Product Description
Slim Soundbar with built-in subwoofer has never looked better. The CSMP90 home theater system brings action and adventure to your living room in a stylish and space saving option. With a powerful 2.1 Channel system that provides full bass support, the CSMP90 completes your immersive audio experience from movies to music. In addition, listen to your music wirelessly from any Bluetooth enabled device such as a tablet or a smartphone. Easy access front panel controls and a quick plug-and-play set-up allows for simple installation. The CSMP90 can be wall mountable to complement your flat panel TV or displayed on a table top.
| List Price: | $79.99 |
| Price: |
$69.00 & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25. Details |
| as of Sun, 10 Mar 2013 14:33:52 GMT ***Remember, deals price on this item for sale just for limited time*** | |
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #2267 in Home Theater
- Color: Black
- Brand: Coby
- Model: CSMP90
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 15.10" h x 5.60" w x 33.50" l, 6.00 pounds
Features
- 2.1 Soundbar with built-in subwoofer
- Bluetooth enabled for wireless streaming
- Preset Sound Modes
- LED Display
- Panel Controls
Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews
52 of 56 people found the following review helpful.
By U. Joshi
It is really hard to find a review of this Coby CSMP90 by a real user.It was on sale in BestBuy and I took the chance. At 69.99$ and 3 year warranty at 7$ it was not much of a risk for me. Here is the experience.
Soundbar is nicely heavy and is wall mountable. ( comes with mounting hardware)
soundbar itself has line-in, RCA, co-ax(SPDIF) and Bluetooth connectivity. (No optical)
Has in Built 30W subwoofer. You can set the sub level which is really good. ( Through remote)
has sub output if you decide to add a subwoofer to the setup.
Has controls for right and left channel level. Also for treble.(Through remote)
Has built in modes like cinema/pop/Jazz/rock/Cinema/Vocal etc. (Set Through remote)
has scrolling display which stays on for 5 secs or so when you change modes/volumes Or input.
You can control all bluetooth music through Coby remote. ( forward/reverse/play/pause/stop/vol). I streamed with Samsung phone for about 4 hrs and no hick ups.
The only problem is I have to power on sound bar every time I connect my phone. On the other hand my creative BT speaker automatically turn on when I connect my phone.
The most important thing is sound quality and it's really good. subwoofer is loud enough and handled low frequencies nicely.Midrange is good as well.
This is my second purchase of Coby brand. The original Coby CD player lasted forever till I stopped using it. But I was cautioned to obtain warranty to be on safe side.
Bottom line is for the price this is really feature rich unit. I wish it lasts few years.
16 of 17 people found the following review helpful.
By Brad R.
I bought this exact sound bar from a major retailer because it was on sale and I had a giftcard. It was hard to find a good review out there. I was even trying to see pictures of the inputs and what the display looked like but for some reason the information on this item is very limited. I'll list some of the things I liked and disliked.
PROS
- Good sound
- Price
- Sub woofer out (not even mentioned in the description) I tested it and it works very well with my Onkyo powered sub.
- Bluetooth works well with iPhone 5
- Easy to set up with coax input as well as RCA/3.5mm inputs
CONS
- LCD display is orange and looks like a 1990's LED alarm clock
- HORRIBLE manual! Setting up the product is easy but there is no info on what the settings do and how to set up bluetooth. I'm good with technology so it wasn't difficult to figure out, but someone who isn't good with technology will get no help from the manual.
- MAJOR FLAW: The remote control for my tv and cable box change settings on the sound bar. Example, when I want to scroll through the guide on my cable box and press the down arrow, it changes the setting from LOUD OFF to LOUD ON. This is just one example of many that affect the sound bar's settings and volume control. Which is extremely annoying. I thought I would be able to just get used to it and switch it back but after a while it was just getting too annoying. It's strange because the Coby remote doesn't change anything on my cable box or tv, so I'm guessing the remote receiver on the sound bar is very susceptible to interference.
This was unfortunately a deal breaker for me, regardless of the price and bluetooth and sound quality, this all became useless if you can't use the sound bar anywhere around other remote controls (which is the whole point.) I'm assuming other remote controls will cause the same issues that I had. The only setup this will probably work is in a room without a tv and you are using the sound bar just to use with your phone or a wired device. I ended up returning this product as much as I wanted it to work out.
16 of 17 people found the following review helpful.
By M. Sanges
We bought this sound bar to pair with the lower-tier LED TV (RCA LED46A55R120Q 46-Inch 1080p 120Hz LED HDTV) we bought for my in-laws, and we ended up returning it by the end of the week.
There's enough tweakable settings to play with (and we'll get to those) to make the sound feel OK, but compared to a real sound system it wasn't stellar, and we had set our expectations accordingly going into it. The first immediate issue we had was that the settings have no specific explanation as to what you're adjusting, so I hope you're good at guessing--we did alright after a while. No help was to be found with the two-to-three letter abbreviations that come up on the display, nor in the poorly written manual which just tells you what order these "letters" will come up in when cycling through with the menu button and this manual seems to be there mostly to tell you in 4 different languages that, big surprise, you can adjust these settings by pressing buttons--and that's a help, right? These abbreviations are as specific as "Tu," "Su," "Lu," to name a few.
The website is equally as useful, you can find the exact same info & help here on Amazon as you do at their official CobyUSA site. If you want to get in touch with them about help with a specific product, they provide a business-hours-only hotline or else you can send an email to their catch-all support address. We had visited their site in hopes of finding further discussion or detail about these vague menus but was greeted by a list of specs, and even the "Downloads" tab was lacking since you can simply download hi-res photos of the product--no Contact Forms, and no product FAQs--making the site about as useful as anything else involving the product at this point.
The number one qualm we had with the sound bar itself, aside from lackluster sound and that the engineers at Coby presume the consumer automatically knows as much about the sound bar as they do, was that the IR sensor for the remote picks up signals from all sorts of TV commands that it absolutely should not. I must preface this complaint first however, by saying that this low-end RCA we had it attached to had no option to configure it's audio output from variable to fixed volume, so just maybe this could fix some of the mess but I doubt enough. Doing a little research I saw one complaint about some wayward Vizio TV remote commands being picked up by the sound bar, but from my experience, all brands will have this issue. It started off subtle, with the sound bar hooked-up (we tried through the TV's coaxial port, and the standard red/white composite ports, aka "RCA" ports) we found it odd that when we would accidentally press the volume-up button on the TV remote that the sound bar screen would light up like it received a command and would actually turn-down; however the same would happen when we would press the volume-down button on the TV remote--the sound bar would light up and the volume would go... DOWN.
It was immediately noticeable how vast of a problem this sound bar had with random IR signals when I was adjusting picture settings on the TV. Even the obscure commands on the TV remote like the arrow keys being pressed to adjust the contrast would be interpreted by the sound bar as the button to scroll through menus, or jump to a preset equalizer mode, or randomly it would turn the volume up or down, again. This is the very definition of a slipshod design. The dealbreaker came when I decided to test if it was possible it could just be *this* RCA TV remote and this *one* other reviewer's Vizio TV remote, that were having issues with what the Coby interprets, so I grabbed my remote from the spare room TV, a Sony, and with my RCA TV turned off and just the sound bar turned on, to make sure there wasn't odd talkback between the devices, I hit random buttons on the Sony remote and sure enough, same problem, and from there I packed it up and back to the store it went for a refund.
That's the kind of positively lackluster performance and lazy engineering one expects to find from an off-brand that you can pickup at Big Lots or Family Dollar for $40 less, not from a "real" brand of home electronics.
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