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Amazing audio.

Expert-tested.
Scientifically tuned.

Samsung’s perfectly balanced, room-filling sound is developed by top audio engineers at our California Audio Lab.

Unlock Q-Symphony with a Samsung TV and soundbar

Hear helicopters hover overhead and the crowd roaring all around you. With Samsung Q-Symphony and SpaceFit sound technology you’ll experience spatial audio that moves across every available speaker, tuned to match your room.

Enjoy audio harmony with Q-Symphony

Q-Symphony creates a powerful, multi-speaker audio platform by spreading the audio
signal across both the soundbar and TV speakers. Combined, they offer a true cinematic
experience at home.

Setup is a snap with SpaceFit

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SpaceFit sound technology analyzes the environment and auto-calibrates Q-Symphony to
the optimal settings. It’s the simple solution for setting up cinematic multi-channel sound.

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QLED4K-Q70A TV and A650 soundbar

¹ Q-Symphony is available with 2020 and 2021 Q Series soundbars, as well as S Series soundbars. Q-Symphony is compatible with select 2020 Samsung QLED TVs (Q80T and above) & 2021 Q60A and above TVS, AU8000 and The Frame TV’s. Please refer to samsung.com for more information.

² Soundbar must be connected to TV via HDMI to enable Q-Symphony function.

³ Samsung TV must be registered within 60 days of purchase.

⁴ SpaceFit Sound is compatible with 2021 Samsung QLED TV’s (Q70↑ and above). Please refer to samsung.com for more information.

Beam: The Smart TV Soundbar with HDMI Input

From music to movies, the latest generation of Beam enriches all your entertainment with powerful and precise sound from wall to wall.

More infoAutomatic Trueplay

Trueplay™

TV remote sync

TV remote sync

Apple Airplay 2

Apple AirPlay 2

HDMI eARC

HDMI eARC

Voice enabled

Voice enabled

Dolby Atmos

Dolby Atmos

Touch controls

Touch controls

“The New Sonos Soundbar Gives You Dolby Atmos Without Breaking the Bank.”

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Stream over 100 million songs, ad-free. Listen across all your devices. And feel sound all around with spatial audio.

Smarter on the inside

A 40% faster chip pushes the sonic limits for a soundbar this size, creating two new audio paths for a virtual surround sound experience.

More beautiful on the outside

The new precisely perforated grille elevates the elegant design and blends seamlessly into your home, whether you place Beam on furniture or mount it.

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Exceptional sound all around

Go deeper into every scene with spatial audio. Advanced processing creates phantom height channels for Dolby Atmos content to immerse you in a multidimensional soundstage. You’ll hear planes as if they’re flying overhead, sense footsteps moving across the room, and feel the music swell all around you.

Crystal clear dialogue

Oscar-winning sound engineers helped fine-tune Beam to make sure you hear every word and can always follow the story. For even greater clarity when characters whisper or the action intensifies, turn on Speech Enhancement in the Sonos app.

High quality at low volumes

Enjoy balanced sound from wall to wall at any volume level. When you want to watch TV but need to keep it down, turn on Night Sound in the app to reduce the intensity of loud effects and enhance quieter ones.

Made for music

Stream from all your favorite services with detailed stereo sound, and feel more dimensions of the song with support for the highest-resolution formats, including Dolby Atmos Music.

Services on Sonos

“When developing a soundbar, we treat music and home theater equally.”

Giles Martin

Grammy-Winning Music Producer & Sonos Sound Experience Leader

Breeze through setup

Go from unboxing to unbelievable sound in minutes with only two cables and step-by-step guidance from the Sonos app.

Perfectly tuned for the room

Using the microphones in your iOS device, Trueplay tuning technology analyzes the unique acoustics of your space and optimizes the speaker’s EQ. So all your content sounds just the way it should and reaches your ears at the exact right moment.

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Freedom of control

Sonos app Sonos App

Connect all your streaming services, discover new music on Sonos Radio, and personalize settings.

TV remote

The soundbar syncs with your existing remote for streamlined control and no extra clutter.

Tap or swipe the top of the soundbar to pause the music, adjust the volume, skip a track, and more.

AirPlay2 Apple AirPlay 2

Send sound directly from your iPhone, iPad, or Mac, then ask Siri to turn it up from your device.

Just say “Hey Sonos”

Play music and control your system with hands-free ease and unmatched privacy.

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Ask Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant to control your smart home devices, manage your calendar, and more.

