VIZIO M-Series 5.1 Premium Sound Bar with Dolby Atmos, DTS:X, Bluetooth, Wireless Subwoofer and Alexa Compatibility, M51ax-J6, 2022 Model

This soundbar has the right flexibility, sound quality, and loudness at a very reasonable price. You'll be hard-pressed to get so much for so little in another brand. I'll say I'm happy with how this brand caters to budget conscience customers, without punishing them for being in that group.I've been watching 5.1 movies through my Apple TV and Fire TV (I have both). My TV is arc, not the updated eArc my soundbar supports, so I did have to move some things around to get the Apple TV to play the sound correctly.If you have this issue, you may also find that it's better to plug your Apple TV into the SoundBar's extra HDMI (not to the TV directly), and then plug SoundBar's main eArc HDMI into your TV's Arc HDMI. It has to be Arc or eArc for this to work seamlessly. The SoundBar with then have a dual function. It will be the bridge input for the Apple TV (allowing you to switch your TV to the Apple TV input as you did before), but it will also know how to automatically serve out audio to the soundbar of any other devices connected to your TV when you switch its input. So in other words, when the SoundBar is connected to the Arc or eArc on your actual TV, your TV will detect the SoundBar and when you switch to any other input on your TV, its audio will go out through the SoundBar, even when you're not switched over to the input of which the SoundBar is directly plugged.The Fire TV can continue to be plugged into one of the TV's extra HDMI ports without throwing out the sound. Fire TV will know how to downgrade the sound correctly for arc so it can use the 5.1 available on your 5.1 soundbar. It has to downgrade because arc has a lower bandwidth than the upgraded eArc. Apple TV, on the other hand, is not as kind to older or outdated protocols so may throw 5.1 out altogether if not connected with the workaround.If Apple TV is plugged directly into your soundbar, the soundbar is able to handle the full high-fidelity sound first, without it having to pass through your TV's older arc port which causes Apple TV to throw out 5.1 sound either making it mute or having to be forced down to stereo.I have my Echo plugged in through Aux. I haven't figured that part out yet to get this seamless. It seems the Alexia sounds a bit low or I'm not sure if the sound is coming out as expected. I am asserting that I have to read the manual more to learn how the inputs work or when it automatically switches. I still have to work with that. There is a remote that allows you to manually switch the inputs of the SoundBar (i.e. Bluetooth, Aux, Aux VA (Voice Assistant), USB, HDMI, HDMI arc. HDMI eArc will be your default.But again, I didn't get that sick feeling one can get when you're not sure if you should have bought something or not. This is really good for both movies and music. It's a Sunday Morning right now and I'm playing Lashun Pace before church and the sound is ... well, impressive.

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