Signa S2 Sound Bar for Smart TV with Subwoofer, Wireless – Exclusive VoiceAdjust Technology, Ultra-Slim Design, Works with 4K & HD TVs, HDMI & Optical, Bluetooth, Wireless Streaming

This relatively low cost sound bar has remarkably good sound for such a low profile. Setup was easy. It came with HDMI and optical cables for attachment to the TV. I attached the HDMI to the ARC (Audio Return Channel) HDMI connection of my flat panel and just turned it on. The TV recognized the sound bar by turning off its internal speakers and playing sound through the sound bar. Additionally, it shows the audio level bar on-screen whenever the TV or sound bar remotes are used to adjust the audio level. I plugged in the wireless subwoofer and it connected automatically to the sound bar, but there is also a manual process if necessary. It is also easy to use. There are various adjustments that can be made with the sound bar remote, but once these were made we only use the TV remote. The sound bar appears to go into sleep mode when the TV is off and comes back on when the TV is turned on. It is compatible with Dolby 2.1 content, but it cannot be upgraded with additional speakers. There are five inconspicuous buttons on the top of the sound bar: on/off, source selection, Bluetooth on/off, volume down, and volume up. Bluetooth is used for playing sound from other sources like a smart phone. These buttons also appear on the sound bar remote along with other buttons for mode selections. There are three sound buttons: Movie, Night, and Music. We use the Movie mode mostly as it “expands” the soft and loud sounds as if in a movie theater but with 2.1 speakers. The Night mode “compresses” the sound levels, making “quiets” a little louder and “louds” a little lower. This mode is good for late night listening with the sound turned down so that others aren’t disturbed by loud explosions and you can still hear the “quiet” portions. The final sound mode, Music, is for listening to music with the frequencies set at a more equal distribution. There are also three buttons for Voice Adjustment. These adjust the voice frequencies to make voices easier to understand. At the highest level, number 3, we can tell that voices are much clearer but they sound somewhat unnatural. Consequently, we normally use level 1 and occasionally level 2 when necessary. There are a series of lights on the front screen to indicate operation and when modes are selected. The main light comes on when the sound bar is in operation and goes off when it goes into sleep mode. This is a soft light and I do not notice it when watching the TV. The color changes whenever the Dolby 2.1 signal is received and being used. Other lights on the front will turn on momentarily whenever a new mode or source is selected to indicate that the signal has been received and the change made. There is also a light that comes on when Bluetooth is turned on. This goes off when Bluetooth is turned off or when Bluetooth goes into sleep mode if it is not in use for more than 15 minutes. Note, the auto sleep mode is not the default and this option has to be manually selected to be in use. This sound bar produces much better sound than the TV speakers and requires little attention once the adjustments are set; we mostly use the TV remote. My only criticism regards adjusting the subwoofer levels. The subwoofer has bass minus and plus adjustment buttons on the remote but, unlike the other mode adjustments, there is no visual indication that anything is happening when this is used. There isn’t even an indicator that it is wirelessly linked except for the lights used when manually connecting it. The bass can be adjusted up to the point that deep voices and drums rattle items on the shelves in the room. When adjusted down to reduce such rattles we have no way of knowing if we are at a mid or lowest level. The bass can be adjusted to what is being listened to, but it would be nice to know the actual setting so that a “standardized” level could be selected for particular circumstances.

Sound quality is fantastic, wanted a little more sound from my flat screen and this is perfect. Installation was very easy, literally plug and play. Soundbar has good clarity and sub has a good amount of punch. Im in an apartment so no need for crazy volume.

My first soundbar! This is definitely a big improvement in sound (volume, clarity and bass) over what were already pretty nice sounding built in television speakers which I listen to at about volume level 9 (of 100) for casual daily YouTube videos. I can bring it to level 13 when wanting to be more immersed in Netflix and such. I don’t need much volume in my home (though in my car I have a 12” subwoofer and play music at 75% volume LOL). VOLUME: The sound bar can get much louder and with that extra volume it stays more clear without being distorted unlike the built-in television speakers that start to sound distorted when it gets 50% and above in volume. REMOTE CONTROL: This soundbar CAN be controlled with my TVs remote so long as it’s connected not just with the optical audio cable but the HDMI cable as well going into an ARC HDMI port on the tv. The soundbar turns on when I turn on my tv and turns off when I turn off my tv. I don’t see a volume level on the soundbar which is my first complaint about the soundbar. It’s also not on my tv when using the soundbar. I just see a + or - on the tv when I press those buttons. EQ (ISSUE 1): Sadly there is no real EQ settings on this. There are several buttons on the REMOTE ONLY (not on the soundbar itself) that have 6 custom sound settings: Movie, Night, TV, voice 1, voice 2 and voice 3. I’m not sure if you can combine these. I switched to “night” and then “voice 3” thinking that maybe it would simply enhance the voice on night mode but when I press night mode again it resets the voice setting. So I think it’s either or. And as a 7th choice you have your bass volume. Thats the extent of EQ options. When using the built in speakers the TV had tons and tons of options with 5 frequency sliders (for sub bass, bass, mids, high mids and treble), surround sound, magic sound, add bass, add treble… so much. That’s all greyed out when using the optical audio out to this soundbar. I don’t know if all of those settings would still be there if I got an LG sound bar with my LG television. But considering I don’t know what brand of television will be my next, I couldn’t worry myself with matching the soundbar brand. So far, I guess it doesn’t matter that there aren’t as many EQ settings, the speaker sounds pretty good as is. I leave it on “Movie” for everything. I have my Apple Music hooked up on the television but haven’t used it for music yet, I presume I would want to put the soundbar on the music setting for that. ISSUE 2: I am not sure is an issue with the speaker or the television but when watching YouTube for example, if you are on the YouTube menu, there is no audio signal being sent to the speaker and thus you see single white dot of light. When you have clicked on a video and the audio signal is sent to the sound bar, the single white light turns green. The PROBLEM is that there is a fraction of a delay after the video has started before the sound starts on the speaker. There are many videos I watched that for some reason has someone speaking from the very first frame of video and the sound bar always misses it, the sound turning on 1-2 words late into the video. It has nothing to do with speaking specifically, whatever the sound is in the video, the speaker doesn’t activate until a fraction of a second after the video starts. It’s a bit jarring, and a little more annoying. If I rewind the video to the beginning I’m just repeating the situation because rewinding means there is no audio signal going to the speaker and so I see the white dot again, that once again doesn’t turn green until a fraction of a second after the video starts again. But aside from those issues, it really does sound good and I haven’t felt a need to crank up the base much because it sounds pretty full as is, without sounding too bassy or muffled. I experimented with the voice enhancement buttons. I’ve settled on “voice 2” to bring just a little bit more clarity and audibility to the voices when I have the volume a bit lower so as not to disturb others. It sounds good, I can make it louder than ever before if I want. I can control its volume and on/off without needing its remote (though I need its remote for the other EQ settings). I got it “open box” but it looked brand new I must say for $143.80 which is a good price for what this is. And I trust the Polk brand.

