Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Here we go: I've had the Bose Soundbar 700 with the Base module 700 for about a week now. I wanted to wait to give a fair review. I've never had a soundbar before, but had my tv hooked up to a Bose wave radio. It sounded great, but the radio started to act weird, so I did several weeks of research on sounbars and opted for this one. I was going to get the 300, but waited to get the 700 with Alexa! I love Alexa! I've forked $1498 for a soundbar! That's a LOT of money for me, but I like to get quality. The 700 does not have Dolby Atmos... Do we need it? I didn't. I just want something to sound great. Well... This sounds FANTASTIC! At first I was not very impressed. Is it because I already had my tv hooked up to a Bose? I wasn't sure. I watched TV... Well... Nothing much there. I listened to music... WOW! That sounds really good! I watched a movie (Star Wars) that was great. Nothing blew my mind...and I was wondering WHY? This cost me $1500!!! Then I started playing with the Bose Music App... Went to "Adjustments" and started to play with the settings. There are 3 main settings : Bass, Treble and Center Channel. Depending on your personal preferences, you can have this soundbar sound like crap or like an awesome movie theater! DO PLAY WITH THE SETTINGS TO GET IT TO SOUND LIKE YOU WANT IT TO SOUND!!! My settings, for my living room space are: Bass: 80, Treble: 0, Center Channel: 20 This made Star Wars go from "Meh!" to "Holy Sh#@" (sorry for the language, but I have make a point) Movie theater sound in my living room. THIS IS WHAT I WANTED!!! So after initially being a little disappointed, I played with the settings and I am just blown away with the quality of the sound. I am not sure how to describe it... The sound is loud and extremely clear, without being loud!!! The bass are there, filling the whole room without noticing that it's there. It's clear loud sound in a very pleasant way. Hard to explained, you have to experience it! It was very easy to set up! I am not sure where the complaints are coming from. The soundbar updated automatically as soon as I setup wifi. The remote paired without a problem! Alexa, as always, is absolutely AWESOME. You cannot control your tv with Alexa... I'm kinda disappointed on that... But maybe a future update will fix that. You can control the volume of what you're watching with Alexa. The bass module, once plugged in, pretty much instanly synced to the soundbar through the app! No problem. About the sound module... Well i hated spending $700 for bass... $700,that's a lot of money!!! But I am glad I did. It provides an immersive sound. It's almost like it's not there, but it is the REAL STAR of the show. I connected it and disconnected it several times to hear the difference. And I must say it is a MUST HAVE, if, like me, you are looking for "Movie Theater Sound". It IS a lot of money, but take a loan out, it's worth it. It makes the difference between "nice" and "Holy Cow what's happening?" No dolby atmos well... Once you hear this, you won't care! Superb product! To sum up: -If you only watch TV, just go cheap like a Vizio at walmart. -If you're looking for immersive Theater quality, room filling sound that is clear and loud without feeling loud (hard to explain)... THIS IS IT! I do not work for Bose... ;o) Update 10/29/18: Bose updated the software and they must have changed some settings for the bass. I had to turn it down from 80 to 60... I might even go down to 50! It's shaking the room even more than before! Love it!