VIZIO SB3651-E6 36" 5.1 SmartCast Sound Bar System

When these work they work great and they’re somehow pulling off a sound experience you’d expect from a much higher price point.

When they don’t work, you have no freaking clue why or what’s going on. I’d have these invisibly power down at random before powering right back up, causing weird gaps in audio whenever you’d get sound right after a moment of silence. For example, the little boop effects when clicking through a Roku menu will sometimes just never be heard because the preceding total absence of sound for half a second made the speakers think they could take a break.

The poor support reps don’t have a script to follow after “do a factory reset”, so you always just end up getting a replacement with similarly weird problems popping up eventually.