Hi- need feedback on setup for my Samsung HW-Q95T Soundbar with my Samsung Q80 - 65 inch TV. I have a room that is 20 X 17 wide with full walls on the three side - no windows on those walls. WIndows are behind the TV. Looking for the best Setup options for the soundbar setting for all of the various +/- values for the setting to get best sound across the room. No Gaming, No Bluetooth. Just for TV and Movie watching including streaming- Netflix/Disney. Any suggestions. I have seen a few but not sure if those calibrations are for a room of this size. Thanks
That's not an unusually large room, slightly wider than mine. The thing which matters most is how close or how far you are from the rears.
In other words, you could use this setting below, then adjust the rear level setting and the rear top setting, to a lower volume if the rears are close to you. For example:
Samsung HW-Q950T System Setting:
TREBLE = 0
BASS = -3
CENTER LEVEL = 0
SIDE LEVEL = -1 (90 deg)
WIDE LEVEL = 0 (45 deg)
FRONT TOP LEVEL = 0
REAR LEVEL = +6
REAR TOP LEVEL = +6
HW-Q950T 7-Band EQ
150 Hz = 0
300 Hz = 0
600 Hz = -2
1.2 kHz = -3
2.5 kHz = -2
5 kHz = 0
10 kHz = 0
SUBWOOFER = How ever you like it set.
The EQ is always set in Standard mode, but the setting applies to all modes.
But you can balance the rears to the bar in Surround Mode using a movie or TV program sound track as that will playback in 9.1.4 with the rears working when in Surround Mode.
Better to have the rears too loud, at first, then adjust them down by one increment each time, until they are in a good balance with the bar, for your seat location.
I have the rears set up high here because the rears are 2.5 times further away than the bar is for where I sit.
REAR LEVEL = +6
REAR TOP LEVEL = +6
So if you sit closer to the rears, than the bar, try the rears set like this:
REAR LEVEL = +3
REAR TOP LEVEL = +3
Then drop the rears one level if still to loud, etc.
The other settings above will produce excellent imaging results for your room, as given. I would not change those.
I'd try to locate the sub under the TV in the middle of the wall, and face its driver towards your seating location, perhaps a little out from the wall.