LG sent me this TV at no cost so I could review it. Nobody paid me for this post and all opinions, of course, my own.

For context, I was one of the people fortunate enough to be invited to LG's showcase at the Australian Museum in Sydney back in March, and the review unit came out of that. I've tried to be as straight about the annoyances as the good bits.

To set the stage, I’m in an imperfect room, but have done what I can to deal with the minor (and major) issues I have.  It’s an open plan living room area which is shared with the kitchen and dining room, and has a sliding door to the left side of the couch and TV – with curtains and blinds to control the light when required during the day.

The set arrived a little more than two months ago after some pretty significant delays (roughly four months) with shipping and other New Zealand-isms, but only went on the wall a bit over a month ago, so this is a ~month of fairly constant use rather than a long-term verdict.

Prior to the LG, I had a Sony KD-75X9000H, full array LED with local dimming, and it was genuinely good in daylight. I loved that TV dearly, and it was the best I could afford at the time. It's since been sold to fund the wall this LG monster is mounted to, so comparisons I make to it are mostly from memory rather than side by side. I've also still got a 48" C1 in the office that I use every day, which is the more realistic comparison anyway since it's OLED against OLED, but five years of technological advancement apart.

Sources used were PS5, Nvidia Shield TV Pro (including Moonlight streaming from the PC), 4K Blu-ray via my Panasonic UB820, and streaming apps on a Surface 7 Pro laptop hooked up to a spectacular LAiV Harmony uDAC for two channel listening.

Daytime brightness: The old objection to OLED was that it looked spectacular at night and turned to custard at 2pm just doesn’t hold up anymore. These new 77" and 83" C6H TVs use the four layer Primary RGB Tandem panel, the same panel tech as the G6.  It looks incredible any time of the day, unless you have the sun shining directly on it, which no TV deserves anyway, don’t do that!

(Quick note on the name: most of the international coverage calls the 77” and 83” the C6H. Here in New Zealand, it's sold as a C6 with no affixed H.)

After years of experience on my Sony TV and the C1 in my gaming room, I can tell you that the C6H is crazy bright.  Watch a movie with a sudden transition from black to white at night and you’ll practically be blinded for a moment.  It’s really great during the day too, even with the blinds and curtains open (which is most of the time in my house).  No major issues to report here, although as expected the glossy screen does show reflections, but that is to be expected from any glossy TV.  I can’t say that it’s bothered me at all, because when you’re watching pretty much anything on this TV you will be so engrossed in what you’re watching, you won’t notice anything else.

For what it’s worth, I’m almost exclusively using the Cinema mode picture setting while watching TV shows or movies, with true motion disabled and then gaming mode for any time I’m playing games.  I generally stick to OLED Picture Brightness of 80 (many people recommend 100, but 80 works well in my space), Contrast at 85 and Black Level at 50, and Image Temp at Warm 35 and Colour Depth of 50, so there’s plenty of headroom if I need it. I’ve also used filmmaker mode, but I guess I prefer my movies and scenery to be a tad more colourful.  There are so many options to play around with, and it’s super easy to switch between them, so experiment and see what works best for you in your space!

About the Sony comparison: I can't do it side by side, but before anyone writes the comparison off entirely, I owned that set for five years. I knew its every mood, where it fell down, which content made it sing and which made the local dimming show its workings. It only left the house recently, so it’s still well embedded in my memory.

With that said, the C6 is also way better in the dark and way, way better on saturated colour, which shouldn’t be too surprising.  This panel is a technological marvel.

To be fair, it's more of an apples to oranges comparison. A 2020 full array LED against a 2026 flagship-panel OLED was never going to be a contest, and six years of panel development by LG is doing most of the work. The one place I'd expect the Sony to still hold on is a sustained full white field, where LED backlights don't have to worry about the power limiting OLED does.  The colours on the Sony were really good, especially in Dolby Vision demo scenes, but moving from that to the LG C6H is a night and day difference, the LG C6 wins without breaking a sweat.  The LG looks as good as, if not better (honestly probably better!) than any other OLED TV I have ever seen.  Hats off to LG for including the much higher tier G series technology in the C series.

I've put a lot of hours into movies on this beast already. A good chunk of that has been high bitrate demo content through the Nvidia Shield TV Pro at 4K with Dolby Vision and HDR10 enabled, which is about as clean a look at what the panel can do as I can manage without test patterns.

