv speakers. I have this connected to a new Samsung TV. When using the TV speakers AND the SoundBar unit together it sounds like you are in a cave. I use the soundbar exclusively now, with the TV speakers turned off. My biggest complaint is that every once in a while the TV remote, and the SoundBar remote do not work. You can hit every button on the soundbar remote, or the volume on the tv remote, and it does nothing. This problem does not happen all the time, just randomly. It could happen twice in an hour or once a week. Every once in a while it also switches itself from Dital 1 input to the Digital 2 input (which there is nothing connected to). This usually happens in the middle of a movie, and again, it’s totally random. Most of the time I love this soundbar, MOST of the time.
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The ultra-powerful SS-F7000 floor-standing speakers will refresh your appreciation for music. With pristine sound reproduction and high-quality drivers, these speakers bring new life to your music collection. Just as the original composer intended, the sound quality is so rich you feel like you’re at a private concert. Lows, mid-ranges and high tones are recreated in high resolution audio, making even the most subtle sounds music to your ears.
Features
Newly developed 8″ mica reinforced woofer
8″ enhanced H.O.P. cone woofer
3.25″ mid-driver
1″ Nano-Fine balanced dome tweeter
200-watt maximum input power
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26 of 26 people found the following review helpful:
This review is from: Sony SSF-7000 Floor-Standing 4-way Speaker with 8″ Woofer (Pair) (Electronics)
Purchased and Received these speakers just a couple days ago. The free shipping was great considering the weight of the speakers.
They are great! No complaints here. I was upgrading from my original aiwa speakers (made by sony) in my home entertainment system. The difference is amazing. Highs mids and lows are all great. I always recommend a powered sub woofer, I do have one. However, if you get these speakers you can get by without one.
My listening interests are varied. I have listened to Kiss, ELO, The Hollies, Peter Frampton, Supertramp and some classical on these speakers so far. I have also viewed a couple movies using them. All sounded great. “Do You, (Feel Like I Do) sounded GREAT! All the ELO was crisp, clean and clear. The only “booming,” as mentioned in the other review, that I heard was while listening to “Long Cool Woman In A Black Dress” by the Hollies. However, it did appear to be a bass sound that was appropriate with the song, not anything abnormal. But then again, it may just be different taste.
Oh, and the picture shows the speaker as looking more of a grey than black. They are black, not the grey like the picture shows. that is good since my tv and all my entertaiment system units are all black.
My advice is you cannot go wrong with these. If anything changes I will update.
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This review is from: Sony SSF-7000 Floor-Standing 4-way Speaker with 8″ Woofer (Pair) (Electronics)
I bought these because a consumer magazine rated the performance of this model’s predecessor a “best buy” in floor standing speakers. They even beat out some very expensive Polks for sonic accuracy. After getting them installed, they didn’t disappoint. Excellent highs and more than adequate bass especially considering the price paid.
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This review is from: Sony SSF-7000 Floor-Standing 4-way Speaker with 8″ Woofer (Pair) (Electronics)
The first thing you will notice when you get these is the size (Height) these are defiantly “towers” in every regard. I have owned many speakers throughout the years, but not many had the full range clarity these do, they seem to ‘come alive’ on just about anything video games, Movies, Music, ect.. and they can get LOUD if you wire them correctly. I am no stereo guru but I know great sound when I here it, I scoped the more higher end stuff first, everything from Polk, Infinity, Kef, Omnisat, even Focal which was featured in stereo review this year. It is amazing to think these are SONY speakers, for one I’d never been a fan of their products but this does not sound like sony! add that to the many good reviews = Me buying them and Im glad i did! sure you can get ‘better speakers’ i.e. a little bit more ‘boom’ but for you buck you will not find anything even remotely as good as these. All in all it depends what your listening tastes are if your into Rock you will love these because of the crystal highs and a good ‘punch’ of Bass to fill your room or whatever. Movies on the other hand, is where these shine it’s probably been said many times before but when viewing a movie you hear things that you may have never herd before the multi-faceted range is amazing it is a “Things are coming at you” (you are in the action) type of feeling, and if you have a Sub (I recommend the SW-12 Infinity) forget about going to the movies your at the movies! Just make sure you have the right hook-up Monster Cable is a must. The only thing I did not like about these is the cheesy puny wires it comes with you need THICK wires for good sound reproduction, other then that these are a steal for the money nobody and I mean nobody (to my knowledge) has put out something with this good of quality sound plus the price to top it off. It’s like ‘paying for a SONY product’ the only difference is that your getting POLK AUDIO Sound!!! Absolutely Recommended. Just wanted to add you can use them as fronts or surrounds dose not matter they sound good either way. Don’t be a fool and spend hundreds more Buy Them while you can!
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