I tested the Samsung HW-QS750F soundbar, and absolutely adore the immersive, rich, booming sound it creates. I recommend it if you're upgrading your home entertainment

Whenever I see a sound system with multiple components (especially a booming subwoofer), I get jealous. Having an immersive, multi-tiered setup can create the rich soundscapes needed to elevate music and home theater.

So, I was excited to get my hands on the Samsung HW-QS750F. It features a soundbar, a woofer, and two rear speakers that create realistic surround sound, whatever you're playing.

To find out if it could be one of the best soundbars, I put it to the test across movies, TV shows, and songs that show off all of its capabilities.

Samsung HW-QS750F: The one-minute verdict

Considering its low price point, the Samsung HW-QS750F delivers seriously impressive sound. From immersive surround sound when watching TV and movies to deep, booming music, the dynamic setup is a fantastic home entertainment setup, and you have more advanced customization options compared to other models.

It's bulkier than single soundbars due to the three additional speakers, but this helps to create a soundscape with powerful bass, spatial audio, and crisp details. If you have the space for it, I'd absolutely recommend this model to level up your listening experience.

Samsung HW-QS750F: Specifications

Samsung HW-QS750F: Setup

Because of its multiple components, the Samsung HW-QS750F arrives in a bulkier box than what you'd expect from a single soundbar – but after unpacking it, I realized Samsung did a great job at making it as compact as possible. They also use mostly cardboard, with a few plastic molds that are made of a recycled mix, making it a more eco-friendly design choice.

Setup takes a little longer than single soundbars and requires three mains outlets to power the four speakers. But although it seemed complicated at first, once you start, it becomes straightforward:

1. Plug the soundbar into the mains, then to the TV using the HDMI cable (or optical cable if your TV has no ARC port).
2. Plug the subwoofer into mains and it automatically (and instantly) connects to the soundbar.
3. Connect the red and black AC/DC cables to both surround speakers, then plug the left speaker into the mains.
4. Sound comes out instantly, no need to set up the app first (though that’s where all the features and settings are).

The app is also straightforward. Sign up or log in to a Samsung account, and the app guides you through each step. I clicked ‘Add a device’ and the soundbar came up straight away, and it took 5-10 minutes to register it to my app and configure the settings.

From start to finish, including signing up to Samsung and connecting the speaker to the SmartThings app, took around 40 minutes. More tech-savvy people will be able to do this faster; for less tech-y people, it may take up to or over an hour. The instructions in the manual were clear.

Be prepared for lots of cables. There are three cables into the mains, an HDMI cable from TV to the soundbar, and a super-long AC/DC cable between the surround speakers. These will be very visible if you have a glass TV stand, or if you're positioning the surround speakers next to where you sit, meaning they'll feed across the room.

You can use cable tidies and cord cover kits, both available on Amazon, to corral and hide them with ease.

Samsung HW-QS750F: Design and features

A dynamic setup like this is a great look, particularly if you're organizing a music room or movie room, but it's worth noting that it'll take up more space in smaller setups. If your TV isn't raised enough, the soundbar and subwoofer might get in the way of the screen – but you could always position the subwoofer on the floor or on another surface. It connects wirelessly to the soundbar, so all it needs is a nearby power outlet.

Having multiple speakers and the fact that the soundbar itself has 10 built-in speakers means you're given comprehensive control over the sound balance. You can adjust bass, treble, woofer volume, surround speaker volumes, and whether you want the sound to come out of specific speakers rather than the whole set.

All of these features and settings can be found on the app, and it's the most customizable soundbar I've seen in thus far. The main features are:

• Sound Mode: Standard, Surround, Game, Adaptive Sound, DTS Virtual:X.
• Equalizer: Adjust the bass and treble.
• Woofer: Adjust woofer volume to +6 or -12. It’s responsive, and really useful if you have neighbors, family members, or roommates who might be disturbed by thumping bass.
• Surround Speaker Setup: Private Rear Sound mutes the soundbar and subwoofer, using only the small speakers, making it ideal for late-night viewing to not disturb anyone.
• Sound Grouping: Synchronizes soundbar with additional speakers for a more ‘mono’ sound – less surround, less layered.
• Advanced Sound Settings: Voice enhancement, bass enhancement, Night Mode, Virtual, and Moderate Bass (where you can mute the woofer so the bass is delivered from the soundbar).
• Channel level: Adjust the individual speakers within the soundbar (not the separate speakers). Rare feature.

It's interesting how there are so many different settings for what is essentially quiet mode: Private Rear Sound, Night Mode, Moderate Bass, and lowering the woofer volume will all achieve a similar effect. But they do sound different to each other, and it's handy that you can select modes that will prioritize bass, depth, clarity, treble, or sharpness.

Private Rear Sound isolates the small surround speakers. These aren’t anything special, as the music sounds a little tinny. Putting it to my ears, I could hear slight crackling, like playing music from your phone, but on a larger scale with more capacity.

