Roku (ROKU) wants to improve how you hear your favorite shows on its devices, and keep you hooked to its ecosystem of products, which is why the streaming giant is rolling out two new audio products that will give you one more reason to stick with the brand.

The Roku Smart Soundbar and Roku Wireless Subwoofer are designed to enhance the sound quality of your shows, movies, and music by pumping out clearer and deeper audio than your TV’s measly built-in speakers.

But it’s the price of these new offerings that’s sure to catch consumers’ eyes. At $179 each, the soundbar and subwoofer are priced at a sweet spot that should capture plenty of attention. Similar setups can cost upwards of $400.

The soundbar itself also doubles as a Roku player, so you can use it to control everything from Netflix and Hulu to upcoming services like Disney+ and Apple TV+.

What’s more, buying Roku speakers gives users more of an incentive to stick with the streaming service, helping to keep the company’s platform reach stable.

Bring the noise

Roku is no stranger to audio products. Last year, the company launched its Roku TV Wireless Speakers for $199. The speakers were a fantastic product, offering drastically improved audio quality to my standard TV speakers. But there was just one problem: They only worked with Roku TVs.

That means if you had a Samsung, LG, Sony, or any other TV not powered by Roku’s operating system, you couldn’t get the speakers. It was a bummer to say the least.

The Roku Smart Soundbar, however, works with any TV as long as you have an HDMI ARC port or optical audio port. ARC stands for audio return channel and allows you to use a single HDMI port to connect a speaker to your TV. Once connected via the ARC port, your speaker will work with every other product connected to your TV, as well.

Say, for instance, you have a game console and want the audio to output through your soundbar. The ARC port lets you do that with a single cable, since it is taking the audio information sent from the console to the TV and pushing it through your speaker.

ARC has been around for some time, so chances are your TV has it and you just didn’t realize it. I know I didn’t. If you don’t have an ARC-compatible HDMI port, however, you can output audio to the Roku Smart Soundbar via your TV’s optical audio jack.

I listened to a demo using the Soundbar connected to a Samsung TV, and the extra power from the bar’s four 2.5-inch drivers helped add a needed boost to the TV’s audio quality.

Today’s razor-thin television designs mean there is less room for built-in speakers. The smaller the speakers, the narrower the range and level of audio they can push out.