Samsung N950

Ayahuasca · 3 Dec 2019 at 10:49

Just picked one of these up for £600 with two speaker stands thrown in, I know there are a few owners on here. Do these play well with LG OLEDs ARC?

TheVoice · 3 Dec 2019 at 10:56

Don't see why not. If it's anything like the MS650 you'll need the phone app to update the firmware though, it can't do it itself.

Ayahuasca · 3 Dec 2019 at 11:00

It's already on the latest FW so shouldn't be any issues there, I've just read a few things about arc not working too well.

ubern00b · 3 Dec 2019 at 13:12

Arc works just fine on my Sony XF9005. Doesn't answer your question about LG OLED's I know but there is a massive thread over on AVForums if you want to have a read.

Psycho Sonny · 3 Dec 2019 at 16:33

Ayahuasca said:
It's already on the latest FW so shouldn't be any issues there, I've just read a few things about arc not working too well.

Why would a soundbar have issues with ARC? Especially a modern one. Why not test it and if it has issues then look into it rather than trying to see if it will have issues or not as nobody can answer that as it should work on any TV.

Ayahuasca · 3 Dec 2019 at 16:48

Psycho Sonny said:
Why would a soundbar have issues with ARC? Especially a modern one. Why not test it and if it has issues then look into it rather than trying to see if it will have issues or not as nobody can answer that as it should work on any TV.

ARC is well known to be problematic (that’s why eARC is coming) and I’d seen a few posts elsewhere with people having issues on LG TV’s. Of course I’ll be able to test it first hand, was just seeing if there was anything I should know about when setting it up.

Psycho Sonny · 3 Dec 2019 at 16:51

Ayahuasca said:
ARC is well known to be problematic (that’s why eARC is coming) and I’d seen a few posts elsewhere with people having issues on LG TV’s. Of course I’ll be able to test it first hand, was just seeing if there was anything I should know about when setting it up.

I've never had any issues with arc on either of my setups on any tv.

I have an LG using ARC downstairs with an AVR.
I have had a Panasonic and a Sony upstairs using ARC with a Yamaha soundbar.

200sols · 3 Dec 2019 at 19:41

Psycho Sonny said:
I've never had any issues with arc on either of my setups on any tv.

I have an LG using ARC downstairs with an AVR.
I have had a Panasonic and a Sony upstairs using ARC with a Yamaha soundbar.

It’s well known people have issues with ARC, it isn’t standardised so issues do occur. As he said eARC should solve it.

Ayahuasca · 6 Dec 2019 at 21:18

I’ve been testing it out all day and it’s working perfectly so far, Atmos content is unreal, it’s comparable with my friends very good 5.1 setup.