Hey, how's it going this is Joe and tell today.
I'm gonna be taking a look at the LG sound bar the SL9YG.
So actually got this few weeks ago and I installed
it and this is the process when I first got it so quick story a while ago.
I reviewed an LG sound bar that was their bigger version of this one and it was also
they'll be at most and another fellow youtuber spare change also review that so I called
them up and asked them if he had reviewed this one anyway, we're joking around that
LG always sends me the old stuff but I think this is the newest version hope so anyway
another thing that he said was that, you know, he asked me if I script my stuff and Actually
I don't I just kind of just go off the cuff and you know, he was saying that sometimes
I look like I'm in pain in pain on these videos, so hopefully I'm getting better.
I'm still only about a year and a half into this but hopefully I'm getting better this
review thing and so you know, I'm trying to loosen up but speaking of pain another's funny
story is yesterday.
I was actually at the ER because I had a kidney stone that's that's crazy pain right there,
so talking about pain that was pain so now that I'm back.
I'm feeling.
Good and hopefully that never happens ever again LG I bet you weren't expecting to hear
about a story like that on this review video anyway.
LG did send us out for me for a review and so thank you to LG for doing that so this
is a 4.1.
Dolby Atmos sound bar and I'm gonna try it out here in my room my previous conclusion
on the SK-10, why was that although it sounded good it wasn't on par with my Dolby at most.
Full setup and that's to be expected and I wouldn't expect this being the smaller version
to outdo that one as well so instead of putting it out in the living room.
I'm gonna try this out in my bedroom so right now I just have a basic TV I think this is
like about a 43 inch something like that anyway, we don't watch very much TV in here, it's
just the kids kind of watch cartoons, but I figured what better place to try this out
than here in the bedroom.
I'm sure it's gonna sound better than these speakers that are in here, so that's that
they're a few ways to mount this so you can actually just have it on a table like, You
normally put a sound bar but they also have an option where you can mount it on the wall
and that's what I'm gonna try to do the interesting thing about that is that when you do have
it set up that way it bounces the atmos speakers, it doesn't sound down to the floor up to the
ceiling and then supposedly back down to you so LG did ask me to try that out.
I'm curious to see if that works and I'm not sure if this is gonna be a problem because
we have a changing station for the baby here and so I'm I'll try to move that and see how
that affects things but I'm pretty sure that that will affect the sound.
Anyway let's see what happens all right so I just unbox that thing and that box is first
of all it's huge it's about four feet tall not as big as the SL10 that I reviewed previously
but still pretty big and now I have the sound bar out so that's good and everything is packaged
very well and I wouldn't worry about it getting damaged and shipping which is an issue that
I had with previous speakers so good job LG on the packaging so it comes with this box
here with all the accessories so you have your remote and this remote looks the same
as the previous remote, maybe a few different buttons, but looks pretty.
Much the same and then I always laugh at this is the type of batteries that they have and
these are Bexal yeah that's what they gave you thank thank you thank you.
LG looks like something for mounting maybe power cord for the sub optical more mounting
brackets in here, no HDMI come on so on the back here you have HDMI in you have HDMI out
with arc and optical so in the back you also have a USB 5 amp 500 milliamp output in case
you want to plug in something maybe like a Chromecast or an Amazon fire stick alright
so luckily for me and they included all.
Bracket install guide to show me where I'm supposed to put the holes relative to the
TV, so you will need some drywall screws as they're not included luckily.
I have some.
Look at that look at all clean.
I wonder people like sound bars that oh, oh don't get that alright so this is something
else let me concern with that first was I was wondering how they were gonna show the
display for volume control cuz usually shows on the front and I was wondering how they
would do that once.
I flipped it in this orientation and luckily they actually put it right here too pretty
cool.
So there you go that was what happened after I first set it up and I got a chance to kind
of listen to it for a little bit and this is kind of how that discussion went within
myself so we think of the LG sound bar you're reviewing it's cool I guess I mean it's a
sound bar kind of expensive yes me yeah it's cool though.
I saw it has like bolby atmos and you know, you can mount it a different way, you know,
I mean, so that's pretty cool yeah it's cool except for they'll be at most does it really
work that well, I mean it yeah, it just doesn't work that well.
I mean, it doesn't really sound like stuff is coming from the ceiling it could just be
my room but I didn't really get that effect and it could be because they did ask me about
it on the wall and I did.
And the weird thing is that when you mount on the wall it's supposed to fire down and
then up bounce up off the ceiling and come down at you I was skeptical and for good reason
because it didn't really work for me it could just be my room I mean do you have anything
good say about it yeah yeah of course I mean one thing to say about it is that it does
have a lot of features it does have Google Assistant which works well and it's called
have like an extra speaker to cast to as far as other good things.
I would say that uh so artworks.
I mean, you can control the volume using your remote for the TV and it'll just change the
volume on the sound bar you just do with one remote so you'll have to have a bunch of different
mode, so that seems to work well so overall as far as sound.
