14 Best Samsung Sound Bar 2015 (2023 Updated)

I’ve had this soundbar for a couple of weeks now and must say that I am very impressed with the overall sound. My initial budget was £500 but after reading into up-firing speaker systems I knew I had to get one! I wasn’t so keen on last years design with the cloth material finish and the screen being on top of the device so decided to wait for this one and I am so glad that I did, it looks great and the sound is outstanding, I’ve had to make a few tweaks to the settings for my own liking and although I’m not quite there yet the results are stunning, I’ve tested this with Ghostbusters Afterlife and Stranger Things Season 4 to name a few, quiet scenes when someone is walking or riding a bike down an empty road really makes it sound like you’re actually there with them the sound of leaves rustling on the ground or the wind going through the trees sounds crisp and makes the viewing experience a lot more pleasurable.

The virtual surround sound also does a decent job and on a few occasions I’ve heard the sound come from behind me, also the side firing speakers do an excellent job as when a doorbell rang on one scene I actually looked over to the side of the room from where the sound came from! The sub has a massive punch on scenes where there are explosions and destruction the only minor issue is sometimes on scenes where there is music playing the bass doesn’t sound as deep as I would expect, that may just be to do with how I have it set up (Still tweaking the settings) or maybe its the way its been mixed into the show or movie.

I have tested the same music through YouTube and it sounds great as you would expect. I have turned up the channel on the up-firing speakers which sounded fantastic during rainy scenes in The Batman and along with the side firing speakers it sounds like its coming from all around you.

The good thing is if I feel the need for an even more immense experience I can purchase the rear speaker set in the future. I was a bit hesitant at spending £800 on this system but as soon as I put on a movie I forgot all about it! Every time I’m watching something I cant help but smile at how good this thing sounds.

I find that turning on virtual surround sound and using the adaptive settings gives the best overall performance. Highly recommended.

The Samsung Q990B Sound bar This new 11. 1. 4ch Samsung sound bar has set the bar pretty high for any future theater-like quality sound! First, the setup was very straight forward and easy to follow.

The rear speakers do all the work for you in automatically connecting to the system, the out of the box sound is already impressive and immersive. Once you follow the steps for the room space calibration it just takes the experience to a whole other enhanced level.

Style – the look and style of the sound bar is just as sleek and modern as you’d come to expect from other Samsung electronics. The sound bar is seamless under any TV or console and although the rear speakers a little larger than expected they’re still small enough to blend with the rest of your décor.

The changes from last year’s model to this one are really emphasized here, where as the screen used to be on top of the soundbar it is now in front and it makes all the better difference for it! The entire soundbar is also now metal all around, which makes cleaning and dusting a breeze! Performance – the performance of this sound bar is in a level all its own when compared with any other high-end sound bar of equal caliber.

We upgraded from am older similarly priced sound bar with which we were very happy, and this Samsung version blew it completely out the water. The 3D audio and DTS:X sound lets you enjoy everything from music, action movies and gaming at an almost professional level.

The lows and highs are crisp and well defined, dialogues are not muffled and the sound from the rear speakers is just enough to give you the full immersive movie experience. And lastly, the compatibility is just as easy to manage as the setup! Having multiple Samsung TVs and appliances made adding the Q990B to the Samsung Hub a breeze.

Tap To Connect also made connecting our smart, wireless devices super easy without any lag in switching between different platforms. All in all, I would have to give this one a 10/10 in all things performance, ease of use and design!.

This sound bar makes my living room sound like a movie theater. Picked it up on Black Friday for a reasonable price last year and have had no issues with it. The only I issue had was my fault. I left the remote out in the rain after using it outside but was able to order a replacement off Amazon easily and it worked perfectly so you can replace the remotes without any issues, I know that for a fact.

Hahah. Great sound, it makes the whole room shake. Bluetooth connection makes life a lot easier. I have found that sometimes the sound bar wont remember your connect and you’ll have to hit pair again, but thats not really a big deal for me.