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Get an even more immersive experience when you add a subwoofer and pair of rear speakers. Sonos products connect quickly, easily and wirelessly.

Customize your sound system

Mix and match products that fit all the places and ways you want to listen. Pair identical speakers for richer stereo sound, build a surround sound system for home theater, and feel even more immersed when you add Sonos to every room.

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How to connect a soundbar (soundbar) to a TV, optical cable for soundbar

At present, a steady trend has been outlined in the field of multimedia. With all the versatility of modern TVs and the implementation of the latest technologies in them to improve image quality, such as, for example, OLED screens, support for 4K resolution, HDR, the sound of standard TV acoustic devices leaves much to be desired. Therefore, home theaters with a large number of acoustics and their compact counterparts, the so-called “soundbars” or, as they are sometimes called “surroundbars”, have become widespread. These devices deliver high-quality surround sound and immersive audio for an unparalleled movie and video experience.

The user only needs to purchase such a soundbar, install and connect it correctly. And if the first two steps do not cause any difficulties, there would be the necessary funds and a room where TV viewing would be carried out, then how to connect the soundbar to the TV remains a problem for many users. Therefore, among the frequently asked questions, you can hear, for example, how to connect a Samsung, LG, Denon or other brands soundbar, which connection option is preferable, and others. Even with the right instructions, the many different inputs and outputs on TVs and panels can be confusing, so detailed explanations on these issues will never be superfluous.

A few words about the location of acoustics

Before talking directly about connecting the panel to the TV receiver, you should pay attention to its location. The fact is that if you make a mistake in this matter, then no subsequent options for connections and settings will correct the situation with poor sound.

In cases where the TV is installed on a special stand or cabinet, it is better to install the soundbar right in front of it.

This arrangement is considered ideal because it gives the impression that the surround sound comes directly from the image on the TV screen. There is, however, one limitation here. Before installation, you need to make sure that the acoustic device will not block the screen. Today you can even find acoustic models that are fixed directly on the TV stand.

The same arrangement, under the TV, must be provided with a TV wall mount. Fortunately, the design of modern acoustics and the mounts that come with it or special templates allow you to do this without problems. Sometimes there is the possibility of attaching the surround bar directly to the TV panel.

In cases where the TV is installed on a rack and it is decided to place the soundbar on a shelf inside the rack, then it must be pushed as far forward as possible. This is necessary in order to ensure the unimpeded passage of sound so that the side walls of the furniture do not interfere. Moreover, if it is known that the acoustic device supports Dolby Atmos or DTS:X sound processing technologies that work with sound reflected from the ceiling, then the installation of the sound device on a shelf or in any other niches should be completely abandoned. Another obvious rule when installing acoustics is to provide free space in front of it. Installation in front of the speakers of any objects that prevent the passage of sound is strictly prohibited.

Separately, you should pay attention to sound panels with digital sound projection. Their design is quite complex, which in turn complicates the setup process itself. In order for such acoustics to work with all its efficiency and with coverage of all the possibilities inherent in it, you must first select the necessary configuration in which the driver array is to function, and then connect the microphone. The tuning principle is that the panel plays test sounds, and the microphone picks up both their original version and the signals reflected from the walls, which are sent to the soundbar for analysis. Thus, the soundbar itself adjusts the sound of the speakers to the conditions of a particular room.

The result is a perfect sound setup. However, there is a “pitfall” here as well. All this can be realized only in a room where the walls reflect the sound well. If the room has a large area and the walls are located far from the sound source, or at least one such wall is missing, then purchasing a device with digital tuning is not the best option, because there will be an overpayment for unrealized technology and mediocre sound quality.

Basic independent audio device connections

Modern equipment offers several connection options: HDMI, optical or coaxial input, analog audio channel.

The main conditions for a successful connection, regardless of the option chosen, is to first turn off the standard acoustics of the TV panel. To do this, go to the TV menu, turn off the built-in TV speakers and enable the option for external acoustics. The procedure for turning off standard acoustics is as follows:

TV SETTINGS > SOUND > ADVANCED > TV SPEAKERS > OFF

Most likely, after these steps, the TV itself will offer a list of possible audio outputs, from which you will need to select the one you need. In some “smart” TVs, these manipulations can be omitted, because they themselves determine which audio output to send a signal to.

How do I connect a soundbar to a TV using an HDMI connector?

The best way to connect the soundbar to your TV is HDMI functionality.

