JBL - JBL Bar 800

Donc après réflexion,  j'ai pris la MK1 , je voulais les hauts parleurs dirigés vers le haut pour avoir un vrai dolby atmos. J'attends sa livraison 

go for jbl bar 800 or samsung q800/930, jbl have excellent bass while samsung have excellent clarity

I have the 800 and I watch broadcast tv with them attached then detach them for surround content. They won’t need recalibration if put back to the same position. Happy with them and reasonable atmos. To each side of and slightly behind your seating position. I think the step up to the 800 worth the cost.

Personally having surround speakers sold it for me.

Bar 500 is only option with no rear speakers so you want true surround i wouldnt get that one. For pure sound quality id go Q935F and for bass impact definitely jbl bar 800

I finally bought the 800 Mk1 after finding a 15% coupon code online. Got it for less than 500€. Also don't hesitate to reply to me here next week, i'll let you know how it sound if you don't have any news from me. (although I don't have a lot of knowledge in soundbar systems as it's my first one). I bought it especially because there is a lot of 3D print files available online to put the external speakers on my walls (I have angled walls).

For my (newbie) perspective it's decent for the price. Good bass overall. The external speakers could have more punch, it has no bass at all and the sound is very subtle. But it creates an environment around you. My wife still thinks it's gadget but for real 5.1 movies source it creates the ambiance sounds behind you and that adds a lot to the movie imo. So I'm not deceived but I was waiting for a better sound with the external speakers...

The short answer is no… here’s the deal… option 1: you can’t afford much so you’re really weighing up what the impact is if you value Raman over sound quality then get a solo bar… Option2: you can afford a sub but you’d really love something else… a good bar will do all you need it to for a room that size you can add to it later! I just bought a Samsung q700 for $400 AUD and it sounds 90% as good as my JBL 800… listen to a dozen in the store.. be a pest.. make them hate you… work out what sounds good and what’s on sale where you live…

Give or take, a small to medium living room... my new place, the main living space is open plan, so it's like kitchen, dining, living in a 17X36 room, it's enormous, I have a Q800 with add on rear's and it's loud but it's not a "cinema experience" per se, the extra space stops you getting that percussive impact from the sub and there is an imbalance between the left and right channels because one of them bounces off a wall and the other disappears into the ether. You want larger speakers with greater capability to move air, capturing the full range of sound. In my second living room, I have a 12X12ish room that is fairly soft, and I have a JBL 800 in there, and that thing fucking crushes. The space is better for creating immersion

The 500 is ok, if you really need more sound then the bar 800 is pretty dope, I have one in a pretty big living room (5x5 meters) and it fills the space well, saw them on sale today for like 700 AUD somewhere… compared with like 2k for the Samsung… don’t get me wrong the Samsung IS better but if you don’t wanna spend the dough you’d have to have a pretty crazy space to not get enough sound out of the 800

I have a JBL 800 bar for this exact setup, but you could go Samsung q990f

Habe mir die JBL Bar 800 gekauft für 449€. Warte bis die ankommt. Dann kann ich es testen und melde mich wieder hier.

I got JBL Bar 800 for a little bit less, and I feel like that is better bang for buck, no?

Mk1 has the upward firing speakers but cant play DTS/AAC content in 5.1 whereas MK2 can but doesnt have real atmos