HTS56 1000W 5.1 Channel Home Theater System, Bluetooth, USB, 8" Subwoofer, LED Light Effects, Remote Control, Optical Input, for Movies, Music & Karaoke | 1000W Peak/250W RMS, USB/SD Inputs, Optical TV Input, Karaoke Mic Inputs, LED Light Effects, 5-Band EQ

I bought this for my dad for Father’s Day and it’s awesome installed in the garage and it packs a good amount of bass and it’s great for the price Rockville makes some really good stuff.

Bought this system to replace one that got fried in a power surge. Great sound quality and was easy to hook up and program. Lights make cool effects too.

I read all the reviews before buying the Rockville stereo, they all seemed to be outstanding reviews so I had to give this stereo a chance. I mainly purchased this stereo because I wanted to update the older Bose stereo I have with a more modern on which is bluetooth capable because I listen to Apple music almost constantly and hated that I couldn't play it on my stereo, granted this Rockville stereo is no way close to being a Bose. When it arrived the very first thing I noticed that I was disappointed about was the center speaker, I thought it would be longer and was disability because I wanted it laying in front of my television, to be honest all of the speakers are shorter then I thought they would be. Taking into consideration that all the speakers only have two 3 inch speakers in them other then the 8 inch subwoofer, it does in fact sound fairly good, unless you go in turning up each individual speaker as they distort and rattle. I seen several reviews saying there is absolutely no distortion or rattling but there can be depending on how you set it and the remote control is pretty confusing for a simple, cheap stereo system. The led lights on the speakers and main body are probably pretty cool to most people but I myself find them annoying, the led lights on the main body have a variety of settings but the speakers themselves only have one setting and can not be turned off. The only other thing about this stereo that I really do not care for is that the subwoofer is actually in the main body of the stereo, so if you have the stereo body on a table or bookshelf, anything sitting on there with it will rattle around and can fall off. There is some bass with this stereo, it is not superb but it is actually very good for a cheaper stereo system. Another annoying feature of this stereo is when it is shut off, there are two red lines that constantly blink where the screen is on the main body, I have no idea why they thought this would be a good idea, I mean when the stereo is off, it should remain off. The main body also has a knob on it with some stereo control features, it is very basic and doesn't control to much at all of what this stereo can do. In order to use all of the stereo functions you need to use the remote, so if you misplace the remote or if the remote is damaged then you won't be able to use most of the control features. Being able to adjust all of the speakers individually is very nice, that way if from where you are sitting or standing you can adjust them so you get the most out of each speaker but again that will most likely lead to some distortion or rattling. So far the bluetooth has worked pretty good, I have not had any disconnections but I have had some interference of some sort to where the stereo would get quite soft while listening to it at an elevated level, I am not sure what caused that but I think it was an app lagging or something. Overall, I would say for the money that this is without doubt your best option to get a good sounding stereo with bluetooth capabilities, it sounds very good and has some decent enough bass so you would be able to listen to your favorite songs and enjoy the experience whether you enjoy some classical, country, Americana or some loud rock or some hard hitting rap.

Surprisingly great sound. Super convenient. Does a lot of things. I even plug my guitar in it and play as well.

