Samsung - HW-Q800B
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Last updated: Aug 12, 2025 Scoring
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"Besides the center channel on Samsung is fantastic even on my Q800 which is not as good as the 990. It's so clear it's crazy, glass breaking in movies sounds real as well because of the center channel."
"I felt like something in the center channel just wasn't as clear as my Q800 at home. ... It's odd but literally this is my experience and even my girlfriend noticed and asked me if it seemed like something was a slight downgrade compared to being at home."
"Let me tell you, these Soundbars are amazing, at least the Q800 is for sure without the need for the rear speakers. ... If you don't care for surround sound then the 3.1.2 channel is still amazing and pretty clear. Nothing overlaps, the frequencies stay in their place, I can hear the action and hear dialog."
4
1
"For an entire year I had the Soundbar without the rear kit upgrade and honestly it's still really great if you don't want or can't get rears in a new space. ... The bar alone is 5.1.2 and while you don't get a deep surround sound, you do get a very wide sound that a 3.1.2 or 3.1 just can't give you. ... The side firing channels are real and try to bounce the sound off your walls around the room, and honestly any time I showed someone, they would look behind them wondering "how did it do that? Is there rear speakers somewhere?" ... The channels do play independent sounds in certain content. ... If you're watching Avatar and you hear a creature chirp or a waterfall in the top right let's say, it literally sounds like it's coming far off the top right of your TV almost in the next room, almost from the ceiling a few feet away. ... So this wide sound makes it feel like the entire wall and area your TV is in is one big sound field from left to right and up and down compared to the sound just stopping basically from the left and right of your TV."
"Most songs formatted in Dolby Atmos or other spatial audio sounds great on this this system. Gives a nice sound stage presence to almost all genre except rock/alternative."
"Q symphony is amazing. ... With the first two bars, you could clearly tell the sound was coming from below the TV… q symphony fixes that completely."
5
1
"can absolutely shake my house when turned up all the way"
"I have had a few different soundbars with subwoofers a lot better than the SW5, my old Samsung Q800B being one of them."
"And the subwoofer is amazing."
5
2
"Most songs formatted in Dolby Atmos or other spatial audio sounds great on this this system. Gives a nice sound stage presence to almost all genre except rock/alternative."
"Q symphony is amazing. ... With the first two bars, you could clearly tell the sound was coming from below the TV… q symphony fixes that completely."
"Q symphony is amazing. ... With the first two bars, you could clearly tell the sound was coming from below the TV… q symphony fixes that completely."
13
3
"Besides the center channel on Samsung is fantastic even on my Q800 which is not as good as the 990. It's so clear it's crazy, glass breaking in movies sounds real as well because of the center channel."
"Let me tell you, these Soundbars are amazing, at least the Q800 is for sure without the need for the rear speakers. ... If you don't care for surround sound then the 3.1.2 channel is still amazing and pretty clear. Nothing overlaps, the frequencies stay in their place, I can hear the action and hear dialog."
"For an entire year I had the Soundbar without the rear kit upgrade and honestly it's still really great if you don't want or can't get rears in a new space. ... The bar alone is 5.1.2 and while you don't get a deep surround sound, you do get a very wide sound that a 3.1.2 or 3.1 just can't give you. ... The side firing channels are real and try to bounce the sound off your walls around the room, and honestly any time I showed someone, they would look behind them wondering "how did it do that? Is there rear speakers somewhere?" ... The channels do play independent sounds in certain content. ... If you're watching Avatar and you hear a creature chirp or a waterfall in the top right let's say, it literally sounds like it's coming far off the top right of your TV almost in the next room, almost from the ceiling a few feet away. ... So this wide sound makes it feel like the entire wall and area your TV is in is one big sound field from left to right and up and down compared to the sound just stopping basically from the left and right of your TV."
Disliked most:
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"Outside of all of that, if you’ll use it a lot for music, again the speakers and receiver are much better than the soundbar, even at lower volume levels."
"Also, the Atmos effect is very minimal, often not noticeable at all on the soundbar."
"Most songs formatted in Dolby Atmos or other spatial audio sounds great on this this system. Gives a nice sound stage presence to almost all genre except rock/alternative."
0
4
"none of them are even close to the Ambeo in terms of detail to the sound"
"Outside of all of that, if you’ll use it a lot for music, again the speakers and receiver are much better than the soundbar, even at lower volume levels."
"Also, the Atmos effect is very minimal, often not noticeable at all on the soundbar."
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3
"Also, the Atmos effect is very minimal, often not noticeable at all on the soundbar."
"Most of the time, you probably wont hear sound from the rears unless the sound was required. ... Now, its more like I get surprised if sound from the rears are very active in action movies or even the overhead sound effect from atmos."
"Most songs formatted in Dolby Atmos or other spatial audio sounds great on this this system. Gives a nice sound stage presence to almost all genre except rock/alternative."
1
5
"none of them are even close to the Ambeo in terms of detail to the sound"
"Also, the Atmos effect is very minimal, often not noticeable at all on the soundbar."
"Most of the time, you probably wont hear sound from the rears unless the sound was required. ... Now, its more like I get surprised if sound from the rears are very active in action movies or even the overhead sound effect from atmos."
1
3
"Also, the Atmos effect is very minimal, often not noticeable at all on the soundbar."
"Most of the time, you probably wont hear sound from the rears unless the sound was required. ... Now, its more like I get surprised if sound from the rears are very active in action movies or even the overhead sound effect from atmos."
"while you don't get a deep surround sound"
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