Product Comparison: Yamaha YAS-106 vs Yamaha YAS-108

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Yamaha YAS-106 Sound Bar with Dual Built-In Subwoofers

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Yamaha YAS-108 Sound Bar with Built-in Subwoofers & Bluetooth

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General Specifications

Brand

Yamaha

Model

YAS-106

YAS-108

Origin

Japan

About the Product

Enhance your favorite shows and music with clear, full-range sound from this sleek sound bar featuring built-in subwoofers. Its ultra Slim design fits neatly in front of your TV, on a shelf or can be mounted to a wall.

Complement your TV with theater-quality sound from your favorite movies, music, and games. This ultra-slim sound bar fits discreetly in front of your TV or on a shelf, or can be rotated for a low-profile wall mount.

Key Specs

Minimum Frequency Response

60 Hz

Maximum Frequency Response

23 kHz

20 kHz

Power Output

120 Watt

What customers say about "Key Specs"

Yamaha YAS-106 Sound Bar with Dual Built-In Subwoofers

It has a nice design and pretty much blends in to the background. The low profile works nicely as it doesn't block any of the sensors for the TV controls.
TV sound is vastly improved, the virtual surround works nicely, and bass is sufficient.
Nice sound bar with good sound and excellent connectivity options. No space in my set up for surround sound so this filled my need quite well.
The sound is very distorted at a high frequency response. Which is very annoying because speech is hard to hear.
At low and high frequency response, a murky sound appears that does not allow you to hear well speech.

Yamaha YAS-108 Sound Bar with Built-in Subwoofers & Bluetooth

Sounds amazing for the price! Nice even representation of all frequencies, and adjustable internal subwoofer level.
Music sounds good, I get a nice deep sound when watching movies and TV.
The unit itself is low profile and feels very sturdy and nicely built. Remote is very nice with numerous modes and controls.
I have a hearing loss in the high frequencies. I can't understand most English movies, they sound muffled.
The bottom line is that there is a hole in the frequency response that makes male voices sound bloated but not particularly full.

Size & Weight

Color

Black

Height

5.13 in.

Width

35 in.

Depth

2.13 in.

Weight

7.1 lbs.

What customers say about "Size & Weight"

Yamaha YAS-106 Sound Bar with Dual Built-In Subwoofers

Sounds great for the size. The sub really completes the sound envelope and adds to the quality depth of the sound.
I’m happy with the sound produced by the sound bar, the size and quality, but I hate the remote and especially the stupid app which is such a pain to access and use.
Excellent quality for the price. It's compact yet has rich sound. There are certainly better sound bars out there but not anywhere near this price.
This is a terrific, compact, powerful system. Which does its job perfectly.
The result is big heavy speakers and wires all over the place. Yes, those set ups provide you with great sound.

Yamaha YAS-108 Sound Bar with Built-in Subwoofers & Bluetooth

The bass is surprisingly powerful for it's size. Trebel is great. Not amazing but great.
This is a great sized soundbar that produces clean sound. Now that they finally have the app working, I've finally been able to tune it to my liking.
It has good sound, it is compact, and it is inexpensive.
I was looking for a compact sound bar with a bit of bass without a external subwoofer for the TV in my room. And this one does it perfectly.
I have not wall mounted mine, the sound bar is heavy and substantial therefore, it is likely that it may fall.

Features

Type

Tabletop

Installation Type

Stand-alone, Wall-mount

Number of Channels

2.1

Sound Enhancing System

Dolby Digital, Dolby Pro Logic II, DTS Digital Surround, Virtual Surround Processor

DTS Virtual:X, Dolby Digital, Dolby Pro Logic II, DTS Digital Surround

Extras

Bass Extended, 3D Pass-through, 4K Pass-Through, Ultra Slim Design, Compressed Music Enhancer

Bluetooth® Wireless Music Streaming from Your Smartphone or Tablet, Compressed Music Enhancer, Auto Lip-Sync, 3D Pass-through, 4K Pass-Through, Dual Subwoofers Built-in, Amazon Alexa via Bluetooth

What customers say about "Features"

Yamaha YAS-106 Sound Bar with Dual Built-In Subwoofers

This is a nice sleek sound bar - very easy to hook up to my TV and turn it on - no fancy setups or difficult installations involved.
Wall mounting installation was easy. Does include a template for where two drill the two holes for mounting, but does not come with the actual hardware screws for mounting.
This one fits the bill for all three. Super easy to install and set up, and the sound quality is excellent.
Sound quality is above average for similarly priced sound bars I have heard and the voice enhancement feature is a big help to those who may be experiencing diminished hearing.
HDMI out isn't compatible with 4k which seems weird because almost all new tv's in 2016 are 4k.

Yamaha YAS-108 Sound Bar with Built-in Subwoofers & Bluetooth

Very simple install, and craftsmanship looks good. Also allows you connect to a separate subwoofer, but so far the built in bass seems pretty good, with enhanced boost turned on.
It was easy to install and easy to use. It Improved the sound of the television 100 percent and also the cd player.
I love the clear voice option, great overall sound compared to the TV speakers. I would like to state I did struggle to get it connected to my TV.
Installation is easy but setting the system took me more than expected.
Games come more alive, but voices are more muddied, even using the "Clear Voice" setting.

Setting

App-Controlled

Yes

Equalizer Settings

Game, Clear voice, Music, Sports, Movie, TV program

Music, TV program, Movie, Sports, Game, Clear voice

App-Controlled

Connectivity

Wireless Connectivity

Bluetooth

Interfaces

HDMI Output x 1, HDMI input x 1

Analog audio, Digital optical audio, HDMI Output x 1, HDMI input x 1

What customers say about "Connectivity"

Yamaha YAS-106 Sound Bar with Dual Built-In Subwoofers

Perhaps one of the best features on the speaker is the Bluetooth connectivity.
It is very easy to interface between either my MacBook or iPad to test out some of my playlists.
Sound quality is actually pretty good. Streaming songs from my phone via Bluetooth is a nice feature. It's fairly easy to use with the units remote or your phone app.
The supplied optical digital audio cable failed after only two weeks of use.
When I turn on the unit in the next day their is no sound because HDMI (ARC) for some reason gets out of sync or perhaps or is faulty, difficult to say.

Yamaha YAS-108 Sound Bar with Built-in Subwoofers & Bluetooth

Bluetooth is great, can overlap over other things that's playing via ARC, HDMI, etc. Audio via Bluetooth is compressed so it's best to play it using something connected to it.
Love the "always on" Bluetooth. Easily connect/disconnect without having to walk to the unit to turn it on/off.
It's a nice feature that I can just connect via Bluetooth and then play music from my phone.
The optical port on the Soundbar was loose or defective because the sound kept cutting in and out.
Optical port is faulty and does not maintain consistent connection. Had item replaced and continued to see the same issue.

Warranty / Certifications

Manufacturer Warranty

1 year(s)

Certifications

CE, IC, FCC