
The sound base was received on time but the factory box it was sent in was damaged. Luckily everything stayed in what was left of the box and only a very small scratch remained on the sound base. never mind It just plugs into the TV's headphone jack and I can use the TV's volume control on the sound base. The TV, however, is a Sony with a built-in equalizer that doesn't produce enough bass no matter how it's set. This prevents the soundbase from producing as much bass as we would like when plugged into the headphone jack. Not the fault of the soundbase, just a crappy equalizer on a Sony TV. I tried it on a smaller and much cheaper bedroom TV that doesn't have an equalizer and the soundbase sounded fine when connected to that TV. Haven't tried connecting it to Sony with an optical audio cable yet, but I suspect the sound will be much better, but I'll likely lose the ability to control the volume with the TV remote. In general, the solid base is a pretty good result.

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