What the maker puts in writing
- “Feel every note with a 600W power output” and “Get the best seat in the house with 5.1ch real surround sound”
- “Rear speakers deliver powerful surround sound to complete your home cinema experience”
- “Effortless setup with easy color-coded connections”
- “Connect to your TV via HDMI, Optical, or Analog connections”
- “Select the sound or audio mode best suited to your entertainment with a push of a button”
- “Fine-tune speech or reduce the bass for nighttime viewing with dialogue enhancement options”
It is the only product here that is both complete and simple
A soundbar system has no AV receiver and needs none. It connects straight to the television — HDMI, optical or analog, all three offered — and the amplification lives inside.
No separate box. No input switching. No setup menu.
And what makes this one unusual for a soundbar is that the surround is real: rear speakers deliver powerful surround sound. Two physical speakers behind the listener, rather than the psychoacoustic processing most bars use to imply surround from the front.
Against that, the rest of this shelf:
Speakers only, needing a receiver — Energy $275 · Klipsch Theater Pack $549.99 · Klipsch 5.1.4 $749.99 · R-620F pack $988.89 · R-625FA pack $1,298. The references show that receiver costing $474 to $502.
Receiver included — Yamaha $499.99 · Energy+Denon $749 · Yamaha $749.95 · three Klipsch bundles from $1,299.98.
Self-contained — this, and the Goldwood at $120.88.
Color-coded connections, which is the right kind of detail
Effortless setup with easy color-coded connections.
A 5.1 system has six leads to get right, and getting one wrong puts the center channel behind you or swaps the surrounds. Color coding is not a specification; it is the difference between a Saturday afternoon and a half-hour.
Worth setting beside the one other listing that thinks about installation: Yamaha’s YHT-5960U supplies “speaker wire perfectly matched for each speaker” — pre-cut to length per position, which solves the same problem the other way.
And the night mode addresses a real complaint twice
Fine-tune speech or reduce the bass for nighttime viewing with dialogue enhancement options.
Two halves of one problem.
Turn the volume down late at night and the first thing to go is dialogue — partly because quiet speech falls below the room’s noise floor, partly because human hearing is less sensitive to the extremes at low levels, so the balance shifts away from voices.
Enhancing dialogue lifts the band voices occupy. Reducing the bass stops explosions and music stings traveling through the floor to a sleeping household.
Nothing else on this shelf addresses listening level, apart from Yamaha’s YPAO room calibration, which is a different thing.
Six hundred watts, in context
Unqualified — neither RMS nor peak.
The shelf, read in order: Goldwood $120.88 claims 700 W · this $329 claims 600W · Yamaha YHT-5960U $749.95 claims 80-Watt · Onkyo TX-NR7100 claims 220W per channel at 6 ohms · Denon AVR-S670H claims 75W.
The eighty-watt figure is the honest one — a measured per-channel rating for a real AV receiver. Six hundred watts across a bar, a subwoofer and two rears is a system-total peak number.
And the weight cannot be right
454 g is exactly one pound, for a system of four separate pieces. A subwoofer alone — driver, magnet, cabinet, amplifier — runs several kilograms.
That is a placeholder, not a measurement. Expect something near ten kilograms.
What is not published
No driver sizes anywhere — not the bar, not the subwoofer, not the rears. Yamaha publishes every component’s dimensions; Goldwood publishes its satellite and subwoofer cabinet sizes.
No frequency response, where the Yamaha YHT-4950U publishes “28Hz/25kHz”.
No height channels. Four Klipsch products here have them, and the 5.1.4 at $749.99 has four — height from the front and the back.
No HDMI version or eARC, where the Yamaha YHT-5960U publishes “4K120AB and 8K60B HDMI 2.1 with HDCP 2.3 and eARC (4 in/1 out)”. On a bar that connects by HDMI, the version decides what a games console can do through it.
366 × 192 × 387 mm is published, evidently for one component.
Prices quoted in this text were read on October 4, 2026. The live price is at the top of the page.