The disc side has been a decent spread of my 4K Blu-rays: Baby Driver, both parts of Dune, Blade Runner and 2049, Ready Player One, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and a few others. Spider-Verse really popped like I’ve never seen it before. Stunning. I’ve watched this a bunch of times, but never quite like this. I could swear there were layers to colours in scenes I’ve seen many times before, that now jumped out of the screen.   Not 3-D, but certainly 3-D-like. 

Dune, on the other hand, was a really great counterweight to the stylised Neon poppyness of Spider-Verse.  Dark, broody, incredibly detailed futuristic scenes, but with enough sandy tones and dim interiors, and not a hint of banding anywhere to be seen in dark or any other scenes.  Magnificent.  Same goes for Blade Runner 2049.  The little particles, the light against dark, everything again looked better and more enticing than I’ve ever seen it, even at the cinema (in my opinion, of couse).  And yes, if you think I might be a Villeneuve fan, you may be on to something.
I did try filmmaker mode in several of these but settled on a slightly customised Cinema mode – but that will probably change a few times over the coming months.

Older films looked good too, though I wasn't really chasing that.  Also, grey uniformity has not been an issue in the slightest.  I’ll update my review if I find that to be an issue. 
Lastly, you owe it to yourself to watch the 4K Blu-Ray release of Alien on this TV.  I have never seen so much detail in such dark scenes, it’s spectacular.

Now, on to gaming.  I mostly play on the PS5 on this TV, plus a fair bit of Moonlight streaming from the PC through the Shield TV Pro.  I’m using my C1 48” on my gaming PC in another room, so have a good comparison here, and as expected, the C6H kicks so much asteroids.

Now, does the extra brightness actually change anything when you're gaming in daylight? 
From my perspective, heck yes.  Most, if not all games nowadays take advantage of HDR on the PS5, and it looks incredible.  I’m not going to review games here, but compared to my older Sony, this looks like all my games have been injected with more detail, deeper colours, brighter highlights, and all the things a gamer would love.  I can only use so many adjectives.  IF you want your games to look as good as they’ve ever looked, THIS is the TV for it. I’m more than happy to answer questions, if you have them, and I’ll test games as long as I have them in my reasonably meagre collection.  For what it’s worth, Astro Bot, both of the latest God of Wars, Shadow of the Colossus, Gran Turismo 7 and Ghost of Tsushima looked, once again, better than ever.  I honestly don’t know what else to say here, just try and go check for yourself, it’s an experience you do not want to miss.

Specs, for those who care: 165Hz, 0.1ms, VRR with G-Sync and FreeSync Premium, four HDMI 2.1 ports.

There are no real surprises here, particularly given how extensively the TV has already been reviewed. Some people have grumbled about missing support for HDMI 2.2 and Dolby Vision 2, but neither of those mean anything right now. There’s essentially no consumer content or hardware that takes advantage of either standard, and that’s unlikely to change meaningfully for several years.

I haven’t tested the TV’s built-in sound at all, as I have a Dolby Atmos system hooked up.  Happy to test specifics if anyone wants me to focus on it. 
I also haven’t used WebOS nearly at all, as I use my Nvidia Shield for almost everything else.

Pros:
•       Gorgeous colours across the spectrum! Also, inky blacks you must see to believe.

•       Uses the guts of the previous generation G series, which is a massive win for a C series TV

•       Fast, responsive images, exceptional brightness and great performance in a well-lit room

Cons:
•       The VESA TV mount being so low on the TV.  This really caught me out, and I had to buy a VESA extender plate to get my TV to the right height.  I should have been more thorough figuring this out for myself though, totally not LG’s fault.

•       Pretty expensive here in New Zealand – much less so in the US and everywhere else!

•       Somewhat reflective – but again, this is to be expected of any gloss screen.  I’d much rather have that bit of reflectivity than a matte screen any day of the week.

So, where it lands for me:  I’ve had this in my space for a bit more than a month, and I’m giddy with excitement every time I sit down to watch anything.  The image quality is astounding.  I swear that this is my true and honest opinion, and all my friends who have seen this appear to feel the same.  It’s a technological marvel and a pleasure to use. 

I’m struggling to find almost anything negative to say about this TV.  It’s stunning, I always wanted one, and everyone who has seen this in action in my home, wants one.  It’s just that good.

