TimmyE94

Logitech Pro X Superlight 2 DEX

After using the Mini for a few weeks now, I noticed that the Movie and Adaptive mode have way too high bass with default settings in equalizer (the soundbar is calibrated). Every bass in background music in normal tv watching (like discovery channel, vox,….) that should be very subtle, is much too loud and doesn’t sound clean. It sounds really wrong.

I bought just for testing the Ambeo Sub. With the Sub this problem doesn’t exist with same settings. With the sub the bass is much more subtle and sounds as it should. The problem is, that fixing this without the sub needs to lower the equalizer bass settings to lowest level, what makes other things like voice also sound bad, because the foundation then is missing.

I’ve a big living room, don’t know if this is the problem. What fixes this also completely is using neutral soundmode, which in general sounds better at normal tv (more natural voices). Only watching movies isn’t as punchy then.

Can anyone confirm this? Maybe it’s because of the actual firmware update (1.0.92), which lists this in its changelog: Improved bass management for very low frequencies playback I don’t think that noone noticed this….

One question: can I use the equalizer settings from „Stereo Frequency Response With Preliminary Calibration“ with Atmos too, or will this lead to „wrong“ sound as this setting is meant for stereo?

Dec 14, 2023 03:06 PM By  Becca Fischer

Hi there, thanks so much for reaching out. I’ll link to a side-by-side comparison of the Sonos Beam (Gen 2) and the Sennheiser AMBEO Mini Soundbar. If you scroll down to the Atmos section, you can see that these bars perform pretty similarly overall in this regard. The real difference that we noticed came in terms of the soundstage. The Sonos does a better job pushing sound past the edges of the bar itself, which creates a wider and more immersive sound. The tough thing about testing and reviewing sound is that it’s all very subjective—what you prefer may be different from what I prefer, so not everyone will like this feature, for example. Still, we found the Sonos to be the better value buy overall.

Thanks for the answer! I didn’t want to criticize as I like your reviews in general. I’m just interested in buying the Sennheiser and selling my Sonos. And specially regarding the soundstage all other reviews found the Sennheiser here miles better than the Beam. Maybe I’ll buy Sennheiser for testing myself in this case.

Hallo! I just wonder why nearly all other reviews state that the mini is far better than Sonos beam, especially in Atmos effect. They all concluse mostly the opposite to the rtings test….