Herein lies the "devil" in detail

The Cinebar 52 THX is not my first Devil product in the house. Due to excellent experience with the Cinebar 11, so I ordered mine full of expectations, the much larger and supposedly sound better model of the manufacturer which has even received the THX certification. The delivery was quick and easy. All components have been packaged well. Design and connection are done quickly. The connecting cable to the subwoofer is not particularly disturbing here.

For further understanding in advance briefly to the used components:

- Panasonsic plasma TV from 2013
- Panasonic BluRay player from 2011
- Sky Pace satellite receiver with HDD (currently)
- WD TV Live Media Player (first generation)

Due to the various playback devices you can certainly imagine why I chose 52 THX for Cinebar. The facilities at entrances examined under the SoundBar in the price range of his peers! But this is precisely the "devil" in detail.
A first test yet brought enthusiasm pure, the sound is really very good and also fills large spaces very well. The subwoofer does not support this pleasant but pushy. Exactly what I was looking, I thought!
Now began the problems not only of Cinebar attributable 52 probably still exist here apparently considerable incompatibilities.

Trying durchzuschliefen the Sky receiver and the media player via the integrated HDMI ports, was promptly acknowledged with a sound problem. These are manifested in the form of short interrupted audio. The sound from Blu-ray player is without problems. The problem is on all 4 HDMI inputs. Of course you can, thanks to ARC also go the opposite way and connect all playback devices to the TV, if it has sufficient inputs. This led me to the problem that not every TV maker Dolby Digital leads back to the HDMI ARC. However, this would probably eliminate the sound problems the soundbar so depends only sound in stereo format (PCM) on the soundbar. Only when connecting a setter to the optical cable from the Soundbar is the sound properly and the appropriate quality (Dolby Digital, DTS) is automatically detected. However, this then also lost any comfort by ARC, the use of which the manufacturer himself even recommended.

In addition to the sound problems occurred when Sky receiver to more dropouts. If you switch from an SD channel on an HD channel, although the sound is transmitted, however, the picture is no longer. Only after several back and forth the channel you get another picture.

The included remote control gives the impression as if they belong to a cheap stereo. To all abundance the Soundbar responded despite new battery markedly delayed on the input from these. The Cinebar 11 enclosed remote control here was better by a mile, as you will also find for each source has a one-touch key.

The conclusion: The system is packed again and goes back to the manufacturer. Unfortunately remains nothing more than disappointment and now once again the tinny sound of the TV.