5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic Soundbar. Good price for Dolby

J. · 19 January 2025

(function() { P.when('cr-A', 'ready').execute(function(A) { if(typeof A.toggleExpanderAriaLabel === 'function') { A.toggleExpanderAriaLabel('review_text_read_more', 'Read more of this review', 'Read less of this review'); } }); })(); .review-text-read-more-expander:focus-visible { outline: 2px solid #2162a1; outline-offset: 2px; border-radius: 5px; } The media could not be loaded. Fantastic soundbar. Got at a good deal price of £159.00. Study with a bit of weight to it so looks and feels good quality. It’s deep enough to put bits and bobs on or an ornament or Echo etc. This one had a lot of 5 & 4 star reviews. More than others I looked at…..and I read hundreds of soundbar reviews before taking the plunge on this one.This is fantastic for non-techy people like me, as this literally came out the box as a plug & play. I connected up the HDMI(ARC) lead to the back of cute tv (mines a 85” Samsung TV), plugged it in, switched on the t.v and it all connected. The tv recognised the soundbar straight away. No QR codes, no apps just connected. Brilliant.The sound is brilliant. You’ve got to remember this is a soundbar and not a surround sound system. I didn’t want speakers dotted everywhere with leads trailing etc. Too much of a faff. The sound from this soundbar really makes a huge difference and really enhances the poor quality of my tv internal speakers. No faffing about with tv volume in addition. On my old soundbar I had to turn tv volume down to zero and turn soo ever speaker up. Not with this one. It auto responds to our TV remote too. The only thing it doesn’t now do is display 1-?? On the volume display on the tv, so Jo longer know what volume number it’s on. It just displays an up or down arrow when you’re adjusting the volume. Thus doesn’t make any odds to me. I don’t need to know what volume number I’m on.Another advantage to this soundbar is that it’s Dolby. Brilliant sound clarity and the volume on thus can go way higher in volume than my tv speakers. I can’t get the soundbar to its highest volume, it’s way too deafening. We’re in a semi so not appropriate cuz of having neighbours joined.I now just turn our tv off and leave the soundbar on standby. This way the tv and soundbar come in together every time. It also holds the volume to the last position it was in when you switch it off. You have 3 different tones movie, night & music and adjustment of low, medium and high within each of these options, along with making the bass higher or lower. I’m not that particular to sound quality at all, but this is so good. Terrific improvement to tv watching. I can’t rate it highly enough. Came very well tested in good box with good packaging to protect in transit. Really love this. Highly recommend.

5.0 out of 5 stars This did not disappoint.

S.G. · 24 April 2025

This is our third soundbar and is without doubt THE BEST.Admittedly our sitting room is not large but still this item does not require messing about with separate subwoofers that don’t perform most of the time.This literally came out of the box, plugged in HDMI eARC cable from bar to TV and hey presto. Job done with oodles of lovely base!This arrived next day as promised in excellent packaging. All the extra bits were there.You would be mad to ignore this.

4.0 out of 5 stars Really good budget soundbar let down only by lack of bass

S.S. · 27 March 2025

This soundbar is generally excellent for price. It's clear, loud enough for a medium sized room and has adequate stereo separation. I have dropped it a star for basic scheme of LEDs to show status instead of maybe a small matrix that can show text, and by the lack of bass. The base situation can be rectified though as it's one of the few modern soundbars that still has a bass preamp out RCA connector. Connect this to a powered subwoofer and it transforms the soundbar to punch above it's price point.

5.0 out of 5 stars Can't fault for the price

t. · 3 May 2025

I am delighted with this sound bar only used it twice.I had bose TV speaker, which is very good no question about that, however this Demon soundbar is absolutely brilliant for similar money.Has Dolby DolmasIt sounds fantastic I'm so glad I bought it.BUY IT.

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent product

G. · 25 May 2025

Excellent sound very happy with purchase

1.0 out of 5 stars Only equals internal speakers on LG C4 65" TV ~ no more, no less ~ as such, it's no good at all.

L. · 22 February 2025

I did a LOT of research into soundbars for my LG C4 65" OLED as, because it's a large and good quality TV, it has fairly decent sound from frontfiring drivers, rear mounted side-tweeters & sub-woofer; it also has Dolby Atmos but I don't like it's 'muffled' effect so I turn it off - without Dolby Atmos working well, I KNOW that, whilst acceptable, it's not producing anywhere near the best sound quality and genuinely hoped that this Denon DHT-S218 Dolby Atmos Soundbar with dual front-firing mid-range drivers plus dual down-firing sub-woofers and dual side tweeters would add some bells and whistles to lift the whole sound quality set-up to the next level.WRONG! From the off, I attached it to my TV via the HDMI e-arc port and it paired instantaneously to give.... well, the same sound quality but with a significant reduction in the room-filling sound produced by the native/onboard TV speakers! I have faffed around with the settings on this soundbar for SIX days and found that the best connection, by far, is via Bluetooth where, due to the LG C4 having 'LG Wowcast', it has the option to make the onboard TV speakers play simultaneously with the Denon S18 soundbar... it even has the ability to pair the TV and Sky remotes to increase the volume of both uniformly and, initially at least, once I'd gotten to this stage of the set-up process circa 3 days after giving up on HDMI-only (Soundbar-only) sound, I genuinely thought it was an improvement since I was only going up to 20/100 on the volume spectrum with the remote whereas before was going to 40/100.However, I am still only hearing the same sound quality that I had before, albeit that it potentially has the scope to go louder than before but when I tried turning it up for a Netflix show last night, the bass started to distort which the TV has NEVER done on it's own.So, today I unplugged the soundbar from the wall as, once it's linked to my TV Bluetooth, it's almost impossible to unpair it even with the soundbar power button off and no lights showing on the bar. To my surprise, and against my previously, self-convinced, view that, as it was creating twice the sound it must be twice as good, I was VERY surprised that, once finally disconnected, the LG TV-only sound is EXACTLY the same as the dual-soundstage of the Denon Soundbar + TV Speakers at 20/100 once the TV volume is whacked back up to 40/100. Moreover, I can crank the TV volume all the way up to 100/100 and don't get any of the distortion I got from the soundbar.Needless to say, I've boxed it up and started the returns process as it adds NOTHING to my LG TV. I guess the TV is better sound due to its size and, for a soundbar to beat it, I'll need something bigger and much more expensive though, to be honest, I don't want booming bad-ass bass so will, for the moment at least, hold off any more soundbar purchases until I can go into a store or showroom to listen to a Bose 900 or Sonos Arc!

5.0 out of 5 stars Great value - fantastic soundbar

L. · 1 April 2025

Fantastic value as I bought it for £159.99 during the Spring Prime offer. This soundbar was really easy to set up - I just connected the HDMI cable to my Sony TV's eARC socket and it worked right away. The sound is fantastic - I can hear every word now, instead of mumbling in TV dramas and films. The remote has a volume control, bass control and various presets like music and night. This soundbar is very good value if you wait for an offer.