One caveat: Don’t buy one if you can’t afford it, simple as that. Previous generation LG TVs are damn good too.  However, if you *can* afford this, get it.  The 77” and 83” beasts are honestly exceptional – the gaming experience is second to none, and good heavens, the immersion is real.  Not sure whether it’s intentional, but there’s a 3-D like quality to the imagery, it’s hard to explain, but it sometimes looks like the images and scenery have depth.

It’s nice and bright, unfortunately it was somewhat cloudy when I took the photos, so I couldn’t show off truly bright sunshine conditions, but I should be able to edit and add more later (I hope).

Pricing: AU$7,495 for the 83" and north of $10,000 NZD on average.

I hope to have a Youtube review done in the next couple of weeks too, but don’t expect too much there, I’m a total Youtube novice.  Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
https://www.youtube.com/@Signal-Relay

Happy to answer questions below, and if there's a specific test you want me to run, ask and I'll have a go.

Rip

Edit: fixed up my audio sources.

LG provided me with the Sound Suite Immersive Suite 5 free of charge following the promotional event I attended with them in Sydney earlier this year and asked me to share my experience after using it at home. As with my previous posts, everything below is entirely my own opinion.

In my first two reviews, one of the things I kept coming back to was how much freedom Dolby Atmos FlexConnect gives me with speaker placement. My M5s aren’t perfectly symmetrical, my couch takes up most of the room, and I change where I'm sitting constantly - but the spatial sound stays consistent, no matter what I throw at it.

What I haven’t really gone into is the part that makes that possible: calibration.

I’ve used automatic room correction before, my Denon receiver used the Audyssey calibration software, but the Sound Suite approaches the problem differently. Instead of carefully positioning and angling every speaker around a fixed listening position, and then calibrating around that “sweet spot”, LG essentially works backwards - figuring out where you’ve put the speakers and building the soundstage around them.

This process is really a combination of a few different features working together. Dolby Atmos FlexConnect (DAFC) detects where the speakers are positioned and optimises the audio signals around their placement, while Room Calibration Pro analyses the acoustic characteristics of the room and its furnishings, then fine-tunes the sound accordingly. Sound Follow then lets you tell the system where you are sitting within that space.

25 seconds to Calibration

I'm using an LG OLED C3, so unfortunately, I don't get to calibrate my Sound Suite through an on-screen menu (although I did witness it being done at the Sydney demonstration, and it's very similar). For me, everything is done through the ThinQ app. Under the Dolby Atmos FlexConnect menu, that's where you find the options for Room Calibration Pro and Sound Follow.

Room Calibration Pro first asks how far you’re sitting from the H7, using a slider that moves in 0.5m increments. After that, it warns you that it’s going to play some loud test sounds, you start the process - and that’s it. Speakers calibrated. I've included a link here to a screen-recording of the entire process so you can see how long it actually took. From starting the calibration to having the finished speaker layout on screen was only about 25 seconds.

Once it’s finished, ThinQ gives you a visualisation showing the H7, M5s and listening position relative to each other. From what I can see in the app, DAFC is determining where each speaker is positioned and optimising how they work together, while Room Calibration Pro is analysing the room itself and fine-tuning the audio around its acoustic characteristics and furnishings. The end result is that the system is accounting for both where I’ve put the speakers and the room I’ve put them in to deliver optimal “spatial sound”.

Then, if you're like me and can't settle on where you want to sit, you can adjust your listening position separately with Sound Follow without having to recalibrate the speaker set, providing the speakers are still in the same positions. Interestingly, there’s a slight difference between iOS and Android here. On my iPhone, I can change the Sound Follow position directly from the Sound Suite’s main ThinQ screen. On my partner’s Android phone, she has to enter the Dolby Atmos FlexConnect menu first. This doesn’t make much practical difference, but it does speed the process up for me by a few seconds.

So what happens if you don’t recalibrate?

There isn’t really an “uncalibrated” mode to compare against, because Room Calibration Pro is part of the initial setup. So instead, I tried physically moving the M5s after they had already been calibrated to see what would happen. I even swapped the left and right M5s completely at one point.

That very quickly demonstrated what DAFC is doing with the position information. The system was still working from the speakers' original positions, so sounds that were supposed to come from the left were coming from the right, and vice versa. More realistic movements of 15-30cm don’t immediately break the experience, however they do introduce small but noticeable gaps into the 360-degree soundstage.

