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I have replaced everything that goes to the new HD TV with Samsung and this is Amazing. I had JVC before and I was a attached to my JVC's sound I did not know that Samsung was going to beat the sound of the JVC. It has a great sound and a great picture. I'm so amazed by the performace this syatem gives. I also tried a CD in the system to see how it did on music. It did a great job. I did not have a bad review on the wireless system to give it.

Samsung products are excellent. But! I had to send the system to have it repaired before I could use it. Now that I have it back it does work; however the wireless speakers do not link up with the system. So I am not happy about that situation. It does fine for movies, and radio, and CD,s. Sound is quality, but I want it to work like is should.

So far I've been pretty satisfied with this product. The manual can't cover every scenario, but if you have a DVR cable box and you want the sound from the TV to go to the home theater system you must connect at the cable box. The manual led me to believe I could do it differently, or was not clear on this but when I connected my cable box to the theater system using the optical cable, it worked swimmingly.

I leave any DVDs out of the system so it will default to sound instead of trying to play the DVD automatically, which I do like that feature.

One complaint I might have is that the wireless receiver has a noisy fan; but it took me a couple of weeks to notice it. I will simply turn the wireless station off, manually until I want to watch or play a program with surround sound capability. There is a toggle switch on the back of the unit that makes this easy.

This is not really a complaint - just a warning for newbies to the HTS market. This and many standard HTS units only have a few INPUTS(not including antennas). This one only has three main types on the rear back panel:

1. Ipod

2. Digital Optical

3. Aux RCA RF

And, of course the USB in the front, and this is handy for temporary devices.

If you have a computer or very many HD capable players, be aware that this HTS is not particularly designed for that. An HD digital receiver will be required for multiple inputs, and some of them do not retain the sound signal from the HDMI inputs, so you have to watch out for that too. Also many cable compliant OEM Media Center PCs have NO optical outputs from the sound cards and can't accept them either. This can complicate your planing for this HTS; you can thank Hollywood RIAA for that!

This system sounds great while watching movies. Although while listening to music the sound is not the best, mainly due to the rear wireless speakers. The sound from the rear speakers is very distorted sounding. This system would be better if you could do away with the wireless and run wires to the rear speakers for better sound quality. I think this is by far the best looking system out there.

Amazing sound at a great price! I really like the wireless rear speakers.

I connect my mp3 player directly to the receiver and BAMM! great sound all through the house. I also have connected my Samsung BD-P1500, which makes the Blu-ray experience incredible.
It is extremely easy to set up, and its upconverting feature makes any movie look good at 1080p resolution.
I recommend this product, if you want a great surround sound system at a good price.