Better than expected! 🤔 Samsung Music Studio 5 Review
This weird looking speaker is the Samsung Music Studio 5, a wireless speaker that supports AirPlay 2, Bluetooth, Google Cast, even a direct optical input. You can also make it part of a theater setup with your Samsung TV with up to 5 speakers and Dolby Atmos decoding, or an even larger Multi-room setup of up to 10 speakers. That setup flexibility is great, but today we’re going to focus on how it performs as a standalone speaker and most importantly, whether it sounds good. So buckle up!
Sound Quality
You must be curious about this dot in the middle, and there’s one at the back too. At first I thought it’s like a tweeter, but it turns out to be absolutely nothing, it’s just pure decoration! But according to Samsung’s website, the Music Studio 5 has 3 drivers serving 2 channels. It also has a waveguide which amplifies the low registers even further, assisted by Samsung’s AI Dynamic Bass Control.
And for a speaker of this size, even on flat bass levels, its bass performance is pretty decent. There’s no subwoofer in it so it barely reaches below 100hz, but bass still sounds full and meaty.
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Equalizer
All the setup is done through the SamsungSound app which includes settings for its sound quality like a 7-band equalizer. But there are 2 features which I find very interesting. First is AI Adaptive Sound, which detects what is playing, then enhances the sound accordingly. For example, compared to the Music mode setting, it’s largely the same tuning but with more crispness and emphasis on vocals.
The other one is SpaceFit Sound Pro uses the microphone built into the speaker to analyze how the speaker’s placement affects the sound, and compensates accordingly. This ensures consistent sound wherever you place it. As for Active Voice Amplifier Pro, I leave it turned off because it messes up the vocals for me, or rather, it makes vocals sound more shrill and unnatural.
AI Adaptive Sound
But if we leave it on AI Adaptive Sound, it actually sounds pretty good. It hits all the right notes in terms of bass presence, midrange emphasis, and airiness in the soundstage. And unlike most standalone speakers, I do get some stereo separation from it.
It’s not like having two separate speakers in stereo, but I can hear imaging of both left and right channels around the sides of the Music Studio 5. This speaker also sounds tall, I can definitely picture this being part of a Dolby Atmos system and getting that sense of height.
Conclusion
So it does have that stereo effect as a standalone, but of course, you only get that when this speaker’s directly facing you. If you’re not, there won’t be any stereo imaging. But is it great also for just some soft background music? Definitely. Even at low volumes it keeps its dynamic range so you can still hear some of that bass.
So those are my thoughts on the performance of the Samsung Music Studio 5 as a standalone. If you want me to dive deeper into the Music Studio 5’s capabilities, or into other Samsung speakers, let me know in the comments!
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