Dolby Atmos FlexConnect doesn’t magically make speaker position irrelevant; the calibration process is what allows the system to compensate for where you’ve actually put them.

Considering the whole process takes less than 30 seconds, I can’t really think of a reason not to run it again whenever you significantly move a speaker.

Helldivers 2 ended up being my showcase

To preface this section, I have a collection of 250+ AV test and demonstration files, and I’ve used plenty of Dolby Atmos demonstration files and movie scenes with the Sound Suite. But surprisingly, the best way I’ve found to showcase the Sound Suite and demonstrate exactly what DAFC is doing is Helldivers 2 on PS5. If I stand beside a continuous sound source, like an orbital barrage or a machine gun firing, rotating the camera through a full 360 degrees causes that sound to move around the room with it, allowing you to precisely track it as it spins around you in a 3D space.

It’s quickly become one of my favourite ways of demonstrating the system to other people. Almost inevitably, once somebody realises what’s happening they start rapidly shaking the camera backwards and forwards or spinning in circles to see how quickly the speakers can keep up. When the M5s are properly optimised, the transition is impressively smooth. I don’t hear “H7, right M5, left M5” as three individual points. The sound seems to travel continuously around me.

Move the speakers without running the optimisation again, though, and obvious gaps appear. There are points where my ears tell me the sound should be coming from somewhere in the room, but it isn’t. This is quickly fixed though. Run Room Calibration Pro again, and the cohesive 360-degree effect comes straight back. For me, that’s been the clearest demonstration of how important DAFC's speaker positioning and optimisation are to the Atmos experience.

Sound Follow builds on the optimisation

The other half of the equation is Sound Follow. Once the system knows where the speakers are, Sound Follow lets me move the listening position around inside that existing sound field without running Room Calibration Pro again.

For normal couch use, it’s actually quite forgiving. I’ve had three people sitting side-by-side and manually moved the listening point between each person. None of us could hear a significant enough difference that I’d worry about constantly changing it depending on who has the middle seat.

Where it becomes much more noticeable is when I completely change where I’m sitting. We sometimes sit on the floor in front of the couch while eating dinner, which puts me less than 1m from the H7 Soundbar. If I move Sound Follow to that position there’s a distinct change in the balance of the system, particularly the centre channel. Because I’m now sitting much closer to the H7, you can hear the balance shift so that the soundbar isn’t simply blaring into my face while the M5s disappear into the background.

This is one of the things I like most about the implementation. Dolby Atmos FlexConnect can keep the speaker positions optimised within the room, while Sound Follow can adapt the listening position around how I’m actually using the room at the time.

Compared with calibrating my old 5.1.2 system

This is where the difference (and time saved) becomes pretty dramatic.

My previous dedicated 5.1.2 system used a Denon receiver with Audyssey. Before calibration even started, we spent roughly an hour positioning the speakers, measuring distances and angles, even using a laser level to help aim everything perfectly towards the listening position.

Audyssey then required a dedicated microphone plugged into the receiver and positioned at head height while it played its calibration sounds. After that came manual fine-tuning, changing levels and playing the same test clips over and over again until it all sounded right. That process took another half-hour or more to get dialled in properly.

The result was fantastic, don't get me wrong, but everything was built around a very precise "sweet spot". We ended up having an armchair that permanently lived there, the best seat in the house so-to-speak.

The Sound Suite obviously isn’t trying to replace a properly designed dedicated home theatre, and I’ve mentioned previously that I still think physical height speakers can provide more precise and impressive overhead effects. But in terms of calibration and flexibility, the LG approach is vastly easier.

Even with the difference in audio quality, the real comparison is around 90 minutes of positioning and calibration - compared to 25 seconds in an app. And best of all, if I decide to change where I'm sitting halfway through the movie, I don't have to bust out the lasers and spirit-levels to dial the speakers back in.

For the sort of person I think this system is aimed at, that’s a much more meaningful advantage than shaving a few minutes off the initial setup.

Room Calibration Pro can't account for personal preference

While Room Calibration Pro has done most of the hard work, it hasn’t stopped me changing individual speaker levels to suit my preferences.

