Vizio 38" 5.1 Sound Bar System Reviews

Consumer review (amazon.com)

Amazon.com review summary for Vizio 38" 5.1 Sound Bar System

alaTest has collected and analyzed 151 user reviews of Vizio 38" 5.1 Sound Bar System from Amazon.com. The average user rating for this product is 4.4/5, compared to an average user rating of 4.2/5 for other products in the same category on Amazon.com. Reviewers are impressed by the size and design. The sound and price are also appreciated.

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89% of the reviews on Amazon.com give this product a positive rating.

Apr, 2024

Consumer review (newegg.com)

Visio 5.1 sound bar - great bang for the buck

I purchased this locally from a department store that was selling them for $149 during the Black Friday weekend. I'd been looking at getting one of these for some time now and this seemed a perfect opportunity. The surround sound is MUCH better than...

This unit was very well packaged and was in perfect shape when opened. The bass, mids, and highs are sound good to me... not over-powering by any means but good. The center channel is especially good in that we can now hear dialog clearly, even when...

My son and I had trouble getting the sup / satellite speakers to connect via Bluetooth to the sound bar. We followed the steps in the quick setup guide to the letter, yet the sound bar continued to search for the sub. After about an hour of fiddling,...

Dec, 2015

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Consumer review (newegg.com)

Would be better with a TV

Sounds great! The ability to have the speakers and sub isolated and not have to run any wires from the bar/wall/ceiling is incredibly nice. The bar looks clean and is allot larger that most you see. Not as good as a full surround sound but for the...

Heavy! Get some solid dry wall anchors if you are mounting it! The way it wall mounts it creates a bad angle on the bracket and can easily strip out of the wall, make sure you anchor this bad boy! The review would be better provided my TV new egg...

Sep, 2015

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Consumer review (newegg.com)

Would be better with a TV

Sounds great! The ability to have the speakers and sub isolated and not have to run any wires from the bar/wall/ceiling is incredibly nice. The bar looks clean and is allot larger that most you see. Not as good as a full surround sound but for the...

Heavy! Get some solid dry wall anchors if you are mounting it! The way it wall mounts it creates a bad angle on the bracket and can easily strip out of the wall, make sure you anchor this bad boy! The review would be better provided my TV new egg...

Sep, 2015

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Consumer review (newegg.com)

More of a response to Jonathan

Reading Jonathan's Review, I am a bit perplexed at the lack of understanding how satellite speakers and center speakers work. Dialogue is always piped through the center channel whilst sound effects, ambient sound and other sound effects are part of...

Inexpensive

Don't have it yet

Aug, 2015

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Consumer review (newegg.com)

More of a response to Jonathan

Reading Jonathan's Review, I am a bit perplexed at the lack of understanding how satellite speakers and center speakers work. Dialogue is always piped through the center channel whilst sound effects, ambient sound and other sound effects are part of...

Inexpensive

Don't have it yet

Aug, 2015

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Consumer review (newegg.com)

Complete Junk

I bought these as a gift to my mother-in-law so her husband would have speakers back beside him and could hear better and wouldn't have to blast the TV audio while she's sleeping. They made the situation worse, these were the worst waste of $280 in my...

Set up was easy. Bluetooth syncing worked instantly with no issues

The satellite speakers in the back always completely drown out the center speaker bar. This wouldn't be an issue if they pushed out anything other than ambient sound effects and background music. Watching a WW2 documentary amounts to hearing nothing...

Jun, 2015

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Consumer review (newegg.com)

Complete Junk

I bought these as a gift to my mother-in-law so her husband would have speakers back beside him and could hear better and wouldn't have to blast the TV audio while she's sleeping. They made the situation worse, these were the worst waste of $280 in my...

Set up was easy. Bluetooth syncing worked instantly with no issues.

The satellite speakers in the back always completely drown out the center speaker bar. This wouldn't be an issue if they pushed out anything other than ambient sound effects and background music. Watching a WW2 documentary amounts to hearing nothing...

Jun, 2015

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Consumer review (newegg.com)

Complete Junk

I bought these as a gift to my mother-in-law so her husband would have speakers back beside him and could hear better and wouldn't have to blast the TV audio while she's sleeping. They made the situation worse, these were the worst waste of $280 in my...

Set up was easy. Bluetooth syncing worked instantly with no issues

The satellite speakers in the back always completely drown out the center speaker bar. This wouldn't be an issue if they pushed out anything other than ambient sound effects and background music. Watching a WW2 documentary amounts to hearing nothing...

Jun, 2015

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Consumer review (tigerdirect.com)

The honest truth

The system was delivered on time with no damages. The sound bar, subwoofer and rear speakers are very visually pleasing. The setup was ridiculously easy in my opinion. The sound bar to my great surprised fit like a glove beneath my LG 55' Flatscreen....

Jun, 2015

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Consumer review (walmart.com)

VIZIO SB3851-C0 38" 5.1 Sound Bar System

I received this idem on time in New condition. It was easy to set up and the sound is like sitting in the movie theater. I had to change the setup in my cable box from stereo to L-PCM to get surround sound when watching tv but other then that setup is...

Mar, 2016

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