Passive Soundbar

I have two active Definitive soundbars and a 3-piece L-C-R of the Mythos 10 speakers. I'm sure their passive soundbars would sound very good. My son has a pair of their bookshelf speakers and I also have a Supercube 2000 sub from them. Everything I have experienced is quality.

I have the ssa 50 and I love it. I had a real surround sound system in my previous house but didn’t want wires and wanted a cleaner setup this time. It jams and gets far louder than I need it to. I’ve shown many people how loud it gets and give up before I hear any distortion. In the beginning of the Martian I really felt like debris was flying all around me. Is it as good as real surround sound? Of course not. But the clarity, depth and loudness are amazing. You have to turn down the center channel a couple notches on your receiver and turn up the real channels to increase the surround sound effect. I have my sub in the corner of the room away from the ssa 50. Between it shaking the walls and creating additional sound behind us and the ssa 50 I really don’t feel like I need anything else.

I really can’t say enough good about it. It makes everything sound good from music to classic movies to new blu rays. It’s def caught me off guard too the way the sound will bounce off the wall as if it’s coming from the rear of the room. I’ve looked back a couple times because of sirens in movies.

I feel ya here. Jamo used to make an awesome passive sound bar, that worked very well. You would think the market is there but sadly one stop shops(powered sound bars) win out. Def tech is good stuff

Yea that’s what I was struggling with most of the decent sound bars get up int it the $800-$1000 range and then I still question the sound quality vs a def tech speaker / sound that I am familiar with

When I first started looking at them I was seeing the $1000 price tag but realized that’s what the original price was. I found them for $500 and the SSA-42 for like 400ish it seems like a no brained to me to go for the 50

They also had another one that was a little more but it was the thin speaker design and I had read mix reviews about those

Pretty sure Def Tech stopped production of these so there should be good deals I just wouldn't wait too long.

I don't know about the sound bars but I have the DT pro cinema in our media room.

a couple of years ago the sub went out. I called them and had me a new board in the mail the same day no charge.

It came in this week and I “temped” it in with the receiver and hung it below the tv on the brackets I had.

That thing was heavy! It looks great and sounds amazing just like any other def tech speaker I have heard.

It was late last night so I really didn’t get to turn it up too loud but it sounds good.

The surround effect is there but not surround sound but the sound quality is great

No experience with a def tec passive sound bar but I run the UIW series inwall for my 9.1 system. Have a dozen of the 8” in ceiling speakers, 4 out the outdoors, and 4 other inwall. I really like the sound of there speakers. Not too bright not too soft.

I don’t know how I feel about a passive sound bar. To me the draw of a sound bar is just a bar on the wall under a tv...all in one...power and all. If I was going through the hassle of a sound bar that I had to have a separate amp for I’d just get some regular speakers. Can be small to mount on the wall or they may have onwall types you like.

Never even looked at a passive sound bar so I may be missing the point.

I have had it going for a few hours playing some Netflix but yea I hear you I don’t want to blow a speaker right out of the box