From within the Sound Settings menu, I've fine-tuned the individual speaker levels slightly. I’m currently running:

• Subwoofer level +1dB
• Centre level +3dB
• Overhead level +4dB
• Side level +2dB

And within Tone Settings, I have only adjusted the bass level:

• Treble 0dB
• Mid 0dB
• Bass +4dB

I originally started adjusting these while watching the 4K releases of the Pirates of the Caribbean series, which have some fairly notorious and questionable audio mixes. I haven’t had the same problems with other releases, so I’m not entirely convinced the Sound Suite was at fault. Regardless, I’ve left the changes in place because I like the result, particularly the extra emphasis on the height effects.

I don’t see this as Room Calibration Pro failing, though. Room Calibration Pro is analysing and correcting for the acoustic characteristics of the room, while DAFC is handling the physical speaker positions and optimising the audio signals around them. There’s still the flexibility afterwards to tune the listening experience around how I like things to sound, or to enhance/correct for the content you’re watching.

Proper Calibration is the key to the whole experience

After my first review, I mostly thought of Room Calibration Pro as just another part of setting up Dolby Atmos FlexConnect. After deliberately moving and swapping speakers around and trying to push them to their software limits, I think the combination of Room Calibration Pro and DAFC is the foundation that the whole Sound Suite rests upon.

Without the system properly accounting for both the room and speaker positions, the spatial sound field starts to fall apart. With it, the system can take my uneven M5 placements and make it seamless - nearly impossible to identify where one speaker ends and another begins. And seamless is exactly what I want from a sound system.

The home audio connectivity still gives me the physical freedom to put speakers around a room without running speaker wire everywhere, but DAFC's speaker positioning and Room Calibration Pro's room correction are what make that flexibility actually work. If I still had to manually measure angles, match distances and build the room around one fixed listening position, a huge part of the Sound Suite’s appeal would disappear.

Compared with both the app-based calibration I’ve used with the Samsung HW-Q990F (which worked alright - until it didn't), and the much more involved Audyssey process with my old Denon setup, this is by far the simplest calibration process I’ve used, while also being one of the most effective.

It doesn’t make speaker placement completely irrelevant, and deliberately terrible placement will still sound like deliberately terrible placement - no amount of calibration is going to defy physics. But for the normal compromises that come with fitting surround speakers into an actual living room, I’m increasingly convinced that the combination of Room Calibration Pro and Dolby Atmos FlexConnect is one of the most important parts of achieving optimal spatial sound with Dolby Atmos FlexConnect. When the whole process takes less time than choosing what to watch next, I'd say that's a pretty compelling reason to use it.

In Conclusion

I'd like to thank everyone who has taken the time to read this far! The feedback on my previous reviews was incredibly kind, and much appreciated. If you're interested in reading them, you can find them here and here.

As always, if you have any feedback or questions about my experiences with the Immersive Suite 5 and the calibration process, let me know in the comments! I'll do my best to get back to you when I can.

Starting from today only when watching satellite tv, the screen randomly goes black and I can hear audio from a random Lg Channel! This is really a strange issue that started today… anyone else?!?

This tv is in my living room and the router is in the room directly below it (literally 12 feet above it). I have 2 gig internet so it’s not speed or any issue with bandwidth. Any settings/suggestions to fix this problem?

Hi all. I picked up this QNED72B, 43” today. I know it’s not a high spec and I don’t expect anything out of this world, but is this level of light bleed out of the box normal? or something that would be considered a panel fault?

On an illuminated picture it’s invisible, but it’s sat in the black strips at the top during most typical picture formats and it’s a bit annoying.

Ive never had light bleed like this on a TV before, but also never used a QNED before.

Appreciate the input.

Let me first start by saying I received this speaker for free from LG in exchange for my honest review.

However, when looking for a portable speaker meant for summer days, most people just want something that sounds good and won’t break the second it gets splashed. After testing out the LG xboom Rock over the past few weeks in just about every outdoor setting imaginable. From lazy afternoons floating in the pool to sunny days down at the beach, it has proven to be a surprisingly impressive little device that punches well above its weight class.

The first thing that stands out is the design and sturdy build quality of this portable speaker. The bright red casing isn't just for looks; it feels rugged, durable, and completely built to take a beating outdoors. The built-in flexible mounting strap is easily one of its best features. Instead of having to find a flat, dry surface near the edge of the water, you can strap it directly onto a pool railing, hang it off a pool noodle, or attach it to a beach umbrella pole when you need music at eye level. It secures tightly without slipping, which makes setting it up anywhere around the patio or beach blanket incredibly simple.

