I brought the soundbar for $170 at Costco. One thing I can say that the Solo's biggest strength is in dialogue clarity. Music doesn't sound bad, I think it does a decent job but nothing compare to bose's other soundbars like the 700. The bar's volume is pretty loud but it depends on what source your using. It supports stereo and dolby digital which is suprising since the bar only contains two speakers inside of it. My main complaint is the volume level when watching blurays with Dolby digital. The max volume seems to sound really low to me when set the sound output on both my tv and xbox one to dolby digital. I decided to change the output to stereo on both devices and the volume seem to have increased. This was not a problem when watching through my direct tv service as the volume was really loud on there. 500 and 700 soundbars doesn't suffer this problem since both have very high volume levels. Sound quality is decent and it doesn't become distorted or muffled the more you increase the volume. This is made for small rooms such as bedrooms. Don't expect it to fill up medium to large size rooms because you will be disappointed. In general, it's a decent soundbar, but I wish its volume was bit higher. I think bose should have added adpatiq which it could help the bar on volume and sound quality