LG S95AR Review: A Hassle-Free Dolby Atmos Soundbar

There are not many Sound bar solutions that give you as much sound immersion for your money as the LG S95. Many brands of modern bars prefer to sell unique bars at high prices, with additional speakers available for additional costs. LG provides a subwoofer, a double environment and a unique LG LG mixture five (Not four) channels of height to put you at the center of the action for 3D sound formats like Dolby Atmos and DTS: X from the start.

The latest S95AR model offers a modest upgrade compared to the S95TR of last year (8/10, Wired Recomds), including a reworked subwoofer and a price increase of $ 200 to support it. It may not be a coincidence that the largest S95 rival, the Q990 of Samsung 11,1.4 channels, has also increased its price in recent years, keeping a configuration of 9.1.5 LG channels at the most elaborate LG price.

I always prefer the warmer and more musical sound signature of Samsung, but the S95AR is an exciting interpreter who offers similar (if not better) value, as well as exclusive features for owners of new, more recent LG televisions. If you are looking for a one-stop-up configuration that brings you closer to a multi-component house theater solution, but with much less hassle, the S95AR is among the best soundbar in the world.

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Photography: Ryan Waniata

For the second time in two LG products, the S95AR landed at my door in a somewhat abused state, with notable bumps to its metal acoustic grille. The system did not seem otherwise worse for wear, and although its 50 inch width grows at the edges of medium -sized consoles, its height less than 3 inches adapts perfectly below most televisions. The configuration went well without incident, allowing me to connect it and turn the sound through the system in four parts in a short time.

I say Above all Without incident because, as was the case with the last LG sound bar that I examined, the S95AR forces you to connect its components in a certain order: subwoofer first, then surrounds, then the bar. I did not do this, and the leftist left entourage would not connect. Disconnect everything and reconnect it in the order of fixed things (or maybe it was just power cycling), and I had no other connection problem over several weeks.

LG’s ThinQ application has grown over the years, now as a capable and mainly stable control center for the whole configuration and software settings. The application has found the bar almost instantly and has facilitated connection to my network, was brought with the speaker channel levels, and perform a calibration of the LG AI that listens to the sound bar at your space. You can easily modify entries or sound modes and “effects” of music and cinema modes in night mode to soften the bass when the children (or neighbors) have returned.

There is also a separate remote control for many of these controls, but due to the absence of the bar of any real visual display, using it for something other than a quick volume adjustment or an input switch is a problem, because you count on voice indices. This could be useful for those who have accessibility problems, but if not, the application is your interface.

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Photography: Ryan Waniata

Nestled in the main bar are the front, left and center channels that manage most of your music and television content, double side rod pilots to bounce the sound of your walls, and a trio of “height” channels to bounce the effects of your ceiling, including the LG central height channel for improved immersion with Dolby Atmos and DTS: X. Surround speaker the size of a football, including the front, side and height canals, and an 8-inch subwoofer.