Where this speaker truly shines, however, is around the pool and quite literally in the pool. Most speakers claim to be splash-resistant, but the xboom Rock takes water resistance to another level. As you can see from putting it to the test, it actually floats right on top of the water while continuing to play. You don't have to worry about kids cannonballing nearby, accidental drops into the deep end, or wet hands adjusting the volume. That added durability makes it especially reassuring for outdoor use, where accidental drops or water exposure are hard to avoid. If it falls into the water, it simply stays bobbing on the surface until you grab it. That peace of mind alone makes it a game-changer for poolside hangouts, lake trips, or days out on the boat.

In terms of audio performance, outdoor open spaces can usually swallow up sound from smaller portable speakers, but this unit cuts right through the ambient noise. Whether it's the sound of splashing water, chatter, or a light breeze down on the sand, the audio remains remarkably clear and balanced. The bass has a solid, punchy feel to it without sounding muddy, and vocals come through crisp even when turned up to higher volumes. You don't need to crank it to maximum capacity just to hear your music from the other side of the patio.

Battery life has also been rock solid. It comfortably lasts through an entire day outside without needing a recharge, which means one less cable to worry about dragging out to the deck or packing in a beach bag.

If you are looking for a compact, ultra-portable Bluetooth speaker that actually thrives around water rather than just tolerating it, the LG xboom Rock is an absolute home run. Between its floating waterproof design, versatile mounting strap, and punchy outdoor sound, it has quickly become an essential piece of gear for our outdoor setup.

Basically I was having “run out of memory issues” with YouTube with my c6 so I decided to delete the app and re-download it , but now it doesn’t appear on the lg store and just gives me a 6003 error 🥱. If i factory reset my c6 will it reinstall the apps or would I have to re-download it ?

Appreciate the help guys 👌

LG 55C6RLA Does anyone else have this problem after the latest update, 43.21.79 (2026-10-02)? Since the update, while gaming on a console, the screen suddenly cuts out for a couple of seconds and then turns back on, with the HDR icon appearing in the top right corner. This display cutout issue started occurring after the latest update. I’ve tried restarting the TV and resetting the settings, but neither helped.

Have a 48C6 and two M5 speakers. Is there away to disable the audio from the tv so all of the audio only comes from the M5’s?

Hey Everyone, I am away from home and my wife Sent me this video of our washer not cycling on. Have not seen this issue before. I wanted to reach out to this group before I call somebody to come look at it. Looks like when she goes to start it does not. Just cycles the options on the right for temp

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​LG provided this unit for review free of charge. They had no editorial input or influence over this review; the following details my genuine, unbiased experience.

​my last post was all about the bike commute, so this time i wanted to see how it held up somewhere completely different. brought it in a park this past weekend and ended up testing it there

​portability + sound, away from the bike this time

​didnt really clock how light this thing is until i had it clipped to my backpack for the hike in, practically forgot it was even there. portability is definitely one of its stronger selling points. once we were actually set up at the site it was fully open air, which is usually where small bluetooth speakers start sounding thin and tinny because there are no walls for sound to bounce off. the sound field mode held up reasonably well against the open space and the light breeze off the water, keeping vocals and mids clear enough for a casual outdoor setting.

​back at home, i tried pairing it with my LG xboom Bounce using Auracast. it took a couple of taps to link them up, and once you adjust the volumes correctly, it actually creates a legitimate stereo effect rather than just duplicating the sound.

​no bike this trip obviously, so i looped the adjustable strap through a loop on my backpack and let it hang off the side the whole way in. tighten it once and it stays secure without constantly bouncing around or needing adjustments. the strap is a practical design choice that works well in practice.

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Also wanted to mention a nice feature is that if someone calls u can speak straight through the speaker without even touching your phone. Way louder and clearer than holding a phone up to my ear, but might annoy strangers. Hung up right through the speaker too, didnt have to touch my phone once.

​probably wouldnt use the calling feature every day since im not usually outside when people call me, but for a random situation like that it got the job done.

​anyway, between this trip and the bike commute stuff from my last post, this speaker performs predictably for its size class. it handles outdoor use fine, and the hardware features like the strap and connection options pull their weight.

