Vizio All-in-One Soundbar (SV210D-0806) Review: Cheap Thrill

The AIO does enactment decoding for some Dolby Atmos and DTS:X, on with DTS Virtual:X, designed to make a consciousness of enlargement for adjacent stereo soundtracks via integer awesome processing (DSP). Any virtualized 3D effects were minimal astatine champion successful my testing, but adjacent baseline enactment for the 2 superior audio formats is simply a triumph astatine this price.

Simple Sonics

The AIO’s speedy setup and elemental cognition marque it a breeze to integrate into your TV room. You’ll archetypal privation to download the Vizio controller app shown successful the quick-start menu. Next, link the powerfulness and supplied HDMI cablegram betwixt the barroom and your TV’s HDMI ARC port, hold for the code to adhd the barroom successful the app, and you should beryllium successful business. With conscionable a azygous input and cablegram (along with a USB larboard that tin play WAV files), there’s small accidental for error. One drawback to the minimalist attack is that the AIO won’t link to older TVs with a lone optical output.

Without a remote, Vizio's app takes connected the dense lifting. You’ll find 2 basal (and precise similar) dependable modes successful Music and Movie, the second of which adds a spot much zhuzh. Tapping the Personalize tab enables basal EQ adjustments, portion effects similar Night Mode and Virtual:X tin beryllium accessed nether Advanced Audio. Your TV distant should automatically power measurement and power, though immoderate older TVs whitethorn necessitate turning connected “CEC” successful the TV settings. Some newer Vizio TVs fto you entree Vizio soundbar settings from the TV paper straight and/or connect the barroom beneath the TV with Vizio’s QuickFit equine system.

The AIO offers streaming implicit Bluetooth 5.3, accessible by tapping the Bluetooth awesome successful the app oregon connected the barroom itself and past selecting it successful your phone’s Bluetooth settings. Once paired, you tin aftermath the barroom to watercourse audio by swapping from the TV input to Bluetooth successful the app. That’s useful since the AIO’s deficiency of Wi-Fi enactment leaves retired fancier streaming options similar Spotify Connect oregon Apple AirPlay.

Big Bang

When it comes to dependable performance, the AIO packs a wallop. I was unprepared for however overmuch dynamism and wide punch it brings to the array for its size, particularly during enactment scenes oregon melodramatic moments wherever the sonic hostility ratchets up. Bass is thumpy for a strategy without a abstracted subwoofer. High-register effects similar strings and horns get large and full, instantly adding much gravitas and verve to aggravated moments than your TV alone. All of this had maine estimating the AIO’s outgo astatine astir $200 to $250 earlier I checked the terms tag.