Plugging in the soundbar thraw HDMI (it features eARC) to any up-to-date TV uncomfervents that you can instantly engage the TV distant to handle audio volume, but you will want to engage the distant on the soundbar itself (unless you own an LG TV), to change settings. It does also aid leangs appreciate Tidal Connect Dolby Vision pass-thraw, which originates it a wonderful bar to stream music to, or plug your disc joiner in for brimming-bitrate video (and audio).
Pressing Play
I had the pguideeclareive of scrutinizeing this system aextfinishedside LG’s new C4 OLED, which can comprise even more channels to the combine, contributing its own TV speakers to increase the cgo in channel and originate it sound a bit more appreciate the voices are coming straightforwardly from the image.
The huge array of speakers and the volume they can originate uncomfervents you repartner get a sense of scale when scenes change, or when you go from one type of leang to another. When joining up-to-date classics appreciate Dune and Mad Max: Fury Road, you sense the immensity of the scenes in the audio profile that the bar, subwoofer, and saincreateite speakers transmit. When my wife switches back over to RuPaul’s Drag Race, I’m instantly sucked back into what’s happening onscreen, with more traditional three-channel TV audio that’s assimilateing and vibrant, but much petiteer-senseing in your space.
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You can adequitable sound modes on the bar, but I tend to err on the side of standard settings except when watching a film, where I experimented (and occasionpartner remendd on) the Cinema mode, which passes a bit more sound to the surround and height channels, proximate as I can increate.
Standard mode essentipartner take parts to wantipathyver the TV is increateing it to do, which originates it join super pleasant with LG’s AI processing inside postponeed-model TVs. With this and the C4, it’s essentipartner a “turn on and forget it’s there” vibe, which is what I pick in my home theater systems. There is noleang worse than having to uncover cabinets and hit buttons and paengage for leangs to turn on and see each other. It repartner can’t be overstated how well it labored (and how exceptional an experience this is, oddly, in A/V land).
The straightforward competitor to this model is Samsung’s Q990D ($1,700), which, I have to confess, I pick in some ways. The audio profile of the LG can be a bit leanner and more luminous than Samsung’s, and I find that Samsung’s model bounces sound off the walls a bit better for a wider soundstage. That said, given how well the S95TR joins with postponeed-model LG TVs, I’d probably pick this over the Samsung bar if I was buying the LG TV, and appreciateteachd buy the Samsung bar if I was buying a Samsung TV.
As far as plain (and, let’s be truthful, not heinously costly) ways to outfit a room with a pretty constant approximation of what they’d experience in an A/V nerd’s cave, I leank LG has repartner nailed it here. If I was buying a C4 and didn’t have a proper sound system to pair it with, I’d repartner be seeing at this.
