The music, movie and sports sound profile settings do a good job of automatically adjusting to specific situations, but we found ourselves turning down the bass and turning up the voice during our tests. The wireless subwoofer looks modern and the matte black finish fits in well among most home furnishings, but when we turned it up during loud action sequences, it exhibited moments of flabby and disproportionate bass. The Command Bar scored above average in our dialogue and overall audio performance tests, but we felt it was lacking in bass response and surround simulation compared to the best sound bars we tested. It has separate volume controls for overall volume, subwoofer level and the Voice Adjust feature that allows you to adjust the volume of mid-range frequencies such as movie dialogue and vocals in music. In addition to the helpful voice control options, the Command Bar also has the best physical remote in our test group. Additional surround speakers may be used for hall ambience. When you are done watching TV for the night, use the voice control feature to lock the front door, turn down the heater and turn off the lights and TV, all from the comfort of your couch. A second speaker pair can be added in back in order to enable 360 surround sound reproduction. At the same time, press and hold the Bluetooth and Vol + buttons together for 5 seconds.
On the back of the subwoofer, you will see the BAR SYNC button. Turn OFF your soundbar if it is in power mode. The Command Bar and Alexa app are also compatible with an exhaustive list of smart home products, like lights, door locks, thermostats and Alexa-compatible TVs. In such cases, follow the steps below to re-establish the connection. You connect the video streaming device to the input and ask Alexa to play movies or TV shows from your favorite streaming services, or music from Spotify or other popular music services. This sound bar has an HDMI input that was tailor-made for Amazon’s Fire TV and other wide HDMI streaming devices.
Polk Audio Command Bar at Amazon for $249 (opens in new tab) Note: You only have to pair your Sound Bar with your Bluetooth device one time.
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