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The All-In-One Vizio SB362An-F6 36" 2.1 Channel Soundbar - REVIEWED!
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May 29, 2025
[[ Disclosure: Vizio provided us with the soundbar in return for this review ]] There are plenty of soundbars on the market that require you to figure out how to place a subwoofer, satellite speakers and wire it all up neatly. The new Vizio SB362An-F6 turns all that on its head, though, offering great sound and deep bass without any separate speakers. Tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ puts the Vizio soundbar through its paces with Bluetooth and TV audio and comes away quite impressed... Check it out at https://www.Vizio.com/
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a one-piece soundbar that you'd swear
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has a subwoofer let's check this out
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dave taylor here and i'm looking at this
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this is the very nice Vizio SB 360 2a
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and f6 let's just call it the 36 inch
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2.1 channel sound bar now what makes
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this really cool is no subwoofer no
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satellite speakers no complications it's
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a single wire between the TV and the
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sound bar and it gives you a really nice
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room filling sound what's better is it
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as multiple inputs so you not only have
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your TV input and we're using optical
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we'll come back to inputs in a minute
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but it also has other choices including
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Bluetooth so I've paired it with my
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phone so let's use my phone as a
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Bluetooth audio source and see how it
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sounds
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now let's turn that off for a minute
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because we don't need to stay on
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Bluetooth because we have this handy
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remote control and with this we're gonna
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switch inputs and you can see here these
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lights show up to show you what input
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you're on and takes a little getting the
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hang of it to figure out which is which
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but not a huge problem and now here
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we're gonna jump onto the TV this is a
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Vizio 55-inch TV it's a very nice 4k TV
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I like Vizio in case you haven't figured
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that out but we're on Netflix and I
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don't really have permission for Netflix
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so we listen to and watch really really
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short segments so let's go ahead and
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start with this new show called frontier
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looks pretty good let's actually start
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from the beginning you ready let's see
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how this sound bar sounds with this
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particular show and should load in just
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a second or two and actually haven't
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seen this show yet so I'm curious what
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it looks like to
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so you already have that nice Netflix
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sound took a second of warm up but I
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like all these shows to start out with
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super dramatic music it just makes me
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ready for something really big and
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intense to happen now I'm not really
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showing off the TV so you don't really
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have to care what the image looks like
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you're just hearing the music right so
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you know what let's pause and in fact
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let's actually pause and back up so I
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just want to tell you more about the
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sound bar because that's really what
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we're focused on it's a really cool
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sound bar now it obviously can sit flat
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on your table it's super easy it even is
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a cutout on the back for the wires so
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you don't have to worry about it being a
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little bouncy but you can also mount it
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on your wall it's super easy it just has
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two holes and it even comes with a big
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piece of paper so you can get those
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holes on the wall exactly in the right
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place well that makes it easy to and as
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I said it has lots of different inputs
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on the back as you can see in this
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close-up there is a box and on the box
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actually has power on one side and on
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the other side it has optical aux and
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USB now I connect it to my television
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with optical and if you have that option
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you should always use that that's going
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to give you the best quality audio but
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if you can't then you could use included
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in the packages like an RCA to aux the
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optical cable is included and with USB
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you're not gonna hook your TV up via USB
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but you can put on a flash drive or you
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can hook it up presumably to your
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computer but let's you know use it for
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your flash drive and now you can have
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hundreds of songs and now this becomes a
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really nice party speaker now one of the
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things I had in mind when I got this
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from vizio was would this work in my
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son's dorm room and the answer is oh
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heck yeah this would be a great dorm
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room speaker you can just imagine it's
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sitting on top of a cabinet or something
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and it's low people can put pieces of
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paper on it as needed and then whenever
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you want to you pick up your phone and
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your other Bluetooth device and you push
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out music Spotify whatever it is that
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you like to listen to and this is going
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to make it sound great when you're ready
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you turn on your computer monitor or
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maybe you have a big television
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then this becomes your TV soundbar total
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when no other speakers no other wires a
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single thing to plug into the wall super
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easy really this is actually kind of the
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perfect dorm room maybe a little Bigfoot
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dorm but you know modern dorm rooms
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actually have a fair amount of space at
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least the ones I've seen in the last
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couple of years this would be a really
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good choice now it also has other things
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number one has the remote and remotes
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very handy but the remote gives you
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access to a couple of features that are
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really worth talking about one of which
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is DTS virtual X this gives you
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simulated overhead sound so what it does
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is you can see the ends are at a pretty
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you know sort of angle oblique angle
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whatever and it pushes music up and then
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that can bounce off the ceiling and it
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gives you this really sort of surround
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envelope of audio and if that's not
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enough then Vizio has also included true
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volume which actually levels out the
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volume which is more noticeable when you
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have really loud ads and really quiet TV
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shows but all of that's really great and
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you can turn it on and off with the
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remote as you can see in this close-up
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gives you lots of other controls I wish
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that there was a little display that
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showed you what input you would selected
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there's a little bit of mystery involved
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in learning all the secret light code
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but that's probably just a minute or two
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to figure out and you have the
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integrated subwoofers and everything so
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this is really all like this is the
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whole package right here it was really
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really nice and all the cables are
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included there's really not much else to
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talk about that I see very few downsides
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to this other than again I wish there
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was a better way to know which input you
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had chosen but I guess if they don't
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want to have a display on here then
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you're gonna have to have some way
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that's really subtle and the light does
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work oh and it's also worth me telling
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you that on this side as you can see in
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this close-up there are actually five
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buttons so if you don't even want the
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remote you can just put it aside and you
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can just use these controls and then
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with the input then it becomes really
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easy because you can just choose inputs
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until you hear the source music that you
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want whether it's bluetooth whether it's
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off your aux cable or whether it's off
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of
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television so really that kind of
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sidesteps a lot of my issues so lot to
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really like about that's not the least
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of which is the price but before we get
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there let me ask if you can go ahead and
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click on that subscribe button
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really appreciate it cool now this Vizio
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SB 3 6 2 ANF 6 36 inch 2.1 channel sound
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bar is gonna cost you one hundred and
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thirty nine ninety-nine at Vizio comm
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but if you dig around online I found it
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for under $100 at other online retailers
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so I would definitely recommend that you
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shop around and this is worth it it's
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worth it at one hundred and thirty nine
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ninety nine cuz this is a great addition
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to any TV and if you have an older TV
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and you're just relying on the little
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dinky speakers that are built into
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televisions I don't care what brand it
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is those are not very good speakers
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compared to adding a sound bar and
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adding something like this with such a
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rich lush sound it's gonna amaze you how
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much better all of your TV experiences
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are so this is Dave Taylor I'm getting
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back to frontier which means I'll kind
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to you in my next video
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