Polk Audio Signa S3 Ultra-Slim TV Sound Bar and Wireless Subwoofer with Built-in Chromecast | Compatible with 8K, 4K & HD TVs | Wi-Fi, Bluetooth | Works with Google Assistant

Polk Audio has been around even longer than I have! LOL. I expected great quality when I ordered this speaker. I was NOT disappointed! It was SIMPLE to install and the controls and sound are many times better than the TV speaker. I LOVE being able to lower the background noise of the program so that I can hear the dialogue. No longer do I have to have the subtitles on or the volume turned way up to know what the actors are saying. AWESOME!! Would definitely buy again and have no trouble endorsing this company and this product!

First i want to say that I used to install home and car audio in the 90's and of course technology has changed substantially since then but the basic's still remain... the sound you get.Polk has always been a "premium" product that sounds good and just works, in fact i still have a pair of DB 12's for my home theatre with a 200 watt amp on each one, 27 years later they are still going strong and rumbling my home theatre.I bought this sound bar for our main living room as we just got a new TV in our new home and the sound from the TV sucked so i wasn't going to tolerate it.Install WAS SO EASY!!! I had this running in under 5 mins excluding opening the box which added another 5 mins. We have watched the usual streaming things and right now she's watching Avitar for the first time. Within no less than 1 min she said "babe ok this sounds so much better, i love it good call".I could go on about how easy the install was, the value and so on but honestly having a bluetooth sub is amazing... plug in the power and it just works!!!

Aug 30, 2020 Update: Still loving it ...We have, since first review, tried and succeeded in getting our Google speaker (Google Assistant) to cast its music to the Polk Signa S3 Soundbar/subwoofer - which is precisely why I anted up for the S3 model. (The secret seems to be to assign a name to the soundbar as a device, in my case 'Living Room Speaker', using the Google Home app (done on my phone) and then you can use a voice command to just tell Ms Google 'OK Google, play music on the Living Room Speaker'). Anyway, that wifi access is a feature of the S3 level of this Polk product - very happy with that feature. (If I have this correctly, this works because the Google Assistant device and the Polk device are on the same wifi router - I don't know that it works of you have one on 2.4GHz and the other on your 5GHz, just sayin'.)We stream a lot of music from YouTube on the Sony Smart TV, also, so having the Polk Signa for that is a big upgrade from the TV speakers. Love this soundbar, incl the bluetooth access and wifi access, and would definitely buy this Signa S3 again. I had in mind a $300 budget while shopping for such a device and I'm very happy to have come in under budget with a great audio outcome.---We haven't tried the access from our Google Assistant/Speaker yet, but very happy with this Soundbar/Subwoofer set. I first set it up on our LG Smart UHD with the ARC HDMI connection to try it out. It went so smoothly and easily (the LG TV setup has a selection to route audio to the ARC HDMI port) - this went so quickly that I decided to plug in the Subwoofer also to see how that went and bingo - came right on line (subwoofer has a button in back to press to sync with soundbar). But that LG system of ours normally is optical audio out to a stereo with our BIG JBLs (quad 10" :) so I then moved the Polk to our Sony Bravia, also using ARC HDMI for audio connection. For the Sony, no TV Setting selection change was required - Sony just routed the audio out ARC HDMI once the Polk soundbar was plugged in and powered up. Had the same quick success with subwoofer - came on line immediately after button push on the back of subwoofer speaker. The Sony TV and our Xfinity Cable/DVR remotes both cause the soundbar to power up/down when 1/0 pressed on remote. They also control the volume on the soundbar appropriately. (Of course, the Polk remote still controls audio properly, also.)Bluetooth came up and worked easily. Will update once we've experimented with bluetooth and Google Assistant access.I see in the manual, page 4, that there is a way to disable the auto-standby feature which many purchasers seem to complain about. I have not played with that (hold down Night Mode button for 5+ seconds).BTW, I love that for both the soundbar and subwoofer, the power cords plug right into the box with NO bricks - I hate bricks (aka, external transformers).

Google assistant works well, bluetooth works wells, sound is best-in-class for the price and the subwoofer is bassy and full sounding. The remote control is not very useful or effective, however I have never needed it as all of the functions work perfectly and there is no need to adjust. Use your TV remote, phone, or google assistant to set the volume and it will adjust the sound bar automatically.

I got this sound bar specifically because it doesn't have a built in microphone for Alexa/etc., which is becoming really hard to find.Good quality sound throughout the entire range. I don't use the subwoofer to its full abilities, but it can put out a good amount of bass without sounding strained. It does not feel like surround sound, but does give more depth than a standard 2.1 setup. I haven't been able to get the Chromecast to work easily, but that might have to do with my router. *Update* It was my phone being an older model that was causing problems with Google Home, but I have successfully casted audio through the app "HiFi Cast" and it worked great.There is a distinct three second lag between pressing the volume buttons and the volume actually changing, as others have stated previously. For impatient button pushers this could be a dealbreaker. I instead only use the Polk remote to turn it on and to use the voice amplification, which is excellent. For volume adjustments I use whatever player I am using (PC mostly).Overall, I am happy with the soundbar. I would recommend it, but only if you are okay with the above irregularities. If you don't care about the lack of microphone, there are probably other comparable soundbars with less quirks.