![]() You can scroll through the menus just as if the display were on your TV screen. If you like to tweak, the remote has plenty of options for surround effects, channel levels, and more. The M-Series Elevate Sound Bar can also accept voice commands if you connect an Alexa or Google Home device to its Aux VA (Voice Assistant) input or via Bluetooth. The bar has a voice-guided setup that tells you when it’s looking for a source or display. ![]() This only happened once, the two units were paired from then on without intervention from me. A light flashes on the sub for a few moments, then goes solid. Once you plug the bar and sub into power, they pair automatically. A quality HDMI cable is enclosed as well along with the appropriate power cords for the bar and sub. Also, in the box are mounting brackets for the surrounds and the bar. If you have a smaller space, the excess cable can be tidied with a couple of included Velcro strips, a nice touch. The two surround speakers connect to it with included cables that are quite long. It’s a small cabinet that’s easy to hide behind furniture. The subwoofer has a single down-firing driver with a high-excursion foam surround and a port in the back. VIZIO doesn’t specify a power rating, but the system will play up to 103dB which is much louder than anyone will need unless they live in an aircraft hangar. Each channel has its own soft dome tweeter and racetrack woofer. The bar is completely covered in fabric except for the ends which have caps that open when the height channels are active. The sound bar has discrete drivers for the left, right and center channels plus the two rotating arrays for Dolby Atmos. The remote isn’t backlit, but the display shows white text on a black background and is easy to read in the dark. This is simply genius one of those “why hasn’t someone done this before” things. But at the top is a tiny screen that shows menu information, much like an on-screen display would, but it’s in your hand so there’s no need to feed additional video information to your display. At first glance, it looks like any other handset with buttons to select inputs, surround effects, volume, and the like. The coolest part of the M-Series Elevate Sound Bar is the remote. ![]() The advantage to wiring the surrounds into the sub is that you’ll only need a single power cord in the back, plus the one up front for the main bar. The first time you power everything up, it pairs automatically. The connection between front and rear is completely wireless. With quick and easy setup and audio quality to rival the best sound bars and home-theater-in-a-box products, the M-Series Elevate delivers a competitive solution to the problem of tinny internal TV speakers. It has its own internal menu system displayed on a little screen right on the handset. Keeping it all managed is one of the coolest remotes I’ve ever seen. To complete the sound envelope, a wireless subwoofer and accompanying surround speakers are paired wirelessly with the bar. The main bar has three discrete channels, left, right, and center and two height channels that emanate from the ends where two little vents open up whenever Atmos content is played. Fitting every budget, there’s something there for everyone.įor 2022, VIZIO has introduced a new 5.1.2 unit called M-Series Elevate. To this end, it has always marketed a complete line of sound bars ranging in price from under $100 to around $1,000. Long ago, VIZIO recognized that it is nearly impossible to enclose decent speakers in a flat panel TV.
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