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T3 VerdictWant big, detailed and full-range sound that will put the sound of your TV to shame? There’s plenty of it from the Samsung HW-Q600C. But if you’re after an overt sensation of spatial audio too, this may not be the perfect solution. But it’s still a very good one indeed.
T3 Verdict
Want big, detailed and full-range sound that will put the sound of your TV to shame? There’s plenty of it from the Samsung HW-Q600C. But if you’re after an overt sensation of spatial audio too, this may not be the perfect solution. But it’s still a very good one indeed.
Reasons to buy+Hefty, well-integrated and spacious movie sound+Good standard of build and finish+Helpfully compact dimensions
Hefty, well-integrated and spacious movie sound
Good standard of build and finish
Helpfully compact dimensions
Far from the most spatial of spatial audio presentations
Not all that comfortable with music
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The HW-Q600C will also please many because, unlike various one-box solutions, it includes a separate wireless subwoofer. Yet it doesn’t cost an absolute arm and a leg, making it seem like an even more sensible soundbar option forthe best TVs of 2025. Or, indeed,the best TVs under £1000, to avoid spending your life’s savings.
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The Samsung HW-Q600C is on sale now, and in the United Kingdom the asking price tops out at £549. In America the threshold is $599, while in Australia it’s AU$799. Spend a moment eyeing-up the embedded shopping widgets on this page, however, and you’ll likely find an even better deal.
Samsung HW-Q900C review: Features & What’s New?
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However, how big thee drivers are, what shape they are, or what they’re made of, is information that’s not forthcoming for no good reason that I can think of.
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(Image credit: Future)
The included subwoofer features a socket for mains power at the rear, along with a ‘pairing’ button in case the automatic pairing between sub and soundbar goes awry. At the front, behind some acoustic fabric, there’s a 165mm bass driver handling the low-end audio content. Total system amplification is 360 watts, and it’s of the Class D kind.
The HW-Q600C offers four sound modes: ‘standard’, ‘surround’, ‘game pro’ and ‘adaptive’. There’s really no need to explain those first three, but ‘adaptive’ assesses your content in real-time and attempts to adjust the system’s output accordingly.
And there’s compatibility withSamsung’s ‘Q Symphony’technology, too - so should you pair it with an appropriateSamsung TVthen the screen’s speakers can contribute to the sound rather than leaving it all to the soundbar/subwoofer combo.
Samsung HW-Q900C review: Performance
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On the plus side (which is, to be fair, the bigger side), the HW-Q600C is a spacious, well-integrated and naturalistic listen - or, at least, it is once you tone down the subwoofer’s contributions.
Straight from the box the subwoofer is altogether too confident and assertive - but it doesn’t take long to calm it down a bit. And once you’ve done so, you’re left with a presentation that’s even from the (bright, crisp) top-end to the (deep, textured) bottom-end. Detail levels are high at every stage, and the amount of attack the system can summon is beautifully judged.
The soundstage this Samsung can create is well-defined and convincing, and it does good work in allowing the gaps and spaces as much emphasis as the sounds themselves. From front to back and left to right, the stage is open and organised, and the HW-Q600C steers effects through these planes with confidence and positivity.
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(Image credit: Future)
The Samsung is particularly adept through the midrange, despite its apparent shortage of centre-channel drivers relative to the left and right channels. Dialogue projects well, even during the most raucous scenes, and there’s ample information regarding tone, timbre, character and all the rest of it available. Even during those movies where speech plays second fiddle to sound (Christopher Nolan, I’m looking at you), the HW-Q600C is distinct and purposeful through the midrange.
It’s not quite as purposeful when it comes to the ‘height’ element of a spatial audio soundtrack, though. I tested the HW-Q600C witha 48-inch Philips OLED TVin a room with average ceiling height, but the soundbar struggled to project sound to the top of the screen, let alone up towards the ceiling. The sound that’s projected upwards is just as detailed as all the rest of the audio output, but the idea that this Samsung is an ‘immersive’ listen is, I think it’s fair to say, a false alarm.
Neither is the Samsung much cop when it comes to music reproduction, which basically rules it out as one ofthe best all-in-one speaker systems. Music streamed via Bluetooth sounds a little lumpy and ill-defined - the subwoofer, so prompt and alert when it comes to movies - can trip over its own feet a little when asked to deal with music, and so rhythms don’t sound as natural as they might. Getting a cogent stereo image from all those drivers seems a bit beyond the HW-Q600C, too.
Samsung HW-Q900C review: Design & Usability
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There’s not much room for manoeuvre where the design of a soundbar (or a subwoofer, for that matter) is concerned - or, at least, there isn’t if you want to keep costs to a realistic level. So the Samsung HW-Q600C is an entirely sensible 56 x 1030 x 105mm for the soundbar and an equally unremarkable 343 x 184 x 295mm for the subwoofer.
This scale means the soundbar will fit neatly beneaththe best 48-inch TV screensand above, while the subwoofer - thanks in large part to its wireless connectivity - can go anywhere you need it to. As long as it’s within reach of mains power, anyway.
The soundbar, you won’t be staggered to learn, is built almost entirely from plastic. This being Samsung, though, it’s robust and distinctly superior plastic, and the perforated top and front panels combined with the angled ends mean it’s actually not bad-looking. The subwoofer is equally prosaic in its materials - vinyl-wrapped MDF, mostly - and equally accomplished in its standard of build and finish.
As far as usability is concerned, there’s not much to get to grips with here. There are a few controls (‘power on/off’, ‘volume up/down’ and input selection) on the top of the soundbar, and the HW-Q600C is supplied with a little remote control handset that manages to cover every eventuality despite having very few buttons. There’s an extremely brief and indistinct display on the front of the soundbar that lets you know what it’s up to (if you squint hard) too.
There’s no app control available, and getting some Alexa voice control is quite a convoluted process involving both the Alexa and the Samsung SmartThings app. Still, it can be done if you’re prepared to put the time in (and you have an Alexa speaker handy).
Samsung HW-Q900C review: Verdict
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In lots of ways, the HW-Q600C is a solid performer. It’s definitely got ability when it comes to soundstaging, detail retrieval, tonal fidelity and outright low-frequency presence - and if that sounds like enough for you, then this sub-and-‘bar combo is a great buy.
Also consider
TheBose Smart Soundbar 600doesn’t travel with a subwoofer, true - but it’s a better bet where the ‘spatial audio’ aspect of performance is concerned. So unless you’re all ‘bout that bass (which is a massive benefit of the Samsung), then it could well be the better bet.
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