Pros
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It’s dead cheap -
Can be used as a Bluetooth speaker -
Doesn’t look or feel excessively cheap
Cons
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Harsh edge to sound -
Basic audio format support may cause technophobes headaches -
Predictably limited bass floor
Key Features
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Bluetooth
This soundbar can also function as a solid Bluetooth speaker, taking audio from your phone -
2.1 speaker
Two standard drivers and a larger 2.5-inch woofer make this a 2.1 stereo soundbar -
HDMI ARC
ARC allows for a simple TV connection and volume control, and at this level a lack of eARC isn’t huge
Introduction
Majority is a bit of a star at making conspicuously good-value audio tech. The Naga 60 is one of the most affordable full-size soundbars around, joining things like Majority’s desktop active speakers and DAB radios.
They are categories not quite as saturated as the Bluetooth speaker, which has been stuffed with brands most people don’t know for a decade.
For just under £70 the Majority Naga 60 nets you a wall mountable HDMI soundbar with an ARC connection for your TV, complete with remote control and Bluetooth for streaming from a phone. The cutbacks it makes to get there are substantial, but may make sense for many.
Top of my list is the Naga 60 sounds quite brash, suffering from shouty upper-mids.
Design
- Relatively short soundbar, ideal for smaller TVs
- Handy top buttons, which feel a little cheap
- Doesn’t feel cheap or flimsy in general
Majority has done a sound job of making the Naga 60 not feel or look too cheap. It’s not a featherlight plastic tube, for one. Much of the casing is a coated metal grille. This is commonly used to cover active drivers, but Majority goes a way further by putting it up top too, where there are no actual drivers.
It’s not a subtle look but works at this price.
The Naga 60 is 61cm wide, making it a decent fit for just about all the most popular living room TV sizes, 42-inches and up. There’s a useful display under the grille too. It displays the current mode.
Majority’s illusion doesn’t work as well at all distances, though. The buttons up top are quite cheap-feeling and clicky. And Majority made the strange decision to put a passive radiator-like… thing at each end, while calling these tweeters. They don’t behave like passive radiators or tweeters, and do not output any sound.
It makes you wonder: does Majority know what it’s doing?
You likely won’t be using the Majority Naga 60’s cheap buttons too often anyway, as it comes with a decent remote control and does not offer masses of modes or functionality anyway. In the box you also get mounting brackets, batteries for the remote, and even both an HDMI cable and an aux input cable. Bonus bargain points.
Features
- Supports Bluetooth
- A good array of wired connections
- Can be connected to a subwoofer
The primary way to connect the Majority Naga 60 to your TV is over HDMI, and it supports ARC for the simplest connection. It does not have eARC, but this is not a great loss when we’re dealing with a pure stereo speaker as eARC’s bandwidth is most useful for proper multi-channel audio.
Majority’s Naga 60 also has Bluetooth, which I’ve used to send podcasts and music over from my phone regularly, an optical input and a 3.5mm aux input. Majority has covered the basics admirably, and there’s even a connector to attach a powered subwoofer.
For all its all-embracing approachability, though, the Majority Naga 60 isn’t gong to be an entirely plug and play experience for some. As it has no advanced codec decoding abilities, your source/TV output needs to be set to bog-standard PCM audio output to hear anything through the soundbar.
This should only require a quick trip to a Settings menu or two, and Majority does splatter warnings to this effect over the Naga 60’s packaging. But It may come as a surprise to some buyers.
The Naga 60 also, unsurprisingly, doesn’t have any additional HDMI inputs. But there wouldn’t be much point in having them considering the soundbar is likely to support even fewer audio standards than your TV.
Its final party trick is a USB slot, which can be used to play MP3 files. It’s a feature destined to be neglected.
Sound Quality
- Decent projection and volume
- Harsh upper mids and low treble
- Small woofer limits bass depth
The Majority Naga 60 is a very simple soundbar. It has a two 2.25-inch primary drivers and a slightly larger 2.5-inch subwoofer.
