Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I bought this sound bar for purpose of being a speaker. But it makes a set of privacy destroying demands for no good reason:    * I cannot use this without installing the app. Ok, I reluctantly did that.    * I cannot use the app without creating an account. It is a SOUND BAR. But still, I reluctantly did that too.    * It asked me for permission to know my location. I denied it of course. It is a SOUND BAR! It does not need to know my location. Without granting it permission to read my location, I still could not use the app. And hence I cannot use the sound bar. This was finally too much to consider. I am not going to tell a sound bar my location so I can use it as a SOUND BAR. In the user interface, I did click on "Why does this app need my location?" (or words to that effect). The resulting explanation made no sense. I then tried to use it without the app, but could not. I am a computer security professional and researcher. So I can confirm the common sense conclusion that most everyone would come to anyway: There is no good excuse for a SOUND BAR to make any of these demands. Perhaps there is additional enhanced functionality that would be enabled by these extra permissions --- though the explanation offered by the app made no sense. But even if true, the sound bar should still have its basic functionality --- all I needed --- without these privacy destroying permissions. These privacy destroying "requirements" were also not disclosed in the description. Hence I am returning.