Roku Pro Series (2025)
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Stereo imaging and virtual surround are unusually convincing for built-in speakers, creating a wider and more immersive soundstage than typical TVs.
Pros: overall satisfaction, picture quality
Cons: reliability, portability and versatility
Amplify mode opens the presentation noticeably, creating a wider and more involving soundstage than the default setting.
Pros: glare resistance, black levels
Cons: Dolby Vision support, color gamut
The 2.1.2 speaker layout creates a surprisingly broad, immersive stage for a TV, including usable height effects in some rooms.
Pros: overall satisfaction, picture quality
Cons: reliability, build quality
The built-in speakers create a fuller and more spacious soundstage than expected for a budget flat-panel TV.
Pros: overall satisfaction, value for money
Cons: smart TV platform, blooming control
Acoustic Surface Audio creates a wide, well-localized presentation that extends beyond the screen, though a full surround system still adds more immersion.
Pros: gaming performance, peak brightness
Cons: HDMI 2.1 support, HDMI 2.1 port count
The TV can create a surprisingly wide, spacious stage, but some setups still make the sound feel tied to or behind the screen.
Pros: overall satisfaction, picture quality
Cons: HDMI 2.1 port count, reflection handling
The soundstage is broad, tall and spatially convincing, with effects extending beyond the screen and good positional precision.
Pros: overall satisfaction, overall image accuracy
Cons: value for money, bass performance
Sound has a pleasant breadth and wider profile than basic TV speakers, even without convincing height effects. It is competent rather than truly cinematic.
Pros: picture quality, overall satisfaction
Cons: value for money, reliability
Virtual spatial processing adds a noticeable sense of height and width. It is effective for casual immersion but does not replace a real surround setup.
Pros: picture quality, value for money
Cons: stand quality, judder handling
The presentation can sound wider and more precisely mapped than older C-series TVs, yet standard models still feel narrow beside a dedicated sound system.
Pros: picture quality, gaming performance
Cons: value for money, sound quality
Audio can spread beyond the screen with decent directionality, yet it often remains contained and lacks the scale of stronger built-in systems.
Pros: picture quality, peak brightness
Cons: value for money, sound quality
AI Sound Pro can make the presentation feel wider, but opinions are mixed because some reviewers found the result hollow or overprocessed. Standard or Cinema modes may sound more balanced.
Pros: overall satisfaction, portability and versatility
Cons: value for money, menu responsiveness
Removing the older Soundstage audio port is treated as a setback caused by the slimmer design.
Pros: contrast ratio, value for money
Cons: peak brightness, HDR brightness
The soundstage is narrow and rarely extends beyond the screen.
Pros: picture quality, value for money
Cons: stand quality, daytime viewing performance