Bowfell | Bluetooth Sound Bar for TV | 50 Watt 2.0 Stereo Speaker Soundbar | Optical, RCA, USB, MP3 & AUX Input | 39cm | Custom EQ Settings & Remote Control (Black)

It’s a quality product at a bargain price and it’s really improved the sound quality and clarity of our television. Easy to setup and has multiple options for connecting including blue tooth which gives the option to use it to connect to your mobile. It’s also quite compact but definitely punches above its weight.To cap it all there’s a 3 year warranty!

I was looking for a soundbar to mount under a wallmounted monitor, providing a bit of sound enhancement over the monitor in-built speaker. The dimensions of the bar were important, as was a balance of price against sound quality. There are cheaper options out there, but there is the risk of tinny sound, and a more expensive option would have been overkill (I have great sound solutions already for proper music, movies and gaming).The bar is very easy to connect and set up, and has a reassuring weight to it and quality feel. In my case, I'm using the 3.5mm line-in for audio source and have not tested Bluetooth - I didn't need it for that.The included remote control is handy, but there are also control buttons on the right-side of the bar. There isn't much in the way of options to customise the sound, other than a Rock or Jazz setting - who on earth wants a Jazz setting????Sound quality is decent for the size and price - there is no bass to speak of, but the sound quality is nice without being harsh. Volume is more than enough for a small room, although if you drive it hard you quickly reach the limitations. And while there is no bass as such, there is enough midrange to avoid that horrific tinny sound you get with cheap speakers.There is no wall mounting option, so I've use one of those picture frame shelves for a simple solution to mount it below my monitor. Overall, pleased with it, but manage your expectations for bass - this is not going to blow your socks off, but it's not trying to do that. If you're looking for a cinema sound solution, or a bassy music driver, perhaps look further up the chain or buy the version which comes with a subwoofer.

I have to say that I am impressed by this piece of kit. Firstly, the speaker is packed in a sturdy box well protected from transitory damage. Once inside the box the internal support packaging is equally robust and neat. The box is sized to contain the parts within in an economic way, it isn't as is often the case, massively oversized marketing tool. The parts identified on the listing are all there with the various leads and competently written instructions in a plastic bag and the UK standard power lead separately boxed. Unpacking the speaker, it was surprisingly heavy and once out of its plastic covering proved to be neat and tidy with no intrusive LEDs, knobs or buttons to fussy up the front of the bar,there is a single, soft blue LED to indicate power off, connecting (flashing) and connected. As can be seen, it sits very neatly and unobtrusively on the monitor stand and, I think, will be easy to accommodate once I get the other 2 monitors in place. Once connected to power the remote (batteries incl) worked to switch it on and off. Pairing was absolutely straightforward and quick and then the function of the remote operated volume etc as would be expected. Now, I don't (or haven't to date anyway) play music on this set up but this replaces a pair of Realtek High Definition speakers that were wired and ugly and, for my purposes, the sound quality is every bit as good if not better. How they would perform for music playback I can't say. My only little niggle is that when first connected they are muted and that, at first, had me searching around for the sound fault, but that is something that I will get used to I'm sure.All in all, for the money, this bar represents exceptional value I think, appearing to be well engineered, sounding good and looking good too. I am so chuffed that I will probably get another one to use with my rubbish sounding TV.dewi

Just received my Bowfell soundbar this morning, hats off to Amazon Prime for getting it to me in 12 hours.Setup was simple, I'm using it i'm my bedroom to improve the TV sound quality of my 32" Toshiba flatscreen which as standard is pretty thin sounding with no bass. I'm also using it for music from my iMac via optical digital.For the size and price I think the sound quality is excellent and although at a lower level it produces a surprisingly decent amount of bass, midrange and HF are more than acceptable.There are some minor caveats though, first there is no consistency of volume inasmuch as if you switch between different inputs the volume levels are vastly different so it pays to have the remote to hand if it's too loud. Also the remote appears to share frequencies with my TV remote and if you adjust the volume on the soundbar it will switch on the TV, so I've had to resort to putting something in front of the remote sensor on the TV to avoid it happening.I also noticed when playing back via optical from my iMac if I'm playing a CD with gapless playback such as Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd where the tracks blend the music is muted briefly and then takes a few seconds to ramp back up to the proper volume, I could get round this by using the iMacs headphones output into the aux input on the soundbar but I want to use that for the TV sound. Streaming the same album from Amazon Music via Bluetooth also gets rid of the issue, the Bluetooth sound quality is also very good and doesn't appear to lose any quality compared to the other inputs. One feature that it doesn't have which I would have liked is for it to power down when there hasn't been an input signal for a while, very useful as I listen to music before going to sleep.Overall for the £37 that I paid for it I would have to give the Majority Bowfell soundbar a 5* rating.Edit: On checking a little deeper into the instruction manual it appears the Bowfell does have an auto powering down feature although unlike some other audio equipment I own which powers down in about 20 minutes with no input signal, the Bowfell takes 3 hours to power down which is a little excessive but better than staying powered up..