Daily Deal 5/2/15: VIZIO Home Theater Soundbars

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It’s VIZIO Home Theater Soundbar day at Electronics.woot.com. We all know that TV speakers are often lacking in… everything. Why not up your experience and send glorious sounds to your ears.

Sale: http://electronics.woot.com/plus/vizio-home-theater-soundbars

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VIZIO Home Theater Soundbars
Price: $69.99 - 179.99
Shipping Options:: $5 Standard
Shipping Estimates: Ships in 3-5 business days. (Wednesday, May 06 to Monday, May 11) + transit
Condition: Refurbished

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Check out the product page for the 38" model

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Some of you have VIZIO soundbars. Help out other wooters with some personal reviews.

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Got the 42" on a previous Woot. Very nice for my apartment. Sound is nice and clear, and can be quite loud if desired. Bass works well enough that I worry about it bothering the neighbors with some movies, but it has a mode that limits the bass specifically for that (haven’t bothered using it yet, I like my bass).

The sound is clear, the wireless subwoofer and speakers work very well. Haven’t noticed any distorting or delay there, and the resulting surround sound is good, better than most I’ve experienced. Those probably weren’t set up properly with their receiver, though, which is a bonus here due to ease of setup. Wireless is a definite bonus for our room setup, wires would have had to go across walkways to get rear speakers otherwise.

The ability to program it to recognize any IR remote signal is really nice, makes it so you don’t have to rely on its remote for daily use, though you’ll need it for changing settings since the LCD display for menus and such is on the remote itself.

Overall it seems to be highly rated, and my own experience does nothing to say otherwise. I definitely recommend it if you’re looking for a solid soundbar and want good bass with a little bit of surround sound thrown in.

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Have this soundbar in my room. Researched it extensively before buying it and it has lived up to expectations thus far. It is incredibly clear with the exception of very light buzzing from satellites (so faint you have to really put you’re ear 3 inches close to it, but if your into details like I am…). Honestly the best part about this is the built in decoder. It will decode (read?) DTS and other surround sound for you WITHOUT a receiver (correct me if I am wrong on terminology there)! I link it to my ps4 via optical and it perfectly utilizes surround sound with games and netflix.
The subwoofer is wireless, but the satellites are wired and attach to the subwoofer. If I remember correctly, you need both components to function. If the woofer does, you can’t use the soundbar and vise versa.
Remote doesn’t feel cheap and is pretty nifty. Awesome experience! Best in its price range according to my research. Would buy again in a heartbeat.

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I’ve reviewed this one before, but since TT put out the call to action…

I have the 5.1 version and I’m very pleased with the performance overall. You can get really granular control over all aspects of the sound layout with the remote, which is handy since you can fine-tune it from where you’ll be sitting when watching TV.

The wireless sub and connecting satellite speakers allow pretty versatile room setup, without wires in your way. Prior to my remodel, I had speaker wire snaking all over the molding. This simplified it considerably.

Although rarely used, the BT connection of the unit is nice too, if only to share a quick song or podcast comfortably with the rest of the room.

Here’s of shot of the soundbar (42") atop my 55" Vizio TV for scale. I think this unit looks and sounds great. I would highly recommend it if in the market.

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Ok, so I got this some weeks ago, the 42 inch, 5.1 soundbar, when it was offered. Let me tell you, i love this thing. I just got home Tuesday and was only able to hook it up with help Wednesday. Let me give you the info here.

This thing is huge, and heavy, and the satellite speakers are nice and small, the sub is great. Everything came out feeling new to me, I don’t know if there are any marks but I can’t feel any. Note, I’m totally blind so I can’t see if there are any, but this felt new out of the box, everything was packaged great. THe box is huge, though, and with good reason.

Setup was easy, I had sighted help, the hard part for us was the speaker stands, my living room isn’t equipped to handle wall mounting due to windows and the like, but the speaker stands, Atlantic something or others from Amazon, I’ll link later if anyone’s interested, worked great with thewall mounts and some extra screws from the hardware store.

I’ll admit, I never found the optical digital cable in the box, the RCA to 3.5 mm was there, the digital coaxial was there too,but no digital optical, no big deal for me as my TV lacks one entirely.

I had to hook it using the orange digital coax cable for best results, I also hooked my DVD player and new apple TV to an HDMI switch that runs to the HDMI 2 input on my tv.

Only problem is that the tv needs to be on for the soundbar to work, no great deal, but a little annoying, at least for the DVD player and APple TV, this may be due to how they ar econnected though as the HDMI is running sound and video.

It took abit to get the soundbar to transmit, but more just our inexperience than anything, muted the TV and boom, nice lound sound and floor shakingbass. I’m not kidding, the sub on this is amazing.

A few notes on the sound, I need to look into the manual, but it seems to sort of go to sleep after afew minuets of silence and I need to flick around in the apple TV to get it to come back, you’ll hear it clip off the beginning of something. THis may be a setting I haven’t dealt with, but honestly it shouldn’t dissuade you from getting this. The sleep feature, or whatever it is, is great for saving energy. I tend to turn the soundbar and TV off leaving the sub on when I go tobed or whatever.

