We got a new TV and soundbar setup today. After several ultimately failed attempts to fix our old "nice TV", Andie eventually gave up and bought a lovely up-to-date replacement for the living room, and the cheapo model I bought a while back has now been relegated to bedroom duty.
For the curious, we got a Samsung Q60T TV with an HW-Q800T soundbar — there was an offer at the retailer we got them from to get this normally £500 soundbar for £300 off, so we thought we'd replace the £50 Currys own-brand one we had while we were on.
Both things are a massive improvement on what we had before; I wasn't expecting them to both be quite as good as they actually are. The TV has a beautifully crisp, clear picture (that is noticeably better than the cheapo Hitachi TV I bought a while back) and plays nice with Windows in 4K, which the previous TV did not for some reason. The soundbar, meanwhile, has a hell of an "oomph" to it, with some impressive presence, deep bass and nice virtual surround effects.
I'm super impressed so far, and I'm looking forward to experiencing lots of things in what feels like a "new" way. The soundbar has really shown its capabilities with music in particular — high-quality tracks from Spotify actually sound noticeably clearer, fuller and richer — so I'll doubtless be listening to a lot more music while I'm working during the daytime.
I don't really have any devices that support 4K other than the PC, but 1080p output from the Switch looks lovely and I've had zero issues connecting things up to it so far. Hopefully this TV lives a long and happy life — it will certainly be loved!
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