Occasionally, when all speakers are active, you can hear this scratchiness as part of the layered soundscape, even if the soundbar and subwoofer mostly overpower it. You might benefit from Joanna Gaines' Bulletin Board Acoustic Tiles to improve the acoustics at home.

You can change the volume with your normal TV remote, and a subtle light on the soundbar shows when you turn it up or down, in a way that's helpful, not distracting. The Samsung HW-QS750F comes with its own remote, too, with more settings than just volume.

But the app has more settings available, and when you use the remote for certain settings, voice prompts will come out of the soundbar that can distract from watching and listening, whereas on the app, you get no disruptive sounds.

However, every time I open the app, it goes back from the soundbar control screen to the main Samsung devices screen, which is a little frustrating as it takes a few moments to load back onto the control screen each time.

Sure, this is useful if you have multiple Samsung devices in your smart home setup that you use at the same time, but if you just have the soundbar, it can slow you down when you need to quickly adjust something.

But minor inconveniences aside, this is a fantastic setup that vastly improves sound quality and spatial surround sound. I love that all the speakers instantly connected to each other without having to fiddle with pairing, and that they all have non-slip rubber pads to protect delicate TV stands (or to keep your hardwood floor clean, if that's where the woofer is going).

Samsung HW-QS750F: TV and movies

With realistic surround sound, clear details, and booming depth – the Samsung HW-QS750F is a great choice to create a more immersive home theater experience.

At first, when watching the action sequences in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, I was worried that the HW-QS750F wouldn't live up to expectations. Loud, layered scenes sounded a bit muddied, and the finer details weren't as clear as they could be. There was depth in the surround sound, but not as impressive as with the Sonos Arc Ultra (granted, it costs almost twice as much).

I tried DTS Virtual:X – a way for soundbars to virtually recreate a Dolby Atmos surround sound experience without the expensive hardware – and everything sounded a bit shallower and less full. The bass is more pronounced when kept on ‘surround’ mode.

But when watching Avengers: Infinity War, everything was clear, real, and immersive. A true surround sound experience. In a scene that's full of different sounds – cars crashing, metal clanging, dialogue, crowds, explosions – each of them sounded true in their own right. There wasn’t any confusion among the layers.

When watching Studio Ghibli's Princess Mononoke in both the original Japanese and dubbed English, everything sounded beautiful. Every voice is clear, with voice actors' tone and rasp coming through with clarity, and in scenes where music and action happen at once, it sounds full, immersive, and exhilarating. This is one of my favorite movies of all time and the HW-QS750F did it justice.

It's ideal for the movies you need to watch before your next redecorating project.

This clarity also shone when watching the pilot episode of Arrested Development. You can hear voices shouting from behind the camera, and the voices on camera sound crisp. The brass music that plays on the intro sounded lush and didn’t distract from the dialogue at all. The multi-directional surround sound makes it feel like you’re there (strange considering there’s a narrator!).

And when watching season six episode nine of Breaking Bad, you can hear an off-screen toy car and a garage door closing as if they're coming from a direction I hadn't yet heard. The voices, although a little scratchy at times, were authentic, and I could hear tremors in their voices and the breath in whispers.

However, Our Planet II did sound messy compared to the rich detail of the other scenes. The music felt a little distracting, and David Attenborough’s voice sounds slightly muffled compared to the surroundings. Compared to the Sonos Arc Ultra, where I could hear each animal noise and leaf rustle, it felt more blended together and less layered. But the surround sound still came through.

Samsung HW-QS750F: Music

This is a great music setup. Impact is high with room-filling sound, deep bass, and gorgeous trebles. There could occasionally be more clarity, especially when it comes to high-pitched vocals in layered songs with strong bass, but this is a small drawback on what is otherwise a stellar sound system.

Bass is the star of the show here, thanks to the dedicated woofer. Playboi Carti's Location, The Weather Station's Robber, and Erykah Badu's Didn’t Cha Know all popped with the bass thumping through the room, without ever sounding distorted or rattly.

And luckily, you don't have to worry about soundproofing your room if you want to listen to music when it's late, as the HW-QS750F's quieter modes do a great job at muffling the impactful sounds while mostly maintaining the quality.

On Sade's Feel No Pain, the bassline comes in strong, and there’s a subtle, satisfying echo when the drums come in, but the midrange isn't as rich. This stayed true when transitioning to Big Thief's Simulation Swarm, an exclusively mid-treble song, and I had to turn it up to feel the same effect as the bass-y songs.

I could hear the slight-off sound from the small surround speakers in Morcheeba's The Sea, particularly in the guitar strings and vocals.

The trebles are gorgeous. Cocteau Twin's Pitch the Baby sounded completely dreamy, even if the more subtle elements could've been clearer. I adjusted the treble to the max, which often makes things sound off but I did so to test the treble capabilities, and it sounded angelic. Real nice.