The sound is amazing, the lowest volume on the bar is almost abit loud even and the next notch up from that could be a smidgeon lower for my liking even, this may be a volume setting in the bar though that I need to play with.

I plan to pair my iPhone with the bar soon, tomorrow in fact, as I hate the airplay with the apple tv, but so far everything is great. I wish I had this soundbar sooner.

The speaker cables are a bit short, not too bad, but if you need to spead the left one out far from the sub, mine is sitting in the back right corner near my right speaker, you may have a bit of a problem. Mine won’t reach fully to th ewall but it’s not abig deal as it sits just behind the corner of my lounger and I have a rug covering the speaker wire as I need t owalk between the two chairs to sit down, behind my living room it’s all wide open space.

The soundbar is sitting in front of the tv on my cedar chest, it’s supposed to be ear height but the chest is lower than a traditional tv stand, this doesn’t seem to make any kind of difference. The rear speakers are set just above ear level when sitting and sound great, they aren’t overpowering even a foot from hy head on either side whe nsitting, but loud enough to still catch the other side depending on what chair I’m in.

Bottom line? Easy setup, amazing room shaking bass, even on lower volumes you’ll feel a slight vibration from the sub that makes me happy, great product overall and definitely worth the money and risk of it being factory reconditioned.

Oh, and another note, one power cable will be shorter than the other in the box, not sure it matters which pairs with which device, but be ready to compromise if you don’t have an outlet for one or the other. My sub is actually plugged in to an outlet near it sort of around a little half-wall it’s set up against.

For a surround sound system that is cheap and easy to deal with, I completely recommend it. The digital coaxial sounds great to my ears and works wonderfullywith my Westinghouse 40 inch television. Be ready to need a ton of room, I just went dumb and neglected to notice how big this sound bar really is, still, so worth it and if I could wall-mount it I would.

Anyone got any questions, by all means ask and I’ll do my best to answer. I’ll post again when I hook up the bluetooth to this tomorrow, in case this gets offered here again some time. At any rate I hope this helps.

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Graduation time - my kid wants a TV, and I was waiting for a soundbar to pop up, and here it is, this week’s offering, so I went for the the 38".

I can’t find reference to the exact model S3820w-C0C anywhere, unless that trailing C is a typo. All online listings don’t have that C at the end.

It seems that woot is really de-emphasizing the comments section nowadays. Gotta hunt for the link, instead of the prominent box w/ # of comments. When did that happen?

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I just bought the 2.0 refurb version from Amazon for $90 last week. I absolutely love the quality and simplicity of the speaker! Reviews all over the web declare these two models as being the best available when looking for a low-priced soundbar.

I had a 5.1 surround sound system packed up and ready to install in my new home, but was so opposed to the idea of doing all of the wiring work again, combined with a huge receiver and a giant subwoofer, that I decided to leave it in its cardboard coffin in the basement and had a Vizio soundbar cheerfully take its place. I’m done with the pointless 5 speaker system clogging up my walls. Soundbars for life!

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Just thought I’d share : Vizio is an american company, HQ’d in California.

Also they actively fight against Patent Trolls : http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/04/24/tv-maker-vizio-may-finally-get-paid-after-beating-17th-patent-troll/

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I wouldnt buy one off of woot, first one i bought arrived, the speakers were all punched out. returned.

second one died about a month after, woot said sry buddy nothing we can do.

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[QUOTE=daha, post:9, topic:450094]

I can’t find reference to the exact model S3820w-C0C anywhere, unless that trailing C is a typo. All online listings don’t have that C at the end.
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If there’s a number after the C0 (like in the -C06) it means that it is identical to the C0 except that it was manufactured by a different supplier. It’s still a new unit.

If there’s a letter after the C0 (like this one - the -C0C, or -C0B’s on Amazon), it’s a refurb from a “certified partner.”

I just got off the phone with Vizio to confirm this.

They also explicitly said that the “certified partner” refurbs do NOT have the original manufacturer’s warranty. The only refurbs that DO have the original 1 year manufacturer’s warranty will be listed as -C0’s (no trailing letters). Vizio says that you cannot identify a Vizio refurb by model number - only serial number.

Either way, it’s a 70 dollar sound bar, so who cares? If it was a couple hundred, I might be a bit weary - but not for 70 bucks.

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If I were you I would stay away from this deal I bought these a few months ago and when it arrived the subwoofer didnt work and remote wasnt the one they showed in the pics. I called woot and they said I can pay to have the whole thing shipped back and get a refund or I can a $5 refund for the broken sub. Sooo yea dont make the same mistake.

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I bought mine here a little over a year ago (5.1 model; mint condition refurb w/no problems whatsoever). I read all the glowing reviews elsewhere before taking the plunge.

As many others have said - GREAT.
For the money - great.
Objectively speaking - great.
Opinion of guests & casual listeners - great. My parents did the math & bought one after hearing movies and shows at my place.

Getting the bluetooth to sync when playing the occasional tune off a tablet or phone can take a bit of cajoling, but it’s my least used aspect by far. And it still works, eventually. Some times are easier than others.

Gets my highest recommendation and I’m fighting the urge to buy a spare.