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I was tired of speakers and wires all over the room just for Surround sound for home theater. Then I came across this sound bar. It was perfect!
A sound bar plus woofer speaker is all that makes up this system. But it somehow sends great sound all around the room. And the quality of sound is like nothing I've gotten from many other tested multi-speaker wired systems. Bells and high sounds sound real. Storms make you want to look outside to make sure its not real. Explosions, gun shots, you name it, very realistic.
I'll never go back to a wired multi-wired speaker system. Why bother?

My only issue is it has only three connections. One digital optical, one digital coaxial and one analog rca L/R (I don't use).
I added a digital optical switcher, to solve this issue. But they could have designed at least 3 optical and three coaxial as standard inputs.
This system sounds so good, why not complement it with more than enough inputs? However, they did not skimp on sound quality in any way.
Highly recommended! Fits perfect above plasma or LCD wall mounted HDTV's.

I researched this unit, and purchased it at Costco in-store which was significantly less that what Amazon sells it for. I hooked it up to the optical audio out on my flat screen and the TV sends the sound to the Yamaha whatever I am watching on the TV (cable, DVD, Roku, Wii, whatever). There is no receiver or additional equipment involved. The sound it crisp and it often sounds like the sound is coming from behind us like a full 5.1 system would. I highly recommend this unit.

I bought a Yamaha receiver to go with a surround sound package and I ended up with the YAS-70. The bad thing is the this unit does not hook up to a reciever at all so i spent money on something i never needed.

The bar hooks straight up to the subwoofer and the subwoofer hooks up to the TV. The only thing you have to buy is a digital optical cable (i think thats what it was-looks like a box on the end you plug in) that hooks up from the subwoofer to the TV. I then changed the settings on the tv from tv speakers to surround sound speakers. I dont even have to use my tv speakers anymore and if you did, you would get an echo sound because they were not working together.

I know hear everything on my YAS-70 like 360 and PS3. The base is deep and the speakers are loud. I have had my next door neighbors come over and tell me to turn it down when im watching a movie or playing battlfied. I love it!!!

The Wife absolutely hated the wood Bose 201s I had connected to our home theater. Apparently she was tired of wood and boxy speakers, so she tasked me with a deed: find sleek black speakers for her birthday.

Happy Birthday, then! I looked at comparable Bose solutions as well, but this wins out on price, comparable feature set, and sound quality. It sits on the mantle, right below our wall-mounted 46" Samsung, and looks sleek (and black!) FM radio and DVD playback were very good, although component audio as a source is quite low. Because it has optical audio input available, I can jack my Dish DVR into this and bring sound to life in a new way. I'll probably end up looking for a digital audio switcher myself, since it only has the one optical-in.

The remote looks up to most tasks, although it doesn't seem like it will replace any if all of the existing remotes (yet-another-remote). This really gets me to thinking that the real ultimate device would be a massive input-output box that would connect to a slim PC, and you would control your input/output switching with the box rather than six remotes and cable (un)plugging. But I digress...

This is a winning solution. The Wife had a great birthday, we have terrific sound with only two components and no wires or extra speakers scattered throughout the room. I'll buy the iPod connector and report back. This is a four-star buy.

-C

Easy setup and outstanding sound. I don't write many reviews, however, the Yamaha YAS-70BL inspired me
to do so. Get this system. ....