I’m so happy with this purchase. I’d buy it again if something happened to the one I have now but so far, I’ve had 0 issues.

Nice cheap speaker that can be used almost anywhere. It can be loud enough without much distortion to hear some quality in the sound. If you are looking for a beginner speaker for your living room or bedroom this would be a good buy.

I would recommend this soundbar if you don’t want to break the bank.

This soundbar is paired with our main lounge TV. A few teething issues to begin with, but I put this down to user error. I just needed to tweak a few of the settings on both the soundbar and TV to ensure the sound is exactly as I want.

Nice little system that works so well for either just watching the news on TV or an action movie.

If you can get this at a discount it is a great product. The center channels really help with the vocals. Base is good, not great if you like serious pounding. The Smartsound feature works well to adapt to the input.

It is more expensive than other similar soundbars, but I do believe the sound is superior.

The sound quality is awesome. The sound fills the room without over powering it. Subwoofer gives a thunderous sound. It’s great.

Great product, read a bunch of reviews, a good fit for my Samsung 84′ TV, also found a $50.00 Wikibuy coupon which dropped the price to $347.00,… get one, you’ll be glad you did!

I bought this last week from Best Buy from their recommendation. I got it home and went to set it up and mount it to the wall. Unfortunately, it does NOT come with the wall hardware. I thought no problem, I’ll use two of the many hollow wall mounts I have.

Wrong, I now have many holes in my wall as they would not stay. I believe from observation that this is directly due to the design of the bracket as it relates to the pull off the wall. This is very frustrating and for this I’m giving it low marks.

This sound bar is everything. I’ve always had issues with voice being too quiet and then action scenes bringing down the house with loud booms. This balances both those, bringing epic quality to everything we watch.

Feels a lot bigger than a sound bar.

While the HW-A650 may not top the Samsung sound bar range, Samsung heritage continues to reinforce a tradition of hassle free setup and user interface combined with effortless listening pleasure. With this soundbar paired to our longer term Samsung 4KQLED office setup a new Samsung 8k 800series now awaits a Q series soundbar to unleash its full potential.

I am not a fan of this soundbar for several reasons. – The main sound is very clear but feels too central, when compared to my 55″ Samsung Frame TV which has its speakers slightly wider than the sound bar.

The surround effect from the side speakers is OK, but not balanced in my living room since there is only a wall on the left side of the room (the right side is open to the dining room) and therefore doesn’t reflect the side surround.

Generally, I found the sound too tinny. Night mode was much worse being too hissy. – Smart things app should be much better. You can’t control all the soundbar parameters on the app (you can only control some of the sound parameters i.

e. side and rear) whereas all other features must be controlled through the provided remote control, and the layout of the app page is not great for accessing other features such as having to dig down the menu for night mode etc.

The SMART THINGS app needs to be better as there is no display on the soundbar (only visual feedback of blinks of the LEDs on the top). – The remote has volume and bass but and buttons for all other settings but I am astounded that this second remote is required for using this SAMSUNG soundbar on this SAMSUNG TV.

I have since learned that the SONOS requires no additional remote control, most features are controlled through the app, and the SONOS soundbar can accept signal from your TV’s standard remote. To me, having reliance on this other junk remote is inexcusable.

– The voice assistant volume is set way too loud. If you are listening at normal volume, any setting (VOICE, TREBLE, BASS, CENTRE, SIDE) or notification (NETWORK IS DISCONNECTED!!) is shouted at you when you least expect it.

Not great trying to watch things quietly at night. Almost pooped myself once when the WIFI connection dropped and it decided to announce this at full volume. You can switch this voice assistance off in the app, but then you can’t really tweak the right settings.

– I was really surprised when it gave the option to offer soundbar + TV mode, I guess in effect to provide Q-Symphony (surprised as my 2020 TV model is not listed as Q-symphony capable). It did sound good! And for this reason I tried to overlook all the other issues… but this option was only on WIFI.

which wasn’t stable and dropped out occasionally (refence to pooping myself above). It would also not offer to pair in this mode on HDMI! Also when connected in this mode you are then stuck with only two sound modes; GAME (which amplifies the surround and background too much) and ADAPTIVE SOUND (which gives the soundbar free reign to amplify and modify the sound as it sees fit, which definitely did not always sound great).

