Samsung - HW-Q930D
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Last updated: Jul 30, 2025 Scoring
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"The best is hearing directly via TV apps such as Disney+, Netflix, Prime and Kayo. The surround, smooth deep bass and clarity with the upfiring speakers on both the bar and rear speakers is 'chef kiss'."
"It makes a world of difference. ... I went from being convinced soundbars are just a placebo effect to a full on believer baby."
"really enjoy the sound quality especially when using it at low volume. ... its sound outcome is clear even when listening at late hours"
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"The best is hearing directly via TV apps such as Disney+, Netflix, Prime and Kayo. The surround, smooth deep bass and clarity with the upfiring speakers on both the bar and rear speakers is 'chef kiss'."
"Sometimes I feel like the subwoofer can be a bit too much, it rumbles through the entire room"
"Don't worry about the bass it's an 8 inch sub with perfect balance. ... It'll shake and break your house glasses."
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"Oh and with the q930d and q990d the rear speakers have 0 noticeable Latency even though they are wireless (apart from power cord) using Bluetooth to the bar."
"The best is hearing directly via TV apps such as Disney+, Netflix, Prime and Kayo. The surround, smooth deep bass and clarity with the upfiring speakers on both the bar and rear speakers is 'chef kiss'."
"With the q930 you get physical surrounds and a seperate subwoofer unit ... the Q930D just smokes them"
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"The Q930D should give you the best bang for the buck, simply due to the fact that it comes with Surrounds and a Sub. ... Since your focus is on TV/Movies, it is a no brainer given the price and you will have a lot of fun with it!"
"I got it for £599 here in the UK too so that is well within your budget if you find a comparable deal in the US."
"These differences are far from huge , so if the price difference is more than 150 $ they might not be worth for you. ... LG soundbars are not as VFM as samsung"
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"wireless rear surrounds ... Just need mains power to the soeakers"
"you don't have to go into sub sub menus to fiddle with settings to get it to actually do Atmos"
"plugged it all in and set it up with no issues that I'm aware of. ... All in all it was a really easy setup"
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"Samsung Soundbars just suck for music unfortunately."
"I can't understand why Samsung always seems to score highly for music when their soundbars clearly perform poorly in this use case. ... For this usecase, the Samsung would be a total disappointment"
"My wife, who knows very little about soundbars and watches tv movies with me, thought I hadn't bought the "GREAT SOUNDBAR" I bragged would put us into a movie theater in our bedroom.. ... We have to play the volume somewhat low but not too low. We can't disturb our neighbors. We live in an attached town home. ... The sound was dull and lifeless."
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"My wife, who knows very little about soundbars and watches tv movies with me, thought I hadn't bought the "GREAT SOUNDBAR" I bragged would put us into a movie theater in our bedroom.. ... We have to play the volume somewhat low but not too low. We can't disturb our neighbors. We live in an attached town home. ... The sound was dull and lifeless."
"the rear speakers were basically soundless."
"If I was still in a condo I’d go for one of those Sennheiser soundbars, they’re better at room-filling even at lower volumes."
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"930D does not have HDMI 2.1, only the 990D does. ... unless you need that HDMI 2.1 passthrough for gaming, the 930D is really fine. ... You will get audio lag when using eARC for gaming when the screen is in a super low latency mode. Also higher end codecs like Atmos make it worse. This is reduced/removed when going direct into the soundbar. Obviously if you plug a PC or console into the soundbar it needs HDMI 2.1 to do proper 120Hz with VRR. ... Provided you get the Q990D with HDMI 2.1 yes, otherwise no."
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"what I hate is the lack of bass. ... For this amount of money and the research I did I was expecting my room shaking. Sadly it was not the case. ... My old Vizio m5 has way more bass than this thing and it's a 3rd of the price. ... LOTR thumped with Vizio and you can barely hear the balrog on this bar. ... I've done all the app stuff, reset the bar, firmware nothing changed."
"now I found the subwoofer too powerful for my taste so i hat to change the equalization."
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"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."
"No discernable atmos"
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