This was SO CLOSE to greatness... - LG S95QR Soundbar

no i was gonna pop up oh hello there today we have a nice refined offering from lg the s95 qr 9.1.5 channel surround system soundbar two satellites and a subwoofer really excited about this today if i like it i think i want it for my house but the price is a little high at 17.99 us so we'll see if the price matches the performance oh it's heavy we're starting right on top with our sound bar oh it's a big boy look at that whole length of the box box of peripherals cables that sort of thing and here i think we have our little satellites well they're not so little but they look nice that's for sure and that's about it it's heavy look at that so it's got a nice brushed finish on this doesn't look like it's picking up fingerprints that badly this guy's long it's 47 inches long got a nice cloth covering at the front there some little rubber feet on the bottom there's our ac input got our three up firing speakers and i believe we have one two three in the front this type of sound bar would be great for a 55 to 65 inch tv anything bigger or smaller you might be uh dwarfing it a little bit but looking at this with the size of the speakers and its construction i have high hopes which i would expect for the kind of money they're charging for this i've got a remote feels a bit plasticky oh it comes with batteries yes i love it when they come with batteries and an hdmi cable i was wondering if they were going to include that i've already got one set up so we won't use that right i've got a nice online manual it's not like a pdf or something it's more like an interactable web page which can be a little bit frustrating at the start but it actually works quite well soundbar has pretty much every technology under the sun all on the back here it's got this nice tattoo imax enhanced dtsx dolby vision dolby atmos bluetooth it's even got hdmi all that there nice subtle branding on the top now this big giant lg stuff got some touch buttons right in the center there and for ports what do we got we got optical again which is nice but this one actually does come with hdmi it comes with three in fact we've got two hdmi ins and hdmi out to the tv which supports e-arc and arc which is the audio return channel so you can throw your stuff into your tv have it come to this and it'll all work properly with audio i've also got a 5 volt usb port here which can deliver up to half an amp which will power little things like maybe a chromecast or something like that unfortunately i'm noticing it's immediately picking up an incredible quantity of dust every tiny little thing just shows up really nicely it's not catching fingerprints but it's really catching lots of dust what you might have noticed with the ports is that there's no connections for the sub or the satellites thank god they're all wireless let's have a look at one oh it's nice the styling is kind of subdued it's covered in a sea of that same metal as on this which is picking up dust like nothing and on this guy all we get is just a little pair button and power at the bottom nice cable trail for that too they feel kind of hefty and sturdy we've got our up firing speaker because this is a five nine point one point five channel system so it has five up firing speakers which is what the 0.5 at the back is for they're labeled right nicely there and it looks like we do have a mount for the wall on the bottom there i believe each of the satellites at the back has about three speakers in it one at the top one at the front and one for the side i'm not entirely sure i think it's probably that way finally let's have a look at this sub oh the weight is encouraging i'll tell you that a lot of companies these days are doing these nice thin subs so instead of having the speaker down like this and taking up a massive quantity of floor space you've got the speaker at the side your base reflex port at the front we've got this is like a nice finished wood sort of a similar finish to the metal on that sound bar but it's not catching fingerprints it's still catching all the little tiny pieces of dust you can hear the texture on that and like the satellites this one just has ac in and a pairing button big speaker on the side believe this is 220 watts which is pretty impressive all the rest of the speakers are more like 40 to 45 watts which is not bad when you have so many before we get this all set up at our nice tv i want to tell you about our sponsor xsplit thanks to xsplit for sponsoring this video xsplit is a trusted live streaming and recording software designed for gaming presentations and live events it offers useful features like xsplit broadcaster an all-in-one streaming and recording solution designed for content creation connect webcam which turns your smartphone into a webcam presenter which lets you add personality flair and interactivity to presentations capture which lets you capture images and record your screen so you can add annotations voiceover and share as a link in seconds and vcam a fantastic virtual background tool for webcams use code linus at the link below and save 10 today and here we are everything is beautifully set up and ready to go the soundbar itself also has a nice little display on the front of it i've also got the lg app here so i'm going to connect to it and see if we can get everything set up i can see it slowly getting covered in dust oh this looks exciting it still says wi-fi display's a bit