I feel it needs STANDARD mode in this case. – The sound quality and volume on the HDMI was poor compared to WIFI and Bluetooth. I probably should have investigated this with different leads but I have honestly lost the will with this soundbar and gave up.

I also believe the sound to be different between Bluetooth and WIFI which is weird, as I would expect it to be the same? – The power lead has a box halfway (approx. 1. 5m) along its length, and therefore where we wanted to mount this over the mantlepiece the box would be left dangling on show, with no way of concealing this.

I also think the mounting brackets are black which may show when wall mounted. – Sound bar switching on with the TV was hit and miss, I think this is because The Frame TV in Frame mode is not actually off, so the soundbar does an auto switch off.

And then if it did it wouldn’t always default to the previously selected mode. – If you wanted to expand / upgrade in the future the additional woofer (£300) and rear speakers (£150) plus cost of the soundbar (£196) makes for a pretty expensive system.

(~£650) at which price you might as well start getting an ATMOS capable system with included sub etc. Generally this purchase has been more frustrating than enjoyable and not worth the noticeable but variable improvement in clarity of sound it brought.

I’ll be returning it imminently.

A nice-looking piece of equipment. The minimalism of the interface helps with the visual appeal, but it’s not very intuitive to set up – I needed to download the full manual from Samsung’s website. The sound is ideal for TV.

It’s clear and very evenly balanced across the frequencies. The bass is present in a controlled, accurate way – I can’t hear any artificial cranking up of bass frequencies that some systems use to get more bass out of a relatively compact enclosure.

For music, it’s a little underwhelming. There’s good clarity for music too, but a little more presence at the lower end would be welcome. Overall, the sound isn’t noticeably better than two other sound systems I have that both cost a lot less (around £100).

Neither of them is as good-looking, though, or has comparable connectivity features.

I got this soundbar free with a Frame Tv and was pleased with the appearance; clean and modern looking. Really like the expansive sound provided by the side speakers. Very good with music too. The control is a bit fiddly without a display.

I turned the annoying voice feedback off straight away and so rely on the app. However, if you use the adaptive settings you really don’t change anything other than the volume anyway, which I use the Tv remote for (HDMI arc).

Only thing I didn’t like was the bass, which was lacking a bit, however, I later got the accompanying subwoofer which makes it a pretty impressive setup. Ridiculously loud and flexible system now. That said you could pay up to £650 for both the speakers so I’d expect it do be at that price! Whole system has worked seamlessly for me without any drop outs.

I was seeking out the speaker for two reasons. For one, I was thinking about upgrading our TV next year and Samsung seems to be the leading option. I wanted a speaker that would natively work with it.

Unfortunately, we have a Sony TV right now. While it’s a great TV we can’t utilize the room calibration and symphony features of the speaker. I also wanted a speaker system with Dolby Atmos support. I’ve had great experiences with it in the past and definitely want to use it going forward.

We don’t have the rear speakers to go along with this so the virtualize surroundsound is OK at best. Somethings sound like they’re coming from different directions but for the most part, it just sounds better with a higher fidelity.

Eventually we will be getting the rear speakers to go along with it hopefully that greatly enhances the surround effect. I haven’t noticed much coming from the upward firing speakers so I’m not sure if they are doing that good of a job.

The subwoofer is a little bit too strong. You can go from 0 to -6 and then jump all the way down to -12. Unfortunately, the best level for us would probably be -8 but obviously, that is just not an option.

I would like a linear scale going from -6 to -12. Overall the speaker system is pretty good.

Not real crazy about the unit. Ok as a starter unit and small room. No visual for the output level. Watching movies or TV series, the voices seem overrun by background sound. Seems a bit muffled at times.

