
One area where the Nebula Soundbar does pretty well, however, is with voices. Music from Old Crow Medicine Show and Flogging Molly lacked bass, and even the treble instruments sounded a little muddled. In The Avengers, the fire of Chitauri weapons barely made any impact even the Hulk smashing a gigantic war machine felt flat. When I watched Star Trek, a Klingon crew made a lot of noise transporting into a scene, but one of them decking Captain Kirk made almost no sound. I tested the Nebula Soundbar with a variety of shows, movies and music albums to make sure that it wasn't a fluke, but my experience remained pretty consistent across the board. I found that I almost preferred the built-in speakers on my test TV (a Vizio PX65-G1, which is hardly an auditory powerhouse). It's very quiet, the bass is weak and the dialogue balance is off. Anker Nebula Soundbar performanceĪ soundbar lives or dies by its sound quality, and the Nebula Soundbar simply doesn't sound very good. It can get complicated fast, depending on how many features you want to use. For older TVs, you can connect the soundbar via an optical cable you can also use a Bluetooth setting to play your own music from a phone or a computer. But you'll need the ARC setting if you want to route, say, a PS4's sound, and that's dependent on having an HDMI ARC input, which not every TV does.

The FTV setting ensures that the TV's sound is always routed through the soundbar, as long as you're using the Fire TV interface. It's also not that easy to determine which input to use for sound other than that from the Fire TV OS that's built into the soundbar.
