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no i was gonna pop up

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oh hello there today we have a nice refined offering

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from lg the s95 qr

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9.1.5 channel surround system soundbar

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two satellites and a subwoofer really excited about this today if i like it i

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think i want it for my house but the price is a little high at 17.99 us so

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we'll see if the price matches the performance oh

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it's heavy

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we're starting right on top with our sound bar oh it's a big boy

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look at that whole length of the box box of

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peripherals cables that sort of thing

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and here i think we have our little satellites well they're not so little

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but they look nice that's for sure

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and that's about it it's heavy look at that so it's got a

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nice brushed finish on this doesn't look like it's picking up fingerprints that

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badly this guy's long it's 47 inches

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long got a nice cloth covering at the front there some little rubber feet on

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the bottom there's our ac input got our three up firing speakers and i believe

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we have one two three in the front this

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type of sound bar would be great for a 55 to 65 inch tv anything bigger or

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smaller you might be uh dwarfing it a little bit but looking at this with the

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size of the speakers and its construction i have high hopes which i

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would expect for the kind of money they're charging for this i've got a remote

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feels a bit plasticky oh it comes with batteries yes i love it when they come

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with batteries and an HDMI cable i was wondering if they were going to include

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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

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something it's more like an interactable web page which can be a little bit frustrating at the start but it actually

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works quite well soundbar has pretty much every technology under the sun all

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on the back here it's got this nice tattoo imax enhanced dtsx dolby vision

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dolby atmos bluetooth it's even got HDMI all that there nice subtle branding on

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the top now this big giant lg stuff got some touch buttons right in the center

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there and for ports what do we got we got optical again which is nice but this

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one actually does come with HDMI it comes with three in fact we've got two

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HDMI ins and HDMI out to the tv which

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supports e-arc and arc which is the audio return channel so you can throw

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your stuff into your tv have it come to this and it'll all work properly with

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audio i've also got a 5 volt usb

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port here which can deliver up to half an amp which will power little things

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like maybe a chromecast or something like that unfortunately i'm noticing

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it's immediately picking up an incredible quantity of dust every tiny

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little thing just shows up really nicely it's not catching fingerprints but it's

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really catching lots of dust what you might have noticed with the ports is

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that there's no connections for the sub or the satellites thank god they're all

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wireless let's have a look at one

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oh it's nice the styling is kind of subdued

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it's covered in a sea of that same metal as on this which is picking up dust like

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nothing and on this guy all we get is just a little pair button and power at

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the bottom nice cable trail for that too they feel kind of hefty and sturdy we've

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got our up firing speaker because this is a five nine point one point five

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channel system so it has five up firing speakers which is what the 0.5 at the

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back is for they're labeled right nicely there and it looks like we do have a

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mount for the wall on the bottom there i believe

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each of the satellites at the back has about three speakers in it one at the

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top one at the front and one for the side i'm not entirely sure i think it's

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probably that way finally let's have a look at

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this sub oh

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the weight is encouraging i'll tell you that

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a lot of companies these days are doing these nice thin subs so instead of

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having the speaker down like this and taking up a massive quantity of floor

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space you've got the speaker at the side

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your base reflex port at the front we've got this is like a nice finished

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wood sort of a similar finish to the metal on that

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sound bar but

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it's not catching fingerprints it's still catching all the little tiny

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pieces of dust you can hear the texture on that and like the satellites this one

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just has ac in and a pairing button big speaker on the side believe this is 220

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watts which is pretty impressive all the rest of the speakers are more like 40 to

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45 watts which is not bad when you have so many before we get this all set up at

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ready to go the soundbar itself also has a nice little display on the front of it

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i've also got the lg app here so i'm going to connect to it and see if we can

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get everything set up i can see it slowly getting covered in dust oh this

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looks exciting it still says wi-fi display's a bit brighter now mute off

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function wi-fi and let's see it's already found all the other speakers i

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didn't have to do anything should we start by doing some ai room calibration

