Sony HT-G700 – 3.1ch Dolby Atmos / DTS:X Soundbar
Sony HT-G700 – 3.1ch Dolby Atmos / DTS:X Soundbar with wireless subwoofe
Make the most of your quality time
Whatever you and your family enjoy watching together, the HT-G700 brings the soundtrack to life. Experience viewing your favourite content with brilliant immersive sound.
| Dimensions: | 10.8 x 98 x 6.4 cm; 1 Kilograms |
| Model: | HTG700.CEK |
| Batteries Included: | 2 AAA batteries required. |
| Manufacture: | Sony |
| Dimensions: | 10.8 x 98 x 6.4 cm; 1 Kilograms |
Just another soundbar by Sony, awesome sound, quality, ease of use, features, audio quality and nice bass as expected from Sony and especially for the price!!! Great buy, thank you so much!!!!
Very good just easy to set up and you are away but it could have had 2 hdmi ports buts it’s still a great soundba
Really good sound on my TV after buying this. Definitely an upgrade. Easy set up for my Toshiba TV. Cinema sound is incredible.
Good deep base, better than I was hoping for
Great volume, louder than expected
Not as defined in the vocals as I’d have liked but nothing to complain about
Be aware that sound bar is longer than many on the market, not an issue for me but is quite a large unit
All in all great piece of kit for the money, would definitely recommend
Been looking for a soundbar for some time and after reading the reviews for this piece of kit,it was a know brainer at the reduced price for it .
Sound quality good but could do with better bass and treble adjustments
If your looking for a cheaper alternative for a Good quality surround sound. Would purchase this again in a heart bea
This speaker is great on it’s own. But with Dolby or DTS it sounds SO much better.
Easy to install, integrates nicely with the TV to hand waking up when the TV is switched on and turns off just the same.
Unreal sound my first atmos bar to be honest but it has replaced my amp and 5:1 system.The only thing is it has to be turned up very high like 50 to get a kick outta it lower numbers are very quiet but I’m open to suggestions to see if csn be tweeked.
Got it next day and set up was super easy. Plug sub into mains, connect e-ARC to LG C1, turn e-ARC on in the LG’s menu and Roberto es tu tio (as they say in Spain). Soundbar and sub sync automatically and it was ready to go.
Tested it with Disney+ and Amazon Prime and sound was a MASSIVE upgrade over my C1’s in-built speakers. Tested it with my Xbox Series X and was getting some audio sync issues via blu-ray with Atmos – apparently its a known issue with how the Xbox reads Atmos. Set audio output on the Xbox to Dolby Digital and all was good.
Overall really happy with the soundbar. Sound is clear and crisp, bass is really good and adds some punch to the soundtrack, vocals are clear and distinct. It picks out little bits of dialogue that is muffled using in-built speakers (Two examples – the scene from Revenge of the Sith with Anakin in the Jedi Temple where he hears Palpatine’s voice. Usually quite low and muffled – clear and defined using the Sony. The other example is FIFA 22 – hearing the stadium announcer randomly doing stadium messages – “Can Bob Smith go to a steward please?” – that usually get lost behind the commentators/crowd noise.
For the price I got it at its a bargain but still wouldn’t be disappointed had I paid the 390 its currently showing at either!
I was looking for a upgrade to my current soundbar, and I see this one. I read the reviews and I am very happy with my purchase. It’s easy to install and the sound is exceptional, 400watts of power is more than enough to keep anyone happy. The sound is clear and you can adjust the settings with the remote as well. Watching films, listening to music, or playing games on your console is even more enjoyable. The deep bass is excellent, and you can feel the sound. One of the best soundbars around for the money!
The unit has fairly good sound and makes a decent effort at producing Atmos channels, you will hear more pronounced X-Axis sounds but don’t expect anything much from the Up/Down channel of Atmos.
Most important thing to note is how difficult it is to configure, the initial setup is easy but unfortunately the built in menu in the bar is incredibly difficult to use, there is no confirmation you have selected or chosen options, menus are a nightmare to navigate, and wait too long and its back to the beginning. Not suitable for the non tech savvy.
The other thing worth noting is that Atmos will only enable on the “Default/Standard” preset setting; using the Cinema/Music options etc will disable it back down to Dolby LPCM.
Its not bad but it clearly didn’t have any user testing.
Deep bass, not garbage “thump” amazing for movies, absolute game changer really feels like your in the cinema. Bass is deep and loud but not overpowering as the actual soundbar is very crisp at highest of volumes. Connecting is seamless and controls are just perfec
The Sony has a lot of sound features and can be over whelming, after a weekend trying to get the best sound for tv, films and music, I just put the sound on auto mode and put voice mode to on, now I just turn on the sky remote only to turn on soundbar and the tv, and can change volume level from the sky remote..
I have a 4 year old Samsung uhd tv, and did not do the tv setup, did not know you had to, just thought you plugged the hdmi into arc on tv and that’s it..if you do the tv setup after you plugged soundbar in, the tv will reckonize the Sony g 700 by name, and stops the audio lag.
