Surround Sound Rear Speaker Placement

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] The LG sound bar (LG Soundbar S80TR) has been a fantastic experience! It provides an exceptional surround sound experience with Dolby Atmos, completely changing how I enjoy movies and TV shows. The mobile app's ability to enable surround sound across all connected speakers was an unexpected but fantastic feature. Through the rear speakers with this feature enabled, it was nice to have a speaker closer to hear from than the soundbar below the TV. Of course, this will vary based on the size of your living room, but for me, it was beneficial! The profile is slim; it is taller than my prior sound bar, which might block your remote input if the sound bar sits below your TV versus wall mounted. I appreciate that the sound bar tells you when it is receiving a Dobly Atmos signal; I noticed this varies from streaming apps. The use of AI to calibrate the speakers based on their placement was impressive, and the software lets you test the new calibration or go back to being uncalibrated to see the difference! I did buy two speaker stands for the rear speakers to improve the setup. The process of setting up the rear speakers was straightforward, and the stands provided stability and improved the overall sound quality. Another use of AI in the speaker is the ability of the system to select the correct sound profile versus manually selecting it. One thing I would like to improve is the display. Instead of showing Optical output or eARC, you can customize the digital display to show, say, TV or whatever the source was.

Nice full & balanced Sound as Rear Surround Speakers

Rear surround speakers

Love that this pumps out Atmos tracks from just one speaker. I wish it worked as just one rear surround in a living room, but since it requires two for that, I'm definitely looking to get another one to augment the surround sound from my Arc in the living room! In the meantime, I'm using this single speaker to play Atmos-encoded music in my bedroom. It sounds absolutely terrific. Sonos did it again!!

Great speaker for my surround sound set-up. I definitely recommend!!

Defiantly a premium surround sound speaker

Used with the power cable for a surround sound speaker that was a little too short.

Reasonably priced and great sound! Set up is simple and even though rear surround sound speakers are wired it was no big deal to drop the lines in the wall and it sounds great. If you don't want to put them on the wall, everything in the front sounds good as well. Booming base in a fairly large room. Love it!

Connecting to wifi and adding both speakers as a rear surround sound was frustrating as it wouldn't recognise the one of the speakers. Required multiple resets, rebooting my router etc but I got there eventually. Once connected, truplay configured for best sound the end result was incredible. Better than my previous Bose system.

Using a pair of these Era 300s as rear surround for my home theatre system and they sound UNBELIEVABLE! Tried using them as secondary pair and they were a bit choppy, not when as surround sound. Would definitely buy again!