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what do you think it is now updating the devices so we get to do nothing after

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the update i couldn't seem to get it working on the app again so let's just

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give her a go we'll see if we can get some signal through it and watch some

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stuff so this is the standard dolby atmos demo that i have used before the

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problem bell just connected his phone to the

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unit to try and get it set up on wi-fi and it's disabled my output it would be

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really nice if there was an output to the display when you're setting it up to

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let you know what's happening and what maybe what steps to do that sort of

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thing okay will it do dolby atmos

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now sound moves around you in three-dimensional space

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with breathtaking audio

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is this quality it's pretty good actually i'm not

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entirely sure all the atmos is functioning sound feels at the very sides are not really there these are

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definitely working sub is slightly too boomy for me i would probably tune that

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down a couple db it's probably not mode or node related because it's all the sub

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just the sub is too loud i'm just going through the menu here would be really

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nice to have a display tv remote is on auto power so really i

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just get to choose if i have surround on or if there's auto power can we tune it

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so we got w f c o v c s r rov treble bass w f c

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v ovc

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i've turned the bass down by five it sounds a little bit better now i do want

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to get my ear up nice and close to see if we are doing up firing

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yeah they are working that's for sure

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this is weird definitely doing it's 9.1.5 or whatever inside it's a little

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weak but the behind is really good i didn't have to do anything in the app to

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get everything paired everything's nice i want more controls over it believe

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it's designed to use the app and i can't use that now so i'm upset it could be a

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different tuning so we've got standard music cinema clear sport game bass or ai

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whatever the hell that means let's set it to cinema see if that makes anything

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worse dimensionality that's a lot bass here now cinema mode

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is damn crispy all of the preset eqs

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are all quite nice and i can see them being used for different things there's

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a lot of variation in the base level and the highs in the crispies for movies i

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think i would really enjoy cinema it's kind of reduces the bass slightly maybe

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adjusts the crossover point and makes everything louder and brighter

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just want to remark this is like volume on 21 so it can go even higher

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these things will put out some some audio

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no it's uh it's not youtube and compression there is something missing

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there so we'll i've i identify that in the uh in the sign sweep it's

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uh not a normal place that i would normally see missing audio but it's

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kind of creates a bit of a hollow sounding like a whole

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there are a couple spaces there where i was moving my head around and the sound

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was actually changing so i think we actually do have some modes and nodes

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here so the thing that it was missing was i set up my room badly i'm really

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close to this wall you really don't want that with a setup like this you have to

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pay more attention to the layout of your room you want a long rectangular room

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and you want to sit at the center of the short side

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so if i was sitting on this side of the couch my experience would be different

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than if i was sitting on the other side of the couch just because i'm here we're

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getting weird reflections it's it was more apparent in the 300 to

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400 degree hertz range where moving my head six

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inches was taking me in and out of the nodes i think the positioning of these

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speakers might be slightly incorrect but

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from that sort of experience hearing those modes all of this was

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very even maybe a little weak in the base end but i can't control from that

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because of the modes and nodes uh the large frequencies are canceling each

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other and creating big volume dips that will be different depending on your

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physical location around your living room or home theater however you

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want to put this in your house the music's nice and crisp and clean

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the connectivity is a major issue i think having the app not work and not

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allowing me to adjust some of the settings that i wanted to is kind of a

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deal breaker for me honestly the app had like two stars out of five

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which is kind of sad honestly setting it up

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initially was super easy as a recommendation for this amount of money

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i would certainly try something else that gives you more control maybe a

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better app the speakers themselves are good having a 9.1.5 for under

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a ridiculous sum of money i think is is very reasonable this setup will require

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more effort on your part to make sure that it's installed correctly make sure

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that these are the correct distance from you make sure that the sound bar isn't

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creating any vibrations that sort of thing our ceiling is just a big plastic

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sheet rather than a real reflection and it's also way higher than you would

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normally expect if you like this video and want to see another one Linus did a

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great unboxing of a sony sound bar that's in a similar price category and

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also really good