At first I did not like it, bought another bar and went back to curry’s and looked at other bars which were twice the price with the same sound, so decided to send back sierra yesterday to Amazon and keep the Sony.
If you want to watch just normal tv most of the time then this is a great sounding soundbar, don’t get bogged down by all the added sound features, just put in auto sound and let it sort out the audio for you
Our TV (and therefore sound bar) is wall-mounted. The HT-G700 comes with a simple paper mounting template which confusingly has four points on it despite only having two holes for mounting the unit. No special brackets are required, it just hooks over two screws. The downside of this is that it’s harder to mount level accurately and there’s no adjustment if one of the screws is very slightly off by 1mm which, over the length of the bar, is definitely visible!
The build quality is good, as you’d expect from Sony, and the remote feels quite polished compared to a lot of sound bars (although if you drop it, the battery compartment flies open, which is a bit annoying – this clip could be designed better!)
Sound quality is very subjective. My own opinion is it’s ‘good’ – not as good as some of the higher end sound bars (but it’s a quarter of the price) but will way surpass any built in TV speakers. This is a 3.1 system and you can tell the centre is there which is good, but beware of the claims that it’s “7.1” or Dolby Atmos – it decodes it, yes, but there are only three speakers in the bar, plus the sub, and it doesn’t have any upfiring speakers designed to emulate ceiling or surround speakers.
It supports eARC, but also decodes Dolby Atmos, DTS:X, Dolby Digital, DTS-HD which is quite unusual at this end of the market. Again, it doesn’t have the required number of speakers to take full advantage of it but the support is good to have and it makes a valiant effort to emulate the speakers using Sony’s own virtual sound processing technology.
Dialogue is crisp and clear, higher frequencies are well reproduced as are the lower frequencies (although the sub is limited by the small driver) – it’s a little muddy in the mids but generally works well for most TV, movie, and music content (although music lovers not caring about the subwoofer might be better off with some of the Sonos products)
Night mode is a nice touch too for not disturbing the neighbours or sleeping family members, it changes the overall EQ and reduces the impact of the sub at a push of a button whilst still offering an improvement over any TV’s built-in speakers.
When this launched it was 450, it was a good sound bar then but some of the competition at the time was better around the same price point. It’s now around 250 and at this price it’s a seriously impressive offering; you’d probably have to pay about 3x as much to get something significantly better.
Lovely sound. Sub could do with a little more base? Otherwise Great addition to my Sony System. This clip is just from Netflix but still in 4k. Films on Sony 4k Player are even better.
As the name is a sony sound bar and always buy sony gear and noing quality good price to. Feel
the sound could be improved little more around the surround as I find it doesn’t jump out at you like my old one otherwise 99%
Once I’d figured out how to connect it to the TV and the Fire Cube, it set itself and the SW up. I then told the Fire Cube to control everything including the Soundbar, and it did it. The TV doesn’t always shut off through the Alexa function, but the SoundBar does, and I can’t blame the SoundBar for the TV not shutting off. Would recommend, but know that there are more sophisticated and better sounding SoundBars out there for the money: I just like this one.
I bought this at the right time as the price has increased by 100! The sound quality is outstanding, you really feel that you could be at the cinema during action films. It improves the television sound too, no more struggling to hear what the presenters are saying. Would definitely recommend.
Was very sceptical as I have always used separate speakers with a home cinema amp and if I’m honest it doesn’t have the same surround performance but as with other reviews it’s a sound bar and that’s the key it’s not going to be as good however,
This has an excellent sound
It’s very loud and the bass performance is surprisingly effective
I currently have it set up in a very large room and it fills the area with an immersive sound
I reviewed several sound bars before buying this one and I’m very happy
Couldn’t be easier to use and set up
I cant really say I’ve experienced the atmos effect but it makes movies and games come to life
If all you need is improved sound and cant have rear separate speakers I would definitely recommend this item
Never owned a soundbar before and on reading reviews and being a fan of Sony tech I kept coming back to the HT-G700. And for a mid range soundbar it’s phenomenonal and a great step up from the TV speakers. Everything just sounds richer and deeper and the bass is perfect and appropriate to the scene/game without being overbearing. Well pleased.
As an upgrade for my flatscreen’s tinny speakers this is really very good. The sound is well balanced, though don’t buy it on the strength of the claims of ‘verticality’ – I’ve played Atmos content through it and it sounds very nice but it’s no sort of surround system, never mid filling you into thinking sounds are coming from above.
Setup is super-easy, sub connects wirelessly without any user intervention so I plugged it into my TV’s ARC channel and away I went. There’s a few options inside the menus but most likely you’ll refer to the manual to set those then forever leave them as they are. Settings you might want to change more regularly (night mode the example) have dedicated buttons on the remote, which is nice. Beyond that – don’t expect any bells and whistles. There’s no ‘smart’ features (the bar doesn’t even have a network connection). It’s a nice size, about the same width as my 50″ TV. Overall it does the job very well at a reasonable price.
