Gadgetory

with products such as the Samsung hwk 950 at my sound bar and the radiant 360 speakers under its belt it's been a busy two years for the engineers at Samsung's audio lab in California the lab on the outskirts of Los Angeles is tasked with researching speaker design as well as developing new audio products for Samsung the lab also spends time audio tuning the company's new lines of televisions one of the highlights of the facility is the dual anechoic chambers which engineers used to test audio equipment I'm here at Samsung's labs in an anechoic chamber where I've heard that if you spend long enough in here you can go insane because you can all you can hear is your own heartbeat in addition the team also uses computer modeling and specialized photography to map how materials move when used as part of a loudspeaker in addition to the theory the team also does practical listening tests at the laboratory these include double-blind tests using a unique revolving wall which can mount up to four TVs or speakers at a time so we can put the speaker's like right here which would simulate a kind of usual placement of a speaker on a on a shelf and put the four of them on here it's a total typical use case the team at the Samsung lab says its aim is to make the company's product sit in the same breath as Bowers & Wilkins it's definitely a lofty goal and we look forward to testing out its latest products including the Atmos on bar here at scene 8 in the near future you