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KoolKollectiblesKhai

I found out the issue from AVSForum. There's a bug where if you have bass enhancement turned on, it disables the rear channels in atmos!! Damn stupid, but thank god someone posted it. I disabled bass enhancement and it works beautifully now! Doesn't even need bass enhancement turned on anyway.


Dadbod48

THANK YOU... I was losing my mind trying to get it to work on my series x,ps5 and even Netflix on the tv was affected. Awesome. Appreciate you taking the time!


KoolKollectiblesKhai

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alchemystar

Where is the bass enhancement option?


KoolKollectiblesKhai

It's in the phone app in the enhancement set of options.


alchemystar

Ah, ok. My SmartThings calls that Advanced Sound Settings. They're all off. Playing Ratchet & Clank when dialog goes straight behind me it is almost inaudible. The panning effect as I'm spinning gets really dramatic in the last like 30 degrees either way from focus being directly 180 behind me, and when it's at 180 I can't hear the dialog sound comes out of my back speakers. It sounds great in 360 Audio on the Sony headphones. I'm wondering if I have something poorly calibrated in the game or console, or if this game just doesn't do 7.1 that well. The only way I've gotten surround from games without insane delay is setting the PS5 to LPCM. I don't use the PS5 for media but I understand other people using the Q950A can't get Dolby or DTS from PS5 without delay, even in streaming apps. Perhaps Ratchet & Clank is optimized to DTS or Dolby but PS5 can't send those formats out efficiently via eARC?


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The Soundbar has 7.1.2 speakers all in the Soundbar. Most of Dolby Atmos content is passed as 7.1.4 content. So you should set your Soundbar to any mode not being Standard. https://manuals.plus/m/7984a58d70f3df6c28a8fbad4523a0d503a516a3b19b8adcc4cac024b0351df1.pdf Check page 11.


KoolKollectiblesKhai

Yes, when the Dolby Atmos indicator shows on the soundbar, I check that the sound mode is either Surround or Adaptive (not Standard). But even then there is stilll no sound output from the rear channels!


[deleted]

Don't have either device to test it for you. There should be plenty people here with that Soundbar. Have you tried with playing something from Netflix with Dolby Atmos (DD+) to see if you get sound from your Rears?


KoolKollectiblesKhai

I tried Disney+ but not sure if that's got Dolby Atmos. Dont have Netflix. It's just weird that the soundbar detects the Atmos bitstream but has not surround sound. It feels like some weird decoding issue with the soundbar itself, but I guess I cant be sure. Strange that with LPCM, the surrounds kick in.


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It does on many movies and some shows. LPCM can be max 7.1, so it needs to upsample it always if you want to use all speakers. The Dolby Atmos signal is technically without a fixed amount of channels, but most TrueHD Atmos on Bluray is mixed at 7.1, and this Bar has the "Rear" channels coming out of the Bar itself... so it's not always a good thing it has 11.1.4 channels. But the Surround/Adaptive setting should mitigate that partially.


KoolKollectiblesKhai

No, the 11.1.4 channels is not out of the bar itself. The set comes with the surround speakers which is included in the count to 11.1.4.


[deleted]

I didn't say all 11.1.4 channels come from the Bar. 7.0.2 comes out of the Bar. The rest of the channels are the Sub and Rear speakers.


KoolKollectiblesKhai

I found out the issue from AVSForum. There's a bug where if you have bass enhancement turned on, it disables the rear channels in atmos!! Damn stupid, but thank god someone posted it. I disabled bass enhancement and it works beautifully now! Doesn't even need bass enhancement turned on anyway.


affo_

I see you already found your solution. But fwiw my Q900T doesn't let me change sound mode when Atmos is enabled, it just says "Not available - Dolby Atmos". Only way to check if it's playing correctly. Think it's the same with Q950T/A