Sennheiser AMBEO Soundbar - 5.1.4 Channel with Dolby Atmos and DTS:X

the best sound bar ever, it delivers the highest level quality sound and it looks luxurious even though it came out years ago 🔥

I’ve never really considered myself an audiophile but ai buy things to last and want quality. I had an older Yamaha receiver and surround setup, Klipsch sub, etc. Recently and because of covid (being stuck st home), I bought a new LG 65 CX TV, and XBOX Series X. Because I wanted an eARC connection and Dolby Atmos and full HDMI 2.1 passthrough to accomodate 4k and 120 fps, I scrapped my receiver and speakers for a soundbar and sub. Crazy right? I bought a Sennheiser Ambeo soundbar and SVS PB-1000 subwoofer. In a word, WOW! This blows away any soundbar and most 5.1.4 surround systems I’ve heard. Granted, true audiophiles will likely look down on this, but I must say, for the money, and granted, it’s not cheap, this is the best setup money can buy today. I have always liked having XM radio in the car and listending through a Burmester surround, but now I am loving music and movies and everything at home again. One negative is that when buying ‘bleeding edge’ there are lots of handshake issues with devices. I have painfully worked through them thankfully.

This is an initial rating as hopefully my issue will be resolved. I powered on the Soundbar, updated the firmware, completed the room calibration and then connected my devices. I am having an issue where the sound cuts out and instead and I hear a loud, constant buzzing sound. This has occurred while using my PS5, PS4, Cable box and Nintendo switch. I've confirmed the TV settings are set to the correct audio out settings and I've also verified the same on the consoles. The TV I'm using is a 3 week old LG CX 65" OLED. I have the Soundbar and the TV connected via the eARC ports and I connected the consoles directly to the Soundbar. I've also tested having the consoles connected to the HDMI 2.1 ports on the TV but the issue still occurs. I've tried using different HDMI cables (The PS5 cable, the Sennheiser cable as well as a Zeskit Maya 8K 48Gbps Certified Ultra High Speed HDMI Cable). I'm not sure if I am doing something wrong but from all accounts the connectivity is pretty straight. The sound works initially but then after a couple minutes the buzzing occurs. If I can somehow get this issue resolved I will revisit this rating and amend.

This is a very large speaker. I designed the wall around it. Shown with the Max is a 75" OLED TV. It's the perfect size for larger panels. I use the subwoofer out via cable to a Klipsch powered sub. There have been software issues over the past 9 months. Twice I've had to unplug the speaker to unbrick it. The most important thing is to calibrate it with the supplied microphone. I didn't for months and was not happy with the sound quality. Acoustically the range was limited, vocals were terrible in movies and with Ambeo sound shaping on the sound was hollow and distant. Then I calibrated it, took all of 5 minutes. BOOM! Entirely different sound experience. It really opened up spatially and vocals are focused, tight, and understandable.

To most Americans, the name Sennheiser is just another confusing German word, like gemütlichkeit. To any audio professional, Sennheiser is one of the greatest badges in pro audio, coming in right behind Neumann and Neve. As a sound engineer with 40 years experience, I have owned two fantastic pairs of Senn. headphones, several wireless mic systems, and I still own eight world-class Sennheiser studio microphones I would never part with. Their products are simply exceptional, and after throwing good money ($1300) away on a Naim Muso-2 soundbar, I had enough of the pretenders and I bought this. The product support is bad. Instructions are provided as picto-glyphs. If you have questions you'll wind up in Reddit forums looking for answers. But for sound – this thing is a ballsy heavy-hitter in a league of its own. Where it fails is in the eARC HDMI connectivity, which is as simple to set up as plugging in one cable. But it will then randomly mute the input, and will never produce audio again even if you reset to factory specs and do a firmware update. What does work, infuriatingly, is to unplug it and plug it back in 5 minutes later. Then presto, good as new. Another fail is no communication between the Ambeo and DirecTV's Genie remotes. No code, and no interest from either side to fix this. So your LG or Samsung or Sony remote will drive the volume if you have it setup correctly in the TV settings, but if you happen to have satellite with DirecTV, you need a minimum of two remotes, or the Genie and the app open on your phone. This bar retails at $2500 and I got it during a holiday sale at $1699. Very happy I didn't blow that extra $800 because it's not worth that. But in a regular-sized living room with a 65" TV, you're all set.

Without question this is the best performing soundbar. Rivals or betters free standing speakers ot is big, heavy and expensive, but you can't compromise to have such great sound

This item is being discontinued. It’s awesome, but if it goes bad, there may be no support.

This is simply a brilliant soundbar in almost every way. Precise, room-filling, and powerful, it is arguably one of the best I've had. However, for those of you that are looking for heavy bass that has been previously lauded by some reviews, you will be disappointed. No fault of Sennheiser, it just can't do everything. I bought a dedicated, wired sub from Sennheiser and the combo is epic. Don't try to do the bluetooth thing - it won't work (as of Dec 2025). These two beasts combine to produce a simply unreal experience that is a full level above anything else I've experienced (including the Sonos Arc Ultra + Sub). It's expensive, so over to you to calibrate how much the extra quality, power, precision is worth.

The sound bar is producing beyond excellent👏👏👍👍💯💯💯 sound. It's a masterpiece from SENNHEISER but the negative aspect is Amazon sent me a pre- owned and opened box used by someone else. I had never expected anything from Amazon.

Received without front cover / grill 😞

Compré este producto para reemplazar un home theater marca Bose que he tenido durante algunos años en un cuarto mediano. Tenía mis dudas de que una barra de sonido pudiera reemplazar un home theater de forma satisfactoria, pero para mi sorpresa quedé muy conforme con su desempeño. Sus bajos son potentes, aunque tiene la posibilidad de conectarse a un subwoofer externo. De las barras existentes en el mercado, ésta es la que he escuchado con mejor calidad de audio. Si bien no sustituye a un equipo hifi con múltiples bocinas y subwoofers, para un lugar en donde quieres una instalación simple es una excelente solución.

I'm a serious home theater enthusiast and have owned man soundbars to service living room, bedroom TV's, etc. From Yamaha to Focal to Creative, etc. The Ambeo Max is a brilliant piece of kit. The control and set up app is first class and very intuitive. When calibrated, the resulting performance is first rate as per the many hifi publication reviews to date. It would be hard to improve upon the sound the from this soundbar without going to a dedicated HT speaker setup. Also, contrary to the person who mentioned the lack of wireless, there have been very easy solutions (around for at least a decade) such as the readily available SVS Soundpath wireless sub adapter set. This very simply gets past the issue of no built in wireless sub support. I use this with an SVS sub currently and it works perfectly with the Ambeo Max.

I’m using this for movies generally and specifically for Dolby Atmos effects: these effects are not perhaps as dramatic as one might anticipate with additional speakers, but nonetheless very impressive indeed. What I find most wonderful and truly pleasing Is that that switching back and forth between TV and Tidal is seamless… and the sound of Tidal is supreme. BMcD