Currently, almost all audio and video equipment is equipped with outputs for HDMI cables, which have great capabilities and are able to transmit video and audio signals of the highest quality in different directions. Today, this feature is implemented through ARC technology – which provides audio signal reversal on HDMI devices. This technology also allows you to use just one cable instead of five or six others.

Before connecting using this functionality, you should make sure that both the TV and the panel support Audio Return Channel – HDMI ARC. The principle is that the video signal received from, for example, a DVD player, a TV game console connected to the TV, or any other source, goes to the TV, where the sound is separated and transferred to the soundbar. A similar effect of the interchange of video and audio signals will be realized if the connection is made directly to the soundbar, which “separates” the sound, converts it, and transmits the video to the TV without any changes.

The ARC function in most models of modern equipment is enabled by default. However, there are exceptions. Therefore, if it does not work, you need to make sure that the Control for HDMI parameter is in the on state – “ON”, the TV supports Auto Return Channel, whether the equipment is connected to each other, whether it supports this function and whether it is powered at all. Available when connected via HDMI and their pitfalls. For example, if the purchased soundbar supports 5.1 sound, but the TV does not, then you will not be able to get multi-channel sound at the output of the soundbar, only stereo.

Connection via optical input

You can often hear the question, how to connect a soundbar to an LG or other brand TV using an optical input? Everything is simple. Surroundbars have a digital optical interface – Toslink, and a special optical cable is used for connection. In terms of quality, such a connection is in no way inferior to HDMI and can be safely used.

As a clear example, you can give the order of how to connect an LG soundbar to a TV of the same brand. First you need to make sure that the TV itself has the LG soundsyng function. Then you need to go to the menu section and find the audio output item – “Sound Out”. The appearance of “LG OPT” on the screen of the surround bar after pressing this position means that the connection has been successfully completed. The undoubted advantages of this connection is the support for 5.1 multi-channel sound of the Dolby Digital standard or DTS technology. The principle is simple – the sources of audio information and video signals feed them to the TV, and then the audio information is fed through an optical cable to the surround bar.

Coax connection

Some models of television receivers have connectors for digital coaxial cables, which can be used as an alternative to optics. The connection is made in the same way, but selecting digital signals as a source – Digital/COAX. The sound quality with this type of connection is also on top.

Analog connection

If it is not possible to use an HDMI ARC panel or other digital connection options to connect, then you can try using the analog interface with the familiar red and white RCA connectors.

The main thing is that both the TV and the soundbar have these connectors. Of course, this is not the best solution, because with this option, multi-channel sound cannot be obtained. There is only one advantage of this type of connection – in some cases, good stereo sound is still better than the standard acoustics of the TV receiver.

Headphone connection

In critical cases, when a digital connection cannot be made, and there are no audio inputs, you can try connecting via a mini-jack – 3.5 mm through the headphone jack on the TV. In some cases, adapters may be required.

With this option for connecting the soundbar, please note that only analog sound is available through this connector. This type of audio signal is transmitted much slower than a digital signal, so there may be problems with the synchronization of the image and sound.

Via Ethernet port

Many users ask questions about how to connect a Samsung soundbar or models from other manufacturers without cables at all. Indeed, models of modern soundbars are equipped with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth wireless interfaces, which allows you to make connections without physically connecting the equipment to each other. You just need to decide on the network connection option.

Soundbars with these features allow you to connect to your home network, and through it to various streaming services, and even integrate them into multi-room systems.

Now that you know the options for connecting a soundbar to a TV, we can compare modern soundbars by the interfaces they implement. For comparison, seven most popular models from the budget segment according to PULT.ru were taken.

It should be noted that all these models also have HDMI connectors. At the same time, having information about the functionality of your TV receiver and seeing the set of interfaces of a particular soundbar, you can always predict what exactly the options for combining TV and acoustics will be, and choose the most optimal one from them.

Of course, the presented table does not give a complete picture, but even this comparison demonstrates the fact that knowing the connection principle and having information about the set of interfaces, you can always choose the most successful model for a particular TV and connect it.

Many buyers of full-fledged home theaters today look at soundbars in confusion and longingly, because this type of audio equipment is much more compact than full-size and often bulky audio systems in the form of home theaters. There can be only one advice here – either buy such a compact soundbar instead of a full-fledged home theater, or use it to sound another room.

The conclusions are simple. The popularity of compact audio devices is due to the large connectivity that allows you to get high-quality sound. Moreover, this applies to all models, without exception, both budget and premium, which have such wide functionality that, perhaps, only they cannot brew coffee.

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