S100F 2.0ch Soundbar with Bass Reflex Speaker, Integrated Tweeter and Bluetooth, (HTS100F), easy setup, compact, home office use with clear sound black

I am giving this sound bar 5 stars, but with reservations. It is compact and not overly large. It fits on my mantle under the mounted tv. This is the second sound bar sent to me. The first one only worked a few days before I had to call Sony and troubleshoot it to find out it was defective. The price was good, however I had to pay UPS to return it to Amazon. I was told I would recoup the loss but as of yesterday that credit had not shown up in my account. First: pros- sleek, lightweight, good sound, good pricing, several ways to connect, seamless hookup with remotes, TVs, streaming devices, good sound. - Cons: I turn my tv off at night and then when I want to watch again, the sound bar won’t work. I am forever having to unplug the bar, tv, and fire stick to have any audio. This does not make sense. There is notations of the bar going into mute when you turn the device off, and it depending on what configuration you start up again, ie: tv first, sound bar first, streaming device, etc., it can go into mute mode. This is ridiculous. You want, or at least I do, one remote for everything so you don’t have to keep up with remotes for each device. I have a Sharp, interactive smart tv, and use a fire stick for my “cable”. I have no choice as I use the “gig” internet and that provider for my cable channels. My provider encourages you to use your own devices to receive the channels they offer so for us it’s the fire stick for cable and streaming. This should not be the problem with the bar not connecting and/or going into mute mode because of you turning your tv on. Since the description of this sound bar uses the seamless hookup as one of the advantages of purchasing this product, the manufacturer should design it to come on and work, regardless of what sequence your remote turns all the devices on. Amazon replaced the first unit (had it about two weeks, one using it, one trying to figure out what was wrong). Sony was good at troubleshooting but was no help at replacing the unit, even with me supplying the invoice, etc. After the troubleshooting, and me providing the invoice by email, I never heard from Sony again, so any compliment I give for customer service is to Amazon, which had me a new one ASAP. I might note that this didn’t start happening until this week. We have had the replacement only about two weeks now, so this occurrence may possibly be another defective unit. I bought a protection plan because of the reviews about this product. I maybe should have just bought another product than this one. Independent analysis of sound bars at the time I purchased the first one had this one as #1. I will update later if I continue to have to reboot everything to get it to work. I forgot to mention I am using the HDMI-ARC hookup which is the one suggested. Update: I think I found the answer on Sony’s website. Using an option on the remote - ie:voice - turns the HDMI-ARC option off. Since that is my connection method unconsciously I have been muting for restarting my connection, when trying to set the bar for better voice, less background. This bar does have good sound, very decent wattage and a reasonable price. I will stick with - now - 5 stars.

After reading many reviews, while searching for a small, simple soundbar, we decided on the Sony S100F. I have always liked the Sony brand and this soundbar did not disappoint us. It was just the right size, easy to set up, and sounds great! We got it at a great price and the seller got it to us three days early and in perfect condition.

I agree with many other reviews. We got an upscale Samsung OLED TV and the speakers are pretty disappointing. So went searching for a sound bar. For $100 this is not a bad upgrade compared to the built in speakers on this 1/4 thick TV. But do not expect anything great. My main issue was improved voice/dialogue and this is better than the TV speakers but still not as good as I would like. I guess my suggestion would be to try find a display of speaker bars to see what you like if possible. If I had not bought this, I would have spent another $100 or so to see if that would be better. Anyway, set up: If my understanding is correct, you need an HDMI blah, blah, blah cable if you want the sound bar to on-off with your TV. I bought one, because the sound bar comes with only an 'optical' cable. Who knows what all this means? You got to be an electronics/audio expert to understand this stuff. So, plug it all in and hang on. Its not all that difficult to set up but there are dozens of things to choose from in the set up. What is best? Who knows. I spent a time trying this trying that and good luck getting remotes to sync up. Suggestion: there are several pretty good YouTube videos for this specific sound bar and I would recommend watching a couple to get an idea what is what. Maybe watch them before you buy. Oh, the cable I bought was 3 feet, were I to buy it again, i would have gotten 4 or 5 feet. The 3 foot cable just reaches on my Samsung TV so I suppose depending where your plug in is, you might need a longer cable. You will learn all about arc e connections, optical cables,....... hold on to your hat. The connections are not RCA cable plug ins any more. Bottom line, not bad for $100 and noticeably better than the lousy TV speakers. And unless you want to rattle the windows I don't think the bass is bad. Long winded review I suppose. Sum it up: better than TV speakers, not great for voice but OK, not simple to get working with other remotes, need to buy a cable, not bad for the price

it was easy to set up and to connect to the TV and the sound is amazing especially the bass for its Price, It’s well worth it.

This soundbar is amazing quality, especially for the price. We connected it to our projector via Bluetooth and the sound is clear and full. When you sit in front of it, it almost feels like surround sound, which is exactly what we were looking for in a budget home setup. There is a slight audio lag when connected to our projector over Bluetooth, but we expect that using an HDMI cable will fix the sync completely. We’ve also connected this soundbar to a different projector and had no issues at all with audio and video syncing, so this seems to depend on the device. The bass is solid and the treble is crisp, and it doesn’t sound hollow or echoing like our projector’s built-in speakers. For a budget setup, this soundbar is perfect. It actually outperforms a $250 soundbar from a major brand that we tried, especially since that one didn’t even have Bluetooth and this one does. I’m very impressed with this purchase.

Despite the Sony name, this does not perform well enough to justify the purchase. It probably sounds better than low-end TVs, but not by much. Yes, it is louder and does have some bass, but the quality of sound is not impressive. If you just want more volume, maybe this will work for you. It feels built well and it controlled over eARC without any issues, but I wouldn’t recommend this to anyone who can afford to spend a little more.

This soundbar is exactly what we needed to clarify our tv audio. We mostly watch news on the TV this was purchased for so voice was our only concern. (Not used for gaming or music)

Service was excellent, only hiccup need a international conversion power point.

se conecta super bien, muy buen sonido.

The S100F's clear dialogue and immersive sound make everyone happy. Great product, great price.

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I can’t be sure why there’s any negative reviews here. For us, this is a Godsend. We have a higher end Sony Bravia 42” LED flatscreen TVs purchased in 2010. From day one we used this TV permanently connected to an ex excellent audio system, bypassing it’s internal speakers. We have now purchased a 65” Sony Bravia to replace that set and moved the old one to the bedroom. There, we began to use for the first time with it’s internal speakers, and we’re very disappointed with their sound quality. (But we are used to the very best sound). That TV has rear firing speakers and this was no doubt a concern to our neighbour on the other side of our townhomes shared wall. This Sony sound bar has made a huge difference to the sound quality. It’s front firing, aside from a single rear port for bass reinforcement. This port can be padded down with a foam plug (not included) if desired to reduce its effect on neighbours. It beats the TV’s internal speakers hands down x10. But .... It’s ideally suited to bedroom use. It is NOT a replacement for a dedicated audio system of good quality. It will play loud if desired, but critically to us it plays super clear at low volumes. I suspect that many negative reviews here are from people with unreasonable expectations. It’s NOT a boo box, and frankly a device of this size will never produce earth shaking bass. Physics dictate that. Importantly is does not EXAGGERATE bass. As for connectivity using Bluetooth, and sound quality using music devices, I cannot say. We bought it sold for television use. I wouldn’t expect this to provide HiFi quality music reproduction. It’s pricier than many of the Asian designed and built ones, but well worth it. It’s a real bargain compared to many of the higher priced brand name ones that are 2 and 3 times the cost.