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7 Soundbar Settings You NEED to Fix Now!

Smart Home Sounds

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Are soundbar settings ruining your picture? In this video we cover 7 most common soundbar settings that ruin sound — including connectivity, placement, audio output settings and more! These quick soundbar setting fixes work for all soundbars. In just five minutes, you can unlock the full performance your soundbar is capable of.

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Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:50 Connections
03:48 TV Audio Output
05:37 HDMI-CEC & eARC
06:51 Check Source
08:05 Placement
09:18 Room Calibration
10:22 Dialogue

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20 Comments

@neilarcher1177 2 months ago

Came here looking for help setting up a Samsung soundbar. The issue being that there was sound drop out at random intervals when watching HD content and streaming services but with no pattern. Occasionally not at all. Changed to high speed cables. Updated firmware. Turned off an on again.

As a consequence your video on TV picture set up was recommended. One of the tips was switching on enhanced HDMI for all the ports. In my simplistic mind that would work for sound too. Tried it and low and behold no sound drop out. Mention this because this seems to be a problem with Samsung if the message boards are anything to go by. Hope it helps someone.

@hugelevin 18 hours ago

What if the output is Dolby Atmos on both Multichannel and Mutichannel (Bypass) which one do I keep? The only difference is the loudness. Bypass requires 10 more levels to sound as loud as without it.

@DFeliciana 2 months ago

Thank you

@JoanCarradine 2 weeks ago

I have always used the opti in setup in the belief it produced a better sound. My Philips 65" Ambilight has as it happens, eArc HDMI. I have since plugged this into my Sony 5.1 Atmos system and what a difference!

@haraldsvik1452 4 months ago

To correct you: no one in this world have never been able to distinguish between optical, arc and e-arc on pure stereo sound.

@leedsleedsleeds1747 1 month ago

Very professionally and well presented video. Very clear and easy to follow for people just discovering soundbars

@SY91TBG 4 months ago

I have a Hisense U5120GW soundbar. I set its equalizer to music and turned on passthrough on the TV. The sound is spacious, but in some songs the vocals sound as if they were performed in a tape recorder. With PCM enabled, the vocals are correct, but the sound quality drops.

@kawii9793 3 months ago

I would have never thought I would get recommended to use something with AI in its name (LG TV, didn't calibrate LG DS77TY Soundbar yet). Thank you for the advice

@rahuljayachandran4128 4 months ago

Your video's are Lit 🔥 so well made and hey thank you so much for this video-really helpful ..

@scootermama2267 3 months ago

You helped. Bomaker sound bar. One question, should the sound go to 100? Right now it only goes to 32.

@ngerales 3 months ago

Team Samsung here. Bought the 83" S90H 2 months ago, paired it with a Vizio 5.1.2 that's 4 years old and it sounds great, but Q-Symphony isn't available. So inordered the Q990H last night. Arriving June 12, can't hardly wait.

Will setup according to your recommendations!

@hodasamadi7903 4 months ago

So I have a Sennheiser Mini Ambeo for my small room. I have it on “Movie Mode” and the Ambeo 3D Sound on Boost, Foundation (+6.5 db), Low-mid (+2db), Clarity (+3db), and Brilliance (+3db), and Voice enhancement on and it sounds amazing by doing this. Also I love the seat your on, what is it?

@reginald9788 2 months ago

Onmy curve, Dolby isn't supported....working on 65 in Samsung....great sound....heard change immediately.

@Dando-1983 4 months ago

I like how your channel helps people, which is great because not everyone understands how to complete the best set up for sound and picture settings.

Great video

@maxflight777 2 months ago

so informative, no verbosity!

Thank you

@reginald9788 2 months ago

For picture settings should RGB be off or on green?

@kevinhickey3515 1 month ago

Thud sound on my Denon bar every 5 secs. Conventional connwction. Had to dusconnect as it would drive me crazy. Any ideas??????

@muserbellamy1140 2 months ago

Hi mate can you still get Dolby atmos just with hdmi arc as tv has no e ark

@tonygroenewoud-powell53 4 months ago

Kudos! One of the most clear, concise and informative videos I've ever seen on this subject! Well done!

@alanbennett3812 4 months ago

Thanks for the info.
Lounge is 39m².

LG G6 (OLED55G66LS) tv paired with a US70TR. Atmos and 5.1 is ok. General TV through sky q is a little disappointing as most of the sound is stereo. I think the US70TR is struggling with stereo . Might try the sonos arc ultra.

My 18 year old pioneer kuro had better speakers for general TV. 150w per speaker.

I did have bitrate set but I'll try pcm as you'd think the TV would be doing a better job than the sound bar? Thanks.