HW-QS90H

I have the QN90D with the QS700F soundbar, and the difference between the TV speakers and Q-Symphony is night and day. But if you don’t have a good spot near the TV for the sub, you’re probably better off going with something like the QS90H. Moving the sub away from the TV can make the whole setup sound thin, at least that’s how it was in my case.

The q symphony is hard to notice if I am being honest. Not because it isnt good, it seems decent, but I had a 5.1 Logitech PC system before. The THX was nice but 11 speakers of Atmos is so amazing that adding 4 is like putting chocolate fudge on a chocolate bar after just eating vanilla wafers for years. Its richer and you cant say no, but the chocolate bar would have already been more than enough at this point. And yeah, I pushed to 30 for a bit and it was a lot in most cases. Went to 50 for fun and started getting worried I may blow a speaker out haha.

A soundbar is always an improvement, even if your room was 3 square meters. That is to say, Samsung soundbars are very good, but don't count on Q Symphony. It has an echo on Dolby Atmos content and almost all content is Dolby Atmos nowadays. You'll probably just not use the TV speakers at all. You definitely have no use for a flagship soundbar with rear speakers, like the Q990F in such a room, or any bedroom, for that matter. But depending on whether you want and have space a dedicated subwoofer or not, yiu can either get one of those Samsung soundbars with a dedicated sub, or an HW-S60D, which doesn't have one and will lack punchy bass, but will still provide a much better sound than the TV. It's also super small, so it will fit on any width of a cabinet. All soundbars are designed to be able to sit on the TV's pedestal stand, so don't worry about that either. P.S. Soon a standalone Samsung soundbar with an internal subwoofer, kind of Sonos-style, will be released. But it will probably be wider than your TV and cost as much as the Q990H flagship, so you might not be interested in that.

I agree with all of you, q995f is amazing. I so happy with my setup and I’ve tried q symphony but it’s not for me. This soundbar makes it on its own

I don’t recommend them. They seem super laggy and wish I didn’t buy into the Samsung Q symphony concept for tv sound bar and picture frames

I have used Adaptive since day one and never had any problem. For music, I suggest you use Tidal so that you can enjoy Dolby atmos sound, listening to music on my soundbar feels like I'm in a movie because I can hear the sound and instruments passing over my head. It's a very beautiful experience

Just set your sound mode to Adaptive and forget it, the soundbar will adapt to every given audio source and use the necessary drivers for it. I got my soundbar since November last year, and till today I have never changed the mode from Adaptive because it does everything by itself.

This makes no sense. How does Adaptive: the thing that adapts to the audio source given through the HDMI (Stereo, Atmos, Dolby Multi CH) and uses the accurate drivers to produce sound somehow compresses sound, but Surround which is literally FAKE surround sound forced by Samsung software is the good one for everything😂. I don't mean to be disrespectful, but I think you got your sound modes backwards.

Well we all know what Adaptive does, and to add to your point, it sends the sound to the accurate drivers. You also talked about Standard, which I also agree with, but the other guy talked about Surround mode being preferable, which isn't really solid advice. why would I watch Youtube Stereo videos or play Spotify stereo songs in Surround mode, which is just worse fake processing than Adaptive that only sends sound to where it should go (Plays stereo as stereo, plays surround as surround) That's our point of contention. You can't honestly say that fake Surround for Stereo audio source sounds better than Adaptive Stereo playing through Stereo drivers.

Your long explanations still brings you to my point lol. Your Paragraph 5 & 6 is EXACTLY my point. Surround pushes the content to more speakers just as you said = not originally meant for those speakers, but because of Surround it plays from them = FAKE PROCESSED SOUND. It's not a bad thing don't get me wrong, it's doing it's job as created by Samsung. Adaptive plays the content as it's meant to be for either Dolby or Stereo, Movie or Music, the system does the work for you in IT'S ORIGINAL FORMAT adapting to the source and using necessary channels. I don't see why you're arguing with me when we are saying the same thing.

And I'm also telling you that upscaling to 11.1 doesn't make it use more drivers as Surround mode does. YOU SAID SO YOURSELF. I'm also telling you that: 1. Adaptive upscales to 11.1.4 but still sends sound out to the accurate channels. 2. Surround AS YOU SAID pushes sound to more speakers than the original format intended. So please all wise one, tell me how we aren't saying the same thing and you aren't just arguing for argument sake. Bro I'm done with this back and forth. Ciao👊

Don't buy a soundbar just because it's the same brand as the TV, I tried Samsung's Q-symphony and it's ass. I also switched to a Sony TV while keeping the Samsung soundbar.