With the emergence of big-screen and excessive definition TVs that provide spectacular visuals, the significance of sound high quality – the crowning glory to offering an immersive house leisure expertise – has develop into a renewed precedence for customers.
In addition to holding first place within the world TV marketplace for fourteen straight years, Samsung Electronics has additionally maintained the primary place by way of market share for soundbars.1 What’s extra, Samsung’s ‘Q-Symphony’ function now permits joint playback as soon as a soundbar is paired with a tv. With its capability to supply wealthy, immersive encompass sound from each the TV audio system and the soundbar, Q-Symphony picked up the ‘Best of Innovation’ award at CES 2020.
Following on from our earlier piece exploring the sound applied sciences of Samsung’s QLED 8K TVs, we current Samsung’s soundbar options, that are bringing dynamic encompass sound to the house leisure setting.
Perfect Harmony – The Building Blocks of Q-Symphony
Until just lately, utilizing typical TV audio system and soundbars concurrently may result in the audio playback getting out of sync with the scenes taking part in on the display, that means that TV audio system needed to be muted when utilizing a soundbar. However, Samsung’s 2020 QLED TVs are outfitted with higher audio system, enabling simultaneous use of TV audio system and a soundbar. Furthermore, Q-Symphony know-how has unlocked compatibility between the 2020 Q80T TVs (which embody the transferring sound function for fashions 55 inches and wider) and the 2020 Q Series soundbars.
The thought for Q-Symphony began from an thought to offer increased high quality encompass sound through the use of the higher TV speaker together with a soundbar. To make this hybrid answer a actuality, the sounds from the TV audio system and soundbar needed to be synchronized by way of timing and quantity.
Moreover, within the newest know-how, the respective roles of the TV audio system and the soundbar have been clearly distinguished to permit for higher harmonization of sounds. While the soundbar delivers major sounds similar to human voices, the higher speaker delivers the ambient sound results. In this fashion, the 2 units keep away from interfering with each other, and supply a richer sound expertise.
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A Top-tier Soundbar – Nine Channels with Just Four Speakers
The present prime sound specs for a house theater system are a 9.1.4-channel set-up, which might ordinarily require a complete of 14 audio system. However, the top-of-the-line HW-Q950T Soundbar from the 2020 Q Series is able to realizing these wonderful channel specs with solely 4 audio system.
Following the arrival of the house theater market within the 1990s, customers had been afforded the prospect to expertise encompass sound that lined not solely the left and right-hand sides, but in addition the entrance and rear too. Further down the road, the 2014 introduction of Dolby’s ATMOS know-how enabled 3D encompass sound that lined sounds from the highest and backside too.
Samsung’s improvement of premium encompass sound hasn’t occurred in a single day although. In 2016, Samsung launched the HW-Okay950, a soundbar that solely required 4 audio system to offer 5.1.4-channel encompass sound. Samsung didn’t cease there although, as an alternative introducing the HW-Q90R, a 7.1.4-channel soundbar that featured a rear encompass channel. This yr, Samsung took one other step ahead with its introduction of the HW-Q950T, a 9.1.4-channel soundbar outfitted with two extra broad channels.
Dynamic Sound from a Wide Range of Angles
Representing the following stage within the development from the HW-Q90R soundbar, the aforementioned HW-Q950T 9.1.4-channel soundbar, options two broad channels that ship sound at angles of 60° to both facet of the middle. To present fuller sound, the audio system on the far proper…
