LG - Sound Suite H7 9.1.6 Channel Soundbar with Dolby Atmos FlexConnect - Black

Great looking and performing sound bar. Pairs well with our G6 tv. Cant think of anything negative about it . Amazing sound , easy to use and set up . Highly recommend.

I was looking into soundbars with the technology of sonos. My research led to the H7 here just before the beam ultra was announced but but for what I was looking for the extra drivers were more my style. Can be a bit to maneuver give the size but overall amazing setup and works great with my B5

Had no issues setting up. Need power, HDMI, and WiFi. LG ThinQ app is full featured yet simple to use. Sounds great on its own and you can add additional sub(s) and speakers easily and with Flex Connect it makes setup easy and versatile. Place speakers anywhere and use the app to sync to your spot.

Works perfect and sounds amazing. Highly recommend this soundbar

This soundbar is truly fantastic with amazing sound and most importantly, support for the fantastic Dolby FlexConnect tech that allows real flexibility and great sound from add-on speakers. We were honestly impressed by the heft and sound quality from this sound bar. Even within our oddly shaped living room with a vaulted ceiling, LG/Dolby delivered a balanced and immersive sound after its auto-calibration. We own an LG G5 TV which additionally allows for a wireless connection between this soundbar and the TV, but we opted to connect it directly via HDMI and allow the soundbar be the central coordinator for our two M5 speakers. Even with an irregular placement with one speaker behind and another halfway back we had an incredibly immersive sound without a typical surround layout. While we’re getting amazing sound with less components than is typical for a 5.1 equivalent setup, the FlexConnect within this soundbar also has the ability to support more speakers than a 7.1 setup, if you wish. It takes a lot of guesswork and calibrating out of the mix and makes for a very approachable system, even if you might find yourself messing with sound settings at times for various kinds of media, whether that be booming movies or ‘talky’ dramas where you might want the voice to come through more balanced. Luckily LG provides some quick options both from the ThinQ app and their remote. On its own it’s a very nice, hefty soundbar packed with speakers positioned for awesome stereo and good bass, but for surround sound with additional speakers, it’s industry-changing and absolutely the future for most people. At 47” long, it’s also hefty and powerful in itself. We were able to get very similar sound from the H7 and two M5 speakers as we were able to get out of a big receiver, and a full wired 5.1 setup with and a huge subwoofer. In several ways, LG provided the more immersive sound, with better dynamic range - allowing explosions on screen to sound ‘explosive’ rather than toned down. For a perfect comparison, we may buy LG’s compatible sub (W7) to gain more power in the lower range, but it’s still incredible. In additional to allowing flexibility in number of additional speakers and layout, it’s made our living room much more streamlined. The soundbar looks much more clean than our prior left, center, and right speakers - with all of their inherent bulk and cabling. If starting fresh, this is the way to go. Finally the tech has reached a point where buying a receiver doesn’t feel like a necessity in a theater setup. The small screen on the front is great for relaying modes and is very subtle in practice, almost reading like E-ink, despite being OLED in itself. It never distracts from the TV. A central glow on the middle, lower edge of the soundbar also provides some feedback when adjusting volume - and to indicate that it’s active. My only three small issues with this soundbar is that LG doesn’t give a lot of guidance on how to ensure you’ve set things up in the most ideal way. I had an initial issue with delayed audio and it took me a while to realize that I needed to switch my audio output to ‘PCM’ rather than ‘Bitstream’ to eliminate the problem. Second, the included remote borrows the same design and layout as our LG TV, causing confusion at a glance when we grab for the wrong remote. It almost seems like LG went out of their way to fill each button slot with options you may or may not need, rather than make it more straightforward. Third, the ‘AI Upmix’ feature never made improvements to the sound, but rather caused voices to sound distant and tinny. I always leave it off now. Overall__ Despite those nits, it’s a hefty, quality soundbar that makes any TV sound incredible. It then goes further to support a very flexible surround sound system when you add on either M5 or M7 speakers, with great flexibility as to where you place them - and no speaker wires and just standard power plugs on each, with all sound handled wirelessly. I love the sound from this H7 soundbar in both setups and would happily recommend it to anyone, especially if they may want to have the flexibility to extend their system in the future.