

The quality of the drivers and the rigidity of the enclosure rise far above what we see in inexpensive soundbars. Second, the SB46 is basically three "real" speakers combined in a single enclosure. With a receiver, you're getting as least a few hundred watts of honest power, usually from traditional Class AB amps instead of the ultra-cheap, low-performance Class D amps used in most inexpensive soundbars.

Sure, some of those cheap soundbars say they're 300 watts, but that's hard to believe when you see they come with a 40-watt power supply. This might not be as convenient an arrangement as the simple, one-cable connection most inexpensive soundbars offer, but the combination of a passive soundbar and a receiver provides much, much better sound quality. First, the SB46 is a passive soundbar, which means you need to connect it to an A/V receiver or a multi-channel amp. There are a lot of soundbars like that, but the Sonance SB46 has as much to do with those as a bottle of Rombauer chardonnay does with a bottle of Two-Buck Chuck. Soundbars have a bad name among some home theater enthusiasts, who see them (or hear them) as nothing more than cheap plastic junk created to appeal to the Costco crowd. The whole unit looks surprisingly well-integrated you can't tell by looking that the extensions are hollow and only there for looks. The sections on the sides that slide out are hollow, formed from a cosmetic grille and a metal back panel. The actual speaker enclosure is fixed in size.
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One of the great things about the telescoping design is that, as long as your next TV is in the same size range, you can use the same soundbar and it'll fit perfectly.Ĭhanging the size of the soundbar doesn't significantly change the acoustics. Sonance makes the SB46 in two sizes: the $1,750 SB46 M for TVs ranging from 50 to 65 inches in screen size and the $2,000 SB46 L for TVs from 70 to 80 inches.
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