There are no Atmos-style upwards-firing speakers and, as mentioned earlier, what look like passive radiators on each end are complete red herrings. This is a basic stereo speaker, just an especially long, tube-shaped one.
I am not a huge fan of how the Majority Naga 60 sounds. But I do think it’s still going to satisfy many, if not most, of its buyers.
Most TV speakers sound thin and tinny, completely lacking in power. The Naga 60 is not tinny and tiny-sounding. It has solid projection, and can go loud enough for a movie night, although it will sound strained as distortion creeps in at more unsociable volumes.
Some will also think it sounds quite crisp and clear, but I’d argue this is down to my main problem with the Naga 60. Its treble and upper mids are not refined, and their outsize presence can make all sorts of content sound a little too harsh and abrasive.
This is absolutely not a soundbar for near-field listening, as this brings home how near the Naga 60 can get to taking your ears off with some content. It’s prone to sibilance, and is largely a case of the soundbar’s tuning not nearly matching its sonic ability.
I also find the bulk of the mids to seem almost absent at times, with the texture of singers’ and actors’ voices made up almost entirely of this hard-edged higher-frequency stuff.
That more trebly focus is paired with some mid-bass padding, but there’s not a great sense of these two sides of the Naga 60’s sound being in harmony.
As is to be expected of a soundbar with only a 2.5-inch woofer to bring the bass, the Naga 60’s bass floor is also not deep at all. You can’t get sub-bass with this sort of arrangement — not without using real passive radiators rather than the phoney impersonations Majority has stuck on the sides here, anyway.
So is it a bust? Not at all. You can at least marginally tame the Naga 60’s brash top-end using the (very) limited EQ controls, accessed using the remote. It doesn’t fix the issue but does take the edge off the sound a bit. And while Majority’s claims of a 30Hz bass floor are a bit (ok, a lot) optimistic, we do still get far better low-end output than the average TV speaker system.
The Majority Naga 60 also has a 3D DSP mode, designed to increase the sense of sound field size in the soundbar’s presentation. It does have an effect, although I tend to keep it turned off for music as, common to these modes, audio tends to sound more fiddled-with, a touch artificial, in the trade-off.
Should you buy it?
Buy if you want a cheap solution to rubbish TV speakers
It may be just a simple budget soundbar but the Naga 60 will sound much fuller and larger than almost all TV speakers.
Don’t buy if you are highly picky about sound
With only a 2.5in woofer driver, the Naga 60 can’t conjure super-deep bass, but more pressing for most is the way dialogue and vocals sound quite harsh at times.
Final Thoughts
The Majority Naga 60 is a budget soundbar that will massively improve the sound of a budget TV.
Does it sound genuinely good? A little more care in the tuning of this soundbar could have gone a long way, as it sounds a little too harsh and brash for my liking.
Don’t expect miracles from its 2.5-inch bass woofer either. This soundbar isn’t tinny and weak, but doesn’t give movie soundtracks anything like the heft an Amazon Fire TV Soundbar Plus can.
Mixed results, then, but we have already seen the Naga 60 sell at a seriously tempting price online. And criticisms aside, it still sounds a million times better than lots of TVs I’ve encountered.
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FAQs
It is not. This is a simple stereo soundbar with no advanced surround features beyond a sound-expanding “3D” mode .
It does support ARC for HDMI connection to your TV, but not the more advanced eARC.
It has both an optical input and a 3.5mm input an another wired option.
Full Specs
| Majority Naga 60 Review | |
|---|---|
| UK RRP | £69.95 |
| Manufacturer | Majority |
| Size (Dimensions) | 610 x 117 x 77.7 MM |
| Weight | 2.08 KG |
| ASIN | B0DVCBPZFQ |
| Release Date | 2024 |
| Model Number | Naga 60 |
| Sound Bar Channels | 2.1 |
| Connectivity | Bluetooth 5.0 |
| ARC/eARC | ARC |
| Colours | Black |
| Rear Speaker | No |
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