brighter now mute off function wi-fi and let's see it's already found all the other speakers i didn't have to do anything should we start by doing some ai room calibration what do you think it is now updating the devices so we get to do nothing after the update i couldn't seem to get it working on the app again so let's just give her a go we'll see if we can get some signal through it and watch some stuff so this is the standard dolby atmos demo that i have used before the problem bell just connected his phone to the unit to try and get it set up on wi-fi and it's disabled my output it would be really nice if there was an output to the display when you're setting it up to let you know what's happening and what maybe what steps to do that sort of thing okay will it do dolby atmos now sound moves around you in three-dimensional space with breathtaking audio is this quality [Music] it's pretty good actually i'm not entirely sure all the atmos is functioning sound feels at the very sides are not really there these are definitely working sub is slightly too boomy for me i would probably tune that down a couple db it's probably not mode or node related because it's all the sub just the sub is too loud i'm just going through the menu here would be really nice to have a display tv remote is on auto power so really i just get to choose if i have surround on or if there's auto power can we tune it so we got w f c o v c s r rov treble bass w f c v ovc [Music] i've turned the bass down by five it sounds a little bit better now i do want to get my ear up nice and close to see if we are doing up firing [Music] yeah they are working that's for sure this is weird definitely doing it's 9.1.5 or whatever inside it's a little weak but the behind is really good i didn't have to do anything in the app to get everything paired everything's nice i want more controls over it believe it's designed to use the app and i can't use that now so i'm upset it could be a different tuning so we've got standard music cinema clear sport game bass or ai whatever the hell that means let's set it to cinema see if that makes anything worse dimensionality that's a lot bass here now cinema mode is damn crispy all of the preset eqs are all quite nice and i can see them being used for different things there's a lot of variation in the base level and the highs in the crispies for movies i think i would really enjoy cinema it's kind of reduces the bass slightly maybe adjusts the crossover point and makes everything louder and brighter just want to remark this is like volume on 21 so it can go even higher these things will put out some some audio [Music] no it's uh it's not youtube and compression there is something missing there so we'll i've i identify that in the uh in the sign sweep it's uh not a normal place that i would normally see missing audio but it's kind of creates a bit of a hollow sounding like a whole [Music] there are a couple spaces there where i was moving my head around and the sound was actually changing so i think we actually do have some modes and nodes here so the thing that it was missing was i set up my room badly i'm really close to this wall you really don't want that with a setup like this you have to pay more attention to the layout of your room you want a long rectangular room and you want to sit at the center of the short side so if i was sitting on this side of the couch my experience would be different than if i was sitting on the other side of the couch just because i'm here we're getting weird reflections it's it was more apparent in the 300 to 400 degree hertz range where moving my head six inches was taking me in and out of the nodes i think the positioning of these speakers might be slightly incorrect but from that sort of experience hearing those modes all of this was very even maybe a little weak in the base end but i can't control from that because of the modes and nodes uh the large frequencies are canceling each other and creating big volume dips that will be different depending on your physical location around your living room or home theater however you want to put this in your house the music's nice and crisp and clean the connectivity is a major issue i think having the app not work and not allowing me to adjust some of the settings that i wanted to is kind of a deal breaker for me honestly the app had like two stars out of five which is kind of sad honestly setting it up initially was super easy as a recommendation for this amount of money i would certainly try something else that gives you more control maybe a better app the speakers themselves are good having a 9.1.5 for under a ridiculous sum of money i think is is very reasonable this setup will require more effort on your part to make sure that it's installed correctly make sure that these are the correct distance from you make sure that the sound bar isn't creating any vibrations that sort of thing our ceiling is just a big plastic sheet rather than a real reflection and it's also way higher than you would normally expect if you like this video and want to see another one linus did a great unboxing of a sony sound bar that's in a similar price category and also really good

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Keywords: Soundbar, unboxing, impressions, review, unbox, audio, home theatre, lg, buy, dont

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Length: 11min 34sec (694 seconds)

Published: Thu Aug 18 2022