Just purchased a new 4K Sony TV so I wanted a matching sound bar to go with it and this fitted the bill nicely, not sure about the immersive sound feature but the voice mode is helpful if the dialogue is a bit muffled and it definitely makes a good hash of action sequences with the bangs and crashes having real presence when in Dolby Atmos mode.
For the money it’s a good buy.
Super easy to set-up but you need your own HDMI cable. Paired with an LG C9, I can now watch all content on Prime Video without needing to turn on subtitles – and it sounds great. Before, when I was on the default TV speakers, I needed subtitles for most Prime Video content and some Netflix content.
Where this soundbar + sub really shine is when you watch 5.1 content or Dolby Atmos optimised content, it’s loud, it’s clear and you feel the bass.
Dialogue is still at times a little hard to hear, but 90% of the time it’s perfec
Bought this to go with my Samsung Qled tv as the Samsung soundbars with Dolby atmos were far to expensive. The sound is perfect, remote is easy to use. Tested it as soon as it came, with a 4k blu ray movie and I felt like I was sat in the cinema for a minute. Top quality sound bar for a decent price. Definitely recommend
One massive draw back for this product is the stupid 2 small holes they put on the sound bar for anyone who wants to mount it like I did .
I had to use a drill and widen the hole where you put in the two bolts that support it as when installed there wasn’t enough holding the bar and I was afraid it would fall off . Anyone who has hung this under a tv or wall mounted it will know what I’m talking about .
Over all I’m very impressed with the sound and love it .
If you plan to mount it under your tv where it moves with the tv when you pull the tv off the wall with the movable bracket and don’t want the hassle off making the entrance holes wider on the sound bar I suggest you buy the small shelf that can be attached to the tv and the sound bar simply sits on it .
I updated the TV to a newer Samsung model with HDR10+ support and temporarily changed the BD player to the excellent Panasonic UB820. I noted when playing a HDR10+ dynamic film that the HDR10+ was not passed through the soundbar unlike dolby vision. I had to use both HDMI outputs from the BD player to bypass video though the Sony. HDR10+ was then present.
I have also “enjoyed” sound drop out issues with eARC.
To be fair at no point does Sony indicate HDR10+ pass through in the specs unlike Dolby Vision. Sony has also released a firmware update to repair the eARC sound drop out problems (v1.100 or v2.111)
This still retains 5 stars simply because of the support provided by Sony and it is still as good as the day I installed it.
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I needed a lower cost soundbar when moving house to “fill” a 18×15 feet room. My expectations were not sky high as this is only a 3.1 system without tweeters but I was sure it would sound way better than the Samsung MU6470 it is connected to. First of all this is a hefty main unit. The sub woofer is much the same. It is well put together. Pairing the sub woofer was simple – it just paired! The remote is small, simply laid out and works. I used a HDMI lead to connect to the ARC on the TV and a second to connect to a Blu ray player. I simply set auto sound and height/surround on. Now for the sound quality: exceptional given its limitations. High end treble is slightly muffled as there are no tweeters. Mid range and bass reproduction is very good to excellent depending on the source. Moreover at a reasonable volume it does “fill” the room. Bluetooth connectivity was excellent with multiple sources for music playback.
Please remember this is not an expensive soundbar and most certainly not an AV Hifi separates setup. But it holds its own reasonably against a 9.1 setup I have in the lounge. If you have a modest budget, don’t want a mile of wiring in the room and prefer a simple solution I personally consider this to be a worthwhile alternative. Don’t forget to check for firmware updates.
I am hearing much more audio than I have ever before and couldn’t quite believe what I have been missing with the stock LG C9 TV speakers.
Voices are now very clear and the bass is subtle yet powerful. ARC is great and means I just need to plug the TV into the soundbar at all times and plug any other device into the 2nd HDMI on the soundbar. Amazingly my TV remote now controls the soundbar too making the rather shabby soundbar remote redundant.
All in all very pleased with this and exceeded my expectations.
This soundbar seems to take several steps forwards with some noticeable steps backwards with one being no rear speaker support unlike the Sony ZF9 but has some amazing implementation of surround sound through their surround sound upscaling technology on none supported sound. It isn’t true surround because of the rear speakers simply not being supported but it definitely does a nice job if you don’t want the clutter of extra speakers, but I don’t see what the issue of simply having the option available would cost them if someone wanted them later down the line?
All in all, I am extremely happy with the audio, with pretty much anything you listen to feeling a lot more crisp and clear with it being able to decode sounds that just simply aren’t there on any TV’s speakers. Also, when you enable the sound feature on this soundbar, it definitely makes the audio a lot easier to hear.
At an affordable price for having Dolby Atmos support, this is the soundbar you want to get for the convenience as the subwoofer is completely wireless, amazing value for money and being up to date by having eARC (using the full bandwidth of an HDMI 2.1 cables) and having both Dolby Atmos and DTS X support all in one, at an affordable price