The echoey effect on the percussion came through again on All Day Breakfast Cafe's What If Nile Rodgers and Fela Kuti Were Friends, and it’s nice that the impact of the four-speaker, surround-sound setup can be felt in this way. It’s how drums sound in a room with good acoustics.

The rich, soaring brass entered beautifully, adding liveliness and optimism while sounding almost separate from the rest of the layers – not in a disparate way, but as if it’s not being drowned out or affected by other layers. If you enjoy detailed, powerful music, this is one of many smart home must-haves that I couldn't recommend more.

Samsung HW-QS750F: Price

The Samsung HW-QS750F is available for $599.99 at Best Buy, sitting comfortably in the mid-range price level for soundbars. It's hundreds of dollars cheaper than single soundbars that deliver a similar quality and spatiality of sound, as it's comprised of more components that take up more space in the room.

The Sonos Arc Ultra is the best soundbar we've tested so far. With 14 built-in speakers, it delivers TV, movie, and music audio that surpasses the quality of almost every home audio setup I've used. It's more detailed and well-rounded than the Samsung HW-QS750F, but costs almost twice as much.

I'm also currently testing the Sony Bravia Theater Bar 8, another single soundbar that offers impressive surround sound. At $999.99, it's $100 cheaper than the Sonos, but $400 more expensive than the Samsung HW-QS750F. And so far, the sound quality isn't $400's worth more impressive, but it takes up much less space.

How I tested the Samsung HW-QS750F

I tested the Samsung HW-QS750F in my own home, in the biggest room of my house. I tested the two small surround speakers in two configurations, once positioned either side of my head and once positioned in front of me, and I preferred the front-facing sound as I found it more immersive.

I use a set list of scenes and songs to standardize testing across each soundbar. For TV and movies:

• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2. Fast-paced, loud, and busy action scenes, with dialogue, explosions, artificial sound effects (casting spells and mystical creatures), emotional scenes, and a dramatic score.
• Avengers: Infinity War. Transitions from distant loud noises to immersive action, with dialogue, crowds, artificial sci-fi sounds, and fight scenes. Ideal for testing spatial audio and hearing fine details during loud moments.
• John Wick: Chapter 2. Fast-paced action, tense music, and background noise (trains, crowds, traffic).
• Breaking Bad (season five, episode nine). Intimate dialogue between two characters, switching between whispering to impassioned shouting.
• Arrested Development (season one, episode one). Fast-paced dialogue in a casual setting, voices with different pitches, and background scenes.
• Princess Mononoke. Emotional sequences with rich musical scores and Foley (creating sound effects for animation).
• Our Planet II. Ideal for testing audio range, with wide-ranging nature sounds, music (from dramatic to subtle), and narration.

And to test music quality, I listen to songs from different genres and times that highlight different frequencies, instruments, voices, and sounds. This list is roughly ordered from bass-heavy to high treble (listen to the playlist here on Spotify):

• Angel by Massive Attack. Trip-hop, electronic, slow build-up, percussion.
• Phoenix by Daft Punk. Electronic, dance, thumping bass, soft highs, cymbals, sampling, synths.
• Oh My God by A Tribe Called Quest. Hip-hop, overlapping voices, tight bass, vocal sampling, subtle crackling, jazz influence.
• Didn't Cha Know by Erykah Badu. Neo-soul, layered instruments, varied percussion, synths, smooth trebles, and strong midrange.
• Feel No Pain by Sade. Smooth soul, electronic, full audio range including low bass, strong midrange, soft highs.
• Three Drums by Four Tet. Electronic, dance, layered live instruments, soft drums.
• Simulation Swarm by Big Thief. Soft folk, melodic, full band, pure midrange, vocal trebles.
• Suzanne by Leonard Cohen. Old, low-fidelity, high-emotion, guitar, strong midrange.
• Ramble On by Led Zeppelin. Hard rock (with quiet moments), full band, slow-to-fast pace.
• Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler) by Marvin Gaye. Jazzy soul, trebles overlapping the midrange, with occasional low frequencies.
• The Sea by Morcheeba. Emphasized midrange alongside vocal highs and percussive lows.
• Robber by The Weather Station. Soft pop, subtle sounds, high trebles, brass, strings, isolated drums.
• An Ever-Changing View by Matthew Halsall. Jazz, chimes, brass, varied percussion.
• What If Nile Rodgers And Fela Kuti Were Friends by All Day Breakfast Cafe. Funk, breakdown, high energy, slow moments, smooth vocals, brass.
• Pitch the Baby by Cocteau Twins. Dream pop, pure treble, synths, electronically altered voices.
• Set Fire to the Rain by Adele. Pop, booming voice, high emotion.
• Location by Playboi Carti. Hip-hop, high highs, electronic layering, trap rhythms.

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