I mean, it has a sub I saw I mean anything else that you like about it, uh, yeah, yeah,
it has a sub.
I mean as far as overall sound quality, I'll just tell you right now.
That the other one at this I mean it sounded a lot better to me it sounded more cohesive
and the surround effects actually worked with this one yeah yeah I really wasn't feeling
it I mean it sounded very disconnected sounded like small speakers in the sound bar and sub
and there was some just like some some missing space in between where they're supposed to
be mid-range and I really wasn't getting that much and I really couldn't find a setting
that really work well for me there's a bunch of different settings and all them kind of
sounded weird yeah, oh man, so it sounds like you didn't really like it that much well,
you know, it's not even that it's just the cost right the price right now when they send
out to me.
I look it up and it's saying like it's supposed to be around like close to thousand bucks
up in that price range and for that price, right?
Is I think it's too much too much money I mean if it were to go five hundred and below
it gets to that price range I think you know it'd be more compelling around that price
range I'd be more forgiving to well when you're getting up in the thousand dollar price range
think better be awesome right because you can get something pretty nice for a thousand
bucks so that's that's the main thing it's mostly the cost you think it's because you
didn't have the rear speakers hooked up.
I mean definitely last time I had the rich speakers they definitely did make a difference
in this case it just wouldn't be sensitive my bedroom and so yeah, I think it would have
made some difference but I think that it still has some issues as far as you know, the sound
bar crossing over to the sub is really the main issue for me get you just totally didn't
sound right?
I get you I get you yeah, don't get me wrong.
I'm very appreciative.
That they want me to review it after I'd reviewed some other stuff so yeah don't get me wrong
I think it's still a good device good product but the price is just too high that's all
so what do you think compared to some of the other sound bars that you reviewed, you know
your viewed one that was like 99 bucks 200 bucks.
I saw the Sonos one, what do you think compared to some of those well honestly, you know,
when you say Sonos a lot of people think that that's gonna be more expensive and actually
that entire system not including the sub that entire system costs less than this now that's
not including the sub so you have to keep that in mind, but it was the Phone hoe sound
bar and the rear speakers from Ikea, and that system was about 600 bucks, so it was less
expensive than this system is currently and in my opinion.
I thought that sounded better it sounded more like a proper speaker, you know.
I mean, that's all I'm saying, I mean, most of the time I still would recommend two channels
right so just a left and right speaker just because you're gonna get a fuller sound instead
of having a separate subwoofer and soundbar but yeah in this case, I still would recommend
those two it's just that these less expensive options, although they might not have Dolby
at most I think they are they're doing you know, they sound kind of similar like the
use case is similar so for me using it in the bedroom.
I mean, I'd be fine with some of those other ones, right?
I don't need don't be at most in my bedroom and in which case I wouldn't mind when it's
$99 or maybe 200 that's fine for a living room, you might want, you know a bigger system
and you might want to be at most but I wouldn't think That this is the best way to go, all
right?
I got you.
So yeah there you have it overall I mean I wasn't overly impressed with this soundbar
for the price I mean, I would love to say good things about a product and I always try
to when I get a chance it's just that this product wasn't it didn't stand out and I think
it's because I reviewed the the higher end one prior to this so it's kind of like my
expectations were that this was just gonna be a smaller version of that when an actuality
the other one did sound significantly better, although yes, it was bigger, but not not that
much bigger and so that's kind of what through me off.
I would say, If you're interested in something like this if you can fit it get the bigger
version Also take a look around listen to the different sound bars and see what sounds
best to you.
Like I said, this does have a lot of features and that's all awesome all those features
worked very well the bouncing off the ceiling and off the floor and onto the ceiling that
didn't really work well for me and you know, my main issue is that a sound bar is or sound
and when it comes down to sound quality, it just wasn't my favorite, you know, it has
you know different modes none of the modes seem to really work well for me and one thing
I did notice was I Did try it in a normal way, right?
So sitting down facing directly towards you and that sounded decent it sounded a little
bit better and so mounting it on the wall and it was using some smaller speakers than
the ones that are in the front the ones in the front are speakers and then they have
tweeter they have some other side speakers in there and yeah it worked better that way
than having it mounted on the wall.
The other thing that I would say is my advice to LG is this is you have speakers firing
to the sides.
And you have all kinds of speakers inside there Now the assumption is that it's gonna
be in the optimal position so you're hoping that the there's nothing blocking the sides
and that's not always the case.
So that's something I would say is make sure your accounting for these different scenarios
because you know, no room is perfect and most rooms probably are not perfect and so keeping
that in mind try to come up with a design where that we're so it's it's less room dependent,
right?
That's what I'm trying to say.
Anyway, hopefully you guys listen, I'm rooting for you guys.
I know you guys can come out with great products and Hopefully I'm helping you do that.
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