Right up front, I feel like I need to be very clear, this is not a surround sound home theater system! This is a stereo matrix unit. I have a lot of experience with home theater, at one time owning a Marantz Pre-amp, Emotiva amplifiers, Klipsch speakers, and SVS subs (had to sell everything because we were in a budget crunch). I know what I'm talking about and I know how to hook this stuff up and what settings to change and/or adjust. I hooked this unit up using the optical port on the back to my XBox One X. The settings on the XBox were on stereo uncompressed, when I changed it to bitstream to force Dolby or DTS it made an unholy, god awful, digital screeching noise. So I left it on stereo, but even with that setting, any surround unit with at least dolby pro-logic type dsp processing would still separate information from the front speakers to a mono channel in the surround speakers...this was not happening. Center channel information played out of every speaker. I tried using the RCA inputs and Optical output from my TV to this unit and made various setting adjustments and nothing changed...this is a stereo matrix unit. All this aside, if you're fine with a stereo matrix unit for home theater...I still can't recommend this. The sound is horrible. The highs seem to fade above 2KHz, and there doesn't seem to be much around 500Hz, all in all it sounds muddy. The sub is very sloppy, not tight, not "controlled" at all...it booms...but it's very ugly, it doesn't go very low either. Oh, and the EQ only works on the front USB/SD input, lol! ...And, no, You can't go to the USB input, change the EQ, then go back to your other input. The Bluetooth input on this unit was the worst input by far, I could barely hear it, even cranked all the way up...yes, my phone was all the way up too. Y'all! I can't even recommend this for the price! If you want an actual surround unit, actual, discrete, 5.1, with better performance all around, get this: Vizio SB3651n-H6 5.1 Soundbar with Wireless Subwoofer! It's $160 right now. I bought one at Walmart last year after I sold all my other gear. I wasn't expecting much for the price, but my god! I bought this Rockville unit thinking I was going to replace my Vizio one......that's a hard, "HELL NO!" folks.

TLDR: If you have a couple hundred bucks and want a starter-level home theater system that will help you figure out what you want in a future, high-quality theater system, definitely pick this up. Buy a DAC to go with it, too. Throw the whole thing in a man-cave after it's outlived its usefulness. Nice system for the price, but it belongs in a man-cave or office, not as a real theater setup like I intended it for in the living room. I expected this going in, based on other reviews, so I have no regrets about this purchase. I bought it because I have never had a theater system, and have never been to someone's house that had one, so this was my first experience with using anything related to "surround sound" and I wanted to use this as a learning experience. Pros: It's loud. Very loud. So loud that I'm sure my neighbors knew when I had installed it. Simple to setup. Pretty straightforward to use. Great for watching TV and most movies (more on this soon). Cons: The fidelity of the speakers is not amazing, which is what I expected for the price and why I would not use this system to listen to music. The lack of fidelity is very noticeable on music, but I would say hardly noticeable (if at all) when watching most movies/TV. The primary drawback, for me, was its inability to decode digital 5.1 signal, and why I say MOST movies/TV. It will ACCEPT digital signal through SPDIF, but can only read PCM encoding (which carries 2.1 instead of 5.1). It cannot decode actual surround sound signal. It can only decode left, right, and subwoofer (the 2.1 signal), and this is a best-guess scenario when the audio is downgraded from 5.1/7.1 to 2.1. So most of the time it's fine, but some soundtracks end up very... odd. Like for Justice League, the music was extremely quiet most of the time, while dialogue, explosions, and everything else sounded great. Still watchable, but very jarring. RECCOMENDED TO GO WITH IT: I bought a $40 DAC (digital audio convertor) to decode the SPDIF 5.1 channels to 6 RCA plugs, and plugged those into the theater system. Real 5.1 surround sound achieved. Jank workaround, but everything sounds SO much nicer.

I don’t normally write reviews but these speakers were definitely worth letting people know about. If you can get over the fact there’s a lot of wires and can be difficult/time consuming to neatly lace them all when you set them up, these are worth every penny. I recommend using the Bluetooth or optical connections instead of the auxiliary port as the sound is noticeably better. Also adjust the equalizer on your TV or whatever app you’re using on your phone (Spotify/Apple Music/etc.) to enhance the sound quality even more. I was hesitant to buy a cheaper surround sound system because I was afraid the quality wouldn’t be as good as a name brand system but after using these the last month I have zero regrets other than the fact my neighbors probably hate me now because this subwoofer hits hard. The remote is easy to use and I like that there are buttons to adjust the sound levels of each individual speaker. I only have two complaints. One is that you can only change the LED colors on the subwoofer. All the other speakers just light up blue which I guess I didn’t realize upon reading the description on Amazon. The second thing is that there is no remote code for the sound system to be able to set up the function on my Xbox One that automatically powers up my TV/sound system when I power up the Xbox. Instead I have to use multiple remotes which doesn’t really bother me but would be easier just to use one. All in all, a solid buy and would definitely recommend.

