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The side-firing drivers on the rears also blend well with the front-side drivers, helping to close any gaps on the sides of the soundstage. The improved rear speaker design from the Q950A allows upfiring sounds from the front and back to meet up over the listener’s head more cleanly and effectively. It packs 11.4 channels of sound that our reviewer found joined forces brilliantly to create a flawless hemisphere of sound around the seating position. The HW-Q990B is Samsung’s 2022 flagship soundbar system, and if you’re looking for a high-quality soundbar experience for movies and TV, there’s no soundbar system better than the Q990B.

More clutter than a single-bar solution.

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If the size of the Ambeo Max is off-putting, Senheiser has released the smaller (and less expensive) Ambeo Soundbar Plus for £1,299 / $1,499. There’s competition from the Bang & Olufsen Beosound Theatre, but that’s even more expensive at nearly £6,000. That means you want to be sitting in the right place at all times for the best experience possible. To calibrate the Ambeo’s performance, it has a high-quality calibration microphone that matches the profile of the soundbar’s sound to a room, although it can only perform this from a single listening point. There’s Dolby Atmos, DTS:X, and the less well known MPEG-H are the main audio formats supported. But you’ll want to make sure the Ambeo processing is switched on, as we found the bar’s performance lost a sense of depth and height with it off. We found there to be a substantial level of bass for a single-bar system, with a good level of extension to the low end and in addition, plenty of depth and nuance to the soundstage it creates.

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It sounds absolutely sensational, firing effects around a room and generating power and muscle to make films and TV shows sound their exciting best. The Ambeo Soundbar is an all-in-one effort, and one of a few we’ve tested that lives up to its claims of offering 5.1.4 channel immersive sound.

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Wirelessly there is support for Google Chromecast and Bluetooth 4.2. Which means it needs a fair amount of space but for its size and heft the build quality is excellent with a good selection of inputs that includes three HDMI ports, digital optical out and aux-in. The Ambeo is heavier than some OLED TVs on their own. The similarly priced Devialet Dione tips the scales at 12kg, and we considered that to be fairly heavy. The Ambeo is a large unit, over a metre long and weighing 18.5kg, it’s not one that will easily sit beneath a telly unless the TV is wall-mounted. We rate the Sennheiser Ambeo Soundbar Max as the best soundbar you can buy today, but it is a lot of soundbar for a lot of money – $2199 / £2199 to be exact.

Best soundbar system: Samsung HW-Q990B – check price.

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Best small soundbar: Sonos Beam Gen 2 – check price.

Best Atmos soundbar for less than £1000: Sonos Arc – check price.

Best soundbar for movies and music: Sony HT-A700 – check price.

Best affordable soundbar: Wharfedale Vista 200S – check price.Best affordable Dolby Atmos soundbar and subwoofer: Samsung HW-Q700B – check price.Best high-end soundbar: Bang & Olufsen Beosound Theatre – check price.Best soundbar: Sennheiser Ambeo soundbar – check price.If you’re in need of something more compact, our best small soundbar list will help and if it’s not a soundbar you need but a sound system, then our list of the best surround systems is here to help. Or if you have something else on your mind in terms of giving your audio a boost, then check out our list of the Best Dolby Atmos soundbars for 3D audio. We’re always looking to add new models if they are worthy, so check back if you haven’t found something that tickles your fancy. We’ve listened to plenty of movies and music, playing games and lived with these bars to hear how they deal with dialogue, as well as the scale of big Hollywood movies and how musical they sound in case you want to use them as a wireless speaker. We’re to help, and have created this list from affordable to very premium models, to soundbars that large enough to act as a sound system, to compact models if you don’t have much space to hand. This is where a soundbar can improve the performance.Īs soundbars come in different sizes along different features, it’s not always the easiest to figure out exactly what you need. Many who have bought a flatscreen TV have come to the realisation realised that they don’t sound too great.

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