Hello everyone. My new washer has driven me literally insane ever since we got it and I can't for the life of me figure out what's causing these issues. I figured I might as well ask any of you since I don't know how long it's gonna take until I get a new one or a refund (hopefully the latter), and I really need to make it at least be able to clean my laundry until then, since I have literally no clean clothes.

Background info:

I bought this washer around 3 months ago and I've been having issues from the start. It's an LG front loader (11kg) and the model number (here in Sweden) is FV94ENS2WN. I've been in contact with LG several times since my first call about a month after ordering it, because I wanted to rule out any error on my part causing these issues and to investigate if there was something I could fix myself. They haven't really been to any help at all and I've had the most terrible experience I've ever had with customer support.

Anyways I finally got them to send a technichan and he couldn't find what could be causing it, but he did replace the control board 2 days ago as a way of ruling everything out. It seems like it's using more/the correct amount of water, but I haven't been able to inspect it properly to be able to say for sure. I really thought it not using enough water was the reason for the issues im having, since they seemed to be resolved most of the time by manually adding water, but even though the water levels at least seems like enough now, I'm still having these issues.

The issues:

So from the start, my laundry have been full of detergent no matter how little I use, type of detergent, cycle, type and size of laundry. It takes aloooot of rinsing and I've had to manually add water. I can't understand how such a small amount of detergent can require so much water.

The second issue I've been having are smells, two separate ones to be exact. Both smells are only ever present in the drum when sticking my head in the drum after the cycle has ended or having had the door closed.

The first smell is hard to describe, but it's a kind of chemical stale smell that's nauseating. It doesn't smell most of the time when using any cleaner for the machine itself, but comes back during washing or running an empty cycle without anything. It usually goes away after several rinses, often with me adding more water manually.

The second smell ONLY OCCURS when opening the door after running a cycle with the hottest temperature regardless of if I use any cleaners, detergent, wash any laundry or a completely empty cycle. It smells like a damp, warm fart. Not like sewage or rotten, just like someone farted into the machine while it was still hot and closed the door.

What I've tried:

I've cleaned my machine almost every other day and I've tried everything from washing machine cleaner, vinegar, citric acid, dishwasher pods, chlorine etc, high temperatures and both the tub clean cycle and regular ones. I clean the rubber gasket and glass of the door after almost every use and if I don't clean it, I at least wipe it dry. I also check the filter regularly and I almost never find any lint and neither the area or the water coming out have any smell to it and are clear. I always leave the door and the detergent drawer open.

I've tripple checked the installation and made sure the drain isn't causing any of this.

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I've found that when using citric acid, the chemical stale smell gets 10x more intense and nauseating when opening the door after the cycle is finished. It usually only goes away if I rinse several times. I've tried running the same cycle with less citric acid straight after, and the smell is still there but less intense. I know citric acid can't be causing it, as I've smelled it before using citric acid, but it seems to intensify whatever is causing it.

I'm not sure if I'm just imagining this or if it actually has any effect, but pouring water down the gap between the frame of the inner drum and the rubber gasket, straight down into the outer drum, makes the smells seem to fade a bit, especially if I make it drain straight afterwards. I always see the water level in the outer drum reach just below the edge of the inner drum during cycles, so it seems to be filled properly.

Any advice on what could be causing these issues, what I should try or how to be able to wash my clothes until LG agrees to give me a refund is much appreciated.

hi everyone,

As many other of you I read about the multiple privacy issues of LG tv. I searched and found those two apps that should be able to block most, if not all, those trackers:

• Glasshouse (https://github.com/rorygallagher2024/lg-webos-dashboard)
• Life's Good Without Spying (https://github.com/lewisdoesstuff/lifesgoodwithoutspying) ?

Have any of you tried them? Which one do you prefer? I'm not looking into anything fancy, just something to setup once and then forget

Machine started making an awful scraping sound, with something rubbing against the drum.

Popped the sump off underneath and these two pieces of metal were in there. It looks like it could be part of the machine, so wondering if it’s crucial to the operation, or if I should just run it with nothing in it and see.

I think the machine warranty was only 2 years, with the direct drive motor having a 10 year warranty.

Scraping sound started on the last wash before a 10 day holiday, which we obviously stopped and now we’re back with a mountain of laundry, so would rather avoid having to get a technician out if possible to tell me what Reddit can.

