Bose Smart Soundbar 900 Black

Bose Smart Soundbar 900 — Dolby Atmos Soundbar with ADAPTiQ Room Calibration and Built-in Voice Control

The Smart Soundbar 900 was Bose’s first Dolby Atmos soundbar, built to do Atmos without a room full of speakers. Nine drivers sit inside its low, wide cabinet — including two upward-firing dipole transducers that bounce height effects off your ceiling — and Bose’s PhaseGuide and TrueSpace processing place sounds at specific points around the room, including spots where no speaker exists. A tempered-glass top and a fine metal grille make it one of the few soundbars that looks as considered as it sounds.

Key features

• Dolby Atmos, Dolby TrueHD, Dolby Digital Plus and Dolby Digital decoding
• Nine drivers, including two up-firing dipole transducers for height effects
• Bose PhaseGuide and TrueSpace spatial processing
• ADAPTiQ audio calibration, tuned to your room with the included headset
• Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant built in, with Voice4Video TV control
• Wi-Fi streaming: AirPlay 2, Spotify Connect and Chromecast built-in
• Bluetooth 4.2 for phone streaming, and SimpleSync pairing with Bose headphones

How the 900 creates surround and height

Conventional soundbars aim sound at you and let processing suggest the rest. Bose combines two physical approaches. PhaseGuide uses precisely arranged drivers to send distinct sounds towards the left and right edges of the room, so an effect can sit beside you rather than somewhere vaguely in front. For height, the two dipole transducers fire upwards and reflect Atmos height channels off the ceiling. When the content is not Atmos — an older 5.1 track or plain stereo — TrueSpace remixes the signal to keep that sense of space and height instead of collapsing everything to the front.

ADAPTiQ: calibrated to your room, not a showroom

Where a soundbar sits changes how it sounds. A corner placement, a long room, soft furnishings or hard floors all shift the balance. ADAPTiQ measures the room from five listening positions using the headset included in the box, then adjusts the soundbar’s output to compensate. It takes a few minutes, and it is the biggest improvement you can make after unboxing. Dialogue clarity benefits in particular, and a dedicated Dialogue Mode in the Bose Music app helps further when speech gets buried in a busy mix.

Streaming, voice control and room to grow

Over Wi-Fi, the 900 works with AirPlay 2, Spotify Connect and Chromecast, and groups with other Bose smart speakers for multiroom music in the Bose Music app. Alexa and Google Assistant are built in for hands-free control, and Voice4Video uses that same voice control to run your TV and set-top box. If you want more later, the soundbar connects wirelessly to an optional Bose Bass Module 500 or 700 and to Bose Surround Speakers, while SimpleSync pairs your Bose headphones for private listening.

As a single-box upgrade from TV speakers, the Soundbar 900 covers the essentials unusually well: real Atmos height effects, proper room calibration, the main streaming platforms, and a clear upgrade path if you later want a subwoofer and rear speakers.

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Complete your setup: Pair the Bose Smart Soundbar 900 Black with the Bose Bass Module 700 Subwoofer and the Bose Bass Module 500 Subwoofer.