If you love cuddling up on the couch with some popcorn for a movie night or to catch up on your favorite TV show, you can make the experience way better for not much dough. Picture quality is important. Obviously a sized-up TV with an OLED panel and HDR support and all the works is going to be an improvement over some 10-year-old screen. However, what people tend to underestimate is how important sound quality can be for your enjoyment. Even if you stick with that old TV, just by grabbing a solid soundbar, you can make it feel like your own personal cinema.
Right now, Amazon has the Samsung B-Series soundbar on sale for 30% off. This surround sound expansion speaker which normally sells for $140 has come down by $42. That means it can be yours for under a hundred at just $98 for a limited time.
This Samsung soundbar has a built-in subwoofer to bring you perfectly balanced sound and rich bass without taking up much room in your apartment or house. It’s designed to either just lay right on top of your media console, or it can even be set up mounted underneath a wall mounted TV if you prefer that clean, minimal look.
You can connect the speaker to your TV source either over digital optical or using HDMI ARC. If you choose the latter, you won’t even need to use the included remote. Your TV’s primary remote can be used to control all the key soundbar function like powering it on or off, volume adjustment, along with some other sound options.
Virtual Surround Sound
The soundbar works by projecting the audio outward in all directions, filling the room and giving the illusion of true surround sound. You’ll hear the action on screen from every angle.
A big pet peeve of many enjoyers of television and movies is that dialogue feels like it’s gotten harder to hear in the last decade or more. Studios are rarely remixing their movies audio for home release and the result is that you’re forced to keep the remote on standby to adjust volume at all times. Explosions, gunfire, and other loud sources of sound will hurt your ears, but then all spoken words just feels like a whisper. That’s stops being a problem when you have a soundbar like this.
The Samsung B-Series soundbar has specialized dialogue enhancement which can amplify the spoken audio automatically, while keeping everything else reduced. Now most of us won’t be forced to use the closed captions, only enabling them if that’s your preference anyway.
