HW-Q800A

Samsung.com using military, educator, government, 1st responders, or Healthcare discount. I got mine last week and it's excellent.

Sound bars have their place. Typically a small apartment. I have a Samsung Q 800 it’s quite good. Would it be better with individual speaker of course but for my use case I prefer this. It’s cleaner looking and it works well.

I find my samsung Q800 looks alright. It blends in fairly well on my tv stand. Everyone has been impressed with it so far.

I find the cheap Samsung or the slim ones sound rough that’s why I called out the specific one I have. You have tried the Q800 or Q910/990 series? I used to have a Vizio that also sounded solid for what it was but the Samsung Q800 is far better. I went to a large audio shop and I wanted a soundbar for a variety of personal reasons and it was the best one that I could find.

Ya I went from a JBL 2.1 soundbar that maybe cost me $300 in 2019, to the Q800 it there was little to no difference. Some movies even sounded worse especially with voices or dialogue. Luckily I got it on sale but the normal price of these Samsung set ups for the quality is insane. Just get a decent speaker and avr set up for that.

Q800 and Q990 are both the absolute best price/perf in their respective categories. Are they the best thing singe bread came sliced? No. Are they the best package you can buy in their price ranges? Absolutely.

Get at least. 3.1 bar. I like the Samsung q600f for it's value. It's enough. It's good. It's a hell of a lot better than the tv speakers. Something like the q000f will blow you away without being too bulky. But it's double. Split the difference with the q800. I quite like the Samsung bars. Sony's good but expensive and piecemail. I don't really like their sub and bar combo ones. Some with sonos or bose. Nice but expensive and piecemail. TCL and Hisense have stuff but I've never heard it. But also haven't heard discussion about it. I like JBL. But their bars are just too bass heavy and the mids aren't great. Lg's not bad either. But Samsung is my choice

At a minimum get the samsung q800. Movies with Disney, prime and apple TV sounds great on surround sound. Unfortunately Netflix wants to ridiculously charge for 4k and dolby surround. Like 29 a month

Q800 I have them and then added rear and was even better

I would not count on it. Rtings Reviews are sometimes hard to understand, as Samsung Q800 seems to beat most other Premium Soundbars.

Thanks for reaching out. I recently had a similar discussion with one of your colleagues, and I genuinely appreciate your almost scientific approach to testing audio equipment. From that perspective, I sometimes feel the methodology doesn’t fully reflect real-world music listening conditions. Metrics like compression or distortion at maximum volume are heavily emphasized and Samsung soundbars may perform very well in this regard, but I doubt that many users go beyond volume 15–20, as Samsung bars are tuned to be extremely loud even at lower settings. For music, I personally find Sonos to sound cleaner, more balanced, and more faithful at everyday listening levels. In that context, most Samsung bars feel like no real match for Sonos bars (except maybe the Sonos Ray. Yet many Samsung models still receive higher music scores, which can feel misleading when those rankings are driven primarily by lab-style stress tests rather than music-focused, real-world listening.