Upvoting. A chance to toggle LEDs would be very nice indeed. ... View more

Kindly see this older post:   https://community.bose.com/t5/SoundTouch-Archive/SoundTouch-120-4K-60fps-compatible/td-p/17174   Seems like a connection via direct in to the soundbar will not work due to incompatibility regarding the Apple TV 4k being HDCP 2.2 and the Soundbar HDCP 2.1. ... View more

Eventhough the manual does not clearly state one of the HDMI in/outputs as "ARC" there are several notes about being usable for digital audio out.   Paste of the manual   "About connections, see “External Equipment” (p. 44). Note HDMI is the world’s first complete digital consumer AV interface complying with a non-compression standard. Audio settings can be made on the “HDMI1 Input” menu screen. (p. 25) Applicable audio signal sampling frequencies (2ch L.PCM): 48 kHz, 44.1 kHz, 32 kHz HDMI2 terminal is for digital audio signal only."   Also this TV should work perfectly fine through the Digital Optical / SPDIF Connection. If i am not mistaken the Bose can also "learn" to power up along with the TV via Optical Out connection as well.   Maybe ask Panasonic about this topic as well. Also i'd recommend to direct attach a DVD/BD Player via the HDMI In. If i read correct the TV itself can only passthrough 2channel LPCM ,meaning that this is only stereo via HDMI. Not sure about optical tho. ... View more

Can you please elaborate what you are trying to do here, as your text, at least for me as a person that is no native english speaker it is not very comprehensive.   Usually , at least for me on an LG TV the ST300 does not switch on my tv, when i power up the soundbar. ... View more

Curiously , can you try to power cycle the Sub and take your remote and re-pair it while pressing the Soundtouch button, release it and hold "7" until you hear the audio notification for it to be paired.   Did you try to uninstall the App, or even just clear the app cache on Android if the above steps did not help?! ... View more

Don't mean to be rude to anybody ,but can we please keep this thread cleaned of anything that is not about the topic? This thread is not about ARC stuff etc. Please don't missuse this because you feel like this thread gets more attention than others. ... View more

@Rox123    Have a look at the sticky post:   https://community.bose.com/t5/SoundTouch-Speakers/Acoustimass-300-SoundTouch-300-and-reports-of-low-bass/td-p/66857/   I know it is a lot of posts and text ,but you can find some more information on the whole topic in there. ... View more

Hm personally i would not put it on the cabinet 1. for esthetics and 2. i might be worried about the glass cabinets on either side. Depending on what level the sub is set to it might cause some vibration to the glass.   Despite knowing what the room is like to the left ,i probably would place it beside the glass cabinet on the floor, to the left of it, or on the right side.  I'd recommend to hook up the sub with the rest and place it on the different locations, have a listening test and if you like it the best leave it there if nothing speaks against it.   E: But i can certainly give you another experience if you place the sub on an elevated space as this can give you a difference to the so called "room modes" , or "space modes" which can have quite some influence on your listening experience. ... View more

Just replied to that previous post of you. ... View more

Just a quick follow up , just tested it and i can confirm that the st300 is capable of passing through HDR10. Will do further testing regarding Dolby Vision as soon as my player received the update and i have some movie like fate of the furious or despicable me with DV ... View more

Open the soundtouh app go into the settings - advanced setup and disable the auto off feature. ... View more

Simple answer for me is: yes. It adds much more space and the real surround experience. I'd even choose them over the AM300 if i had to. In my case i went with the vi300 before i bought the am300 and the value of surround sound is bigger than a dedicated sub. ... View more

@QuilpieGuy Tbh i dont understand this question. As in this case you should be fine?! I guess bose will need to figure out a way to satisfy the more and less hungry customers. ... View more

