▲ (From left) Mingyo Oh, Haekwang Park and Shinhye Choi, at Samsung Electronics’ Visual Display Business behind Premium Soundbar, the HW-Q950A
With the rising reputation of huge display televisions and the continued addition of additional OTT (over-the-top) companies, extra customers wish to set up a theater-like expertise of their houses. On prime of that, social distancing measures have required individuals to exit much less, stoking their want to get pleasure from premium visible and audio experiences from house.
Full, clear and deep sound performs a vital function in making certain that content material is delivered because it was initially supposed. Paving the best way for brand new audio experiences, Samsung Electronics launched its high-end soundbar fashions, the HW-Q950A and HW-Q900A, in May of this 12 months. The new premium fashions take sound high quality to the subsequent degree with as much as 16 channels and a number of enhanced capabilities that convey even better satisfaction to customers. Samsung Newsroom met with the product consultants of the 2021 soundbar fashions to search out out the key behind their highly effective and exact sound.
11.1.4-Channel Surround Sound That Fills the Entire Room
▲ Haekwang Park, Principal Engineer on the Sound Device Lab, Samsung’s Visual Display Business
Thanks to our ever-evolving content material tradition, sound is getting richer, fuller and extra expressive. The days of one-directional (mono) sound are lengthy gone as now we have ushered within the period of multi-directional channels that enable sound to replenish the encompassing area. “Sound is becoming increasingly important as people nowadays watch a wide variety of programs that place more emphasis on audio quality, such as music shows and films,” says Haekwang Park, Principal Engineer from the Sound lab at Samsung’s Visual Display Business.
To reside as much as customers’ heightened expectations, Samsung has spared no effort in creating high-quality soundbar merchandise that ship very practical sound. In 2016, Samsung introduced its first 5.1.4-channel soundbar mannequin to market. This soundbar was geared up with left, proper and center channels, two rear channels, a subwoofer and 4 upward-firing audio system, and delivered immersive, three-dimensional encompass sound. More channels had been added to later fashions, together with a encompass channel on the facet of the soundbar and a large encompass channel to ship sound from the entrance and sides. In 2020, Samsung launched a 9.1.4-channel mannequin.
In 2021, Samsung went a step additional with its newest 11.1.4-channel mannequin, the HW-Q950A, which options two rear encompass channels. Product planner Mingyo Oh defined that, “The newly added channels are located on the sides of the rear surround speakers. They add liveliness to dynamic scenes involving things like airplanes in flight and car chases by allowing the sound to hit the side walls before it bounces back to where the audience is positioned.” The premium soundbar delivers an impressive audio expertise by filling beforehand quiet moments with highly effective, immersive sound.
▲ Mingyo Oh from the Product Planning Group at Samsung’s Visual Display Business
Delivering Sound Exactly as Intended With Advanced Rendering and Waveguide Techniques
A channel is a passage for sound that dictates which route it travels. This is why having the next variety of channels supplies higher, smoother sound. It normally requires pricey equipments to supply 11.1.4-channel sound, however Samsung’s HW-Q950A is ready to present a panoramic 3D encompass sound expertise with solely 4 audio system due to its unparalleled rendering and waveguide methods.
Rendering is the method of making a method for the audio output to ship sound precisely because the artist supposed. The Samsung builders made it doable to ship an optimum acoustic expertise with the soundbar system by tapping into its cutting-edge rendering know-how. “To present essentially the most pure audio expertise to customers, we…
