AccuVoice AV100 Compact TV Soundbar Speaker with 6 Levels of Voice Boost, Black

To start with, my need for a speech-enhancing speaker is to improve the voice fidelity of talk programs that fill much of my TV viewing time. The loss of high-frequency hearing in my aging years has made it increasingly difficult to follow voice communication. Although I've invested in a pair of expensive hearing aids, they only marginally improve the fidelity of TV dialog and have a number of other response distractions. Based on its good reviews, I purchased a ZVOX AV100 unit and tried it out on a small dining-room TV with marginal audio quality. Wow! What a huge improvement in dialog comprehension. I then purchased another AV100 for our family-room TV. Tremendous improvement! For me the # 4 level of enhancement is just right. However, my biggest need was for our Living-room TV that was equipped with an expensive sound system that includes a large subwoofer coupled with two satellite speakers (each with a 3" cone midrange driver coupled with a dome tweeter). Even with adjustments to its frequency response, this system was far poorer in voice comprehension to the ZVOX AV100 unit. Unfortunately, the AV100 unit doesn't really fit into my living-room TV setup, so my question was: how to introduce the excellent voice enhancement features of the AV100 into my living-room TV sound system. When one of the AV100 units was on sale, I decided to purchase one to experiment with in my Living-room TV sound system. As an engineer with a lot of experience with audio systems, my goal was to see if I could capture the excellent speech-enhancement features of the AV100 and marry them with the physical advantages of my existing speaker system. In examining the AV100 system I found that it contains two small 1.5" cone drivers in a common housing with a passive element to assist its lower frequency response. This did not offer an easy route to merging its speakers into my bigger sound system. As an alternative, I examined using the AV100's excellent all-digital amplifier/digital-signal-processor (DSP) to directly drive my large subwoofer-with-satellites sound system, replacing my existing amplifier. Its tiny circuit board didn't offer much encouragement, but after carefully checking its electrical compatibility, I gave it a try. WOW! great speech diction and great volume capability from my existing sound system, plus much better and broader frequency response than with the AV100 unit by itself. For my use, I removed the AV100s speakers, added professional-quality banana output jacks, and repositioned the AV100's IR/LED remote control interface unit so it could be viewed behind an existing speaker grill. I was very impressed with the overall construction quality of the AV100 unit and did my best to not degrade it. I'm not suggesting that this is the way an average person should proceed, but I am strongly suggesting that ZVOX consider adding such a stand-alone voice enhancing amplifier for those older folks that like a bigger sound system that needs voice enhancement. It's clear from running tests on the AV100 and using it for two years now, it really does some really special and useful diction enhancements. Far better than conventional hearing aids or TV tone controls. Addressing a second issue, that of poor fidelity Zoom calls, I recently added a sound board to my new W11 PC in hopes of cleaning up the voice dialog of Zoom calls. With rather disappointing results to date, I'd very much welcome a ZVOX enabled sound board for my PC...very much needed! Bottom Line: The ZVOX AV 100 offers some very enabling speech-enhancing capabilities ...highly recommended!

Wow my carcass is 47 years young and my spouse is 7 years younger, bottom line we both have "horrible hearing" eg. "slave to grind" in the call center environment "wearing a head set like a crown" since 16 years of age and the bonus/gift of "tinnitus". This soundbar offers a totally satisfactory experience like no other being a stand alone unit. The only thing comparable thus far has been "Breakaway Audio Enhancer" software but that's not an option because its too much effort to "watch TV" on a desk top or laptop cause its "too much effort" and electricity to boot. The "straw that broke the camels back" and forced me/us to do a "leap of faith" on this fine product was my self and spouse attempting to watch Species II(1998 academy award winner), the movie was a downloaded "backup" and lacked subtitles (.srt) and or captions (cc). Yes subtitles can be acquired on the internets via download but locating and syncing would be a new problem, again too much effort. We kept looking at each other and saying "I cant understand what they are saying" and then self would "crank the volume" only to lower it once something exploded or someone started shooting in the movie. The thing that made me believe this bar was a tried and true solution was the amount of images of people in their "golden/twilight years" on the box and listings advertainments/ promo materials. We firmly believe the "back firing" speakers is a real problem and forces people to upgrade to a sound bar or surrounding sound system eg. more money spent. I think it was George Lucas that said 50% of the movie is sound. If you cant understand the movie, your just looking at a pretty picture. For some people/family's captions/subtitles is a polarizing household dilemma/fight eg. complaining/personal preferences "get the words off the screen" its distracting or subs/cc is simply NOT an option. This bar is cute (mini) and small but oh so powerful, in combination with the 6 levels of voice boost, perfect for focusing on dialogue rather than say something with a subwoofer for people looking for that "boom-boom-pow" (gotta get that) my self and spouse both agree that this bar can be a bit of hassle for those "technically inclined" with older TVs or just age: where are your children, nieces and nephews when you need them? maybe a converter can be utilized or simply reconnecting with family or summoning geek squad would remedy these scenarios. Side note first world problems and or lack of effort 1. self's original order for the "espresso" was canceled by amazon (self got the espresso because I was being cheap and felt like i did not need the remote because I already have like 100 remotes and did want to add to the collection) so after the order was cancelled I opted to "spend some cash" for the version with the remote (unsolved mysteries update: note looks like the listing the espresso is gone maybe this is the reason the order was cancelled, self can only assume the stock was low/ phased out/delisted/some mysterious logistical/or carl jungs concept of synchronicity ) 2: this did not work with my older panasonyonic tv (analog digital out) (maybe a converter would have sufficed ) again too much effort opted to use a newer tv with an optical digital in/out (see attached photos for more detail)

Good for voice clarity…not so much for music etc.

Comes with US plug and you won't get help from the seller or Amazon.

This unit was recommended by a family member and we are so pleased that we followed up with it. Voices do make a difference when requested. Very pleased.

Can now here dialogue during movies

Excellent product ,a shame it came with an American plug !