While I really wanted to love this system I just couldn't. Yes, the bass bumps and while that is nice it's painful how many frequencies the back side speakers buzz on even at very low volumes. It just doesn't process them properly and with no EQ settings you can't even try to correct it, the individual speaker volume level control isn't nearly enough, but I'll get back to that. While those two speakers were a disappointment, I will say that I was very pleased with the other three speakers and the sub. The quality of sound out of those four pieces is fantastic and I've really enjoyed being able to hook it up to my T.V. for watching movies and have my music playing. This unit easily fills my little apartment with sound. The trouble starts to set back in when you need to adjust the audio levels so you can hear the dialogue in a movie or get a little more clarity out of a song.. You need to adjust each speakers volume independently to draw out or decrease that speakers natural frequency range, but seeing as the three good ones seem to operate in the same range all you can really do is decrease or increase all tones aside from the bass, or the bass itself. My back side speakers live on -10 and still buzz all the time on all sorts of frquencies and if I even want to really turn it up I switch the unit to 2.1 and/or disconnect them entirely. If you just need to tweak the bass this isn't so bad, you just turn it up or down. While there are EQ + and - buttons they seem to have no function, upon further investigation it only seems to work through the USB input and accesses the devices eq.. not sure how you switch which part it is altering though. The head unit which is also the sub has almost no controls, which I knew ahead of time and was fine with until the item arrived with no remote control which was extremely frustrating. They did manage to get me a remote after a handful of emails. It took a few weeks to get here, but no big deal. My issue is more that the remote only seems to want to work from about 5 feet away and has to be pointed right at the unit for it to work, and even then it often seems takes a minute for it to realise you hit a button and often have to press, wait a few seconds, press, wait, press, etc. It gets moody.. Though, I must say, the absolute weirdest thing about this system.. it will pick up CB radio and ither similar transmissions when it is in Standby mode. So if you live near anyone that makes use of radio communications you may need to go to great lengths to identify the source and find out if they can switch they're broadcasting channel or you'll be sitting in silence on morning, sipping your coffee, preparing for your day and suddenly a booming voice asks if you copy. Made for an interesting day at least. It wasn't the worst purchase I ever made and while I don't plan on changing it out any time soon.. looking back.. I wish I had gotten something else.

Showed up early, packaged was great. Hooking up the system was very easy. Plug and play, that easy. I also got wall mounts for the speakers and they work great with it. The surround is great in my rec room. It was easy to adjust each speaker to the level I wanted and now my rec room sounds like a sports bar.

Love this stereo sounds awesome, love the lights on the speakers, cannot speak for longevity as I just purchased not long ago but happy with it so far awesome bass

The Rockville HTS56 1000w 5.1 Channel Home Theater System is an awesome setup for anyone looking to elevate their TV and movie-watching experience without breaking the bank. It’s super easy to set up, which is a huge plus, and it delivers great sound quality that really makes your TV pop. The built-in lights are such a fun touch, adding a cool visual vibe to your room. I love that the subwoofer has an EQ that syncs with the lights—it’s a little detail, but it makes the whole system feel more dynamic and exciting. For the price, you honestly can’t go wrong. It’s simple, works great, and adds a ton of value to your entertainment setup. I’ve got no complaints—this was a fantastic buy, and I’d recommend it to anyone looking for a solid, budget-friendly home theater system.

Worst product I've ever had

I purchased this surround sound system approx.4 months ago. Cost me approx. $400.00 all said and done. Sounded good when I set it all up hiding all the wires and positioning in my man cave. Use it once a week for an hour and a half concert video. The rest of the use is for regular TV. Right off the get go, I noticed one of the speakers did not light up like the others. The sound worked and it was a rear speaker so I didn't care that much. I did however feel like I should have everything working. I contacted the seller and they gave me two options, accept $10.00 refund or send the whole thing back for full refund. Doesn't makes sense to me as they would cover the cost of shipping and I'm sure it would have been more than $10.00. I decided to live with it. Fast forward four months later and the other right rear speaker must have blown as all it does is spit out static and scratching. I contacted them again regarding this and they basically told me too bad, past three months and can't return. This is horrible and a waste of my money. I will also be contacting Amazon regarding this.