In particular, their top edges now angle down to aid the directionality of the up-firing drivers, and their main cabinets now sit on short ‘feet’ to reduce potential sound colouration from whatever furniture or shelf you’ve got them sat on. The rear speakers have undergone a redesign, too. This sees a raised cover with open sides sitting over a promisingly large 8-inch driver, with the intention of improving the dispersion and refinement of the bass sound. The most instantly noticeable difference is the addition of an Acoustic Lens to the chunky (chunkier than last year’s model, in fact) subwoofer. So how does the Q990B turn Samsung’s soundbar dial up to 11(.1.4)? That honor actually belongs to its predecessor, 2021’s Samsung HW-Q950A. The Q990B is not the first 11.1.4-channel soundbar. Namely the creation of the sort of perfect hemisphere of sound that’s the ultimate goal of the latest and greatest Dolby Atmos and DTS:X sound formats – even if those channels do still require some clever bouncing to get them around you.
Phew.Īs well as looking good on the Q990B’s spec sheet, there is, of course, a potential massive sound quality benefit to supporting so many ‘real’ (rather than virtual/created by processing) channels of sound.
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So that’s front center, front left, front right, side left, side right, front side left, front side right, rear side left, rear side right, rear left, rear right, the subwoofer’s bass channel, and four upfiring drivers to provide Dolby Atmos’s overhead/height effects.
These drivers contributed to a class-leading (at the time of writing) channel count of 11.1.4. One firing out of their front as you would expect, but also one firing out of their top edges for Atmos heigh, and another firing out of their outer sides. These are no ordinary rear speakers, either, since despite their relatively compact dimensions each of them manages to house no less than three separate channel drivers. After all, alongside the main soundbar and external subwoofer combination that represents the furthest extent of most soundbar ambitions, the Q990B also ships with a pair of wireless rear speakers. The HW-Q990B stretches the notion of soundbar about as far as it can go. (Image credit: Future) Samsung HW-Q990B review: features The Samsung HW-Q990B has great audio format support, and strong connectivity.
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