I bought an $80 sound bar that wouldn’t work with the HDMI so I returned it and purchased the Polk. First just plug and play, only needed to go to tv settings and set the sound to arc HDMI. GAME CHANGER for tv viewing, and good enough to enjoy streaming music. Three months free prime music was a pleasant surprise. I’m very happy with the performance

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I am amazed to listen the High definition sound in such a small package. 5 Stars to the seller !!

I basically bought this for watching BBC nature documentaries since my TV's inbuilt speaker had hard time delivering clear dialogues but I think this Signa S2 is overkill for that purpose. I should have gone for Signa Solo which was selling for 8k during sale (including bank discounts). Now coming to it's capabilities. FORMAT IT PLAYED : Dolby digital, Dolby digital plus, DTS, DTS-HD (Master Audio) and many other formats except Dolby TrueHD & Atmos where TV displayed something like "audio not supported in this video". My biggest concern was if it can play DTS files and it plays them brilliantly. I felt DTS sounded better than Dolby but it may be due to higher bitrate of dts files. VOCALS are amazing. Super clear. Actually whole sound speactrum is too clear with great instrument separation that you will be able to distinguish between different sounds/instruments being played. High notes tone (Tweeters) are just pleasant to listen to. Polk's Voice adjust feature is extremely beneficial and works as advertised. But since soundbar produces such crisp and clear sound I never felt to use that feature but I tried just to test it out and it worked great. It easily fills 15x20 room with just 50% volume that you would feel like sitting in a theater. Now coming to BASS: It's the most controversial part with Signa series soundbar. When playing dolby movies (I played Batla House and Justice league) the rumble was so huge even at low base level setting that it literally felt like being in the scene of the movie. The rumble penetrated 3-4 walls in my house and could be felt beyond 30 feet. When Polk says "Deep Bass Technology" they are truly honest with their claim. Bass felt like Sub-bass most of the time than normal Bass. Bass is what you can hear, Sub-bass is what you feel in your whole body. I also noticed there was no down firing driver in the sub. When you place your hand near sub you will barely feel anything even while producing THAT deep Bass rumble in action scene. Bass effect is more like 3D and feels like PVR cinema at home. These guys (Polk Engineers & Scientists) know the science of sound and are Master of acoustics so they have done something there in the Bass department. Now the controversial part of NO BASS. It occured mostly during streaming music via Bluetooth or even while playing directly from TV. Bass was so loose & non existent (70% of the time) that one would easily get disappointed. Only thing about the bass present during music is some "air pressure type" loose Bass ,which you can only hear, without having any body,depth, weight or punch. But when you watch dolby/DTS movies Bass will just shock you in many ways that you won't be able to believe yourself. One can easily feel that Super deep Punch and weight with 3D effect. So there's definitely some improvement to do in that Bass department but it won't affect your experience during watching any movie. For music lovers I would suggest to go for Magnify Mini rather than Signa S1/S2. It was very easy to install and I used HDMI Arc to connect to my TV. Using Polk's remote I can turn on Bluetooth ,connect with my OnePlus 7 and stream. I actually enjoyed listening to music since I rarely listen to Bass heavy songs ,so Bass issue never bothers me. I got it for around 14k so it's Value for Money for me and actually delivers more than what I paid for. I received 4 power cables (2 two-pin & 2 three-pin). Received all other accessories like optical cable,HDMI cable, remote, batteries. Thanks for reading my review. Cheers ;)

Sounds OK , solid , good bass and mediums, but lacks of trebles. Good for the price , if you are looking for astonishing sounds it is not your soundbar.

This soundbar doesn't really provide surround or any immersion type imaging. However, I got it to replace my awful TV speakers and it does it in spades. I especially like the crisp character of the treble. It sounds great with music too, it's a soundbar with a small subwoofer though so don't expect stadium sound. A little side story. I got a Sony soundbar for the bedroom. You almost have to be a technician to make the thing work. It comes from the factory with Bluetooth deactivated and you have to reset it and it's really a pain. With the Polk I was up and running in 10 minutes.