14 Reviews

Doesn't have the stereo sound stage, doesn't always suit for music for

I had an issue with excessive sound delay when connected via bluetooth so had to return for refund, but that aside, here are some observations made based on the time I spent with it. The sound bar and sub feel solid, well-constucted and nice to look at. The sound quality was clear in standard mode, but lacking bass in many of the other modes. When connected to a Samsung Q-80T TV in Game Mode the sound bar always reverts to the Game Pro profile setting every time the TV input was changed (PS4 to PS5 for example) or when the TV was turned on. This becomes frustrating as the graphic equaliser settings are discarded when not using Standard mode. The lack of customisation for the other profiles was disappointing as while some showed potential they could have benefitting significantly from some manual tweaks. The SmartThings app integration worked well and was handy considering some of the important functions such as the graphic equaliser are hidden away quite a bit and awkward to access from the remote. The display can only display 4 characters and had a tendency to disappear quickly. There is no permanent display showing whether the sound bar is on or off so it was easy to accidentally leave it on by mistake. It was a little bit of a shame it didn’t have USB playback also, but this becoming less common on modern soundbars.

I purchased one of these sound bars a few months ago, and I’ve been really happy with it, I do have a question can I add satellite surround speakers to this sound bar? Are they available in NZ?