@Brent_B   Thanks for your reply. Yes this is fully referring to V16.x firmware. I always used the CEC default settings.   To be honest, i did not unpower the soundbar. I was fiddling around with the settings ,so i might have to see if i can reproduce it.   In the end i pulled the hdmi in cable and choose to pass the audio through my TV.     This all started when i fired up my LG UP970 and started a UHD BD, knowing that this configuration for audio via explicit audio out on the BD player through HDMI 2 (had to switch audio out for HDMI2 instead of "auto") to the HDMI in worked the day before flawlessly. But this time no audio at all. Basic config when it worked was -> HDMI CEC - default on , HDMI direct in - enabled - assigned icon was the one in the middle.   in the first place disabling and reenabling HDMI IN did not help along with previously changing the mapped icons for the remote inside the app. I have to admit that i did not program the remote for the end device. I saw a yt video and read comments that this might actually do something to the ST300 that can resolve issue with dropouts and stuff.   If i remember right changing the CEC default to alternate on did make the audio stream to be consistent. But on the other side this stopped the proper detection for receiving audio via ARC without requiring me to actively choose the HDMI2 (ARC) for (by switching to the "TV" icon on the remote for instance)   Please let me know when this is hard to follow, then i might do a rewrite in proper order of occurrence.   ... View more

I do have a 200k cable connection on vodafone, but sometimes dropouts do also happen while watching blu rays and cable tv via the stb. I suspect this to be related to some hdmi handshaking / hdcp stuff. But to keep this thread clean it might be discussed within another thread. ... View more

I agree that is strange to have quite some people reporting either left or right being louder.    To find out about the truth i think it would be required to have the right tools to measure each single speaker inside one by one, compare with what it should play according to the software / decoder and see if it is correct or not. All thing that we - the users are not able to do - unless you know someone who knows someone that has at least a day to spend doing all the research. Again i have to put the preassure on once more and say - an EQ, or a tool for general balance might solve this.   ... View more

What you are looking for is the ub 20 series II wallmount or the ufs 20 II floorstands. All needed parts are inside the package. ... View more

@DavidSJ Thank you for your reply. I don't know about technical differences between the AM300 and the Lifestyle Sub but for my understanding some comparisson from a dev POV would make sense, but i really hope that they already did this - because it would be a no brainer to do that. ... View more

Basically i still stick to what i said initially. It seems like the scale on which you increase/decrease the bass level per remote is off. A 7 or 8 should be a 5 in reality and give some headroom.    I am also kinda curious what the lifestyle systems subwoofers sound like ,because none seems to complain about them. So few buyers, or does it actually sound right?! We can't judge on that as i guess none is owning a 4k $ Lifestyle system for comparisson. ... View more

I could do some more testing yesterday and i now knpw what some poeple where talking about. After having the am300 meassured by adaptiq the lows are certainly there but to gain a somewhat depht in bass along with the "punch" - espescially while watching movies the bass on maximum level 10 via the remote is way more enjoyable it adds the little "wow" effect that is kind of missing below. Though i have to say that i am very fine with having the bass set so 7 while listening to music. Hope the recent investigations of the engineers that came to some european users can shed some light into this topic. ... View more

Refer to the manual. Press the bass button on the remote. Pay attention to the LEDs on your St300 and use the +/- buttons on the bose remote ... View more

@vandrew Yeah - keep in mind its a leaf and no thunderstorm ^^ . Thats the reason why i prefer it to sound rather natural than overdone. But yeah i am ok with that if it suits your taste :) So probably to get this right for the majority of ppl it would make sense to get an EQ ready for the app. ... View more

Without a doubt it will increase the base but i am concerned that it will be inaccurate in base playback. But at the bottom line it comes down to individual needs. ... View more