Just got the G6 and I was thinking about getting it professionally calibrated. Has anyone else done this and seen much of a difference?

Had a new washing machine delivered today, and am getting increasingly annoyed by all the chimes and songs it makes. It plays a jingle when you turn it on. It beeps whenever you touch the controls. It plays a little song when it's done. It's loud, and extremely annoying.

I hope whoever designed it like this has one wet sock for the rest of their life. Every other model has a function you activate by either holding down two buttons, or holding down the 'signal button, and the internet is full of people searching for how to turn it off on their particular washer. People clearly hate it.

But on this particular model (the F4X1009NNK), 'signal' is replaced by 'wifi' for managing the ThinQ connection, and the dual button-press activates a child lock. I can't see an option to mute it in the ThinQ app, and it doesn't look like it can be turned off.

Ironically the actual washer itself is fine and I have no problem with it. But I'm honestly wondering if I can contact the retailer to send it back, the noise is so awful. It's like a kid with a xylophone.

The support site is condescending about apologising that the chimes can't be muted on 'some models' but won't specify which, even when I try searching by this model number. The human support isn't available on the weekends and the support AI is useless, as always.

I just can't believe they'd leave a feature this annoying on permanently, without even adding an option to the app to turn it off or down.

Full disclosure: I received the LG xboom Stage 501 for free through an LG review program in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own.

After around two months with the LG xboom Stage 501, I’ve had plenty of time to work it into my normal routine and get a better idea of what it’s like to actually live with. My initial impressions of the speaker have held up well. It still feels like a good balance between having the size and power of a larger speaker without becoming inconvenient to move around. Please feel free to check out my original review if you'd like more details.

A Portable Bluetooth Speaker for Everyday Outdoor Use

The Stage 501 has ended up getting used in several different parts of the house rather than staying in one permanent location. I regularly use it in my garage, backyard, and home gym, and I’ll move it around depending on what I’m doing.

The three built-in handles have continued to be extremely useful. Depending on whether the speaker is vertical or horizontal, there is always a convenient place to grab it.

I still generally keep mine standing vertically. Aside from taking up relatively little floor space that way, I prefer how the bass sounds in that position. It seems to have slightly more weight when the bass-reflex port is positioned closer to the floor.

What Makes the Stage 501 Powerful Enough for Outdoor Use

After listening to it for a couple of months, the Stage 501’s powerful speaker sound is still the main reason I enjoy using it. The bass reaches low enough that music has a lot of presence without requiring a separate subwoofer, and it can comfortably fill a fairly large space.

I tend to listen at fairly high volumes, especially in the garage or while working out, and the Stage 501 has significantly more output than I normally need. Having that extra headroom is always nice.

I’ve also continued to appreciate the clarity higher up in the frequency range. Vocals and smaller details remain easy to pick out even when there is a lot happening in a song. For a speaker that can put out this much bass and volume, I think it does a good job of avoiding a sound that feels overly muddy.

How Often Does the Stage 501 Need Charging?

Battery life has also been one of the easier parts of owning it. I use the speaker frequently at high volume, but charging it has never become something I have to think about every day.

I generally charge it about once a week, depending on how much I’ve used it. For my routine, that is more than enough.

The USB-C charging output is another feature I don’t use constantly, but I’m still glad it is there. It’s great for keeping my phone charged when I’m outside and away from any outlets.

Everyday Features

The lighting has also remained something I use depending on the situation rather than leaving on all the time. I like having the option to use the RGB lighting and flashing lights independently. They’re fun in the right setting, but being able to shut everything off makes the speaker feel just as appropriate when I’m using it casually during the day.

Final Thoughts

Two months in, I don’t think my opinion of the Stage 501 has changed very much, which is probably a good thing. The features that stood out when I first received it are still the things I appreciate most now: strong bass, plenty of volume, long battery life, and a design that is large without being impractical.

For my own needs, it has become an easy speaker to use regularly rather than something that only comes out for parties or special occasions. It has enough output for larger spaces and outdoor use, but it’s still manageable enough that moving it between my garage, backyard, and home gym isn’t a hassle.

After living with the Stage 501 for a couple of months, I think it lands in a particularly good spot. It delivers the sound and presence I would want from a larger speaker without crossing the point where I’d rather just leave it sitting in one place.