No adjusting for the base or treble. The options for cinema, clear voice, and sports does not seem to have any significant difference to each.

Here is the Q&A: Manish J: Hi, thank you for reaching out to Samsung technical support. How may I assist you? Visitor: How to not timeout using samsung soundbar HW-1250? Manish J: Could you please elaborate the issue, so that I can assist you better.

Visitor: Every morning I need to select the Power Button to have the Samsung HW-1250 operate. How can the sound bar remain active 24/7? Manish J: Have you connected the sound bar to your TV? Visitor: y Visitor: To the smart TV.

Manish J: Are you turning off the TV frm wall outlet? Visitor: No. I simply press a button off on the TV, and do not touch the Soundbar. The nice light on the sound bar remains on. But several hours later with the light still on I turn on the TV.

And then have to hit the power button on the HW-1250 to have a sound. Manish J: On which port have you connected the sound bar? Visitor: The ‘Audio Cable’ connected 24/7. Manish J: I have checked the information and found that the Samsung sound bar will turn itself off when there is no input for more than 30 minutes.

Manish J: We cannot change the built in features of the sound bar. Manish J: Had there been any options I would have definitely assisted you with that. Visitor: No way at all to keep it up 24/7? Is there an option? Manish J: I do understand your requirement.

However, there are no settings which we can make on the sound bar. Visitor: thank you. Manish J: As there are no settings button on the sound bar.

I purchased this HW-JM25 with the thought that the Samsung sound bar would be compatible with my Samsung smart TV. Well I was far from that. The instructions do not explain the methods of connection properly.

The instruction focused on Bluetooth connection but it was not compatible with my TV. I had to hard wire the two which was no big deal. The instructions do not fully explain the operation and what each indicating light means.

The most important part I wanted was the two to be synced together so I only needed one remote. This worthless sound bar now requires me to have two remotes. I highly recommend anyone against purchasing this sound bar.

This is the multi it’s brilliant, easy to use, very affordable too! I’d improve this product by having less buttons as it’s quite busy. #sound quality is superb! Would buy again and would recommend

This sound bar is the best! Provides lots of customization and different modes that have you covered whether you’re watching the news, listening to music, or watching a movie. The bass sounds incredible.

The clarity of this unit provides a great range of sound with booming bass. Great product for the cost, easy to install wool worth the purchase.

Giving just a very minimum rating is that inside the box which contains the optical cable was not fitting into the soundbar, which was very disappointing. I had this purchased mainly due to the brand, but first time in my life ever facing such an issue.

And when an expert was called over, he did not even know how the technology works. Because when he saw the port on my brand new TV without having the optical sound port turned on, the light was not induced and suddenly he said that the port is broken.

Then actually found the issue all by myself that the issue was with the cable which came along with the product sealed. But the sound quality, and other things is really good, just to add on to this.

It surely needs a HDMI as well as a port option which will indeed avoid such issues. And Samsung definitely should consider adding an HDMI port.

The sound thru optical cable from HDMI sources is amazing for the price. Clear and full of deep bass and effect sounds. Music from Amazon music app sounds very live, and is as good as CD and better. Tv channel sound is slightly lower in volume than HDMI.

Easy to control. I set sound to standard, and subwoofer to -2 in a standard size room. 13×15. Blurays sound superb thru the soundbar, very clear, loud and great bass. Very loud and clear on game consoles also, racing games especially.

Sounds well above the price it costs, and will surprise anyone who tries it. Only con it that Bluetooth constantly loses connection with phone, but doesn’t bother me, as I don’t use it. This is why features has 4 stars.

BEWARE OF THE AMBULANCE SIREN SOUND IN THE BACKGROUND. It is without a doubt the worst sound device I have ever had in my life. I bought a soundbar to have better sound quality in my living room and instead I have an ambulance siren sound in the background.

Samsung says electronics have sounds and Samsung deems it acceptable. Straight into the trash. Note: Good luck with any Samsung product if you have to send it to their wonderful technical service.