Smaller and more affordable than its big brother, the Ambeo Soundbar Plus delivers dynamite Sennheiser sound.
Sennheiser Ambeo Soundbar Plus review: you won’t believe your ears MSRP $1,500.00 Score Details DT Editors' Choice “With virtualized Dolby Atmos this good, who needs more speakers?” Pros Cons When Sennheiser’s mighty Ambeo Soundbar debuted in 2018, it caught a lot of people off guard. Not only was it the company’s first soundbar — and not only did it cost $2,500,making it one of the most expensive you could buy — it blew reviewers away with its 3D Dolby Atmos capabilities.
Inside that box, you’ll find a power cable, a premium certified HDMI cable, a remote control, and a quick start guide. One of the perennial problems we’ve seen with flagship soundbars from companies like Bose, Sonos, and Bowers & Wilkins is a lack of HDMI inputs. They all use HDMI ARC/eARC to connect to a TV, but that always means giving up one of your TV’s precious few HDMI ports just so you can have great sound. The Ambeo Soundbar Plus has no such limitations.
This means you can connect any powered subwoofer to the Ambeo Soundbar — not just Sennheiser’s. You can’t do that with Bose, Sony, Sonos, or the vast majority of other soundbars. If you want, you can control the Ambeo Soundbar Plus just by using the app, but there’s also an included remote. It’s an unusually sturdy accessory. Most soundbar remotes feel cheap, but this one has real heft to it. Unfortunately there’s no backlight, so you may struggle to use it in the dark.
The speaker also can confirm when it’s receiving Dolby Atmos or DTS:X signals, but these tiny indicators are even harder to see. They sit on the top surface, behind the raised front edge of the grille, which obscures them unless you’re looking down at them. The Ambeo mode indicator, however, is very easy to see: it sits in the lower-right front corner.
Sennheiser was kind enough to lend me an Ambeo wireless sub to try with the new bar, and as you’d expect, it provided plenty of cinematic rumble. But unless you want to take advantage of that wireless connection or the Ambeo’s ability to manage four of these bad boys simultaneously, you might be better off spending that Ambeo Sub money on a wired sub of your choosing.
Two of my favorite recent Atmos torture tests — the initial sandworm sequence from Denis Villeneuve’s Dune and the Aston Martin chase/shootout sequence from No Time To Die — passed with flying colors. The eerie whispering voices young Paul Atreides experiences as he’s engulfed in a spice-saturated sand cloud, float around the room like disembodied ghosts.
As a technology, Ambeo isn’t unique. Sony does something very similar on its $1,300 HT-A7000 via that speaker’s Immersive AE mode. I think Ambeo is superior, at least for movies and TV content. When it comes to music, IAE offers a more natural sound. If at any point you don’t like what the Ambeo processing is doing, you can disable it with a single button press on the remote.
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