Samsung HT-F6500W 5.1 Channel 1000-Watt 3D Blu-Ray Home Theater System

This is a super clear / crisp / warm sounding system. Just perfection. Sure it may lack the deeper warmth of high end all vacuum tube system with specialized speakers the size of your largest pet, but this is just wonderful.Easy to setup. Enough options for customization. You can hook it up to virtually anything. I've hooked up my computer sound through my video cards HDMI port and it's excellent.Follow up after few days using the system:Pros:Great for movies - has all the newest audio formats for blu ray playback. You really get a great surround sound effect without having to tweak much or missing out on voice or other issue you may have run into before when using component systems.The vacuum tubes - do provide a warmer sound.Subwoofer - is great even though it's half the size and weight as my previous one. It's excellent.Subwoofer strentgh can be adjusted via remote on the fly .. yay.. great featureRear speakers - they are tiny - but powerful.Great for music too, it has 3D effect option that engages your surround sound speakers.Excellent value for the price. The blu ray player alone is about 100-150. You get 5 speakers and subwoofer.. not to mention the blu ray player is now your amplifier with vacuum tube technology - excellent deal. You'd have to spend a lot more to replicate similar unit.Cons: (cons is realy a harsh word here, lets just say.. a wish list of adjustments)The black shiny surface that all the samsung products have nowadays is really a temporary look. It's extemely prone to attracting dust and needs constant care. Perhaps a polished aluminum casing would be much better.The anynet function is great for straight forward things - like popping the blu ray disk into the player and have your TV turn on too and vice versa. However, with any sort of customization.. ie. "I just want the TV off while I listen to music through my computer" .. tends to be more complicated then necessary. Sometimes you just want to turn the TV off only and the whole things turns off .. or you just want to turn on the player.. and TV turns on.. and so on. However, I do believe the Anynet function is optional, so perhaps when I get annoyed with it enough, I will just turn it off.I did notice the rear speakers crackle once or twice when the surround sound volume was too high. I then adjusted the distance to speakers to be shorter in the settings and it seems to have gone away. Perhaps the rear speakers that could handle a bit more juice would be a good idea, because this system is mighty powerful. But still, after adjusting those settings, I could still watch movies at a pretty high volume setting without this happening again. It was already pretty loud so I didn't really have the need to push it higher to replicate the sound and blow the speakers.It Does Not Have a headphone out port :/ That's probably the biggest drawback... Only because I use it hoocked up to my computer and I'm using video card with HDMI to output the sound, so that would be a nice feature."Wireless".. well.. you somewhat save the wires from going from the front of the room to the back.. but you use almost just as much wire going from the wireless transmitter in the center of the back of the room, going to each speaker. The rear speakers should have been true-wireless system.. If it wasn't for the tube-amps , I would have gone with "wired" version"Tube amp" .. so great.. but I wish I could get more out of it.. When you listen to old jazz or other warm music.. it would be really great to adjust the warmth.. It just makes you wish it was completely tubed.Equilizer.. should have really had an option to adjust it manually on the unit. Going into settings on the screen make it difficult to adjust it because you can not always adjust it in real time. What I mean is, if you are playing a movie, or having an input other then BD it would not allow you to have that option on the screen...The whole "graye-out" , "screen-dependent" option selection is perhaps stupid-proof but really not very user friendly for people who know what they want to tweak and why.Conclusion.Even though I had a lot of "wish-list" items, this is still an excellent system. It's extremely affordable compared to the kind of money you would have to fork out to get something even remotely similar. So thumbs up to Samsung for putting the high end to the consumer line. And even though some things aren't straight forward to tweak, it IS possible. So, with a bit of effort you will still get most of your system.Bottom line.. yes.. buy it.. enjoy it.. Music sounds great... warm.. nice bass.. and movies sound BEST.. better then component system because that's what this system was made for.

It would be ok for an apartment but it's weak for a home. We replaced the pitiful Samsung passive bass woofer with a Pioneer active bass woofer ($99) and the front center speaker with a decent one ($89) instead of the poor one they packaged into the original design, and now it is acceptable for a home surround sound. I cannot recommend the product as originally shipped to us.

The system was pretty easy to set up thanks to the color coded wires and step-by-step setup on the screen. The sound was ok, about what you'd expect from a HTIB.My biggest complaints regarding the product were that it supports various file types via DLNA, but I believe they require a computer running their software in order for it to work properly. I run a NAS that has a media server built into it and didn't want run a computer with software just to watch my movies. I was able to play around with it and get .mkv files to work without any software, but couldn't get .mp4 files to work. I didn't try installing the software to see if .mp4 files would work.My other complaint regarding the device is that I couldn't find a way to switch to a source directly. I kept having to scroll through the inputs (even if nothing was attached). So anytime I wanted to go from HDMI to Bluetooth, I had to scroll through every source until I got to Bluetooth. If I passed it, I had to go through them all again.Navigating through my files on my NAS (even though it couldn't play them) was decently fast, though I wish there was a way to change the arrangement of the files. It lists them 2 rows of large icons that you have to scroll to the right through. Would be nice if you could change to a list mode and scroll down viewing the entire file name.This is likely to be a good unit if you just want something quick and easy to get sound better than TV speakers. You'll likely want to use it in a smaller room since the wires to the speakers are proprietary and only have one length. If you need more length, you'll need to splice the end of the wire together to some 3rd party wire of the same gauge. You'll also need a spot to plug in the wireless receiver for the rear speakers, which you have to use since the main device doesn't include ports for the rear speakers.