Welcome Guest ( Log In | Register )

Outline · [ Standard ] · Linear+

 Has Soundbars Improved to Usable Levels?

views
     
sonyman
post Sep 10 2020, 07:03 PM

Regular
******
Senior Member
1,043 posts

Joined: May 2006
Q90R reporting in. So far so good....
sonyman
post Sep 10 2020, 08:30 PM

Regular
******
Senior Member
1,043 posts

Joined: May 2006
Those who have q90r how do you manage your cables?

Well so far satisfy with it.
sonyman
post Sep 10 2020, 09:43 PM

Regular
******
Senior Member
1,043 posts

Joined: May 2006
Delete

This post has been edited by sonyman: Sep 11 2020, 09:22 AM
sonyman
post Sep 12 2020, 11:59 AM

Regular
******
Senior Member
1,043 posts

Joined: May 2006
Sound bar is more of convenience and minimalistic.

If want proper hometheater best is still a avr dedicated subs and independent channels. Nothing beats it. But of course not those cheap skate system.

And hometheater can slowly upgrade . Sounds bar plug and play. Upgrade not quite possible. Maybe sonos can. But those price you pay. You get full set hometheater.
sonyman
post Sep 22 2020, 06:52 PM

Regular
******
Senior Member
1,043 posts

Joined: May 2006
buy what ever pocket allowed. of course q900T, its with atmos without the rear effect speakers.

to check if your TV has atmos, check the specs. or the Box.

Or under netflix, you need to be 4K ultra package. if yes. browse thorough or search for atmos in search bar, a list of movies will appear. Choose Project power then when it shows a Atmos logo your TV is atmos compatible.

If not, then no.
sonyman
post Sep 22 2020, 06:55 PM

Regular
******
Senior Member
1,043 posts

Joined: May 2006
BTW NU8000 is year 2018 model TV, most probably no atmos.
sonyman
post Sep 28 2020, 07:19 PM

Regular
******
Senior Member
1,043 posts

Joined: May 2006
QUOTE(FaezFarhan @ Sep 28 2020, 06:12 AM)
Any store still selling the Q90R?
*
Why q90r ? 950t not good enough?

But in my opinion. Q90r Dynamics is better than 950t. It's somehow feels more solid.

Not sure. I maybe wrong.
sonyman
post Nov 1 2020, 08:16 AM

Regular
******
Senior Member
1,043 posts

Joined: May 2006
QUOTE(QuickFire @ Oct 25 2020, 11:33 AM)
It's the title of the thread, but perhaps you were being sarcastic. Lol. The first few pages of the thread mostly said soundbars are not worth it. But I suppose things have changed much since then. Many soundbars seem to have decent reviews on hifi sites.

My current place is very bare bones. Sound comes from the TV speaker and that's it. It's also a rather small TV at 40". I'm moving to a new place and want to have a jump in quality.

The thing is my living area is long. It's 7m (23ft) long with the TV on one end and an open display shelf on the other end. I was thinking that a 2.1 soundbar would be ok but I actually do have power outlets at the display shelf at the other end that can accommodate wireless surround speakers.
So my seating area would be 8ft-9ft from the TV and any surround speakers would be around 14ft behind my sitting position. Would this config work?
*
Yes. I'm at 12 feet listening from TV 24 feet to surround speaker. Using Q90r. Works fine.
sonyman
post Nov 1 2020, 06:07 PM

Regular
******
Senior Member
1,043 posts

Joined: May 2006
QUOTE(QuickFire @ Nov 1 2020, 09:16 AM)
Thanks buddy. Do you have any audio disconnection issues? Was checking last few pages and it seems quite prevalent.
*
disconnect meaning, the speakers disconnect during playback? so far no, if audio dropping due to streaming yes. sometime but its like split second.

I havent try bluray yet, i tried with my laptop connect direct, but DTS HD not recognise, but atmos runs perfectly fine. i presume is windows problem.



 

Change to:
| Lo-Fi Version
0.0743sec    0.33    7 queries    GZIP Disabled
Time is now: 6th December 2025 - 04:02 AM