@Fasciana   Sorry ,my bad - i downloaded the file and played over the network on my TV. You can download and put it on a USB stick. Put it into your Blu-Ray player and start the demo from there.   Dolby Atmos and DTS:X carry the core codec which is dolby digital or DTS - so no matter if you throw atmos at the st300 or not ,it should extract the core codec and play it back.   Regarding the St300 system itself.   Not sure right now if a factory reset would be required. As my AM300 initially was not meassured with Adaptiq i had a "vanilla" AM300 running in a pre-messured System ( ST300 + VI300), just paired it an had the raw base. Afterwards just re-ran Adaptiq to have it fully meassured.   I also need to do some more testing to make further observations regarding the "thunder". You can also find another demo vid on the dolby.com page called "Amaze" ,it includes a passage with a thunderstorm - the deep basy thunder is playing quite late in it, hence i am not totally sure what to think about it. ... View more

@Fasciana   Well - it's tricky to tell what "rumble" actually is for you and how i feel about it.   I definitely did not mean that my walls are shacking when having the AM300 set to 7, but i can notice very clear "punch" and deep base, but it is more settled to not overdo things. I find this way more natural. But this does not seem to meet other requirements/wantings.   Let me put an example up here: with the AM300 not being touched by AdaptiQ i took the testfile of Dolby Atmos - leaf ,you can find it here.   Pay attention to the sound when the leaf is dropping to the floor while turning. Pre adaptiq this passage is totally overdone by the Sub,growly. After AdaptiQ it is playing precise kicks as it is supposed to ,no growling at all.     Refering to your last sentence - well it is only very muddy and unprecise without having the AM300 meassured by AdaptiQ. With it is totally fine. At least for me.       ... View more

Mornin' everyone from Germany  ,   I'd like to give you a little insight on my observations. Kindly note that i don't ,by any means, want to argue with anyone and all my further explenations and findings are based on my own subjective feelings,hearings and taste. So don't be rude on me please.   So yesterday evening I ran AdaptIQ for the first time on my newly purchased AM300. Reason for doing so is that, though the base without AdaptiQ is a reasonably wider and way more dominant, i took a second, read some articles about other Systems like Audyssey etc from other Manufactures and what it actually does. And the most important part is, it just sounded awefully growling, disturbing.   The reason for this is pretty much covering up what @Shreyas1983 posted. A unmeasured AM300 is crossing frequencies with the AM300.Or maybe i should say the layer covers the frequencies of the ST300. Also AdaptiQ is supposed to scan frequencies to help solving issues with space modes and stuff.   This is resulting in the observation of some ppl saying there are no mids at all. AS the AM300 might play the more higher frequencies.   So I for myself come to a first conclusion right here - the reason for the difference in base is in the AdaptIQ.   Why? Well some people remember the changelog of the 15.x Fw it said it had fixed an issue with AdaptiQ.   So what does that mean? Hypothetically said - my guess is that AdaptiQ was not properly correcting the AM300 in FW 14.x as the "thunder" is close to what the AM300 is right now w/o having run AdaptIQ.   Now you could argue - but when the rep in the shop showcased the whole system I was blown away. Well - I can't tell what FW they're using ,settings, if the material they played got fitted for the system etc. To be very honest, i currently don't remember if the AM300 was THAT growling and disturbing as it is for me w/o AdaptiQ.   Now after having run AdaptIQ, is still notice that there is base but more in a realistic, natural way. The overall experience with movies and music is way more enjoyable,cleaner. But the low frequencies are still being played and i can hear it - do the same like the rep in the shop probably did - activate and deactivate the sub within the app.   So basically i am pretty satisfied, BUT there might be another issue. You might end up having the base set to a quite high level via the remote. I am currently on 7 out of 10 i guess and here is the point i do agree. It could be a little "louder", w/o having to crank up the overall volume.   Let's say - the scale should be more like a current 7/10 should be a maybe a 5/10 ? Or even a 4/10? See what i am trying to say? People want that precise thunder and rumble , not the muddy,growling one - at least it's my anticipation of a subwoofer of that price category playing crisp and clean.   So again, i don't want to offend someone - Maybe the initial - hmmm bugged? (AdaptIQ flaw in FW 14.x) - thunder - got people having false expectations about the Subwoofer thus resulting in saying the current state is a bummer.   Let me know what you thing about that, but keep it calm and friendly.     ... View more